The super macro guessing game (5)

Chris.R wrote in post #18347260
Like Dianne Fosse had, a black ape you see in the mist?

Is this a guess?

Chris.R wrote in post #18347371
Western Silverback rotisserie ?

No, it is not a burner for a rotisserie. This item is much more common than a rotisserie.

Chris.R wrote in post #18347130
a burned out electric heating ring/element

Nogo wrote in post #18347143
Yes that is exactly what it is. Name the item it is a heating element for and the next round is yours.

Chris.R wrote in post #18347164
Not a clue. Is it related to infusions of methylxanthine alkaloids?

I am getting the impression that even though we use a common language, that my use of the English language and yours may have found one of those areas where the way we word things does not translate well from this side of the big water to yours.

I am not looking for the process that this item is used for. OhLook has already listed one of its many uses. I am simply looking for the device this item is part of. It is a simple, common item.

Either that, or Chet has been a bad influence on you.

Of course it's Chet's fault.

The only heaty cooky thing I would envisage "found in well provisioned lounges." was a coffee maker, as I said, relatively clearly.

You've repeated burner so it must be a gas thing, and not an electric one of

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An average lounge has a coffee maker and most also have a microwave. A well provisioned one has a refrigerator, tables, and even more.

The item comes in both gas and electric. This one happens to be electric. Over here people often refer to the electric ones as burners as well as the gas ones. They don't care if they are technically wrong about how they work. Of course, they could be right if they are bad cooks. Most any heating device can burn stuff in the wrong hands.

Meat slicer?

Lounge in the UK, domestically or in an airport, only means a "sitting room". No cooking.

I may have one of what you mean. Not sure what it's for - it's a woman thing I think. I turned it on:

Does this look right?

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Nogo, I think the identity of the item has been clear through many posts now, except that you wouldn't find this in any kind of lounge that I know about. Some large department stores have or had a "lounge" next to a women's restroom. It was a room with a few pieces of furniture where shoppers could put down their parcels and rest their feet. A bartender's workplace may also be called a lounge, particularly if it has, for example, nice light fixtures and a piano.

Do Mississippi and California speak such different languages that "lounge" means different things to you and me even though there's no ocean in between?

If asked for a restroom or a lounge in a UK department store you'd get a very quizzical look .

We commonly call a break room for employees in Mississippi a lounge. I guess that is a southern thing if it is not used that way in other areas.

The employee lounge usually has a coffee maker, microwave, refrigerator, tables, chairs, arm chairs, vending machines, etc.

I have been in employee lounges with cooking areas better equipped than the average home kitchen.

Edit: It is also common to call a tavern a lounge here too. Many taverns have full commercial kitchens as well. Of course a commercial kitchen would be more likely to use gas than electrical elements.

Chet wrote in post #18347849
Meat slicer?

You could use one to seer off the end of your meat into slices if you are so inclined. I will never try to use one for that myself. No Way!

Chris.R wrote in post #18347850
I may have one of what you mean. Not sure what it's for - it's a woman thing I think. I turned it on:

Does this look right?

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This is what the item looks like when a man who thinks this is a "woman thing" makes an attempt to use one. That is true.

Chris.R wrote in post #18347130
a burned out electric heating ring/element

It is pretty obvious from this answer you know what it is. If you want me to accept "ring" as the answer I am fine with that. Otherwise we can continue to do the Chet Dance if you prefer.

Nationalised industries and civil servants don't need a rest area, they have things called "desks" for that.

A "rest elbow" is used for group bonding, and planning, should the management ask the people who know, how to run things.

It's up to you, so OK. Was the previous one ring shaped? Or only like a boxing ring shaped...?

New one then, same rules apply.
No connection with any previous ring:
About the same diameter as a cola can.

The item in the last macro was a six inch burned out stove element. I normally don't call this item a stove ring, but that is one name for it. Other names are stove eye, stove burner, and I am sure there are a whole bunch of other names for this item. But, here is the image. The image was taken where the element is blistered on the right side.

This is not the current macro. This is the previous one that has already been named.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Uffh​4s

Is the new macro wooden?

Yes wooden - maybe oak.
Hope it's ok; it's the whole enchilada, and not a very macro macro.

I thought the previous one had to be a grill - as I assume was obvious.
We just call your thing cooker rings, top plate rings, or hob rings, maybe even a boiling ring. Stove is out of fashion, like "Wireless".

We would definitely use them for boiling water though ?!? Grill elements aren't ever that shape.

Actually the spiral type is also just about gone now - only poor people have those.