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Mysterious kitchen tool
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27 Comments
A pasta or noodle cutter?
For making pasta?
Cheers,
Rosa
cutting pasta into even sizes?
I am stumped! Is it for cutting pasta? Or strips of pastry?
I use it for making fettuccine, pie stripes and the like.
Huh. Stationary? I was going to say a pastry cutter – like to separate filo dough….
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.
Is it to cut the dough into even strips
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
Twisty bread?
Spiral wraps for sausages?
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
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
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.
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?
Yeah, looks like noodle cutter to me!!
Hmmm, for Baklava, maybe?
Shushbarak?
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.
@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!
@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
Joumana, is there a place to purchase the mantimatik in the US? BTW, I love the name!
@Robyn: I don’t know since I only found it in Beirut; I would try Armenian delis in Fresno or Glendale in California.
Although I love Tom’s answer, I’d go for pasta cutter too. Very cool!
@Jamie: It is a pasta cutter for a special pasta, manti
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.
I would have guessed to cut pasta…very cool gadget