Inventory | Ethnography | Coltello per polenta
- Common name
- Polenta knife
- Material
- wood
Description
A wooden, knife-like tool used for cutting polenta into slices. It had a rectangular handle on one side and a rounded tip on the other, with no blades on the underside. It was held and passed over the polenta to obtain slices or portions during meals.
Use
- Areas of use
- economy and domestic rituals
- Specific use
- cooking
- Craft
- domestic use
Preserved specimen
wooden utensil entirely similar to a knife, equipped with a rectangular handle at one end, and ending in a rounded tip at the other, the lower part having no blades.
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00419
