utensils
My sister inherited a bunch of tupperware and plastic utensils. One of them, we couldn't understand its purpose.
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Ideas so far is to keep pizza-box lid from falling, or to measure equidistance for slices in a cake. What is the name and purpose of this utensil?
A grill basket perhaps?
I've no luck finding the term for your specific description, but that seems to be an umbrella term for utensils that basically hold something so you can more easily grill it.
I'm unsure about an English term, but in German it is a "Quirl", related to the "whorl" of twigs on a stem it was originally made of - for example from old Christmas trees:
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Later versions mimicked this with a star-shaped wooden or porcelain "head" on a wooden handle,
the plastic head is a more modern twist:
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In Central Europe you should be able to buy them from either kitchen stores or - if regionally less common - from various online retailers.
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My google-fu powers tell me that yes, it's indeed a mini cake divider.
You put it on top of the cake and slice through the slits to get uniformly sized cake slices.