Abstract: A cooking article includes a cooking utensil and a handle that is removably connected to the cooking utensil. The handle includes a plurality of hollow seasoning compartment sections, each section configured to store grindable seasonings. The handle includes a selector switch configured to select one of the plurality of seasoning compartment sections for grinding and dispensing seasonings. The handle includes a plurality of sliding members. Each sliding member is associated with a corresponding seasoning compartment section and includes one or more grinding teeth configured to grind the grindable seasonings of the associated seasoning compartment section. The handle includes a lever configured to be pressed and released. When the lever is pressed and released, the lever moves the sliding member associated with the selected seasoning compartment section back and forth, causing the sliding member's grinding teeth to grind the grindable seasonings in the selected seasoning compartment section.

Abstract: An oral motor spoon for improving oral motor skills includes a handle attached to a bowl section that forms a forwardly-sloped concave bowl that curves sharply upwardly to a vertical plane adjacent the tip. The underside of the bowl section preferably includes a series of linear, textured ridges running transversely in parallel relation thereacross. The tip of the bowl section is preferably formed into a generally flat exterior edge in a vertical plane, and the upper horizontal edge of the tip is preferably elevated above than the remaining perimeter of the bowl.

Abstract: A ladle, for filtering a mixture containing debris, includes an outer bowl defining outer holes and an upper edge, a handle attached thereto, an inner bowl disposed within the outer bowl forming a gap therebetween and having ether inner holes or protrusions separated by grooves disposed below the upper edge and above the outer holes, several holders joining the outer and inner bowls in the upper region thereof, and inner and outer outlet spouts coaxially provided in the upper regions of the bowls for pouring out the filtered mixture from the ladle. The holders can be made as spring-loaded brackets or latches preferably having a U-loop shape placed over the upper edges of the bowls, providing for a removable attachment of the bowls. Optionally the holders can be made as rivets or screws joining the bowls in the upper regions thereof, providing for a fixed attachment of the bowls.

Abstract: A Hand Tool for Removing Nopal-Cactus Thorns is similar in shape to a spoon. This hand tool has a Hole shaped as a polygonal star in its head with a narrow area surrounding that hole for removing the skin and the superficial Thorns of the Nopal Petal by repeatedly rubbing the utensil against the surface of the Petal in a longitudinal fashion, without need of sharpening the edge of the Hole. A Secondary Hole for removing the hardest Thorns and those in the edges and corners of the Nopal Petals and a Corner Blade for cutting it in small squares or small stripes are also present in the tool.

Abstract: A perforated food ladle includes a bowl member having a one-quart capacity. The bowl is uniformly perforated throughout its surface area. An elongate handle has its lower end attached to the rim of the bowl. The upper end of the handle terminates in a bend or hook portion. Vertically aligned capacity markings are disposed on the outer surface of the bowl.

Abstract: A single, thin piece of folded material attaches to a single serving container to provide a strong, sanitary spoon, Folding score lines on the handle portion of the spoon give the utensil strength and provide a simplicity of use suitable for children. The disclosed utensil may be attached to existing containers or may be built into containers during the manufacture of the underlying container, or may be available as a stand-alone product. The disclosed utensil may be integrated into packaging material as overwrap sleeves used to package food containers.

Abstract: A cooking utensil 10 having a stem or handle 12 and a bowl or containment portion 13 which has a cavity 16 and protruding ridges which may be used to selectively engage, cut and grind an item such as food.

Abstract: A perforated food ladle includes a bowl member having a one-quart capacity. The bowl is uniformly perforated throughout its surface area. An elongate handle has its lower end attached to the rim of the bowl. The upper end of the handle terminates in a bend or hook portion. Vertically aligned capacity markings are disposed on the outer surface of the bowl.

Abstract: A straining device and a method for manufacturing a straining device are provided. The straining device includes a handle, a frame, which is positioned at an end of the handle, and a compartment containing a medium to be strained. The compartment includes a top porous surface and a bottom porous surface, and is affixed to the frame. Further, the compartment is configured so as to strain the medium through at least one of the top porous surface and the bottom porous surface. The medium to be strained may include a beverage, medicine, or soup ingredient. Accordingly, the straining device provides a convenient apparatus for preparing a beverage, a food, or a medicine, and for a variety of utensil applications such as stirring or collecting and adding an additive.

