2023-09-02 10:17:05
– The bursar
Deciphering the kitchen utensils that bear their funny name aptly.
Posted today at 12:17 p.m.
The inventor launches his L’Économe brand with a promising slogan: “30% time and potatoes saved”.
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Ah, here is a kitchen utensil that necessarily has a Swiss name: the peeler! Well no, it’s not that simple. The object that allows you to peel fruits and vegetables was invented in Thiers, in the Puy-de-Dôme, in 1929, by a certain Victor Pouzet, manufacturer of sabers and bayonets! The inventor launches his L’Économe brand with a promising slogan: “30% time and potatoes saved”. it slams.
The famous brand with three small umbrellas remains protected, but the paring knife patent falls out at the end of the 1940s. This does not go unnoticed by everyone. Alfred Neweczerzal, a Swiss inventor with Czech origins at the head of Zena AG, specializing in kitchen utensils, picked up the idea and created the U-shape. He named it “Rex” and registered it in the international register of protection in 1947. designs and models under the code Mod. Int 11002. Its ergonomic aluminum handle, which has not changed one iota in seventy-five years, is ideal for right-handed people (should we say right-handed people…) and left-handed people, like its eye extractor from potatoes.
The Rex peeler is now produced by several manufacturers, such as Victorinox, Migros or Nespresso, in millions of copies. It is found in all Swiss households. Although Victor Pouzet’s invention is sometimes preferred to him, generating heated debates in the kitchen. And you, are you more Rex or L’Économe?
Cecile Collet has been a journalist for the Vaud section since 2010. She covers wine and gastronomy news in particular. She is also co-responsible for the Portraits section.More info@CcileCol
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