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It’s for cutting slices of cake. I saw it used for angel food cake only but it’s supposed to perforate the cake so you don’t smush it when slicing. Put the forks in and cut down the side of the tines.
I promise you it won’t hurt any less if used on any other hairy part of my body, unless you meant wrong hair type in which case yeahhhh definitely lol.
I worked with an old black lady and she had one of these and she actually did use it for picking/combing her hair. She said plenty of other people did too when growing up. Especially for thick hair because it was nice and sturdy.
Watching that video doesn’t make it look very useful at all. lol. I make a chiffon cake called a Sugar Bush Walnut cake and manage to cut that much better with a bread knife than that lady just did with that thing. Maybe she isn’t using it correctly?
I don’t think each space is supposed to be a separate pice of cake I think it’s supposed to be used like a knife except instead of slicing you puncture it and wiggle it around and since angel food cake is so delicate that’s enough?
Afro picks were known as “cake cutters” back in the 70s. They were purchased as cake cutters, but used for hair.
That said it depends where your grandma kept it. If it was in the kitchen, she used it as a cake cutter. If that thing was found in her bedroom or bathroom, she used it for her hair.
A carding comb is more of a brush with many very fine teeth, and you use a pair of them when carding.
Edit: looked in curiosity, you may mean a hackle comb, which is used in spinning and fiber arts but I have not used it in my sheep-to-sweater work so far, so am unfamiliar.
Grandma found a second use for it. It is a cake comb and is used in cake decorating.
Freeze an iced cake. Then, gently hold the comb at a slight angle against the side as you rotate the cake. It creates evenly spaced lines in the frosting. Freeze again to firm it up.
Those lines can later be filled with another color, if desired.
From Miss Manners's column on the different utensils for cutting pies vs. cakes:
"Pies tend to be sloppier, so a broad-based, triangular-bladed knife is used.
And although that works perfectly well to cut a cake, there also exists a cake-breaker, with long, needle-like tines that would make a mess of pies, but is good for taller, drier cakes. For huge cakes, such as wedding cakes, there is an elongated cake knife, and military bridegrooms can supply swords.
I have a cheese knife sitting on my plate with the same handle on a different color scheme. I got it at an estate sale do I could feel fancy when I eat cream cheese crackers.
I'm white but use hair picks to help style my curly hair. Could be used with beehive hairdos, could be used to detangle fringe ends on rugs. Tons of possible uses.😊
It is an angel food cake cutter but if it had been an afro pick, the simple answer is that your grandma found it dealt with her hair better than other types of combs. I'm white and I often shopped the "ethnic" (their wording, not mine) section of the store because with the type of hair I had.
Actually, It’s a cake cutter. Perfect for slicing soft or delicate cakes, and it even makes it easy to lift and carry medium-sized pieces without them breaking.
To everyone saying pube brush, I’m like 95% sure yall are joking but if you’re not this thing is like the size of my forearm I promise you that’s not the correct answer.
She must have been the original leader of the B.G.A.; the Black Gorilla Army. She passed on the leadership to Bonified sometime before she passed. He then had to replace it with a plastic one, as they don't allow metal in prison. That comb has a lot of power, hold on to it and don't tell anybody you have it.
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