Magical Laboratories
ODE TO MAUDIE'S SUPER SQUASH SCOOPER
At home in your kitchen
It’s there and it’s itchin’
To spring into action
And strengthen your hand.
There’s just nothin’ like it
Occasions ariseth
To scoop out a pumpkin
A squash or a yam.
Magical Laboratories' aim is to surprise and delight by offering utterly original creations made right here in the USA. Their motto is "American Made Things You've Never Seen Before." Maudie’s Super Squash Scooper is their flagship product. Others are on the drawing board, itching to jump off.
No kitchen should be without one, Westport Island's Art Weber said about his unique, handmade scooper, Maudie’s Super Squash Scooper. He has found a growing market for it.
Tinkering with a number of different designs over many years, he finalized the design by 2008 and was ready to give his idea a try, marketing it as, “Stubbles Peerless Pumpkin Scraper.” He first sold it as a tool for pumpkin carving, but “People began telling me they were using the scraper not just to clean pumpkins but for all kinds of winter squash: acorn, butternut, spaghetti and so on. He realized tying the product to Halloween was limiting and rebranded his tool in 2011 as "Maudie’s Super Squash Scooper."
The tool with a sharp, 3-inch semi-circular scraping edge and a 1-inch diameter wooden handle, or “Maudie," makes the chore of removing the seeds and stringy pulp found inside squash faster, easier and safer. The blade is not only sharp, but provides tremendous leverage, much better than a spoon's, because you get your fingers right behind the blade, making easy work of scraping away stringy pulp and seeds.
The product is made in the U.S.A. The heavy-duty plastic blade is manufactured in Texas by Epsilon Industries and the smooth wooden handles are turned in Maine, by Kingfield Wood Products in Kingfield.
Magical Laboratories physically manifests on the mysterious Island of Westport. Old charts show it as off the mid-coast of Maine, between Boothbay and Georgetown.
To clean a squash or hollow a pumpkin
You can’t use your fingers,
You’ve got to use somethin’.
So you grab that old spoon to get the job done.
It’s never so easy : ( and never much fun.
A clever invention that’s better by far?
For a fella who does it, I’d buy a ceegar!
