Prompted by revelations in The Da Vinci Cold that Leonardo spent so much of his time and energy in the kitchen has historians rethinking the true purpose of some his inventions. Previously thought to be his design for a helicopterlike flying machine, this fabric-covered spiral device may in fact have been a smaller-scale multi-tasker cooking utensil; a bottle-stopper or something that could be lowered into a cannister or cookpot as a rotating coffee filter or for rendering schmaltz.
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