Things found in a kitchen drawer

[ellarien]

Things I had completely forgotten about:

1 corkscrew, presumably dating back to one of my abortive attempts to serve wine to guests. Not sure if it's ever been used.

1 balloon whisk. I used to use this to make up cheesecake mixes for the Young People from church, back in Birmingham, and it probably hasn't been used since round about the time my elder nephew was born. (He's taller than me now!)

1 pie server, also cheesecake-related.

Things I vaguely remember acquiring:

2 sets of undersized plastic cookie/pastry/scone cutters, never used. (I think these came on the front of a magazine, and someone gave them to me thinking they might be useful.)
Salad servers.
Tea strainer
A dozen chopsticks, two with the ends slightly scorched by the dishwasher.
Ice cream scoop
Wire cheese-cutting device.
Wooden-handled rubber spatula, probably for de-icing the used freezer I owned for about six months before the snow crashed through the plastic roof and killed it.


Also:
3 sets of measuring spoons with the tablespoon detached for coffee duty
Lots of plastic knives, forks, and spoons, including a coffee-spoon saved from my second-ever plane trip, with the South African Airlines logo on the handle.
4 can openers of various degrees of functionality.
Assorted, mostly inexpensive, knives for cutting up vegetables, a couple of them dating back to my student days. (At least one of those is still sharp enough to take a pretty good slice out of my finger, as I proved yesterday.)
Two string-handled potato peelers.
Candy thermometer, which I bought during an upsurgence of the Permanent MacDonalds Coffee Flamewar in an effort to figure out how hot I actually drink my coffee.
A plastic cheese-grater.
Several plastic bag-closing clips.