Oven roasting is great if you plan to make a spead or otherwise mash them...best way I know. What I like about the microwave precook is, you retain much of the structural integrity so you can do other things with it. I normally never use microwaves, it's just that this is one of those great...
Best tip I ever recieved on cooking eggplant and it works really well:
Since eggplant is mostly made up of highly inflated cells with mositure and atmosphere/air in them, when you cook them in oil they tend to release the air and take in the oil. Also, there seems to be a lot of variation from...
I'm reachin'... I wish I had a sense of it's scale. I'm guessing the handle is approximately the size of any average grip-width so if that's correct we have some idea of the entire size. Katie, feel free to comment. :))
It looks like it would hold something in place in the area where the pin is, the pin's purpose to hold the object in a predictable/known position. The vertical slot at the far left hold something else while it gets attached or gets pierced to match later. I dunno...measures the diameter of...