Kitchen Tools With Descriptive Names

[weinoo]

Over in Amirault's topic about chicken liver paté, I describe how my grandmother would use a kitchen tool she had to make her chopped liver.

That tool was called a hockmeisser, which is, I believe, the Yiddish word for the half-moon shaped chopping blade.

I just think it's a greatly descriptive word for that tool, (similar to an Italian mezzaluna).

What other great, descriptive names (English, Yiddish, whatever) are there for our kitchen tools?

[gfweb]

My mother's stove should have been called the meat incinerator :-)

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[Kerry Beal]

Husband tamer=meat mallet

[runwestierun]

Oh weinoo,

I saw this thread and immediately thought of "hackmesser", too. That was my German grandmother's word for cleaver, and it always gave me a little fearful thrill.

[technophile50]

I have an ancient 2 speed Waring Aristocrat blender; I always wondered if it was invented in France as an adjunct to the Aristocrat chopper, (guillotine ).

[andiesenji]

Potato masher, basher and etc.

Herb chopper, mincer.

Honey dripper.

Salad spinner.

[Alcuin]

Chitarra, or guitar as my Aunt Anna would say.

Fork, maybe.

And if we spoke Latin there would be some more, like refrigerator, or scissors.

[Mjx]

I think the Danish rivejern (Danish for a 'grater', and also, I've been told, an abrasive woman) sounds incredibly raspy and evocative of the tool.

[weinoo]

Chitarra, or guitar as my Aunt Anna would say.

That's one.

I think the Danish rivejern (Danish for a 'grater', and also, I've been told, an abrasive woman) sounds incredibly raspy and evocative of the tool.

That's another.

[cinghiale]

In Italian, a foodmill is a passatutto, literally "an everthing-passer".

[PetersCreek]

That tool was called a hockmeisser, which is, I believe, the Yiddish word for the half-moon shaped chopping blade.

I just think it's a greatly descriptive word for that tool, (similar to an Italian mezzaluna).

Another similar tool is the Alaskan Ulu. Inuit for "woman's knife", it describes who uses it rather than what it does...which is just about everything in the hands of the skilled.

I'll add:

Meat grinder

Sausage stuffer

Sausage/casing pricker

[Kat Tanaka Okopnik]

I remember being delighted by the name "Benriner", which was wonderfully punnish (benri-na - "So useful!"). At last, a cheap mandoline substitute. When I lived on a boat, it was the perfect extra tool.

[andiesenji]

How about batticarne? Direct translation from the Italian: meat pounder.

[Pierogi]

Cleaver. It literally does cleave.

Potato masher.