What Is It For?

[@mamuteddymad]

That first one is a coconut scraper. It's commonly used in SouthEast Asia. 🥥 This particular one doesn't look necessarily very antique. Nineteen 50s maybe. The same design is still being used by many

[@VertigoX26]

Well I'll be... A short Google search and there it is (although newer looking!).

[@LITRband]

Yeah; he was on the right track, just wrong fruit, haha

[@el_dogetaco812]

dude I got one!

[@anupamdas108]

we still use this at our home in bengal- india

[@NittyGritty420]

That’s nuts

[@StanSmith69]

I've been watching Tim since I was young. He helps me relax! Thanks for still making these vids after all these years, yall!

[@localshowershitter7590]

Legend

[@blakewright575]

Same… except every once in a while he does loud toys or whistles 😅

[@Wuschi2001]

You like Thegaminglemon?

[@biozgamer5445]

In 2 years time I will be able to say that!

[@fartbiscuit5121]

I have that lens cup and while filming a segment one time I had a intern with me and I handed him the "lens" asking him to hold it for a second and said don't drop this it's very expensive and right as it was about to change hands I dropped it. The look on his face as the color left his face will be something I'll never forget. The cup or lens was completely fine.

[@glenngriffon8032]

XD you are _evil_

[@gringerandom5872]

I've done that with a fake egg multiple times haha, nice story

[@KSignalEingang]

It's all fun and games til your telephoto lens gets filled with coffee.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

And now you know to never give him a camera lens again

[@el_dogetaco812]

Tim that is a coconut scraper, we own one at my house, we often use it to scrape out the white flesh of the coconut for various dishes, it's very useful, our one is made entirely of metal and is screwed onto a table top in order to scrape coconuts.

[@mamuteddymad]

Well explained!

[@el_dogetaco812]

We wanted to get a motorized one but then we realized we only break it out like twice a month

[@upularFTW]

Like Tim I assumed it was for scraping out the insides of softer fruits like lemons or oranges. But coconut scraper does make a lot more sense, especially seeing as it sturdily nails into the wall which implies a level of resistance you don't need with something soft like a lemon.

[@mamuteddymad]

It's for scraping the inside of a coconut which is somewhat soft.

[@brandonfoley7519]

@@mamuteddymad sure, but is it as soft as lemon

[@MrAnanthaP]

Coconut scraper definitely. It has sharp AND SERRATED edges. Used in South India too.

[@rodenreyes6320]

Coconut grater, but I doubt if it does a good job...looks flimsy.Graters today have at least a half horsepower motor.

[@MrGhostTheBigRoast]

@@rodenreyes6320 pfft it runs on asian grandmother energy, who needs a motor lol. also the motorised ones are far more dangerous because they can easily hurt the user if the blades catch or the base cannot properly attach to a countertop or smth. much rather use it by hand.

[@SameekBanerjee]

First one is a Coconut Scraper

[@yeyonghe]

spot on

[@matthewfurlani8647]

They have modern ones with a motor which us terrifying

[@ivrit63]

Exactly

[@jakapriyan]

Indian 🇮🇳

[@xTheHumanoidx]

The guys on Sorted Food showed the Electric version and we're completely terrified of it.

[@narnbrez]

some of these items may have been replaced by newer ones, but tim is irreplaceable 💗

[@spiritchambers]

I like how the coconut scraper (even the recently bought ones) in most of our homes is the same as was probably more than a hundred years ago. Guess all are happy with it's design and ease of use, and no one bothers to over engineer and overcomplicate the coconut grater.

[@Zeppflyer]

My grandpa had one of those lens mugs when I was little. I found it endlessly fascinating.

[@rbarrett111]

Another great one! It's a nice break from all the negative crap in the world, to see the cleverness and imaginativeness of people. There's a bit of a public service in that. Thanks!

[@charlesmangum3108]

Tim, I enjoy your fascination with toys and unusual things. We really appreciate your channel.

[@TheHighFructoseJefe95]

Tim, thank you for your videos, I genuinely appreciate them. They are so entertaining and heartwarming.

[@TheNukebooster]

I dont know why but this video made me feel strangely at peace. Watching him enjoy the smallest almost mundane little things was... refreshing... finding joy in the smaller things in life is such a great thing. I thank you for bringing a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.

