Another vintage contraption question: You guys have helped before. Looking for more help. My wife picked this up at a garage sale around 30 years ago for a quarter. It's been with our...

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

You guys have helped before. Looking for more help.

My wife picked this up at a garage sale around 30 years ago for a quarter. It's been with our antiques and other vintage items. There are no markings on it. We don't know what it was used for. The red handle still cranks the spools for putting something thru it. It looks too fine for even angel hair pasta if for kitchen use. Does anyone know what this was used for?

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Pasta forming tool ?? PASTA it is ...

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

My vote is still for pasta.

Stan Fayer

Looks like a pasta maker
Stan

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

RainierView wrote:

You guys have helped before. Looking for more help.

My wife picked this up at a garage sale around 30 years ago for a quarter. It's been with our antiques and other vintage items. There are no markings on it. We don't know what it was used for. The red handle still cranks the spools for putting something thru it. It looks too fine for even angel hair pasta if for kitchen use. Does anyone know what this was used for?

I vote for pasta forming tool also.

I did a search for "home made pasta forming tools" then clicked on "images", scroll through and you will see several things that have a resemblance to your "contraption".
https://www.google.com/search?q=Home+made+pasta+forming+tools&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS937US937&sxsrf=APq-WBvQqJwsZhEc0l9maZ9i_M1mszcMJg:1644690726040&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE4_Sz5vr1AhVHEEQIHZnGDNYQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1506&bih=744&dpr=2.55

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

imagemeister wrote:

Pasta forming tool ?? PASTA it is ...

Any idea what kind of pasta it squeezed thru there?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

RainierView wrote:

Any idea what kind of pasta it squeezed thru there?

Skinny square?

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

robertjerl wrote:

I vote for pasta forming tool also. br br I did a... (show quote)

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

Longshadow wrote:

Skinny square?

Back in the 50s my Italian grandmother that lived with us had a fine string pasta guitar cutter her family brought over from Italy. Wish I had it now.

She made pasta from scratch. I used to watch her mix the flower, eggs and yeast the night before, cover it with a bowl overnight then roll it out the next morning before church letting it harden while her homemade sauce was simmering. We had spaghetti and meatballs or a roast that was cooked in the sauce every Sunday.

Store bought pasta is never the same.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

RainierView wrote:

Back in the 50s my Italian grandmother that lived ... (show quote)

Najataagihe

Got a closer look…

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

RainierView wrote:

You guys have helped before. Looking for more help.

My wife picked this up at a garage sale around 30 years ago for a quarter. It's been with our antiques and other vintage items. There are no markings on it. We don't know what it was used for. The red handle still cranks the spools for putting something thru it. It looks too fine for even angel hair pasta if for kitchen use. Does anyone know what this was used for?

Place subject's hair between rollers. Turn crank. They will confess to anything.

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

cahale wrote:

Place subject's hair between rollers. Turn crank. They will confess to anything.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

RainierView wrote:

Back in the 50s my Italian grandmother that lived ... (show quote)

Store bought anything is not the same. My Grandmother had a 2 acre garden/orchard next to the farm house. Late spring through fall the veggies etc. on the table had been growing at the most the day before. She did her own home canning, later adding home made frozen vegetables and fruits. Wild berries, walnuts and pecans gathered in the woods nearby and my Great Grandfather (later my Great Aunt) had two acres of heritage varieties of strawberries and blackberries. She made her own jams, jellies and preserves also. We did buy pancake syrup but I often ate them with strawberry, grape or blackberry jam on them instead of syrup. He kept that garden with hand tools only until he was about 89, he lived to a week or two short of his 92nd birthday.
And the Southern Fried chicken for Sunday dinner had been running around the yard that morning while they were at church.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

cahale wrote:

Place subject's hair between rollers. Turn crank. They will confess to anything.

OR other body parts!