Vintage Kitchen Appliances

[peppersue]

Hello to Y'all!!! Finally found this place.

I wonder how many people still use some of the old quirky vintage appliances like I do.

I have an old egg cooker, fondu pot, kabob-it, waffler iron, among others and really enjoy using em.

What is your favorite?

[Suzy Wong]

A counter top Hamilton Beach mixer my parents got for their wedding 48 years ago.

[Envie]

When we purchased our home, I became the owner of a 1968 Hobart Superba diswasher. Does that count?

I can't seem to kill the thing. It sounds like armageddon when it turns on and I'm more than a little afraid of it.

Also, my gas water heater is original (1950).

[Alex]

I have a Crock pot that belonged to my wifes mother. It is at least 30 years old. I love it.

[Duke]

I have a bunch of old mixing bowls and other stuff that belonged to my grandmother, so they are roughly 1920s/30s vintage. My sister retains all the other stuff my mom had when she died, like the fondue stuff and the other 1950s/60s things.

...but the thing I'd really like to find is a 1970s invention called The Baconer. You'd drape the strips of bacon over this solid heating element, close the doors and hit the "on" button. It was adjustable like a toaster, so you could set your desired doneness. The grease drained into a trap on the bottom and you could either save it (the grease) or toss it.

My folks had one and it eventually died and I could never find another one for them. I thought it was a pretty nifty little device, even though your bacon came out in a U shape.

[café au lait]

Duke, a few years ago Ronco or somesuch came out with a Baconer type device, but it was for the microwave. My kids insisted on buying one, and they used it quite a bit as they didn't like the mess or potential grease pops of stove top bacon frying. It's stuffed in a cabinet somewhere.

[Low-N-Slow]

I have one of those microwave ones with the T-bars. The story on the box says some 10 year-old girl invented it

There are a buch of uni-taskers boxed up in the barn. One I'll probably never use, but nostalgia won't let me throw away, is a a cast aluminum, wall-mount, hand-cranked ice crusher. The parents threw many a party back in the day that put it to good use.

I also want a set of those nesting, colored Pyrex mixing bowls like Grandma had.

[café au lait]

There are a buch of uni-taskers boxed up in the barn. One I'll probably never use, but nostalgia won't let me throw away, is a a cast aluminum, wall-mount, hand-cranked ice crusher. The parents threw many a party back in the day that put it to good use.

I also want a set of those nesting, colored Pyrex mixing bowls like Grandma had.

Everything you have in the barn and anything Grandma had is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The pyrex bowls are there along with the ice crusher and many other kitchen items from my childhood in the 60s.

[Low-N-Slow]

I actually saw a set of the bowls once, at the flea market on Jeff Hwy. Sticker price was crazy high, although I didn't stop to haggle.

[Duke]

Duke, a few years ago Ronco or somesuch came out with a Baconer type device, but it was for the microwave. My kids insisted on buying one, and they used it quite a bit as they didn't like the mess or potential grease pops of stove top bacon frying. It's stuffed in a cabinet somewhere.

I suppose the reason this thing didn't catch on was because most consumers either did bacon the old way or opted to use the microwave. This was kinda a bridge between the old and the new. Back then, microwaves were huge and had dials and probes and cost hundreds and weighed like four tons.