Household Helpers

Number Two

Number Two

Number Three

Number Three

Number One

Number One

 

Do you have drawers full of kitchen tools?

If you’re like me, you do—even though the most complicated thing you cook is an omelet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like to browse in kitchen stores. Over the years I’ve bought some goofy whatnots that caught my eye.

Here are a few of them. Let’s see if you can match the gadget with its use.

The first one is red hot. It has a devilish face, because it can stand the heat.

Number two is also red, because it matches the fruit it’s meant to slice into lovely even pieces.

 

And the last one is forked. It helps to expose all the nooks and crannies.

So how did you do?

Did you guess that the first one is a puller to take hot pans out of the oven? It does work—but you still need a pot holder in your other hand to steady the pan.

The second red gadget has serrated teeth to make even slices in tomatoes. It also works and the forked end is great for placing those perfect tomato slices on your plate.

The last object is a muffin fork. You insert the tines into the muffin to separate it before toasting.  Whenever I look at it, it reminds me of a trip we took many years ago to New England where it was purchased—at a store that sold handmade wood products made by convicts!

So what’s in your kitchen  drawer?

 

 

About Kathy

I grew up in Buffalo,New York the second eldest child in a family that eventually included eight children. The neighborhood was an Irish-American enclave. These two facts explain a great deal about me. I spent many years as a teacher who really thought of herself as a writer.

8 Responses to Household Helpers

  1. Jane says:

    I did identify each one, since I also own them, courtesy of those crazy Tupperware games you are made to play at parties.
    Maybe you will come over and help me identify several other doohickies in my drawer? I was really good at those games!

  2. Sharon Gauert says:

    I tend to be a pottery collector. I can tell you every island or strange site where I purchased my pitchers, platters, bowls and other trinkets. Always gives me a warm thought when I set out a platter from Barbados along side my condiment dish from the Loire Valley in France. And everyone of those purchases elicited a comment from my husband…”How are you going to get that home?”

  3. susan fair says:

    Darn, I only own #1. Guess I need to shopping in a kitchen storel.

  4. Bonnie Byrne says:

    We all have them! Your cute post has inspired me to clean out my utensil drawer! Who knows what I will find! Cheers!

  5. Nancy Robbins says:

    I am also a kitchen tool junkie. I LOVE kitchen stores and can always find something new to aid my joy of cooking.

  6. Linda Young says:

    Your first line says it all Kathy. Drawers full, pleural. I relate to this story.

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