"What’s happening to my kitchen utensils? Multiple kitchen utensils have this white stuff on them. I hand wash them and dry in rack in sink. Can’t scrub it off. It’s almost like a chemical reaction of something?"
A: "The plastic coating is delaminating. No amount of scrubbing is going to fix that."
#4... What box? you see something I can't?
#2 Ive seen lots of adze, I live where they are made culturally. There are lots of different shapes depending on the purpose of it the region it was manufactured.