I watched my grandmother use the egg whisk in her kitchen when I was a child. She didn't use it in a bowl, however. After frying the bacon, she would add the eggs to the hot skillet, then a little milk and seasoning. She then whisk it continuously until the eggs were fluffy. I remember her scrambled eggs were always so light and airy.
I watched one video one time where someone said the trick to scrambled eggs is to KEEP THEM MOVING. Never stop whisking. And my eggs have always been fluffy and perfect since :)
Thanks for letting me know I am officially OLD now; I knew what those gadgets were! Concerning the lemon press... Did you know that from the mid-1800s well into the early 20th century, serving tea was nearly an art form? It was as much about class and status as the tea itself. So fancy gadgets designed to, say, keep your well-heeled guests from squirting acidic citrus juice into their eyes or staining their gloves or dresses showed even more class and panache. Just a fun fact! And you have the nicest smile!
Engrish Muffin oh really, how do you know she wasn’t born and lived in Japan? Especially with the name of her channel, one would not be stupid to think she might be Japanese!
What's so impressive is these tools are all very old and still work perfectly. They were made during a time when quality trumped $$$$$$!. Today I believe things are made with the intent for them to be easily broken and disposable.
Someone else might have mentioned this but I didn't read ALL the comments to find out. Regarding the pie crimper: you didn't try the little knife edge which works great for cutting the dough. Also, you missed the opportunity to use the devise on the reverse side from the crimping wheel. The little design of 2 arcs and 2 dashes is for pressing into the top crust dough several times (before lifting from rolling surface) to make the steam vents. I have this gadget and use it quite often - because pies are the best of foods!
Hi thanks I have a pie edge crimper. Neighbor was moving in to an assisted care home. Her daughter was going to throw a lot of kitchen items in the trash!! Question could you use the vent side for design in the top of sugar or peanut butter cookies?
If I'm not mistaken, the back side of the pie crust crimper will also cut off excess crust as you crimp the pie, and you can use the "blade" to make the slits on the top of the pie too. I really enjoyed watching this. ♥️ You're just all around too adorable for words! 🙂
I know it! My eyes opened wide and I thought, 'how on Earth did someone so young know anything about that phrase?' She is so cute and wonderful, and I can't wait to find more of her videos. I have an antique something-or-other that I got at an antique store in town that nobody can figure out. I'll have to go on her site to ask.
I think on the cheese slicer the tines are to give you uniform cheese slices. if you turn the slicer 90 degrees so that it's parallel to the table and the tines are pointed at the cheese they will act as guides keeping the slices even an uniform. Also, the end of the jar opener is a can opener. The big side goes inside the rim of the can and the small side hooks against the bottom outside edge of the rim. then you pry against it forcing the large side into the can. Do that all the way around to open the can. Thanks for a great video!
I think that plastic lemon squeezer was more likely for a tea tray than a dinner table. You could squeeze the perfect amount of lemon for your cuppa. And I think the orange squeezer was probably for a bar.
Yes, I was yelling “It’s for tea time!” at her when she was talking about it but of course she couldn’t hear me 😁 I love a little bit of lemon in my tea so I love this vintage gadget. I also recognize a lot of the other ones and still have some of them that were my grandmas.
@ja da simply because I don't like a splash of lemon in tea. Sourkraut is one of the best sources of Vitamin C, Captain Kid always had Sourkraut on his ship for this reason, and I have some of my own home made Sourkraut almost everyday.
