Answer: “This is an English muffin dish — you fill the bottom with hot water and have a fire underneath to keep it hot, and the muffins go in the top and the steam keeps them hot and delicious.”
Answer: “It is a salamander. You heat it up in a fire or with a torch until it is red hot, then use it to brown or toast things, like steaks, bread, crème brûlée, etc.”
Answer: “The clipper-looking utensil is for cracking lobster, nut, and crab shells, while the thinner utensils are to guide out the meat from within the shells.”
Answer: “To help with these cans that have a tab, you stick the hook under the tab to help it lift up.”
Answer: “It’s an egg separator. They work very well if the hole is cut properly. Crack a whole egg into the cup/bowl, and then tip it over a container to catch the white as it pours out of the slot. The yolk, if not broken, will stay neatly in the separator.”
Answer: “That is a soap swisher. You can put a solid bar of soap (or many scraps of soap) in the cage portion and swish it around in the water, creating soapy water for washing dishes and such.”
Answer: “It’s a honey server. The hook on the side keeps it from slipping into the honey pot.”
Answer: “To fry corn”
Answer: “Poached eggs — drop it in boiling water, crack eggs in it, then lift the little handle to get them out in a nice shape.”
Answer: “It’s a spoon to measure dried tea and bring it from the box into the pot. Was commonly used from the late 1700s to the mid-Victorian period.”
Answer: “Citrus juicer”
Answer: “It is a butter press. The mark would indicate, on market day, whose butter you were buying. Women usually made and sold butter as a means of earning some money.”
Answer: “It’s a thing to cut out flowers from eggs.”
Answer: “It’s a stuffing cage for birds.”
Answer: “It’s a pastry cutter.”
Answer: “Salad claws/tosser”
Answer: “The green one opens bananas.”
“The blue one on the right is for sure an orange peeler by being a beaver. With the tooth on the front, you can cut lines in the outer shell of the orange and with the beaver tail you can kind of scrape the peel off.”
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Corn Remover. Cut the kernels from the cob.
It's for both. Also good for squeezing citrus, cracking eggshells, and breaking bones. Not everything has ONE purpose.
It's both, and good on crab... although with lots of crab/lobster consumed a person gets good enough not to need anything but teeth.