What is this... thing... that was built into kitchen worktop?

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

What's it for? We went to look a new kitchens and this hip smasher odd sticky-outy thing was built into one of the hardwood worktops and I can't work out what it's for

Is it fer taffy pullin'?

I presume you're referring to the sweet foodstuff and not trying to seduce and/or injure Welsh people....

The very disappointing answer still makes no sense at all, though. How would that actually work? It would take much more effort, discomfort and awkward positioning with one arm in holding it against the contraption and preventing it from falling than it would simply to 'hug' it with the same arm and mix with the other.

I'm guessing this was invented by the same moron engineer who designed the push-top taps you find in public toilets that stop immediately when you take your hand away to, erm, you know, actually wash it. In no way to be confused with the genius who invented the push-top tap that gives you 10-15 seconds of running water with one push.

It was most definitely not designed by anybody who has ever shared a house with growing children - children who have eyes that they hope to keep intact and in place, anyway.

GlamGiraffe

OMFG!!

Meanwhile, NotSorry's DH is sulking at being dismissed by, like, everybody except possibly NotSorry herself.

Meh how very disappointing. An you and them a link to this thread so they have more interesting answers

Such a boring answer!

It's to hold a giant wine glass so you can put a long straw in it for hands free drinking whilst cooking .

I’ve just got in and see we have an answer. I (respectfully) suggest that Janet the kitchen guru is talking bollocks as mystified as we are.

Holding/leaning my kitchen bowl against it feels really precarious. The curve of the bowl doesn’t match the curve of the wood.

We need answers! So, for you, the MN vipers jury I have performed a carrot experiment complete with cut out arrows ( waay too invested in this).

I think that you can lean on it whilst chopping and then either hold the bowl underneath it, or put the bowl in the drawer and sweep the chopped veg into the bowl with the weird wooden thing. Then, peelings are swept into the empty slot and fall into the metal tray hidden in the right hand drawer. This can then be removed and emptied when full.

Voila! ( takes a bow and wanders off for gin).

To be fair, I’ve not yet road tested the enhanced kitchen sex apparatus option, nor the birthing stool suggestion, but so far I think that the veg chopping is the most -boring- logical solution.

@TheregoesBod QED

For putting a bowl on... Isn't that what the worktop is for?

Pull the other one Janet.

I think it's something to do with swinging.

It might start out as a boring chopping device, but by the end of the first hour it would be a bloody cat hammock in my house. We have an ongoing kitchen war with them.

For putting a bowl on... Isn't that what the worktop is for?

If you're short, you may find the worktop a bit high. I do, so I have an ingenious multi purpose device in my kitchen, but 'mixing bowl rest' is just one of its many functions. Actually, I'm using it right now to simultaneously rest 10 plant pots, a small watering can, an iPad, a cup of tea, a box of tissues, some magazines, a bowl of hyacinths and my elbows.

It's called 'a kitchen table'.

weird it would slip surely? and then gauge your intestines out

@TheregoesBod

Marvellous

Surely Janet can't be right! Never seen Mary Berry using one, and she's made a fair few cakes.

I think Janet is right but the fact that no one on here knew, means it’s very niche/ posh / old fashioned / doesn’t work.
That’s why we’ve never seen Mary Berry or anyone else use one

Yes I think @TheregoesBod has cracked it. I can just imagine asking the granite worktop guys faces if you asked them to whip up one of those! I dont think it would go down well. I also wonder how many A and E trips it would case with my terribly accident prone DH and DS. The reasons most people dont have them I'm sure.

I think the diagram must be forwarded to @AintNobodyHereButUsChickens kitchen "expert"🙄, with the message, "Is it not one of these? I was wondering if the rubbish slot was available with it?"
That should melt her brain!
It's got to be good for the laughs!

It's to hold a giant wine glass so you can put a long straw in it for hands free drinking whilst cooking

Yup, this gets my vote. Obvious innit

@TheregoesBod.

Fine work: "cut out arrows" will become the "parking diagram" of the future, mark my words.

We’ve been looking at kitchens and my head is about to explode.
I’ve so appreciated the laughs on this thread.