Abstract: A single, thin piece of folded material attaches to a single serving container to provide a strong, sanitary spoon. Folding score lines on the handle portion of the spoon give the utensil strength and provide a simplicity of use suitable for children. The disclosed utensil may be attached to existing containers or may be built into containers during the manufacture of the underlying container, or may be available as a stand-alone product. The disclosed utensil may be integrated into packaging material such as overwrap sleeves used to package food containers.

Abstract: A perforated food ladle includes a bowl member having a one-quart capacity. The bowl is uniformly perforated throughout its surface area. An elongate handle has its lower end attached to the rim of the bowl. The upper end of the handle terminates in a bend or hook portion. Vertically aligned capacity markings are disposed on the outer surface of the bowl.

Abstract: A food serving utensil includes a body that has a handle located at a proximal end and a food retaining section located at a distal end respectively. A hollow chamber extends from the proximal end to the distal end of the body and is axially seated therein. A linear opening is located adjacent to the proximal end. An actuator switch is housed within the linear opening and linearly displaced parallel to a longitudinal length thereof. The switch has a flange portion protruding outwardly from a top surface of the handle. A shaft is housed within the chamber and extends along a longitudinal length thereof. The shaft has a first end monolithically formed with the switch and a second end intercalated within the food retaining section. A stabilizing mechanism is spaced from the food retaining section and is engaged with the shaft and the body.

Abstract: A multifunctional ladle includes a spoon-body which has a handle and a perforated spoon which mounts on the spoon-body by using a link rod, a spring and a screw. By pushing or pulling a switch on the handle which connects with the link rod, the perforated spoon can be detached from the spoon-body and in that case the multifunctional ladle can be used as a strainer, or the perforated spoon can be combined with the spoon-body and in that case the multifunctional ladle can be used as a spoon.

Abstract: A hand utensil for peeling and pitting a fruit, such as a mango, has a spoon-shaped bowl through which a plurality of elongated generally parallel slots laterally extend in a lower region of the concave surface between the proximal end and the distal end of the bowl. In addition, a series of arcuate ridges project from the concave surface of the bowl, wherein each arcuate ridge has a radius of curvature extending from a center point on a longitudinal axis defined by the bowl.

Abstract: A fluid filter, which is adapted for separating a less dense fluid floating on a high dense fluid, includes at least a fluid filtering arrangement including a floating wing adapted for floating on the less dense fluid and at least a fluid outlet formed on the floating wing, and a container body, which is extended from the floating wing, having a fluid collecting cavity communicating with the fluid outlet, wherein the fluid outlet is formed at a position above the fluid collecting cavity. Therefore, when a downward force is applied on the floating wing until the fluid outlet is slightly positioned below the surface level of the less dense fluid, the less dense fluid is allowed to flow into the fluid collecting cavity through the fluid outlet by gravity.

Abstract: A limb trimmer apparatus is provided comprising a blade releasably secured to a housing assembly. The housing assembly comprises a housing having first and second flat sides for alternatively securing the blade to the housing assembly in desired extended or storage positions. A clamp and fastener may be provided for selectively securing the blade to one of the first or second flat sides. The blade being secured to the second flat side may be loosened and rotated about the fastener selectively between an extended position and a storage position. The blade being secured to the first flat side may be removed from its extended position in securement thereto and repositioned against the second flat side in the storage position. The clamp is configured with a recess to receive the handle end of the blade and the first or second flat side in either an extended or storage position.

Abstract: A cooking utensil includes a body with a depressed portion, a handle extending from the body in a first direction, and a blade extending from the body in a second direction not parallel to the first direction. The body has a curved leading edge that is continuous with a lateral edge of the blade. The upper boundaries of the depressed portion of the body form a plane that makes a non-zero angle with the plane of the blade. A leading edge of the blade is sharpened to facilitate use of the utensil as a cleaver. In various embodiments, the orientation of the handle with respect to the body is modified in a number of ways to prevent interference with a side wall of a cooking container.

