In scouring the Internet for this Friday’s pop quiz, I found an OK Cupid page devoted to “singles interested in obscure kitchen gadgets.” Believe me, they covered quite a spectrum, these singles, from a chipper looking New Zealander making a peace sign at the camera to a scowling woman from Tempe whose eye shadow was almost as impressive as her cleavage.
At any rate, gadgets clearly have wide appeal and since we had fun a few weeks ago with our historic utensil puzzle, we thought we’d let our readers test their wits with some more modern marvels. If you can identify all nine of the items below, you should start your own culinary school…or at least troll for some new admirers on OK Cupid.
Don’t follow this link until you’re ready to see the answers!
Answers:
- Ravioli stamp
- Mother-of-pearl caviar spoon
- Larding needle (for threading strings of fat through hunks of meat)
- Avocado scoop (Peels and slices all at once!)
- Cheese wire (Knives are so last year…)
- Butter curler (Don’t your dinner guests deserve the best?)
- Manche a gigot (tool for holding a leg of lamb while you carve it–extra points if you knew the French term)
- Cornichon slicer (What kind of heathen eats those things whole?)
- Escargot tongs and fork
Special thanks to BridgeKitchenware.com drawing our attention to many of the items in this quiz.