We were in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland when we went into a cook's supply shop and saw this thing sitting on the top shelf.

At the time I called it "a PolentaMatic" as a joke. It was a copper bowl with a dough-hook shaped copper stirrer, and an electric drive component like the top of a KitchenAid or Kenmore mixer.

Now, years and years later, lo and behold, what do I suddenly find at a kitchen supply site but...

The PolentaMatic