Abstract: A sieving ladle allowing separation of solids or coarse material from liquids or fine particles; the sieving ladle comprising a generally concave-shaped bowl, the bowl defining a bowl wall, the bowl wall having a bowl wall peripheral edge, the bowl wall peripheral edge defining an open main surface extending therebetween; a handle extending from the concave-shaped bowl; a sieving wall, the sieving wall defining a sieving wall proximal edge, a sieving wall distal edge, a sieving wall proximal segment and a sieving wall distal segment, the seeing wall proximal segment extending generally tangentially from a connecting section of the wall peripheral edge, the sieving wall having sieving apertures extending therethrough.

Abstract: A cooking utensil includes a body with a depressed portion, a handle extending from the body in a first direction, and a blade extending from the body in a second direction not parallel to the first direction. The body has a curved leading edge that is continuous with a lateral edge of the blade. The upper boundaries of the depressed portion of the body form a plane that makes a non-zero angle with the plane of the blade. A leading edge of the blade is sharpened to facilitate use of the utensil as a cleaver.

Abstract: A tool for egg boiling is provided which includes a handle (2) and a concave liquid draining element located at the one end of the handle for supporting an egg. The tool shaft is provided with a resilient tongue (23), one end of which is fixed to the shaft, and a free end of which carries a spike (24) with an orientation which is perpendicular relative to the tongue for picking a hole in the shell of the egg (7). The shaft forms a guide (21) in order to center, at least in one dimension in the plane of the tongue, the egg in relation to the spike. The guiding establishes a predetermined distance between the end of the egg and the spike of the tongue when the tongue is in a non-loaded condition.

Abstract: The invention is an expandable volume food preparation tool for precisely and quickly forming a quantity of dough into a plurality of uniform dough blocks having a predetermined volume and shape. Included therein is a base plate having a base opening disposed therethrough. The base opening is defined by a continuous substantially vertical interior base sidewall arranged to define a predetermined outline shape. A base volume is defined by the void enclosed by the base sidewall. To enable the user to manipulate the base plate, a handle is mounted to the base plate. Additionally, a removable primary extension plate is mounted to the base plate. The primary extension plate includes an extension opening defined by a continuous, substantially vertical, interior extension sidewall arranged to define an outline shape substantially identical to the outline shape of the base opening. An extension volume is defined by the void enclosed by the extension sidewall within the primary extension plate.

Abstract: Described are peptides and peptide mimetics that bind to and the IL-5 receptor. Such peptides and peptide mimetics are useful in methods for treating disorders that involve improper production of or response to IL-5 and or the production and accumulation of eosinophils, such as asthma, as well as in diagnostic methods employing labeled peptides and peptide mimetics.

Abstract: A dual-purpose spatula-skimmer kitchen utensil provides a rigid, planar surface having a thin leading edge for being pushed beneath a food product (e.g., cooking within a shallow frying pan or the like). A depression or concavity in the planar surface has perforations or holes therethrough which permit liquid to flow but trap small food particles. In a further embodiment, the depression is ramped and has substantially flat upper and lower surfaces. The utensil may be used for skimming and/or straining cooking liquids (e.g., to filter food particles suspended in oil used in frying), and also for flipping or turning food products.

Abstract: A multipurpose utensil which comprises a tubular casing and a pair of spoons. Each spoon includes a small, shallow bowl having a rim thereabout which is on an end of a handle. The spoons are positioned with the rims face to face, allowing the handles to be inserted together into a first end of the tubular casing, with the bowls together forming an enclosed compartment.

Abstract: A kitchen utensil is described in the form of a spoon for separating a liquid from an unwanted floating component. The spoon has a handle and a ladle and 2 comprising two liquid receiving vessels 3, 4. One of the vessels 3 is received within the other 4 and is formed with a hole 5 at the base thereof. In use liquid in the first vessel 3 flows through the hole 5 into the second vessel 4 , from whence it may be poured, leaving the unwanted component in the first vessel 3.

Abstract: A device for separating liquids has a side wall enclosing an interior space. A bottom is connected to the side wall adjacent a lower edge of the side wall and has an aperture formed therein at a position above the lower edge. The bottom extends upwardly and inwardly toward the aperture such that as the device is forced downwardly into a combination of liquids, a liquid floating on top of another different liquid is forced through the aperture and contained by the side wall and the bottom portion.

