What is this?

[SDcook]

Does anyone know what this or what it is used for? It is engraved "Sur la table" so I assume it is cookware of some sort. A friend was moving and gave a bunch of her kitchen things and this was in it.

 

[blissful]

I've never seen anything like that.

 

[GotGarlic]

According to this, it's a BBQ Vegetable Rack. I've never seen anything like it, either. Not sure how it works.
BBQ Vegetable Rack

 

[SDcook]

Do you have a better link, that one doesn't work.

 

[SDcook]

I found it, thank you for the lead.

 

[caseydog]

I found it, thank you for the lead.

Looks like something designed to separate people from their money, to me. I can not imagine why I would need one.

CD

 

[Andy M.]

Looks like something designed to separate people from their money, to me. I can not imagine why I would need one.

CD

Right, you could just use potato nails . . .

 

[CharlieD]

You put potato on the spike and then put in the oven, it bakes more evenly, supposedly.

 

[caseydog]

Right, you could just use potato nails . . .

Um, you are going to have to explain that one to me. Potato nails?

CD

 

[caseydog]

You put potato on the spike and then put in the oven, it bakes more evenly, supposedly.

Soooo, is that what Andy meant by potato nails???

CD

 

[dragnlaw]

Yes, that's what they are called around here.

 

[taxlady]

My mum had one of these and so did I. They do seem to work. We just used them in the oven. Baked potatoes cooked in charcoal were always wrapped in foil to keep the ash off of them.

 

[Meryl]

My mum had one of these and so did I. They do seem to work. We just used them in the oven. Baked potatoes cooked in charcoal were always wrapped in foil to keep the ash off of them.

My mum had one of these too, when we lived in London, but it must have been made of some sort of "microwave safe material" as she used it for baking whole potatoes in the microwave, in less time than conventional ovens, which she then turned into "jacket potatoes" with cheesy fillings.