Does anyone know what this is?

CookieMonster said:
scraper for a chinois - rounded side for mashing thru, edged for scraping down.
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That sounds as if it could be correct. Are you guessing or have you seen one before? One wouldn't expect to find such a thing in an average kitchen...

...did a quick search and only wooden chinois 'pushers' which looked anything like the same shape were conical:

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All other seem to be made of metal and not the shape of epicuric's.
 
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there's a vendor in an Amish market that makes jams/jellies/compotes on-site - I only noticed it because the cone shaped pin is the 'usual' tool and I noticed it was flat handled. she was 'deseeding' a cooked raspberry mash . . . she would flip it and run around the cone a couple times, then flip and scrape out/remove the pulp from the china cap, then repeat....
 
JASOH1 said:
It looks like a wooden pie server. It's flat and not conical, tight?
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From epicuric's description, its not conical but not flat enough or wide enough for a pie slice/cake slice. As CookieMonster says he has seen a similar non conical tool being used in an Amish market so that seems like the most likely explanation. Jam/jelly making was very popular in the UK back in Victorian times.
 
Morning Glory said:
From epicuric's description, its not conical but not flat enough or wide enough for a pie slice/cake slice. As CookieMonster says he has seen a similar non conical tool being used in an Amish market so that seems like the most likely explanation. Jam/jelly making was very popular in the UK back in Victorian times.
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She said flat handled. She didn't say it was non conical.
 
I think CookieMonster has the most likely explanation. The only other suggestion (made elsewhere) was that it could be a toy sword. I wasn't convinced because the handle is adult sized, and there is no damage to the edges.

Thank you all for your suggestions :)
 
JASOH1 said:
She said flat handled. She didn't say it was non conical.
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epicuric is a he. :) He said:

epicuric said:
It's a bit too thick for that, probably 12mm in the middle, with tapering edges like a sword.
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12mm is not very thick, more or less half an inch so it couldn't really be conical. I'm being pedantic. :D
 
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