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a fist of metal built to bully fruit into surrender, one citrus at a time.
means A handheld kitchen tool that extracts juice from citrus fruit by pressing or twisting the cut half against a ridged surface.
from A plain compound of "lemon" and "squeezer" — the lemon being the fruit (from Old French limon, by way of Arabic laymūn and Persian līmūn) and "squeezer" the agent-noun of "squeeze," a verb of uncertain origin that emerged in English by the 1600s, perhaps an intensified relative of the older "queise" meaning to press. The name does exactly what the device does: it tells you the victim and the verb, no metaphor required.
- juicy origin
- Earliest patents date to the 1800s United States
- design icon
- Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif is more sculpture than tool
- acid defense
- Citric acid wards off scurvy and rust alike
- hidden physics
- Reaming tears more cells, releasing extra juice
- museum status
- Starck's juicer sits in MoMA's collection
citrus reamer — handheld kitchen tool used since 1800s to extract juice from lemons and citrus fruits
mechanical lemon press — hinged two-handled press with ribbed cone, patented design popularized in victorian kitchens