"Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
...
>I was prepping some tomatoes by slicing them in half and removing the
> seeds using my favorite tomato de-seeding tool: a grapefruit spoon. It
> does a great job of a couple of kitchen chores such as de-seeding
> tomatoes and hulling strawberries. I'm sure there are a variety of
> kitchen tools that weren't designed for the jobs they get used for in
> addition to the jobs they *are* used for - not to mention a variety of
> tools that weren't designed to get anywhere near a kitchen, but can be
> found in kitchens nonetheless! [Blame Alan a/k/a hahabogus for this
> one.]
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

A potato ricer is the best possible tool for squeezing cooked spinach dry.
A Kleenex cube is a great place to store plastic grocery bags.
To hull strawberries I use a curved grapefruit knife.
Micro planes are great hard cheese graters.

Dimitri