For the jar opener, you can use the bottle opener part to open jars that are too big for the jaws. The trick to opening any jar is to break the vacuum seal, so a bottle opener works wonderfully if a jar opener, grippy pad, or beefy-handed helper isn't available. Just hook it under the rim like you would a bottle cap! :)
I'm smiling ear to ear!! My grandma had every single one of those gadgets in her kitchen when I was younger. Brings back many memories of cooking and baking with her. :)
I really enjoy hunting for vintage Gadgets because some of them are so hilarious and funny ...and I kept smiling at all of these really unique pieces as somebody had taken lots of time in thinking them up . And all of them worked really well so we can say that they were successful. I like the bottle opener and the egg whisk very much. Thank you for this video. My grandmother bought that juicer in 1953 in England when things were made of orange coloured Bakelite and not lethal plastic. 60 years later during one of my annual visits there I was .'inspecting ' her kitchen chests to see which things I could "borrow accidentally on purpose..." grandma what did you use that for ..do you really use it now "and so on and so forth... until she got really exasperated and would say, I don't use it, take it! These ruthless steps had to be taken because I knew that if I did not get these vintage items in my hand some other light fingered relative who would not appreciate their value would just walk away with them and never use them ever ever ever again. I think my Instinct was working overtime here because this was the only piece of Vintage stuff from her chest of drawers ""rescued by me because the next time I went to her place ,she was dead aged 96 the whole kitchen had been cleaned out including her priceless wedgewood crockery and Limoges collection...nobody knows where it is and others are not telling... it happens in the best of families! Regardless of whatever we think that we have all the time in the world and we will say something or do something next time it doesn't happen that way...
I actually have three of those items in my kitchen. The egg whisk was my grandmothers and she used it to make meringue. That tool is very old. She was born in 1899.
@@rachaelallison5303 Say that you were born in 1999 in another 50 years, then maybe it'll be significant. Sorry to break it to you, but being 20 years old in 2019 is nothing special, dear. All of my kids are older than you.
Yes! Pop out the 'skin' of the orange, screw that juicer back in and it will give you more. Also, roll the orange on the counter first and the juice will flow! :)
This reminds me of something my mom has been doing for years at her museum she curates ! It's a "What's it" table and she puts out different vintage tools and gets people to guess their uses :)
Yep, growing up we had one with a roller that performed the function of the tines. You could adjust the roller for different thickness and you pulled it across the top of the block, parallel to the table.
@@anewagora - No, she's holding it and using it vertically. If it were turned 90° and still pushed downward, it would cut off the end if the block with a uniform thickness to each slice. The tines are not meant to go into the cheese, but rather, they ride along the edge of the cheese block to guide how deep the wire should be placed.
If you're interested in these gadgets I'm planning on doing a giveaway for them on my Facebook page. Stay tuned and good luck! Thanks @Cherry Lee for the suggestion!
emmymadeinjapan This was really cool Emmy. Shame we always have to "reinvent" the wheel. At least some of these tools work perfectly fine-but someone had to make them "better". Sadly no contest for me. I don't have FB. Thankyou for the nostalgia tho Emmy. Good luck to the people that enter.😍🎁
I have seen variations of these in practice, a lot. Many restaurants serving tea or fish would hand you a lemon squeezer like that one. And wire cheese cutters are just common sense, really. Cheese sticks terribly to knives. I have one with a roller for cutting long strips of cheese evenly. Still, the plethora of lemon juicing gadgets all seem kinda pointless when you look at the simplicity of a lemon press and just how efficient they are when compared to a thing you screw into your orange.
It was actually pretty multi-purpose, though used primarily with eggs and egg-related products. Whisking eggs in pan for fluffy scrambled eggs, or for folding in egg whites to aerate them for meringue, etc. there are many uses.
emmymadeinjapan Emmy you were using the egg whisk wrong. the idea is to break the eggs over the coils then pass the gadget back and forth flush to the bowl if you catch my drift lol
My Grandmother used this tool to beat egg whites, not whole eggs. You lift as you beat and the coils help incorporate air. This was the go-to tool for meringue.
The juicer you showed near the end is made more for squeezing a little juice out of a lemon or lime, then leaving it for more use later. You also need to remove the cut-out circle of rind before screwing it all the way into the fruit. Pampered Chef made a plastic version years ago that included a cap over the end that strained out the seeds and sealed the fruit, along with a storage container to keep the lemon in the refrigerator until it was needed again. It was called the Lemon Aid. I used to sell Pampered Chef at home shows and I once left the lemon in the container after the demonstration and forgot all about it until the next show. Boy, did that smell horrible when I opened it up again a week later!
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw her using the cheese slicer. The tines were replaced by a roller later on, but that is totally supposed to be slid across the top of the cheese, pulling off a slice at a time. I thought when she switched to the velveeta she would figure it out, but nope! I guess she's too young to have used an adjustable roller wire cheese slicer on velveeta, but that was my entire childhood!
