Help me find an elegant stainless steel "pickle grabber"

October 9, 2008 7:46 PM

Please help me find the elegant stainless equivalent of this electronics part-grabber. The food service versions are usually called "pickle grabbers" or "olive servers" or something like that.

Years ago, my wife had one of these in stainless, which was much nicer-looking than that one. The barrel had a smooth, polished finish and was not tapered.

I lost it some time ago. I have never been able to find a replacement. I can find plastic ones at any specialty kitchen store, but I have not been able to find a metal one.

So I turn to you, hive mind. I'm in the Minneapolis area, have friends/family in Boston, Sacramento, Chicago, Munich, and Berlin for brick & mortar shopping purposes, if there's no online source.

posted by chazlarson to food & drink (2 comments total)

Oh, for crying out loud.

I swear I searched google, repeatedly. Really I did. Apparently I never searched for "stainless olive grabber".

I would welcome any pointers to a store, though, so I can replace this one when I lose it.
posted by chazlarson at 8:07 PM on October 9, 2008

Um, would you believe a google search for stainless steel "pickle grabber" would have worked too (check out result #3...only £5.50, although I imagine shipping would be expensive). Here's another UK source, probably because in the UK their largest pickle is usually a gherkin, whereas we in the US have a larger "just use a fork" size.
posted by Deathalicious at 11:01 PM on October 9, 2008