For most of us, there’s going to be a fair amount of serious cooking happening over the next couple of weeks. Whether it’s a big family dinner or a solo New Year’s Eve steak fiesta, the end-of-year holidays are always a time for mass cookery.

It’s hard work bringing all of those meals together though, which is why the Knuckle Meat Pounder is such a great kitchen tool. Why settle for simply tenderizing your chop when you can instead beat the ever-loving crap out of it?

Part meat-masher, part brass knuckles lookalike, the Knuckle Meat Pounder is the rare cooking implement that is also very clearly meant to double as a lethal weapon. There will never be too many cooks in the kitchen when you’re swinging one of these bad boys around.