The first juicer, the plastic one, would be found near a household bar for adding fresh lemon or lime use to cocktails. Today they are made out of stainless and mine is in the shape of a bird. The last item, the other juicer, isn’t for juicing oranges to drink the juice. Rather it is for having fresh juice to add to recipes. Squeeze the amount needed and put back in fridge nail needed again. Today’s versions are stainless with small blade like metal to aid in screwing it into fruit. I put a cork in mine before I put into fridge. Hope this helps! Oh! The wisk! I have a collection and the version you have was quite popular!
With that last orange juicer you made the little mistake of forgetting to remove the plug of peel you first cut. You cut through the peel, remove the plug, then continue screwing the juicer into the orange.
Agreed. Removing the plug increases it's efficiency greatly. Also, it's not for drinking directly from the fruit, but more as a tool to squeeze juice out into a bowl or cup, then use the collected juice for cooking and/or drinking.
I had one. I thought that you were supposed to put it down in on the side. I never really liked it, but, it’s good if you don’t need to use all the juice. You can put the fruit w/spout in frig.
I bought a new chromed steel one France a few years ago. Roll the fruit on your counter top to 'loosen' the juice, screw it in and squeeze. I use it all the time. There's another version that gives you a spray of juice.
I have my mother's egg whisk just like that, and I love it. You can actually beat egg whites stiff with it and a little patience. It doesn't feel awkward to me because I'm used to it.
Love your videos, Emmy! Wonderful job. Just enough commentary to be interesting, without any hemming and hawing, or time wasting babble. You explain everything clearly, and handle the tools and gadgets with competence. Excellent, I wish more TH-camrs had your flair. You go, Girl!
Regarding the first gadget - my grandmother had one (I have it now and have used it) - it is for whipping egg whites and/or making meringue. I was told the design introduced air into the egg whites. It works!
I've gone through 3 blenders, several pots and pans and two food processors. I've had spatulas and ladles split while I'm cooking. I'm only a home cook.
The second gadget would be great for tables at restaurants or anywhere that serves iced tea (I live in the South). I mean, if it weren't kind of cumbersome and (probably) expensive, that is. Great video!
This video made me feel old old old. I’m only 63 and I knew what every single gadget was for and how to use them. Oh man Between my mom, my grandfather and some country gardening, canning great aunts, they covered them all. Nice to see them again the remakes of the cheese slicer isn’t nearly as good and neither is the orange juicer. New ones are chintzy plastic. You do still find these things at flea markets, estate sales and auctions.
Twilight Warrior I thought it was funny to see that orange juicer! I never would have guessed they had something like this, that far back! lol I think with most of these, you can totally see where the ideas of the "newer" gadgets came from. We still have those individual screw in citrus juicers and pie crimpers... They're just designed a little different now.
+Twilight Warrior I love the fact that they are made of metal (mostly) but are all very durable. The crap that is on the market today is mostly disposable junk! Too bad most people do not take pride in their craftsmanship anymore. Now it seems like most manufacturers are all about produce fast and cheap with a "keep 'em buyin'" attitude.
The lemon wedge juicer I recall from my grandmother's home, maybe 1970's. A time when women were obsessed with putting lemon on their salads. I wouldn't think that you would have had more than one of these--ladies had their salads and a bowl of fresh lemon slices on the table. Love that you do these vintage kitchen gadgets videos!
My grandmother also used the pie crimper not only to crimp, but to decorate. The opposite side of the crimper has a 5-pointed star for poking a vent in the centre, and the crimping wheel, pressed into the dough, makes a pretty design as well!
That jar opener is old enough that it would be able to open a wide mouth Mason jar. Those jars were common back when that was made. No one would buy it if it couldn't open a home canning jar.
Ooooh, now I want one! I can and with my arthritis and grip strength problems, that would be lovely! (And no, I’m not old enough that anyone in my family would still have one, lol. I’m still young-ish, just disabled.)
