We're staying in a rented house for a friend's birthday, and found the item pictured below in a drawer with assorted kitchen tools. It's basically a handle with a thin stainless steel band attached. The ten intelligent people present have all failed to identify its purpose. Any ideas?
It could be a canning jar opener, but that's just a guess.
If it was, I would think the band might be made of something other than what is shown.
dunno, got me.
paden cash, post: 350815, member: 20 wrote: It could be a canning jar opener, but that's just a guess.
If it was, I would think the band might be made of something other than what is shown.
dunno, got me.
Same thing I thought when I saw it. Jar opener. Not sure though
It used to have a pyrex glass bowl attached... it's the handle to a coffee pot. The glass is broken, and you only see the handle and ring. It's a bent up, and broken coffee pot handle. For the mini 2 cup rig. Like some motels used to use.
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Cookie cutter
Pancake sizer
Egg ring
I vote for jar opener if it appears to be stout enough to serve such a purpose. If relatively weak, then I suppose it could be what's left of a broken coffee pot.
What did the unintelligent people present decide it might be?
I'm with Nate
Peter Ehlert, post: 350824, member: 60 wrote: I'm with Nate
me too
It doesn't look like it has enough leverage on the hoop to tighten upon a jar lid, whereas the picture identified as an opener does look like it would tighten.
Is it sharp enough to be some kind of vegetable peeler or shaver? Failing that, I'd vote for remnant of something broken.
My initial guess was a jar opener, but I tried it and the band is to slick to grip the lid. (It's also too small for many jars.)
I think Nate has it - a handle from a broken coffee gizmo. Thanks, Nate!
looks like it could possibly be the handle off of a cordless drill. Some of the heavier duty ones have a handle that you can attach by tightening a band around the body of the drill by twisting the handle.
It could be a pot handle but the Pyrex percolator had a hook shaped glass handle.
As pointed out above it could be from a espresso machine pot.
It sure looks a lot like that Krupps handle on the picture. But, if it is, what I would want to know is who put it back in the drawer, and how did it get so banged up?
Since it resembles an oil filter wrench for a car, I would say it is a jar opener.
Jim Frame, post: 350814, member: 10 wrote: We're staying in a rented house for a friend's birthday, and found the item pictured below in a drawer with assorted kitchen tools. It's basically a handle with a thin stainless steel band attached. The ten intelligent people present have all failed to identify its purpose. Any ideas?
Is it old? like retro old? I vaguely remember something like that in my grandmothers kitchen that I used to play with when I was little. that would have been early 70's and no telling how long she would have had it. Maybe a cantaloupe peeler or something?
Hey! a magnifying glass handle. (Maybe that would take it out of the presumed kitchen gadgets theory though....and besides, why would you hold on to one of those?)
Tom Adams, post: 350877, member: 7285 wrote: ....and besides, why would you hold on to one of those?
It's called hording; some folks have a hard time throwing anything away. I mean; even if there's a remote chance, that it might come in handy some day, why get rid of it?:whistle:
Tom Adams, post: 350877, member: 7285 wrote: Hey! a magnifying glass handle. (Maybe that would take it out of the presumed kitchen gadgets theory though....and besides, why would you hold on to one of those?)
You might be on to something there - there's one on the cover of the December POB magazine ... 😛
Tom Adams, post: 350850, member: 7285 wrote: .....I would want to know is who put it back in the drawer.....
Outside my office there is a table the crew uses. On that table, among many other things, is a pencil/pen holder with a dozen or more writing instruments in it. Mostly cheap pens and mechanical pencils.
The other day I watched as one of the crew selected one of these pens and attempted to write something with it. Finding it dried up he swore at it. "Cheap piece of sh...." THEN...
He put it back in the pen holder!
Norman Oklahoma, post: 350886, member: 9981 wrote: ....He put it back in the pen holder!
I'd never do that. I save them and sneak them into the cup on somebody else's desk...
