Think you're pretty handy around the kitchen? Having nothing better to do on a Friday afternoon? Break up the monotony of the work day by checking out the Name That Utensil Quiz at the TLC website. There are photos of common and not-so-common implements to identify, along with a couple of questions about their uses. Your answers on the 11 questions will get you a rating from Tournant to Executive Chef so you can see how you fit into the kitchen. Take care to read all the questions carefully, though - while some are easy, others are a bit on the tricky side.
I'll admit that my score was 10/11. Take the quiz here and leave your score in the comments, below!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-09-2006 @ 3:40PM
Ryan said...
I'm calling shenanigans on that wire whisk question... it's a WIRE WHISK :-) 10/11.
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6-09-2006 @ 3:41PM
Greg said...
and again on spoon colander...
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6-09-2006 @ 3:42PM
TheMatt said...
OK. 10/11 here because of that stupid whisk question. Mr. Quiz, I know what an egg beater is. I've used an egg beater. My grandma has used one. You sir, are no egg beater.
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6-09-2006 @ 3:49PM
mella said...
Agreed on the whisk question. Egg beaters look like mixers with a crank. That is clearly a whisk. By the time I got to the colander spoon, I knew they would want to call it a slotted spoon as well. But a slotted spoon is that big one with cut-out lines that lives somewhere in the far reaches of my silverware drawer.
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6-09-2006 @ 3:51PM
Brian said...
I guess I'm a bigger food geek than I am a space geek, I got the whisk one right, but no clue on the astronaut one.
Though frankly any quiz that would guess people couldn't identify a can opener or a peeler, probably isn't really worthy of Slashfood readers.
And who's that dishy Take Home Chef, and does he ONLY cook for women? (Looking at the episode names)
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6-09-2006 @ 3:59PM
Leon said...
9/11 got caught on the egg beater and the spatula questions.....
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6-09-2006 @ 4:04PM
peggy said...
i know the difference between a wire wisk and an egg beater. what's up with that? i did get the astronaut one, but just barely. 10/11 isn't too bad.
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6-09-2006 @ 4:26PM
floretbroccoli said...
I agree with everybody. Shenanigans on "wire-whisk = egg-beater" because you often beat eggs with a whisk. If I use a knife to open a can, does that mean a knife should also be called a can-opener?
I'd never heard the term "spoon-strainer" before, but that thing doesn't look like a slotted spoon to me. A slotted spoon is NOT round and it DOES have slots, not circular holes.
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6-09-2006 @ 4:40PM
Andrew said...
Not so difficult - I was expecting somethign really tricky! Executive Chef salary for me please.
11/11
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6-09-2006 @ 4:53PM
amyco said...
9/11 here. Egg beater my eye. I use a fork (sometimes called a blending fork, or a granny fork) for beating eggs, anyway. And spoon colander? Never heard of it. All those years of reading Gourmet and Bon Appetit for nothing.
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6-09-2006 @ 4:57PM
maria said...
this is a wire wisk/i have 4 different sizes both at
home and in my camper.
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6-09-2006 @ 5:11PM
Debbie said...
Wire whisk got me unfairly, the spoon colander got me fairly as I didn't know that. 9/11
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6-09-2006 @ 5:56PM
Alex said...
11/11, that was easy.
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6-09-2006 @ 6:02PM
Kitty said...
10/11...
I messed up on the Cake/Spatula one... D'OH!
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6-10-2006 @ 11:45AM
Helcat said...
So glad I'm not the only one to get skunked by the egg beater. And then I figured, well, if they are going to define the whisk as an egg beater, then the spatula has to be an icing knife and got that wrong too. Feh.
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6-12-2006 @ 1:25PM
Adam Fields said...
What an utterly stupid quiz.
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6-12-2006 @ 10:09PM
red said...
9/11 for the same reasons as most of you, I call a whisk a whisk and a spoon colander a spoon colander.
boo.
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6-13-2006 @ 1:59AM
SMJ said...
11 out of 11. Never really hear people use "Wire whisk", its usually either an egg beater or "Ballon Whisk". Bring on more quizzes!
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7-07-2006 @ 4:17PM
Meri said...
10/11
The cake/spatula one got me. I figured that since the pic showed the whisk with an egg they were going to be picky.
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