What Is This Weird Item?!
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Answers:
Cookie scooper. Used for chocolate chip type drop cookies. Just scoop some batter up and drop it on the cookie sheet.
I think rogerrab... is right. Next time you go to a restaurant that has a real chef, not a cook (no offense to cooks out there!), take it with you and ask him or her! And then let us know what it is. (Don't you love thrift stores....if you had gone LOOKING for one of those things at #@@^Mart, you would have never found it!) :)
looks like it may be to slice something like butter pats or fudge which require the scraping action on each slice
I don't know but if you send a photo to cooksillustrated.com they should be able to tell you.
It looks like a pill splitter to me.