Bamboo skewers
A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together. The word may sometimes be used as a metonym, to refer to the entire food item served on a skewer, as in "chicken skewers". Skewers are used while grilling or roasting meats and fish, and in other culinary applications.
In English, brochette is a borrowing of the French word for a skewer. In cookery, en brochette means 'on a skewer', and describes the form of a dish or the method of cooking and serving pieces of food, especially grilled meat or seafood, on skewers; for example "lamb cubes en brochette". Skewers are often used in a variety of kebab dishes.
A bamboo skewer may be made of green or dried bamboo. Green skewers are more flexible, and, being green do not catch fire easily on a BBQ. Dried or seasoned skewers are often used on a dinner table as a way to present food.
In BDSM play
Green or dry skewers can be used as a scratchers.
If you wish, you may use a skewer as a piercing device. Find someone who has done this type of play and learn from "an expert". Green and dry bamboo tends to splinter and may leave shards within a piercing hole.
Bamboo skewers have been inserted under finger nail as a form of torture.
See also [ Chopsticks ]
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