Mark Thorson > wrote:
:Like many of you, I spend Saturday morning
:thinking about obscure kitchen tools that
:I don't already have. Like these two:

:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220201592569

:Anyone have a clue as to how they work?
:Are they missing any pieces? Why would
:anybody boil milk?

Because milk is a good vector of lots of diseases, including TB.
Boiling it prevents them. Today we buy pasteurized milk in much of
the world, but that's fairly recent.