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Food Pushers

Food pusher

Solid silver food pusher. CooksInfo / 2020 / ©

A food pusher can be two different things.

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  • 1 Food pusher for eating with
  • 2 Food pusher for food processor
  • 3 Video
  • 4 Language notes

Food pusher for eating with

In the classical sense, a food pusher is a flat rectangle of metal attached at a 90 degree angle to a handle.

It was used in at least three circumstances:

  • to push food onto a spoon or fork, particularly for a child if he or she weren’t supplied with a knife at the table;
  • it could also be used for the same purpose by those with disabilities, e.g. people with crippling arthritis in their hands.
  • it could also be used by anyone to push food off from serving platters onto their plates.

Often made of silver, they sometimes had a person’s name engraved on the handle.

Typical dimensions for a child’s food pusher might be for the rectangular pusher part to be about 4 to 5 cm (1 ¾ inches) wide, with the handle about 10 cm (3 ½ inches) long.

 

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Food pushers in 1897 Otto Young Catalog. Mike Mozart / flickr / 2016 / CC BY 2.0

 

Food pusher

Solid silver food pusher. CooksInfo / 2020 / ©

Food pusher for food processor

In the modern sense, a food pusher is a plastic tube, solid at the bottom, that is used to push food down the chute of a food processor or food mill.

Food pusher for food processor

Food pusher pushing tomatoes down chute of food processor. yourbestdigs.com / flickr / 2018

Video

Language notes

Some people like to joke that their overly-solicitous grandmothers were the original food pushers.

 

This page first published: May 28, 2005 · Updated: May 21, 2022.

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