[@bighoaxor]

Why do I get really excited every time Tim shows something that I also have? It just makes me feel super cool! 😁😁 (I have a reverse colouring book)

[@siggyretburns7523]

Ah, but Im sure your cool all the same.

[@siggyretburns7523]

No foolin. You got one of those? I had a Led zeppelin album cover that had dried watercolors on it. "In through the outdoor". I found out the hard way. I got it wet, next thing I knew it was like an easter egg coloring class gone awry. 😆

[@BodywiseMustard]

Tim talking a million miles an hour over the top of the gentle twinkle twinkle music really fried my brain

[@MiyuruPathum]

1st one we still use daily here in Sri Lanka and south asia in general, it's a coconut scraper.

[@mibber121]

hello sri lankan brother!!

[@MiyuruPathum]

@@mibber121 🙏 well hello to you too..

[@smitmore2422]

0:11 thats a coconut grinder, it grinds the inside of a cut coconut

[@SpiceCh]

I would assume something similar. Pulping the inside of fruits. But I'm sure it's perfectly serviceable as a makeshift juicer as well

[@spindleclown]

The little music box playing throughout makes the video all the more charming.

[@thomasakerberg6765]

Mr Rowett is honestly one of the most likable human being existent out there!

[@bethamanjunath910]

It is still used in our kitchens... Not as a juicer but as a coconut scraper...

[@quentinmcmullen2792]

I loved hearing the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" getting slower and more ominous the whole time. It was like I was expecting the boogeyman to pop out when the song was done. I know that wasn't intentional but I found this endlessly amusing!

[@JV-pu8kx]

Are you sure it wasn't the "Alphabet Song?" There are a few other songs that share this same melody!

[@VanillaLibrarian]

@@JV-pu8kx it's the melody of "Altijd is kortjakje ziek" in the Netherlands, a children's song about a prostitute :)

[@MDogg84Fire]

You mean like kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJeapH2vfqmIY7Msi=EXeaovI7WfcTUoQU

[@JerryPaulTreeCreations]

The other day I watched someone going through some antiques. He came across one marked 'foreign', and mentioned that during WW2, items made in Germany would sometimes be marked that way for sales in North America and elsewhere, because otherwise people didn't want to buy them, fearing that doing so would be seen as supporting the German war effort. Great video! I thought the coconut scraper might have bee a tool for hollowing out the bowl of a wooden spoon. lol Oops. In hindsight, the coconut scraper makes much more sense. Cheers!

[@futuristica1710]

It’s an Emperor Penguin, so it’s a dad, not a mother. Lovely toys, as always. Thank you Tim ❤

[@lrmclinn]

I mean it could be a mother because the mothers do take care of the chicka after they come back from fishing in Julyish we don't know how old the baby is to be certain

[@TheRealFeechLaManna]

@@lrmclinn Prolly one of the pregnant males one hears so much about these days..

[@tyro185]

There was one of these coconut scrappers on the UK TV series "The Repair Shop" for repair. Which season and episode I would not remember. I was delighted to see you with one. Cheers

[@iceholerealms]

4:38 I walked along the avenue I never thought I'd meet a girl like you Meet a girl like you With auburn hair and tawny eyes The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through Hypnotize me through And I ran, I ran so far away I just ran, I ran all night and day I couldn't get away A cloud appears above your head A beam of light comes shining down on you Shining down on you The cloud is moving nearer still Aurora borealis comes in view Aurora comes in view And I ran, I ran so far away I just ran, I ran all night and day I couldn't get away Reached out a hand to touch your face You're slowly disappearing from my view 'Pearing from my view Reached out a hand to try again I'm floating in a beam of light with you A beam of light with you And I ran, I ran so far away I just ran, I ran all night and day And I ran, I ran so far away I just ran, I couldn't get away

[@rayanderson5797]

Ah. I get it. Flock of Seagulls, very good.

[@FlamRackett]

I love the demonstration of drinking from the "lens". Really enjoy your videos Tim 💙

[@mikmik9034]

Item #2, Letter Holder for OUTGOING mail. A reminder to take them to the post office (Disney Bambi Themed).

