Pet names for kitchenware

[FlashJack]

A little Sunday light-heartedness.

 

Do you have pet names for your kitchen gear?

 

My CSO was known as Silver Princess. Replaced by the APO, Black Beauty.

 

Witchy-Poo is a length of bamboo broom handle. Its smooth surface and light gauge makes for an excellent rolling pin. The name comes from a character in HR Puffingstuff.

 

Little Precious is my smallest stainless steel stockpot. I fell in love with this pot the moment I spotted it in a kitchen supplies store because of its exquisite proportions. A lilliputian exemplar of the form. The Platonic ideal of a stock pot. Always brings joy and is surprisingly handy.

 

Diamond Jim is a Swiss Diamond casserole. 'Diamond' Jim Tilbrook was an American gridiron player disastrously recruited here to play Australian Rules Football in the '70s. He was paid an unheard-of salary and was a complete flop. He played for my team.

 

My latest acquisition is Big V, a 31cm (12.2 inch) Victorinox chef knife. Back when state-of-origin football was a thing my state team (Victoria) wore a blue jumper with a white big V and were known as The Big V. They were utterly dominant. My Big V is an imposing presence in the kitchen. Can deal with anything.

 

Who else names their tools?

[JeanneCake]

This brought to mind a funny memory - one of my room mates was a friend from high school; we shared an apartment for a year or two.  For her birthday, I bought her an espresso maker (we were young and not very flush so it was not an expensive machine!)  After admiring it and setting it on a place of pride on a kitchen counter, we never actually used it much.  She did have names for some of our things (cars, mostly.  My baby blue VW beetle was christened "Mildred" by her for some unknown reason, neither of us had never known a Mildred and we never watched Mildred Pierce either).  So one day she starts assigning names for various kitchen things, and stops at the espresso maker.   I realize she doesn't much use this appliance that she had been pining for and without thinking - or hesitating! - I suggested she should call it "Dusty" 🤣

[AlaMoi]

does "that damn thing!" count?

[heidih]

I've previously mentioned my big stainless bowl "the placenta bowl" (think hospital) Oddly I name cars (Roxanne is last) and plants but not not kitchen stuff. 

Edited January 16, 2022 by heidih (log)

[liuzhou]

59 minutes ago, AlaMoi said:

does "that damn thing!" count?

 

I have a family of them!

[chromedome]

If I'm being honest, my frequent inability to cough up the actual name of a given kitchen implement (never mind a fanciful one) is a reason I prefer to be alone in the kitchen.

[blue_dolphin]

I have never given pet names to my kitchenware but I'd consider naming kittens after my kitchenware.  

Ooni, Mouli, Baratza, Ninja, Darto....🤣

[TdeV]

So far I've named my motorcycles (only). Shall have to think of names for kitchen devices: perhaps Durable for the bread machine. 🤣

[FlashJack]

Oh my Ankarsrum mixer is Ingrid (Bergman). Swedish and very good looking.

[gfweb]

I've known men with names for their favorite equipment. Usually along the lines of Thor or somesuch

[liuzhou]

Not appliances, but foodstuffs have pet names in my life. I've mentioned a few here before to people's bewilderment. Sparrow juice, being the most repeated. I've never served sparrow juice with tangly jelly, as far as I recall, though now I've thought of it, I might.

[FlashJack]

44 minutes ago, gfweb said:

or somesuch

I'd not fancy calling mine Somesuch.

[Darienne]

No names for kitchen equipment, but name for our land (not really a Canadian tradition) and names for the second floor bedrooms.  No names for vehicles and there have been many.

[liuzhou]

I did have one vehicle name - The Elf. 1980s?

 

 

So named for its registration plate ELF 720Y. Miss it a lot.

 

I know this will be sent to the darkness for not being food related, but that thing carried me, my late wife and and my kids to food delights beyond our imagination!

And no one will take that away from me.

 

[CentralMA]

21 hours ago, AlaMoi said:

does "that damn thing!" count?

 

Or "Where the hell did I put it?"

[AlaMoi]

we had a 1984 Quantum wagon - name used only(?) in USA - morphed to Passat.

diesel - it did 150,000 miles - good car

sold it, later saw it cruising down the road 8 years later (with the same Herz fuer Kinder window sticker...)

[BugCollector]

My kitchen tongs are BBQ tweezers.

My meat pounding mallet is  Mjölnir.

Vacuum sealer is the vacuum sucker.

 

Not kitchen related: my garden pruning shears were Cyndi Loppers. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I call her Alexa.

 

[FlashJack]

5 hours ago, BugCollector said:

my garden pruning shears were Cyndi Loppers

Excellent work.

 

A friend calls his robotic vacuum cleaner Sigmund Droid.

Edited January 29, 2022 by FlashJack
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