Stories Collected While Living in France
Guess what? For the first time since I have been doing these random French brocante guessing games the answer has not been found. Good guesses, but no answer. Clues are in the guesses, but the answer has to be spot on.
Yes it could be used as a cupcake holder, or a hat for Lady Gaga, or a decorative piece to hold weet what nots, but it ain't that. Though I do think Lady Gaga would wear it, she wore meat once didn't she?
I'll keep the guessing open until the anwer is found.
xx
It’s for the grill…especially for Oscar Meyer weiners. You sandwich them between the two grill layers so that they don’t fall into the hot coals and get burned.
Is it for smoking meat or salmon ???
It’s lovely anyway and I’d love to diplay flowers in cute planters or fruits.
Is it for storing fresh farm eggs?
Is it for warming rolls or buns?
Or is it a pie cooling rack?
I think it is for canning. You place it in a large pot filled with water,the jars of jelly go on top to keep their bottoms raised off the bottom of the pot.
Okay, I just read yesterdays comments and now know I am wrong. How about a fruit dryer. You place slices of apple or pear on it and let it hang in the sun to dry. Other than that I’ve got nothng….
Alright, I lied…a petit four glazing rack, or chocolate ??
Is it for hanging poultry or meat in a store window? Or, is it a pot rack?
Don’t know what it is, but would love to have it…Seeing many uses for it…
HAY, how about a race track for shooting marbles to see who gets to the finish line first? yeah, i know,never was very good with making up stories for the kids either,but they liked them anyway. Bestest,Denise
For drying meat….jerkey style
Vintage wirework cooling rack??
Isn’t this the piece for canning.. You put the sealed jars on it and then you can pull them out of the water.. Didn’t read previous comments,, so I’m sure I’m way off.. xo marlis
Is it for warming baby bottles?
It is for cooking or warming food over the fire in a fireplace.
It has a lip on it, and you show it with glasses… So, Maybe it was used to put glasses upside down on so it would drain the glasses but not chip them on the stone sinks, then lift them out to go and wash?
Or a rack for petit fours?
Or a very large crumb cake/round cake with hole in middle holder.
I believe it is to cool baked goods — pies, cakes, maybe it’s so large because it’s from a bakery.
Looks like something that goes on an open fire pit to cook your food…hmmm…
Is this a rack to age cheese?
hmmm…a drying rack/holder for your chandelier….?
A thingy to use in a smokehouse or butcher shop to cure ham/bacon?
Looks to be a rack to place over a fire to cook something….
But it probably has something to do with curing meats or ageing cheese…
OK, let’s get analytical about this:
1. It has a ring at the top of the center post, suggesting the item can be hung from it.
2. It has legs and looped feet underneath, suggesting the item sometimes sits on a level surface.
3. It has a rim ca. 1″ high around the perimeter, suggesting that whatever it was meant to contain needed to be protected from falling off.
4. It appears to be made of metal (cast iron?), so is at minimum somewhat heat-resistant.
5. Most obviously, it’s meant to have air or heat or water circulate underneath it, hence the open structure.
Other than that, I got nuttin’ here 😉
Is it something used in canning? you set the jar on in the pot of boiling water? that or it’s a dryer rack for early times undies!
I think it could be used for drying herbs. You could hang the rack from the ceiling or set it on the table.
My guess like some others is a fireplace grate to cook with! and I didn’t look! Have fun with your answers!
Is it a rack for small plants – like herb pots?
Now that you are making us work, I am aflutter. So here is my peep: This piece serves at the bottom of a birdcage, for obvious reasons.
I think it is meant for hang-drying your undergarments ???
My best guess – a toaster for bread over hot coals or wood burning fire.
It is for hanging pots and pans on from the ceiling?
could it be an old chandelier-the kind you put candles on?
I know what it is! It is something Jackie needs to put on her counter. She needs it very, very badly 🙂
It is a FRENCH FOOTED COOLING RACK w. HANDLE WIREWARE FIL DE FER
There was a picture of the same one on Ebay.
May I Have a drink, please, while I ponder life, er, rack my brain? 😉
Is it a drying rack for French spaghetti?
oh! this was waiting for me to guess!
It is a rack to put baked cakes, muffins, tarts or so to cool
(I have one )
Part of an eel trap?
It is a cooling rack. Saw them in France and at the CL Fair in Austin, TX. They said for all food items from the oven or canning.
Very clever!! But no. 🙂
The pastry, petit fours are placed on the rack the frosting is poured over and excess drips off beneath.
A graticule….to roast meats.
To trick us, Corey has pictured this thing upside down. It is actually the vent screen for cooling the attic in old French hay barns. The “legs or feet” are clips that fit into the hole in the attic floor to hold it in place. The “hanger” with the loop on the end is so that you can hook it to remove it from the vent hole from the floor below. Later, when it was not so fiendishly hot, you would climb up to the attic and secure the hole with the solid wooden piece that usually fits there so that someone may not fall through the hole while rolling in the attic hay.
Lol…Again, I would use this as a grill over a fire pit! I insist!! smiles…Have a good day!
is it to cook chestnuts
Annie v.
Could it be for paella, I have seen them cooking it in the markets there, and also in Spain. It’s impressive u could have a discussion about this in French. I am jealous!!!!
Forgot about the handle, maybe a large round pot could not work, how about for roasting peppers.
Is it a wedding cake server?
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