I’m cleaning up my crocks of tools, and these have been in the wok tools crock for decades. I have no recollection of buying them. I assume they are for tossing noodles.
I have way too much stuff
No clue but can you put something next to them for scale?
Yes, they look like pasta tossers/servers.
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Salad tongs/tossers. Similar to these salad hands. Just with handles.
https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/acacia-nut-salad-hands/
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I had the original James Beard Salad Hands -their shape was so much so much better and more functional than the later wannabes!
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Zen Garden Rake for desktop zen garden??
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That’s what Google Images said, but nope. Never purchased anything like that!
Quite a bit larger than I expected. Not sure I can see them being super useful for tossing noodles; I’d think it would get all kinds of tangled..? But maybe for removing them from a pot of boiling water?
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There’s a spiky spoon/scoop for that …eh, I just use tongs.
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Indeed. I was suggesting a potential intended use case for these things, not implying that there aren’t other/better options.
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This is what the AI on my PC said –
Those wooden tools you’re looking at are hand combs used in fiber processing, most commonly in flax preparation
But then I looked up “hand combs flax” etc. and it showed much finer combs with pointy tips.
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AI was entirely useless on this one (surprise!). I tried several times.
It often is. I keep forgetting to put in -ai at the end of my Google searches to strip out the Chrome AI stuff at the top of the search.
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Hah! The all-powerful “-“. I doubt many people these days know how to structure a search …
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I for one wasn’t aware of that option and I FUCKING HATE AI, so I’m very appreciative of @LindaWhit sharing 
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How’d you find this?? 
They’re unavailable on Amazon, but mis-named “pasta rack”
Jammys right. I have a pair. Spinner, weaver, knitter here
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