My guess would be a pie edge crimper

nope - I have a Foreman grill and that's not his scraper

It looks like something to decorate the edge of a pie pastry.

Think its to measure your spaghetti noodles before cooking???

It looks like a frosting comb...you use it to make lines or wavy patterns on a cake

This is correct. My aunts used them to go around the cake making it wavy on the sides. If I am wrong then they invented that use for them.

Neesie you crack me up. I really needed a good chuckle this morning. Thank you!

I sold Tupperware in the 80s and never saw it before. But I was thinking it would be a great template for making slippers for your duck. :)

is it to make the edge of pie scalps? joyce j

It's a shoe tree for your duck's shoes. Can't let them get misshapen.

I have seen that gadget before but couldn't remember what it was for. Painting your nails makes sense, and it looks like it would work for draining water from a can of veggies. But by far I love the artificial foot and slipper pattern for ducks ideas!

Is is something to help flute piecrust with?

If I had it, I'd use it for a quilt template. I almost agree it has something to do with icing.

Painting your nails makes me think of the "As seen on TV" gadgets where they want to sell you a gadget to solve a "Problem" you don't really have, like straining pasta. On the ad they are making a mess trying to strain cooked pasta in the sink - "How many times has this happened to you?'" Um well, never. I know how to strain pasta.

I also know how to paint my nails without using any gadgets. But I guess the "gee whiz" factor triumphs again!!

That's IT for sure!

Yes, yes, yes!!!! For a duck quilt, right? :thumbup: It could be the modern day answer to Bear Paw! :)

to measure a serving of spagetti put it through the hole (uncooked)

and then use it to strain the cooked pasta, see, enough heads can figure it out!

It looks like a "thing" to keep your nails seperated when you polish them. lol

My mother-in-law had one of these. She got hers through some county fair. It is supposed to help "flute" the edges of a pie crust. You lay it horizontal along the edge of the pie and press your dough in the curves, giving you same size, same distance on your pie crust. Not sure what the big hole was to be used for. Guess I'm too much like my mom---- Good cooks don't need contraptions like that to pretty up a pie!

I was thinking the same...Perhaps you put your thumb in the hole and swirl it around the outside of the frosted cake to make ridges, like pastry chefs do...?????

It looks like a duck's foot, how many toes does a duck have? I would certainly use it to swirl frosting. I use the tip of a
teaspoon now and do one swirl at a time. Using the "thing" would be faster and more uniform in size.

I have one too. Got it along time ago from a party. I have it in my nail stuff and used it for nails but really don't need it. It isn't even enough to be much good at the frosting things cause it curves. I agree about the orange peelers though they were great. I've seen them in stores now but before you had to attend a tupperware party to get them. Tupperware parties were the great thing on military base housing back then.

Don't know what use it is intended for, but the hole may be there so it can be hung on a hook between uses?????

I would drag it across some frosting and see what the effect is.

I think I've seen those used to frost the sides of cakes with a wavy design.

I think that the forman grill scapper cleaners are more straight across

the duck foot would make a cute quilt top maybe you could use it for mother goose trail of nursery rhymes

I can'tfind my old nursery rhyme book any more sure use to read them to my boys as childern

I think you hold it on the edge of a pie crust to crimp it all around. You push the crust into the indentation to make that wavy edge.

I think it was sued for doing your nails. you wrapped syour fingers over it and they would not touch unstil sthey were dry

It is for keeping your fingernails separated while you are polishing them. They used to be quite popular. I'm not sure if they came from Tupperware or not. Just don't remember.

I found it
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TUPPERWARE-N...item19d2df534b

well both guesses were right -- from the auction page-
"An indispensable tool fits in your hand comfortably

makes giving yourself a manicure easy and neat

might work for decorating cake icing too"

I think it is for painting your toe nails to keep the from touching each other.lol

I so do not need this gadget but if I ever run acros one for free I might keep all its alternative uses in mind especially the one to measure spagheti and aid to ducks in need of artificial feet.

Ain't that sumpin!

Your memory bank is FINE!!
that is exactly what it is for. There were tons of them around at one time but some people found them akward to use.
imak

Well, even if you don't find out what it is really for, now you have all these other ideas you can use. I like the duck foot suggestion-you could make a bear paw/duck foot/log cabin quilt!

You put your thumb through the bottom hole and your fingers over the top in the dips, and you use it to paint your fingernails. I use to have one, brought back memories.

When I first saw it I was thinking Tupperware's version of brace knuckles.

that was fun!