What is this?

[DanCorcoran]

To op, throw some lemon juice and salt on it, let's see how it looks cleaned up....

If it's an antique, that's a good way to ruin the value.

 

[DanCorcoran]

I dug this copper item out of an old junk pile behind my abandoned corn crib.

Its copper and the top snugs on top of the bottom or nests inside. It looks to me like it belongs on a stove but for what purpose?

Perhaps it's a bed warmer. They used to put coals in them and put them under the covers to warm up the bed, then remove them before getting under the covers.

 

[Offset]

I don't think so. I believe it is in fact the prototype for the Chia Pet.

Those chestnuts look so good. We do them on our stove, wonderful flavour. Nice occasional treat.

 

[BobUrban]

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In 1900 the chestnut tree was one of the most prominent, and valuable trees in the eastern United States. In the Fall, chestnuts lay on the ground six inches thick beneath the chestnut trees. Farmers would turn their hogs loose in September and let them gorge themselves on wild chestnuts.
People liked chestnuts too, like in The Christmas Song "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." Chestnuts were a major food source from Georgia to Maine, from Ohio to Tennessee.
Chestnut wood was highly prized, and was used in log cabin construction, and for furniture.

WOW - I always thought it was "Chet's" nuts and really felt bad for chet - whomever he is - when Christmas came around!!

 

[firefighterjake]

Most likely this is not a bed warmer . . . most of the bedwarmers I have seen do not have holes in the top pan.

 

[Stella]

But do they make beer with the chestnuts

Don't think so because the free drink they give out at the yearly Chestnut Festival is home brewed tsiporou which is a definite headache maker and I had to pass on that! I too remember the chestnut sellers on street corners in Europe years ago. Wonder if they are still there?

 

[DanCorcoran]

Don't think so because the free drink they give out at the yearly Chestnut Festival is home brewed tsiporou which is a definite headache maker and I had to pass on that! I too remember the chestnut sellers on street corners in Europe years ago. Wonder if they are still there?

Yep, in Paris at least.

 

[mgodzilla2]

Yep, in Paris at least.

So chestnut roaster it is then. We used to have groves of Chestnut and Elm in Ohio 100 years ago, and now the Ash trees are doomed. I guess if here are no chestnuts then that explains tossing this cool copper roaster into the trash pile for me to find 100 years later.

We do have 'Deez Nutz' statements in Ohio. Example " Why don't you clean up your barn" Reply "Why don't you CLEAN UP Deez Nutz. " "Why don't you get out of that chair?" Reply "Why don't you GET OUT (of) Deez Nutz."
Works as an obnoxious reply to many nag type questions.