Mysterious kitchen tool

27 Comments

1. Emily Burns
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 8:11 am | Permalink

   A pasta or noodle cutter?

2. Rosa
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 8:12 am | Permalink

   For making pasta?

   Cheers,

   Rosa

3. doggybloggy
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 8:23 am | Permalink

   cutting pasta into even sizes?

4. Rachel K
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 8:31 am | Permalink

   I am stumped! Is it for cutting pasta? Or strips of pastry?

5. Italian Notes
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 10:03 am | Permalink

   I use it for making fettuccine, pie stripes and the like.

6. Belinda @zomppa
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 10:08 am | Permalink

   Huh. Stationary? I was going to say a pastry cutter – like to separate filo dough….

7. Tom @ Tall Clover
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 10:20 am | Permalink

   Guess one: I’m going with a tool to cut phyllo dough.
   Guess two: Something to shake at a spouse to get him to take the garbage out.

8. Liz
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 10:33 am | Permalink

   Is it to cut the dough into even strips

9. Alaiyo Kiasi
   Posted December 28, 2011 at 11:21 am | Permalink

   I, too am thinking a pasta, but I don’t think that pasta is part of Lebanese cuisine, right? Perhaps bread or cheese for finger foods?

   Alaiyo

10. Shreela
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 12:43 pm | Permalink

    Twisty bread?
    Spiral wraps for sausages?

11. familycook
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

    What a coincidence, I saw this video on youtube on how to make peanut brittle (chikki) in India. This guy has used this tool to cut the brittle into small pieces.

    Take a look

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRmCFE_N4Ys

12. elz0oz
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    it is used to cut a dough in even width,
    like if you are doing a phylo dough, you need to use this tool to cut the dough…
    hope it explains the thing

13. ummomar
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    This kind of peanut sweets are very popular I think all over the arab world, specially in the times of feast. But living in Egypt for many years now, I have never heard of or seen anyone making it at home. It is always bought from special shops.

14. Steve @ HPD
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

    Going to have to go with pasta slicer? But it wouldn’t be super-efficient to have a specialized tool that only made fixed-width pasta … unless it was for ravioli? Two slices?

15. deana
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 5:08 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, looks like noodle cutter to me!!

16. Tobias
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    Hmmm, for Baklava, maybe?

17. Saba Ammari
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 8:02 pm | Permalink

    Shushbarak?

18. Coleen
    Posted December 28, 2011 at 8:46 pm | Permalink

    A pasta cutter! I’ve been looking for one and can’t seem to find one in the Atlanta, GA area. I think there are some where you can adjust the width of the pasta. I am looking forward to seeing what you make with it.

19. sare
    Posted December 29, 2011 at 2:57 am | Permalink

    ) It’s for making our delicious dish,Turkish MANTI. As you know Mantı is;stuffed mince meat in square shape pasta, and boil in boiling salty water then put onmantı-pasta the plate you can serve them yogurt with garlic and tomato sauce. The important thing is What for you’ll use it.

20. Joumana
    Posted December 29, 2011 at 6:30 am | Permalink

    @Sare: You got it! The label said “Mantimatik”.

    @Coleen: You are right, it is for cutting pasta but it is stationary because it is meant for one specific pasta only : Manti
    @Saba: Close, the Turkish or Armenian version, manti!
    @Tobias: Not for baklava, but could be used to cut phyllo for sure!
    @Deana: it is for a noodle, manti; the other pasta cutter have adjustable blades
    @Steve: You are right, specifically for manti which is made with pasta dough and stuffed like an open ravioli

    @Shreela:Could be used for these purposes I suppose! However here it is for manti only
    @Alaiyo: You are right, again it is specificallly for manti
    @Liz: You are right too, it will cut the manti into an even square
    @Tom: Sorry but love your ideas!

21. Joumana
    Posted December 29, 2011 at 6:32 am | Permalink

    @Italian notes: it is too wide for fettuccine; perfect for even-shaped manti
    @Rachel K. It is for cutting pasta into a square, hundreds of squares for manti
    @doggybloggy: you are right, you cut one way then perpendicular and you get the perfect square for manti
    @Rosa: right the pasta is called manti

22. Robyn Kalajian
    Posted December 29, 2011 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

    Joumana, is there a place to purchase the mantimatik in the US? BTW, I love the name!

23. Joumana
    Posted December 29, 2011 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    @Robyn: I don’t know since I only found it in Beirut; I would try Armenian delis in Fresno or Glendale in California.

24. Jamie
    Posted December 30, 2011 at 1:41 am | Permalink

    Although I love Tom’s answer, I’d go for pasta cutter too. Very cool!

25. Joumana
    Posted December 30, 2011 at 4:17 am | Permalink

    @Jamie: It is a pasta cutter for a special pasta, manti

26. Chris at HyeThymeCaf
    Posted December 30, 2011 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    I was thinking papardelle – a very wide noodle. That would have come in very handy when I made Manti. I think I used a pizza wheel, but I tend to wobble when I do that and don’t always get even lines. You could probably use it for halva too, if you inverted it out of the pan first. Or heck, even fudge. Hmmmm … I think I might have to keep an eye out for one of these.

27. Magic of Spice
    Posted December 30, 2011 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    I would have guessed to cut pasta…very cool gadget