Unusual & mysterious kitchen gadgets

[TdeV]

On 7/19/2024 at 3:28 PM, weinoo said:

I roasted some peppers today; do many people use a Közmatik?

 

 

Looks interesting @weinoo. Where did you get your Közmatik?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

 

 

Any guesses as to what this is?  There are no wrong answers because I have no idea.  Actually I have some idea, it is a kind of press.  It was sold as a citrus press.  A citrus press it clearly is not.  There is no place for juice to drain.  Height is 15 inches in the lowered position.  It is heavy.  It works as a nut smasher if you are fond of shell fragments.

 

The asking price was $158.  The device has since been removed from Amazon.  The fact remains someone designed it for something.

 

[Laurentius]

This is a WAG, but I suspect there is a piece missing.  As in a tube through which that plunger traveled.

 

Maybe a sausage stuffer? Or, if the tube was perforated, some sort of juice extractor?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

18 minutes ago, Laurentius said:

This is a WAG, but I suspect there is a piece missing.  As in a tube through which that plunger traveled.

 

Maybe a sausage stuffer? Or, if the tube was perforated, some sort of juice extractor?

 

No tube and no place to affix a tube.  No room in the (plain unmarked) box for a tube to have been.  The plunger has teeth, though said teeth are not sharp.

 

[liuzhou]

5 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

 

Any guesses as to what this is?  There are no wrong answers because I have no idea.  Actually I have some idea, it is a kind of press.  It was sold as a citrus press.  A citrus press it clearly is not. 

 

 

It is a lemon squeezer. Quite common here.

 

Click

 

 

Edited yesterday at 08:14 AM by liuzhou (log)

[Laurentius]

10 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

No tube and no place to affix a tube. 

Ah, I guess there was a missing tube/cup after all?

[TdeV]

Deleted.

 

 

Edited to add: I missed the second page of responses, and I see the problem has already been solved by @liuzhou.

Edited yesterday at 02:59 PM by TdeV (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

12 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

It is a lemon squeezer. Quite common here.

 

Click

 

 

 

Thank you @liuzhou!  The press you linked is exactly the same as mine.  Strangely I note only one of the Alibaba product pictures shows a beaker, such as the beaker in the video.  Would it be common for Chinese kitchens to have metal beakers to use with the press?  I have beakers, but my beakers are glass.

 

As always, I love eGullet!

 

[gfweb]

I prefer to think of it as a duckling press.  A little small for a full-sized duck

[rotuts]

just the right size for an

 

Otolan 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting

 

'''   The birds are caught with nets set during their autumn migratory flight to Africa. They are then kept in covered cages or boxes. They react to the dark by gorging themselves on grain, usually millet seed, until they double their bulk. They are then suspended upside down over a container of Armagnac, and by dipping, made to drown, and then marinated in the brandy.^[14][15] ''

 

^etc.

[dcarch]

16 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

 

Any guesses as to what this is?  There are no wrong answers because I have no idea.  Actually I have some idea, it is a kind of press.  It was sold as a citrus press.  A citrus press it clearly is not.  There is no place for juice to drain.  Height is 15 inches in the lowered position.  It is heavy.  It works as a nut smasher if you are fond of shell fragments.

 

The asking price was $158.  The device has since been removed from Amazon.  The fact remains someone designed it for something.

 

I have seen that used as a pomegranate juice press. Very effective.

 

dcarch

[liuzhou]

5 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Thank you @liuzhou!  The press you linked is exactly the same as mine.  Strangely I note only one of the Alibaba product pictures shows a beaker, such as the beaker in the video.  Would it be common for Chinese kitchens to have metal beakers to use with the press?  I have beakers, but my beakers are glass.

 

 

Quite common. I have a stainless steel beaker.

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

 

Quite common. I have a stainless steel beaker.

 

 

 

I figure 500ml is about the right size for the press, does that sound right?

 

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

I figure 500ml is about the right size for the press, does that sound right?

 

 

My beaker is 350ml,  but I've never used it with one of those presses.  But it should be about right, I guess.