Stories Collected While Living in France
The latest in a long time coming French Brocante Guessing Game!
Tell me in the comment section what this is… The first person with the correct answer will receive a gift and the person who has the most creative answer will receive a gift too. The Guessing ends tomorrow at noon French time.
Is it an apparatus to put over a fire to grill items such as vegetables, fish, etc.?
A drying rack for dishes and glasses!…Debbie
It is an old-fashioned draining board! Or, it is a dry-flat apparatus for Barbie clothes.
food dehydrater????
rack for canning
i think it is a drying rack for baked cookies. Bestest,Denise
I believe this is Lady Gaga’s hat from the 2010 Grammy Awards.
It’s probably a piece off of an old hoopskirt of some kind!!
A steamer to put in a pot? Or to put in a pot to process canning jars?
It looks like a repurposed barbecue grill grate.
The Original French precursor to the Weber Grill! 😉
It is a deep dish pizza serving tray. You cut the pizza in 8 equal slices. Simply place the pizza on the serving tray, immediately the calories slip through the wires.
Hey, WE have such a rack to put in a pot when we process canning jars, that we bought new just a couple of decades ago!
I think it goes in the bottom of an old canning pan
It’s an early, primitive RECORD PLAYER!!!!! LOLOL
It must be a rack to put in a pot when processing canning jars – we have one very similar. In between season my granny usually “warmed up” yesterday’s pastries – wrapped them in a brown paper and just closed the lid…. The trick worked – they were like freshly baked, just out of aven. Something like pre-microwave. 😀
a rack to put cookies, candies or pastries on to then drizzle runny icing over them or to ice petit fours…..
An old cake decorating stand! (Of course they would need to line the bottom somehow!)
But I started to think about why so many glasses around in pictures… so there might be another thing to use it – turn the glasses up and let them dry… Glass rack?
Glass display, drying and storage rack for a cafe counter.
I keep thinking about the post in the center, to which a rigid loop is attached, as a handle. Perhaps it’s a rack for a bain marie?
I think it is a cooling rack for food taken just out of the oven.
O also think it is for water bath cooking (bain marie), to stop the creme brulee custard from getting water in it?
Is it a tray for cupcakes or sweet treats?
A plant rack?
I know. This is an antique fruit stand. It is made this way so the fruits and vegetables can breathe and not ripen or spoil too fast. I can see it covered in beautiful strawberries and apricots.
Glass stand. Canning rack. I thought it was a cake stand though I am not sure of the bottom piece. Too curly, like to hang something.
The other thing came to mind was it might be a cheap version of a chandellier. Put those glass candle holders that has wires on and around, with candles attached, of course and viola! Candellier! To dine outdoor and have romantic lights flickering above. Sure beats the normal candle holders on the table and plus, on a small dining table for 2, it is much more better to have wine and oysters than well, candle holders!
I think it is a frosting stand. You put pastries on it and drizzle the on the frosting.
I’m guessin it’s a grill.
Apéritif serving tray, but one spirit too many they all ‘a go’ tumbling down.
It’s a rack to cool bread after baking. Either that or something aliens left behind after feasting on earth food – they had to lighten the load going back.
The framework for the first Roomba. A guide for planting seeds in a circular pattern. A drying form for fabric flowers used by a hatmaker? A cooling rack for pizza slices or a tart.
It is an umbrella so you can feel the rain all the way into your soul 🙂
it’s for a huge canning pot! it’ll hold lots & lots of jars!
Is it a glass drying tray?
Corey!
My spouse, who is a chef, says that i could be used as a grill or a parrilla ( you should know this because you just returned from The Yucatan!) Or , if it is raining you could hang your beautiful French undies to dry on it . OR, it could have something to do with dying fabric and dipping the entire thing from the loop on the top into a giant vat of gorgeous color. If it is none of those things it is definitely a sausage rack.
Love this!
A shield against Cupid’s arrow – plenty of spaces for the arrow to slip through 😉
Not sure if the glasses in the pictures to give us a hit or to confuse 🙂 Don’t know the original use of this rack. I see many ways I could use it – 1.to display all the spice antique bottles with pretty stoppers; 2. display collection of perfume bottles or colorful nail polishes; 3. herbs potted in small antique clay pots in the kitchen; 4. or filled with glasses for champagne tasting night!
or maybe for cheeses? each triangle for different kind of cheese.
🙂
It is a cake cooling rack!
It’s a old fashioned dish washer. Put the glasses on, lower into a hot pot of water,
and soak,swish, then repeat in rinse water. When your done, you kick back with a sparkling glass and enjoy a nice glass of Champagne.
You hang it outside and attach tiny hooks to dry your unmentionables…very lacy ones preferably.
oooh la la!
Bon jour Corey! Long time no see! Taking me a while to catch up on all your galavanting. Fun times for sure!
With the post/ring in the centre my vote also goes to something that is immersed and then removed from a pot or baking dish. Looking forward to the answer. Thanks for sharing your life in France.
Maybe a candle dipping rack.
Pasta drying rack?
It’s a drying rack or cooling rack for baked goods.
Or is it a rack for your cupboard to create more storage space?
Could it be a rack for drying herbs?
It is a drying rack for dishes.
It could hold out a crinoline skirt on display!
I hope it’s a trivet.
Is it a drying rack for French delicious cheese?
It makes toast!
Dd
1. a grill cover piece
2. a rack to hang hats on
3. a pot rack, place baskets etc on the top and hang pots on the hooks
4. paper dryer for hand made papers
5. for a spinning game ,
6. but definitely looks like a kitchen piece
7. for a meat market(eww) hanging rack for slabs of pork, beef etc.
i have not read the other guesses so as not to flubber my thoughts, so if these are repeats, forgive me…
thanks for your fun games! xoxo jody
Does it have something to do with Brie or Camembert? Or a berry washing rack?
It looks like it could be a rack for smoking fish or other foods perhaps? Whatever it is a wonderful piece. I love these guessing games and the inventive comments by others. Go girls! Kind wishes Judy
Corey Can I have another guess? Just looking at it again I noticed the lip around the edge and think maybe it might be for eggs. Part of a hatchery? Or just egg storage of some kind. I’m so curious now…. Judy
A drying rack.
You know I never guess right, or almost do! But I would LOVE to have this thing to set it over my firepit in the Courtyard…I would roast food, grill shrimp, roast peppers, things like that! Love to see the brocante back again! God Bless!…Go to go, my fire pit is a raging fire , eeeeeks!
I believe it is used for seafood – sardines Cheri hansen
churrascaria?
churrasco
I also think it is a drying rack.
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