I am obsessed with kitchen utensils. I don't know why. I have 99% of a BA in psych but all that has told me is that I really don't want to go there. There are somethings man should know know and the source of my obsession is one of them.
Whatever the reason, I have a large and diverse collection of spoons, bottle openers (ok, that one is obvious), stove-top toasters, snail serving sets (to serve snails in butter and garlic), collapsible cups, and odd and forgotten time-saving devices, mostly from the 50's and early 60's many of which are recorded in the wonderful book 'ATOMIC KITCHEN'. Bear in mind that I do not cook.
Devices with a definite but completely unknown (to me) purpose are irresistible. I will spend hours on the net trying to identify them. Today, in between job hunting and dishes and mad bouts of sneezing, I am trying to identify what I think is a Tofu press I bought for 50 cents. It has a screw top with a spring and a round disk attached to the spring. There is Chinese and Japanese writing on the bottom.
Ok, so I am easily amused.
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