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A colander's holes can cast dozens of little Sun images during an eclipse, each acting like a pinhole camera.
Kitchen Word Search
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saucepanFind to reveal
An eighteenth-century silver saucepan in the Met's collection is under an inch tall, shrinking an everyday cooking tool into a tiny treasure.
spatulaFind to reveal
A spatula escaped during a 2006 spacewalk while astronauts tested repairs, giving a familiar kitchen-shaped tool a brief career as orbiting debris.
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Danish pancake skillets have round wells for making balls called aebleskiver, meaning apple slices, even though modern versions usually contain no apple.
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Some early electric toasters connected to lightbulb sockets, borrowing power from household lighting before dedicated appliance outlets became an everyday kitchen feature.
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A kitchen blender helped scientists show that DNA carries inherited instructions, by shaking viruses off bacteria in an unexpectedly domestic-looking biology experiment.
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The word cabinet once meant a small private room; only later did it come to mean a cupboard for storing things.
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Volcanic-glass knives have been tested as surgical scalpels, bringing a material used by ancient toolmakers into cutting experiments in modern medicine.
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Some spoons were fitted with little mustache guards, keeping soup away from carefully groomed facial hair while leaving an opening for sipping.
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Forks were once seen as scandalous; a Byzantine princess who brought them to Venice was scolded by horrified clergy.
True stories · Shelbyville, Illinois
The dishwasher she built in a shed
In Shelbyville, Illinois, a woman named Josephine Cochrane grew tired of her servants chipping her good china by hand. So in a shed behind her house she worked with mechanic George Butters on a machine to do it better. She measured each plate, cup, and saucer, fitted wire racks to hold them, and set the racks spinning inside a copper boiler while hot soapy water rained down. She patented her dishwasher in 1886 and showed it at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, where it won top honors for design and durability. Hotels and restaurants bought them eagerly. Hobart acquired her business in 1926 and later sold dishwashers under the KitchenAid name.
No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
Julia Child
Trivia
In the saying about extra effort, people throw in everything but the what?
The kitchen sink.
What heat-resistant glassware, born from railroad lantern glass, became famous for baking dishes in the 1910s?
Pyrex.
Which table utensil appears in Peter Damian's criticism of a Byzantine princess's luxurious habits?
The fork.
What is the botanical name for the papery skin cooks peel from garlic and onions?
The tunic.
Which nonstick coating did a DuPont chemist discover by accident in 1938?
Teflon (PTFE).
Trivia · 1 / 5
In the saying about extra effort, people throw in everything but the what?
The kitchen sink.
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Play →or printTrue stories · Venice, Italy
The fork that scandalized a city
Around 1004 a Byzantine princess, Maria Argyropoulina, married the Venetian Doge's son and brought an unusual dining habit to Venice: eating with small golden forks. Decades after her death, the churchman Peter Damian used her luxurious habits as a moral warning, contrasting the forks with the fingers people had been given. He was not standing beside her at the dinner table; his criticism belonged to a later account. The little utensil gradually gained acceptance across Europe. A fork now scarcely earns a glance, which makes its old association with extravagant luxury a deliciously odd piece of table history.
Food is our common ground.
James Beard
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This kitchen word search is a free printable puzzle with 10 hidden words in an 11×11 grid. Find words like COLANDER, SAUCEPAN, SPATULA hidden across, down, and diagonally. You can play it right here in your browser — tap the first and last letter of a word — or download it as a printable PDF with the full answer key on page two. It's free for personal and classroom use, so teachers can print copies for a whole class with no sign-up and no account. Word searches like this one are a proven way to build vocabulary, spelling, and word-shape recognition, which is why they're a favourite with ESL learners, elementary classrooms, and anyone who likes a quiet puzzle with their coffee.
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Sources: Josephine Cochrane (Wikipedia) · The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe (The Conversation) · A brief history of the Crock-Pot (Smithsonian) · Percy Spencer melts a chocolate bar, invents the microwave (New England Historical Society)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.