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Vic Firth was born June 2, 1930, in Winchester, Massachusetts. [3] He was raised in Sanford, Maine by parents Everett E. and Rosemary Firth, where he graduated from Sanford High School. [4] Son of a successful trumpet player, he started learning the cornet at age four, turning later to percussion, trombone, clarinet, piano, and music arrangement.
To finely and consistently chop/mince foods, especially herbs. Microplane: To zest citrus fruits or finely grate hard foods such as cheese. Milk frother: To make foam or froth in milk for coffee. Essentially a small battery powered electric mixer. Mortar and pestle: Molcajete: To crush food, releasing flavours and aromas
Egg spoon — for eating soft boiled eggs; with a shorter handle and bowl than a teaspoon, and a bowl broadly round across the end, rather than pointed, intended to enable the user to scrape soft-boiled egg out of the shell; Grapefruit spoon or orange spoon — tapers to a sharp point or teeth, used for citrus fruits and melons
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"He's had a lot of work done," Grant said of his rival. "Maybe I shouldn't say that, but it's brilliant work. Whoever did it."
The P-38 can opener is keychain-sized, about 1.5 inches (38 mm) long, and consists of a short metal blade that serves as a handle (and can also be used as a screwdriver), with a small, hinged metal tooth that folds out to pierce the can lid. A notch just under the hinge point keeps the opener hooked around the rim of the can as the device is ...
A mattock (/ ˈ m æ t ə k /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock).
Chinese chopsticks tend to be longer than other styles, at about 27 centimeters (11 in). They are thicker, with squared or rounded cross-sections. They end in either wide, blunt, flat tips or tapered pointed tips. Blunt tips are more common with plastic or melamine varieties, whereas pointed tips are more common in wood and bamboo varieties ...