What in the Heck? Episode 2

[editor's note: I've placed this back up at the top because no one has answered correctly. We have decided that it is a thermometer ... but for what?]

Now it is time for our second installment of "What in the Heck?" As always, the first person to get the right answer is therefore deemed the winner. I don't actually have anything to give out, so you just get the respect and admiration of your peers.

It's black and silver. It's pointy and blunt at the same time. Maybe it's some sort of stabbing device. What in the heck could it possibly be?

P.S. - TheWife is forbidden to answer. VERBOTEN!

WE HAVE A WINNER! Tom Oakes has answered correctly. It is a wine thermometer. And incidentally, no one ever said you couldn't search the web for your answer.