Amazon Meat Mangle
Display: Cutting Edge
Culinary Technique: tenderizing
Date: c. 1900
Manufacturer: A. Kipp, Jr. and Company
Location: Ossining, New York
Dimensions: 2" h x 4" w x 8.5" d
Watch collection donor Mel Mickevic demonstrate this object with
Dean Christopher
Koetke, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College,
and Victoria Matranga, exhibition curator.
The Amazon was a combination tool. Its blade could serve as a minichopper or ice chipper; the blunt end worked as a hammer, and the 49 knife-edged spikes could be used to flatten or soften meats.