Abstract: An improved curette is disclosed having a spoon-shaped scoop attached to an elongated tapered handle. Substantially the entire periphery of the scoop is sharpened, allowing the curette to be used in a lateral or rotating motion to remove and collect tissue samples. The new curette also has a sharpened interior edge on its forward end allowing curetting when drawing the instrument backward. Small drainage holes through the bottom of the scoop allow the curette to efficiently capture more tissue.

Abstract: An elongated, trough-like utensil for eating buttered popcorn by scooping it from a container. Long enough to reach into a deep container, one end of the utensil includes a finger stop which can be held between the middle and index fingers. The finger stop also forms a dam to prevent grease or melted butter on the popcorn from coming into contact with the fingers. Distal from the stop, the trough has a rounded end which provides a smooth surface to facilitate thrusting the trough into popcorn. Near the rounded end, the bottom of the trough defines an aperture of sufficient size to allow unpopped kernels of corn to escape from the trough before they can slide down it and into a user's mouth.

Abstract: A cooking utensil having a base plate includes an extension flange mounted orthogonally and downwardly relative to the base plate, with the base plate and extension flange having cooperating, coplanar, and continuous side walls defining a through-extending base plate opening to receive a food component therewithin for effecting molding of the food component during a cooking procedure.

Abstract: A skimmer/separator ladle comprises a handle of an elongated configuration and a bowl of a cup-shaped configuration defining an upper rim. The handle and the bowl are connected together and the handle extends upwardly from the bowl at the upper rim of the bowl. In order to render it possible to carry out any skimming/separation operation, the bowl has an outwardly protruding tongue arranged at a first rim section of the bowl, which tongue is located below the upper rim of the bowl, and further one or more through-going holes which are provided in the bowl and arranged at a second rim section of the bowl, which one or more through-going holes are located below the upper rim of the bowl and further located above the tongue.

Abstract: A skimmer for removing fat from a liquid comprising a bowl, and a handle member releasably engaging the bowl. The bowl has a structure defining an opening in the bottom of the bowl. A bowl member is secured to the bottom of the bowl in proximity to the opening. The handle member comprises a generally hollow handle neck having a structure defining a handle bore and a longitudinal slot communicating with the handle bore. A plunger is slidably disposed in the handle bore, and a trigger member is secured to the plunger and protrudes through the longitudinal slot. A spring is disposed in the handle bore and engages the plunger for biasing the plunger.

Abstract: The device described herein comprises a ladle type utensil having a handle attached to a substantially cylindrical cup having a bottom comprising either a flat or preferably a concave bottom in which a number of "domes" are set, which "domes" extend upward from the bottom of the said cup. Each dome has an opening at the crest thereof, which dome openings provide the only means for liquid to flow from beneath the cup into the interior of the cup. In the preferred modification there are seven of said domes, one being positioned in the center of the cup bottom and the others being arranged in a cricle around the central dome.

Abstract: A strainer ladle which comprises an outer ladle having an unperforated bowl and a handle, an inner ladle having a perforated bowl which is nested within the unperforated bowl and a handle which is slidably mounted on the handle of the outer ladle. The perforated bowl can be moved between a closed position in which two bowls are nested to an open position in which the two bowls are spaced from each other.

Abstract: A cheese grating tool comprises a handle shaft (1) and a plate (2) connected thereto. The plate (2) comprises a generally single-curved portion (22) with a plurality of apertures (31) which are distributed over the width of the blade (2) generally in the region of said curved portion which is remote from the handle shaft. Each of said apertures is delimited by a scope (32), which projects from the convex side of the curved plate portion (22). The scopes are parallel as seen in the plate plane and the scope edges face generally toward the handle shaft. The scope axis extends obliquely to the adjacent plate surface.

Abstract: An improved egg scoop or spoon suitable for handling hot boiled eggs wherein the spoon bowl is itself egg shaped and is constructed so as to be easily positionable around an egg, to surround and firmly retain an egg and to provide for the drainage of fluids from the egg without its retention within the spoon bowl and the ready floatation of an egg from the spoon bowl when presented to a body of fluid.

Abstract: A kitchen utensil for stirring comprising a pair of spoon bowl elements mounted on a single handle so that corresponding points on the two elements are always the same distance apart.