[@peterelst]

It's definitely a coconut grater

[@melody3741]

I know its a coconut scraper now but that works way better than a typical juicer

[@dishmanw]

I was thinking the same thing. I thought that it had some similarities to a coconut scraper that I’ve used.

[@ccggenius]

Well yeah, isn't your typical juicer just pressing the orange firmly on your forehead until liquid comes out into your waiting glass?

[@Oliver-ku1tf]

@@ccggenius Have you tried the Juice Loosener? I put in a bag of oranges and it gave me a whole few drops!

[@ccggenius]

@@Oliver-ku1tf As a matter of fact, I HAVE! And not only did they provide me with that whisper-quiet miracle machine, but they also threw in a bottle of Sun-and-Run, the sun block that is also a laxative!

[@phs125]

I've never seen a coconut scrapper exactly like that one. That circular design is usually seen in the electric ones, which are usually attached to wet grinders. Manual ones we normally use in home aren't designed like that. They're flat. And you scrape the coconut over the teeth. Takes 10 minutes for me, mum does it in 1 minute. (And with electric ones, it would barely take 10 seconds) Rotating the handle and holding the coconut at the same time sounds very difficult tho

[@trublgrl]

You made me smile today. I used to scrape the coconut for my Ammachi (Grandmother) and I took forever. She could do it so fast and got everything down to the shell out. We had a scraper that was built on a little footstool-type platform, and you would sit on it with the coconut between your legs and get good leverage that way. And yes, it was flat, not spherical.

[@Sequoia204]

That wallet would probably be a good place to store novelty business cards

[@MultiTomcat67]

The beaver puzzle reminded me of a heart-shaped,jewelry box puzzle; recently made

[@timothyturner9134]

Shut up

[@starksuman]

That 1st thing is a coconut scraper, and one of those is currently in use in my house, i never cared about it but when he said antiques piece the respect towards the coconut scraper increased 100 folds in my heart.

[@catbat06]

Love a table full of turnip cubes with gulls spiked into them. Also appreciate Tim having the strength of character to drink a bit of his own juice

[@colorklimax]

@1:06 seriously? LOL! Took me a second to know what it's for. Well, perhaps, growing up in a well nigh Chinese/Indonesian community has given me an edge. We EVEN have the older version of that coconut meat (the matured variety) scraper. The one where you you need TO SIT on it. oh those OLDEN days. 😀😀😀

[@filidauro]

The first one is a coconut scraper, and the seagulls are for eating Whelk shellfish.

[@Qwarzz]

That Canon lens cup was the favorite coffee mug of my collegue at my previous work.

[@devjasanink6418]

Well that is a coconut scraper, makes very tiny shavings to extract coconut milk and oil. Pretty much found in every household in Singapore and India too…..

[@theluth9046]

As always, very interesting! Thanks for sharing!!

[@reefcheese5493]

That first one is actually a coconut scraper for making coconut strips which is used in many things. Here in the Philippines There are a lot of motorized scrapers and spoons attached to stools

[@cayenigma]

I think the Bambi one is for a visitor's book. It was placed outside your door so if your friends popped in they could write on it 'I came by, you were not home, I come back after six' or something. Also mailmen could write on it, 'I came with a large packet, come pick it up from post office'

[@echognomecal6742]

I adore that idea! Might do it, actually :) Thanks!

[@tangledupinbluegrass]

I'm thinking that camera lens may be for sneaking more than coffee where it may not belong

[@The_Legend47]

U wouldn't b the first 2 think that, & I TOTALLY AGREE

[@taintedluv5053]

The juicer things is used for coconut flesh (matured coconut) scraper in South East Asia. It a must have tool in a Sri Lankan households!

[@dondobbs9302]

Totally a coconut meat shredder. They're usually stationary, though. I Think this would be difficult to use. The old ones are mounted on a log that one sits on. One's weight keeps it in place while one moves the coconut shell around to shred out the meat, inside.

[@lewineser9877]

Oh i just love Tim 🥰that video totaly made my day 😊😄

[@peacebewu]

Like someone said, the first one is a coconut meat scraper. Nowadays there are motorized units.

[@philologusopin47us57]

I like the little Canon lens can. I have one of these myself.

