It’s got 2 shaped pieces of metal on each side, both shaped similarly but one side smaller than the other. The sides are about 90 degrees of each other.
I am convinced this is some sort of fruit implement. I haven’t tried passing the teeth over an apple, or scooping out the insides of an apple with it. But it might be for something more specific, like a pitted fruit.
The closest thing I could find online to this tool is this.
I figured you guys could tell me exactly what this is for. It looks positively useful for something!
I think it’s for pears. The wider round part is for taking out the center of the pear (after slicing it in 2 pieces, of course) and the narrower part is for taking out the part around the stem and that stringy part (I don’t know what it’s called) along the other half of the pear.
When I was a kid my mother canned pears every year. We would peel them, and then cut them in two and take out the insides, and then cook/can them. We had an implement similar to this, except the two parts were directly opposite each other, instead of being at an angle like this.
Roddy
