Not sure if it's an original idea or not. Basically a prototype, wasn't sure it was going to work the way I wanted it to. You can see, it has no finish on it.

You can see, it's not my best work. However it does work as I intended and it works well. Figure it will help save me about 30 bucks a month. It is a kitchen item but not a mortar and pestle.  Care to guess what it's for? 

 

Steve

Making an expresso puck?

3 minutes ago, lew said:

Making an expresso puck?

would have to say close but no cigar, I will admit also that I had to google what an expresso puck actually is.

 

 

Steve

Berry Masher

 

Garlic Press

1 minute ago, Chips N Dust said:

Berry Masher

 

Garlic Press

nope and nope, would prolly work for either though

Maybe a packer for a Krupts single use machine. I'd go thru more than $30 worth a month, however!

Lew, you are all around it. We have a keurig and while we like it, it is expensive to use. Kcups are right at 65 cents apiece now. Two coffee drinkers, two cups a day is about 80 bucks a month to drink coffee at home. We bought one of the refillable kcup plastic things but weren't happy with it. The water flows through it so fast the coffee doesn't really get a chance to brew, that, and cleaning it up was a chore.

Wife figured out lining  the holder with a paper towel solved both those issues but the paper tends to tear easily, especially if it's wet. So, I made this little "filter former". It forms the paper towel with no chance of it getting wet so tearing isn't a problem. If my math is right, takes the cost from 65 cents to about 14 cents for a up of coffee.

 

Steve

I'll go with tooth pick holder.

Dan

Cool!

Along those same lines but completely different- I made a somewhat similar device to create newspaper planting pots.

sugar cube holder..

By jovial!  I think Lew's got it.  We'll see what Steve says.

Dan

I love it.  I would love to have one big enough to hold misc. pieces for my scrap pieces I use to make wedges for razor re-scales.