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The quirky and the interesting in my kitchen!

16/9/2013

7 Comments

 
OK….Lets have some clarity, up front, about this blog. YES I am a collector. YES I have stuff (some people say a lot of stuff!). YES I am a bower bird. YES I do have a well equipped kitchen (I have been collecting kitchen stuff for a long time) and YES I like to have a busy, at times, messy home.

But an interesting thing happened last week, which created a very peculiar reaction from several people, to an implement they found in my kitchen drawer. So while this collective of folk were having a giggle and teasing me about my overstocked pantry and well equipped kitchen, one of them located a kitchen implement and wondered what is was. It appeared that quite a few people wondered what it was. It became the object of considerable mocking of me over two days. What also befuddled them was that I had not one, not two, but four of these particular implements. (Please note and to my own defense, they were of different sizes!!).

The said implement that caused so much mocking, conversation and consideration, looked at first glance very much like a pair of scissors. Until you laid them sideways and it was obvious they had four, five or six sets of blades. The handles are “non-denominational” – that is, they can be used by lefties or right handed people.

Do you have any of them?

Even the two guest Chefs for the weekend were bewildered by them. “What are they?” Kate Spina asked. “Yeh, what the hell are they?” retorted IKE. “I have never seen them before?” said Alfie. Andrew (my BFF!) commented “Oh, they are herb scissors!”. Of course he was correct!!
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The said instruments of much mocking!

Now I have to say that these implements have made their way to my kitchen not by my own gathering and collecting – all of them have been gifts to me from others!! 

Do you have unusual and quirky stuff in your kitchen drawers?

Do people give you quirky and unusual presents?

Just wondering ….. DCx

7 Comments
Shazza
18/9/2013 01:00:32 pm

Surely one pair of herb scissors would be enough Deb?

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Debra
18/9/2013 02:05:14 pm

Hi Shazza, Yeh, they would, but they were all presents - that is the irony ! They are not something I would actually buy, as I like to fine chop with my nice knives, but some very nice people thought they were good presents for me !!!!! Any way one pair have now found a good home with Andrew. Maybe I will adopt out 2 more pairs !! DC x

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kimbolosa
18/9/2013 02:06:40 pm

Ay der Shazza, no dis is correct!
Der pale green for der good erb, der brighter green for der rehhly good erb.
And de white?
Well dems for der ohrdinary herds.
Deeze are de zerious erb cutters.
Look ow small der Erbs looks too de cutters.
Dis is one zerious erb cutter Momma.

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Deb
18/9/2013 02:21:28 pm

Hi Kimbolosa, Thx for your comment. You are obviously a serious erb man .... I am curious about which type of erb you are seriously into !!!! :-) DC

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kimbolosa
18/9/2013 02:57:36 pm

Well dere Deb's we gotta tink, maybe about de medicinal. But de appy erb's, an de funny bone erbs are good too! Nuttin like de chile to make us all de ankshious. So we need de appy kamomile erb to keep us all carm.
De herbs r not all de erbs we tink day are. De lets not get zerios erb is a good one too, it elps us from tinking life is to zerios to enjoy.
yours ..... kimbo

kim
19/9/2013 06:46:14 am

A serious reply to a serious question.
Or
Views of a Male type kitchen Guy.

We have very few kitchen drawers, this may be a very good thing, because hidden away in their dark corners lie many instruments of torture to unsuspecting edible ingredients.
Recently my good partner, of some 40+ years, Bev, had a clear out of what lay undisturbed in the bottom of these sliding receptacles.
Amongst the bread crumbs, dried vege offcuts and other unidentifiable once edible remains, lay items with spikes, serrations, blades and teeth, most looking as though the Spanish Inquisition had resided in the drawers during the good old days.
Happy to say these drawers are now back to some normality although small rodents have been denied the right to survival should we see a global winter.
We have removed some of the items and placed them in receptacles on the bench tops where we can now identify them as for cooking or their artistic merit.
A gaggle of gas lighters now hang collectively in a row, although one or two are doubtful starters but we have them just in case.
There is a pot with skewers, spatulae and tongs of all lengths and sizes, not sure why as the stove is only so big, but I am guessing the long ones are for when we want to reach across the room.
Another pot contains an array of wooden spoons, all shapes and sizes here also (although only two get used) a variety of other items in the forms of ladles, egg slides, potato mashers, whisks, spaghetti picker er upperers and meat tenderisers.
To small children these items would be quirky and unusual. But would supply hours of fun investigating just what other uses they may have apart from their intended use. Heaven help any unsuspecting garden creatures.
As for these having been gifted, well I believe we have been the masters of our own destiny here, I think we are quirky enough without the need of quirky friends to add to the mayhem.

As a blokey cook, well the top drawer is all I need. A near sharp knife, the good near blunt knife (bone handled, hand me down) that keeps me from harms way, and an egg slide from the pot, some spaghetti instumenti, (Italian for spaghetti tools) the odd skewer and of course the invaluable chopping board, which doubles as lunch plate when the real plates just seem to far away. Oh yes and the gas lighters come in handy for the oven, the back of which seems to be getting further away the older I get. I guess if I attach the long tongs to the lighter, then a use has been found for another item. (now that explains why we kept the long tongs).
So Debra, I believe we all have the quirky kitchen collection, but really Debra, multi bladed herb shears now that is quirky. .... kim

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