Hi Emmy, The "egg whisk" we used to lower eggs into boiling water and then took them out when the eggs were soft boiled, we didn't think of it as the egg whisker, maybe we were misinformed LOL merry Christmas
Yes that's what I thought too!! Also my great grandma used to separate egg whites from yolk, but also as you said... To lift eggs in and out of boiling water! She was born in 1925 and still here today! I'm 35 and she's my great grandma and my childrens great great grandma!
I'd have thought the 'egg whisk' thingy was more for pulling boiled eggs in & out of the hot water. But I'm no kitchen utensils expert, it just looks like it's for that purpose!
Helen Nelson or Bahji & samosas or perogi if you're from Poland or pasta if you're from well...anywhere we all eat pasta, I think. You can also remove an expired Goldfish to the toilet bowl too..sorry!!
abingleyboy It's actually for whipping egg whites. I remember watching my grandfather beating egg whites until they were stiff and ready for grandma to use. it was pretty hard work. (I am now a grandma myself, so it was very long ago.)
cister30328 it looks then like a very cumbersome utensil to use, Size wize. I'd've thought a fork or common whisk would be better. Probably why you don't see modern versions of them nowa days. Mind you they have electric mixers now don't they. I think cakes made by hand mixing taste a lot nicer. Sometimes an electric mixer can mix ingredients too much & you end up with a heavy cake. Hand mixed is much better, even if it does take a little longer.
We always had a wire cheese cutter and an apple slicer/core-er in our house. I like the jar opener too! We always had the rubber disc for opening jars.
Growing up in Florida we had the last juicer you used but they were plastic and orange. They work really well with smaller oranges than the kind you used. We used to pick the oranges in my grandmas backyard then she would microwave them for like 10 seconds and roll them hard on the counter before twisting the sipper in for us. We always got lots of a juice out of them and it kept us and her house clean from the mess oranges and little kids can make.
emmymadeinjapan Yup. Just for a few seconds. They don't get hot (well not any hotter than they were out in the sun anyways) but it just makes the juice flow better when you roll them around. :)
That last tool looked to be made of aluminum, which interacts with citrus acid & is unhealthy, so I hope you either donated it to a museum or tossed it.
Love the ole Timey tools. You can see the fact that it is still here is really something. How long do you think any thing made today would last? See everything works perfectly.
Nice one Emmy. We used to have a plastic version of that screw-in juice extractor made by Tupperware. I think the idea was that you cut a plug out of the peel with the toothed bit and then pulled it out and threw the plug away before putting it back in again and screwing it down. Being plastic it broke eventually of course.
Nice! We still managed to get all of the juice out with the bit of peel in. My boys especially enjoyed drinking the juice directly out of the orange. :)
+carissa Carissas LOL - I made another comment about those! Here it is again so you don't have to go searching for it: Probably the longest-lived gadget in my house is a Tupperware Orange Peeler that must be 40 years old if it's a day, and still works perfectly despite being worn down and manky-looking. There was a long period when you couldn't get them, but a quick web search shows that they're readily available again: moo.review/orange-and-citrus-peeler/
I think you are supposed to discard the initial round peel plug that was cut out then continue screwing in the citrus juicer. I'd like to see you test a potato ricer. Sure there is one at the same thrift store. Looks like a jumbo garlic press.
I have a cheese slicer that has a roller on one end to give you perfect slices every time and I also have an old egg beater that has two whisks on the end and a handle to crank them with. I love them both and use them all the time.
My mother had an egg whisk like the one you showed. Instead of using it like a normal whisk she would lay it flat & sort of swish it from side to side, she used it mainly for making pan gravy & the like. I have no idea if that's it's intended use though as she was prone to doing things her own way.
That is exactly what my mother and myself used it for. Mine disappeared several years ago and I was devastated. The whips now days just don't work as well.
A tip for everyone who has a struggle opening jars: use a beerbottle opener to get some air in the jar(you do the same as you would open a beerbottle but don't try to open the jar just use it to get some air in) then try again to open, it wil be very easy.
I think the egg whisk is supposed to be used in the frying pan. You crack the eggs directly into the pan, add the other ingredients of your choice and then gently stir while its cooking. Love this old things!
I use my cast iron grinder often.... Chopping nuts, grind meat, making baby food. Back in the late 1800's, things were made to last a lifetime, and my grinder lasted 5 generations now, plan on passing it along when I go.
