Randy Wolfe must not have been an early riser as a youth — or he didn’t grow up in the 1940s, 50s or 60s — or else he’d likely know exactly what his April mystery tool is for. Because more than 100 of you remember it well, and many still use theirs today.
“This seemed a fairly easy mystery,” says Cliff Watson of Roseville, California. “It’s made by Wear-Ever, so it’s most likely a kitchen product. It has a spout, so you would expect to be pouring liquid. And it looks like an overgrown garlic press.”
That last similarity, in addition to the lack of a comparative scale for Wolfe’s tool in our April photo, led Patrick Bink, Dave Wells, Walter Glass, Tim McAtee, Jim Steffner (Nova, Ohio), Cindie Petersen,…