On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:30:44 -0700 (PDT), Lenona >
wrote:

>It's from 2004, I think.
>
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in701426.shtml
>
>When you run the video, you may not recognize at least a few of the
>tools - I certainly didn't. If you can identify the tool he couldn't,
>please tell.
>
>Lenona.

2 comments: His so called sponge cake slicer, IMHO, isn't. Its a
waffler for crinkle cutting vegetables like potatoes. A real sponge
cake cutter looks like a metal comb with a handle. Same general
shape, but the "blade" is a row of teeth, like a comb.

In the hippie/black power days '60's/'70's, sponge cake cutters were
often found in afro hairdos, as they were used to tease up the afro.
Later this evolved to backwards ball caps, which were Not used
for teasing hair. I have a smaller version of Rooney's tool, with
the handle in line with the blade, a la apple corer. It's only
wide anough for crinkle cutting carrots and celery stalks.

His so called egg tool looks to me like a mini version of a basket
fryer, for making things like sweet/potato nests.

HTH,

Alex