[@oculusangelicus8978]

I would have used the first one as a Juicer/pulper as well, but after reading the comments, it seems to be a coconut scraper, to get all the meat out of the nut, and that makes perfect sense to me as well, and I think it might have been good at both, but After thinking about it, it does look kinda small for a coconut, I would have thought a bit bigger but who am I to argue? LOL THanks for sharing Tim! Always get a kick out of your vids!

[@thehylianloach9473]

Twinkle twinkle playing in the background as Tim evicerated the beaver was magnificent

[@Georgedepinedo]

Yes indeed, that weird device from the beginning is a coconut scraper. We tropical islanders have seen our good share of it.

[@FatGaming872]

I've been watching you for years I still love your videos

[@kayknouse2855]

I want that reverse coloring book! Coolest thing ever!!

[@siggyretburns7523]

The coloring book is kinda like the album cover to Led Zeppelins In Through the OutDoor. They had six different album covers of the same image, but of different camera angles. On top of that, If you look closely, you can see little dots, they're dried watercolors. I found out the hard way. If you have that album cover and insist on putting it to the test, use caution. Pick an inconspicuous spot and just touch it with a damp Q-tip. If it gets too wet, it'll screw up the album cover. Colors will run all over it.

[@ryanhenro7649]

Led Zeppelin 4 life 😁👍

[@subhajittalukdar3727]

1st time ever, Twinkle Twinkle little star as a background music..❤❤loved it 😊

[@prasadi86]

I think it would work it would work better with coconuts. Placing the device on the floor and your knee on the board for leverage. My grandmother's use something similar but it is just one plank of wood and one round pointy blade

[@Brekner]

Alternative title: Tim tearing a beaver apart.

[@getcaughtin4klol752]

Alt alt title: Tim speedrunning to tear apart a beaver

[@GwynEllisHughes]

It it indeed a coconut scraper, and you can still buy them. A fantastic tool!

[@Sangatall]

Thé first one is a coconut scraper. I still have it at my home.

[@tom_something]

As evidenced by the red stripe and the L in the product name, the lens is meant to mimic Canon's F-series lenses, which are usually of higher quality and price than non-red-striped offerings.

[@gerardjagroo]

The first thing is not a juicer but is used for shredding dry coconuts jelly out of a shell. The white coconut jelly grows hard as the coconut dries, and does not want to come out of the shell so you mount this grinder thing to a tables edge and grind away. The hardened jelly comes out as a granulated milky substance that is then used in Caribbean creole cooking. You do need to mount this to the edge of a table though and I don't understand why yours comes without a clamp. Maybe I'm wrong but it certainly looks like a coconut jelly grinder.

[@LouisEmery]

I was going to say coconut grinder, but it seems everybody else knew it already.

[@HoLd_My_Beer_Thanks]

Reminds me of watching the children’s tv show “HOW” back in the day when I was young 😃😃😃👍👍

[@edmondedwards6729]

what about a string winder? various strings might overlap and form a braiding, or maybe the same thing for winding yarn

[@taylorreal6954]

I love your videos I pray they never stop. God bless you and you loved ones.

[@ZenithF0RTE]

"Made in Japan" Me: see the "Made in China" sticker Me: also realizes Tim is reading from the SIDE of the mug which has "Made in Japan" as part of the gag. Me: *chuckles*

[@aaax9410]

I Love that camera lens flask 💌

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

I know the one in the thumbnail because I saw it on the back of a copy of _Cook’s Illustrated._ It’s for grating coconut.

[@inbillsmind3048]

This Would work really well for small pumpkins cleaning out the inside after being cut in half

[@gb9727]

Did you put the beaver back together?

[@Donteatacowman]

I have had several phone cases with similar pockets to the one pictured - although not nearly quite so many - and they do lose their elasticity after normal use. You can fit more in, but it is also more liable to let things spill out. The material is not long-wearing. But that is after months and months of daily use as a phone case wallet combo where it was used for credit cards or even folded-up paper/cash sliding in and out daily. There are a lot of useful subreddits for things like this. My most recent posts asking about something on my pipes (a mineral deposit? some kind of infestation or wood rot or metal flaking off? fiber insulation? the shell of a dead insect?) were deleted and I was redirected to plant- and mushroom-identification subreddits. I had to ask the mod why - they said it was obviously a fungus, so I asked in the fungus identification subreddit. And what do you know - they were right! But anyway, a lot of the posts there are about exactly this sort of question. R/whatisthisthing has lists of frequently-asked-and-answered items to not bother asking about too, along with explanations and photos of each. Fun to go on there and play detective, too.

