🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found this iron item while trash picking. No idea what it is!

[FreeBirdTim]

Found this strange iron item in a box of kitchen utensils that I picked off the trash. Looks to be antique and possibly hand made, since the rivet heads are hammered flat and not ground down. Not sure if it's cooking related, but it may be. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[traveller777]

Looks like might be a gridle or cooking skillet scraper. Likely to scrape a gridle.

 

[releventchair]

Handle it too short for reducing molasses in a boi

ler . (Or maple syrup in your area).
But could have been used to reduce something.

 

[camichael]

Table crumb scraper?

 

[airborne1092]

concrete or masonry tool?

 

[dozer dan]

The handle appears to be only 3/8” thick so I’m thinking that it wasn’t used for scraping anything especially with the edge being flat and square.
I’m wondering if it may not be a bee hive pry bar for removing the nuc’s. The picture is of a more modern one.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Thanks for all the replies! Still not positive what it is, though! No markings on it at all, so that makes it tough.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

On a stove in a restaurant you have a trap that catches grease in the front, it kind of resembles a trough, it could have been the scraper for that. Being all metal it wouldn't be something you would use all the time on a grill as the handle would get too hot to handle, so I think it was used only occasionally. So I wouldn't think of a spatula type of utensil. Or something of that kind of use , but it would make a good scraper of some sort.