As any professional or avid amateur knows, there’s nothing like the right tools to make the job easier.
This is as true when it comes to cooking as it is with any other highly skilled craft.
And, of course, there is a whole collection of tools and implements that every good cook wants in his arsenal.
Many will be instantly recognizable, from the ubiquitous chef’s knife to other common implements such as spatulas and ladles.
Snaps of lesser-recognizable kitchen tools, taken by social media users from around the world, were collected in a gallery by Brightside.
Photos of strange and unusual kitchenware have been collected by Brightside. Have you ever seen one of these slightly creepy looking implements? According to the description, it is simply known as a ‘meat holder’
Among the less-than-ordinary implements is a ferocious-looking tool that is apparently a “meat holder.”
Another odd-looking item is specifically designed to be used purely to wash the smell of onions off your hands.
Here, FEMAIL rounds up bizarre kitchen tools you’ve probably never seen before…
This odd-looking tool is said to be a pumpkin carving shovel — and the notch in the center is shaped to fit a child’s thumb
Found by a baffled social media user while cleaning out the kitchen, this 8-inch-long tool is supposed to be an ice cream maker
Definitely one of the weirder looking utensils, this would be a tool used for krumkake, a thin round cake, like a pancake, that is rolled around the wooden pyramid so that the dough stays in a round shape as it cools
It may sound a bit niche, but apparently this one is for squeezing lemon slices to catch seeds
Are you as baffled as we are by this one? Turns out it’s an ‘egg piercer’ – it’s used to keep the egg from cracking during cooking
So it seems clear that this implement is a knife. But for what? It’s not your normal looking knife. Apparently it is specific to frozen foods
It may look very strange, but this gadget can come in handy for many people and is designed as a citrus peeler for oranges, grapefruits, lemons and limes
Have you ever seen one of these handy gadgets? Apparently it’s an aluminum bar that you use to remove the onion smell from your hands and rub it like a bar of soap
Here’s one that could be very useful to many people: it’s a bottle/jar opener designed to fit different sizes of jar lids
Have you ever seen any of these extraordinarily strange looking utensils? For those who don’t know, it’s a corn stripper