[@samc2]

That reverse colouring book looks like a really cool idea!!

[@shehansoysa571]

I'm Sri Lankan and I remember as a helping my mom use that to make pol-sambal. Amazing throw back for me sir!

[@peterawesomeness1]

I still come back to this to watch Tim try to juice an orange with a coconut scraper. lol

[@katofmine]

I've got an idea for a YT channel - we're going to take my English grandpa to the goodwill and let him spend like $45 and then explain all the little knick-knacks he finds to the camera!

[@DOOM_A-O]

I’d watch it. 😀

[@lesliehunter1823]

I think the wings on the gulls hook over the edge of your glass.

[@geekdivaherself]

Oo! Well spotted!

[@vivvpprof]

0:33 Tim, please… I've just retreated from my homework, which is a proof that if A is the powerset of B, then it is also the powerset of the union of its subsets… ∃B: A=P(B) → A=P(⋃A)… No more riddles today.

[@KentuckyRanger]

I was going to say, it's a coconut grater, but many beat me to it, LOL!

[@timothyweber671]

It's for the inside im guessing not the husk?

[@KentuckyRanger]

@@timothyweber671 Yes.

[@prafullabhagat2926]

Sir, its older design of hand operated coconut grater, used in India, still in use at some places.

[@caw1539]

"oh, a thermos" "*Vacuum flask*" Ohkay

[@LateralTwitlerLT]

Never heard the term *"vacuum flask"* as a substitute for _thermos_ before. Thanks for teaching me and help expand my horizon.

[@chrisdaignault9845]

Thermos is a brand name, although certainly a very successful one. Like Kleenex I suppose.

[@michaelrussell5346]

Looks like it would be good at scooping out passionfruit shells🤔🇦🇺👍

[@grimkitten8254]

actually knew about the camera lens mug because i saw it when i was a child, maybe in tv or something

[@sandracardoso2602]

A group of seagulls can be called a "squabble"! 😄 I wonder why 🤔

[@pamib29]

Yes it's definitely a coconut de-flesher! I've often seen them on cookery programs.

[@thidang6247]

It’s a coconut scraper!

[@Pyrozoid]

the first one is something used to scrape coconuts. I'm from India and my family has one (although not the exact same design) and we use it all the time to scrape coconuts.

[@plotsky_]

I put the juicer machine thing in google lenses, and apparently it's a coconut grater used in indian countries. You were close!

[@stevenmarron834]

Coconut grinder still used today on Saipan and Microneisa

[@MrAnanthaP]

In the reverse coloring book, I am wondering what the blank pages (next to each coloUred page) are for.

[@DerMarkus1982]

4:57 That "camera lens" is actually a coffee cup with a lid (spillproof!), isn't it? 😁

[@DoctorNemmo]

H.P. Lovecraft upon seeing the penguins: "Grotesque."

[@myragroenewegen5426]

Doe the coconut crak slowly expand a hole pushed into a coconut shell, avoiding the need for a hammer in the kitchen? I always wondered how people who used them a lot raw dealt with the hard shells routinely.

[@SuperChicken666]

You know you're old when you realize that so many toys from your childhood needed to be wound up. I'm going back to sleep now until the nurse brings my medication.😊❤❤❤

[@KKoji]

I saw coconut scraper like these at the open markets in Brazil 40 years ago .

[@prizegotti]

The device is a Coconut scraper. My grandmother used to have one.

[@DaveSprockets]

Could be juicer for oranges?

[@samuelcrandall1180]

5:15 "-and made in japan" Tim, I think you need some new reading glasses.

[@immrnoidall]

This thumbnail has been on my searches since it came out.

[@jafo3814]

My first thought of the first mechanism was either a cheese or soap grater. However, the bottom-line is, any mechanism is whatever the end user uses it for independent of the inventor's intent.

[@dovah6975]

I hopped it was some diabolical back scratcher.

[@charlesmangum3108]

Sounds good to me. Love your comment.