Your description reminds me of a gadget I found in my father's kitchen in a lower drawer. He was the King of Kitchen Gadgets, and we still haven't ID'ed them all.

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Any similarities? I think it is for cleaning the grill, for the different sized wires on the rack. And maybe for cleaning tools or something like that. Instead of a bend, the crease that you see partway down the metal handle is a point where it turns easily, but it doesn't unscrew, it just twists.

SRS