What memories your egg whisk brought. It works best whipping large flats (skillets, stirring egg drizzle into soups, etc. (at home we used ladder-style potato mashers for blending fruits in deep-round baking or mixing bowls. We also cheesecloth wrapped it with spices like crab boil in the gauze for quick dip-n-stir without the 'gravel'ing the stew, and to gauze strain bacon drippings into our Tappan's bacon cup. Spreading fresh berries on cookie pastries or cheesecakes gave a little more gentle handling and more space to see where berries were, than spreading with a knife or spatula. Some spoon springs were flexible enough to slide toward the handle (to scrape a scalloped potato serving dish bottom loose while leveling the potatoes) and toward the spoon-tip for stirring getting chicken noodles gently off the pot bottom. 2:40 is lime sized (bartender use or chef use) and so nice as a "no touch" style. Pyrex juicers for limes (xs), lemons (s), tomatoes (m), oranges (l). Presses will be metal, for garlic, etc. To clean glass, plastic, or metal, allow a stainless steel flatware utensil in the rinse water. Chemical reaction will rinse the strong smell off the item (and your hands too). The beauty of your juicer is seeds remaining in the base cavity. For tabletop use, your juicer's sculpted top piece allows showing off juice as it bursts from peeled wedges. Nice touch. 4:27 and 4:30 The reverse side shaping can be used for "hole punching" the crust vents before laying it on the pie. 6:36 The juicer plug is terrific in the home bar as much as using it for spout access into watermelons for added liquids (alcoholic or virgin) before serving fresh from the melon into glasses, or freezing for punch bowl halves or slicing.
☺ i think maybe ur supposed to roll the orange around a bit , sort of on a table, with ur hands pressing slightly to loosen the juice b4 u put the juicer tool in. thats how we did it in the '70s ☺ ours were Tupperware tho... just saying
You are so good at this.. and Yes the citrus juicer end screw.. is more for citrus used for alcoholic mixed drinks.... You roll and squeeze the citrus before inserting the 'juicer'. Then you just squeeze as you go. At least that is what I have learned from research... and Yes... fish recipes used this to get lemon for them..
I got one of those from my grandmother. I used it (as she did) for lifting donuts or fried things out of the fryer. If you were just scrambling up a couple/few eggs it would be way too big and bulky.
This first item is not for whisking eggs.. it is for folding whipped whites so they do not deflate. example is like an angel food cake with chocolate powder.. you would gently fold the merangue
For the citrus juicer you showed last, I was taught to roll the fruit with your palm, applying pressure, before inserting the juicer. Makes it much easier to get most of the juice that way.
I wish I knew how to add a pic here, but I've got a great thing that I found in a thrift store decades ago and I still use it. It's a contraption that turns any pot into a colander. It's aluminum, flat, shaped like a half moon and covered with tiny holes like a colander. It has a spring-loaded handle that stretches out from the middle. After you cook spaghetti or whatever, you snap this thing onto the top of the pot (the spring handle allows it to fit any diameter) and simply pour out the water through the holes. No separate colander necessary. I love mine, but when I show it to people no one can figure out what it is!
My mom used to collect antique kitchen tools and decorated the walls of her kitchen and laundry room with them. The green handle of the whisk was popular in the '30's/'40's and the bakelite handle cheese cutter may be that old as well! The lemon squeezer is probably the newest of them all, im guessing '60/'70's
I'm used to putting milk in scrambles eggs, Otherwise it's more or less an omelette. is this the norm or do others use milk or not. I have heard others don't use milk.
Candice Honeycutt its only like a small amount of milk. makes the eggs more creamy, but you can get like a yacky watery residue that soddens your toast, if you have them on toast. you have to remember to drain it off before plonking it on the toast. But with milk is how I've always known Scrambled eggs.
depanth yeah!! I'm not the only one then, well obviously I know my brother does too. He likes the yacky residue water tho & soggy toast, Which is nasty. But I'm not the only one other than my family to add milk to scrambled egg. so yeahh..again...lol!
+abingleyboy yeah, I think they taste way better that way. if I don't have milk, I will use a bit of water but it's definitely not preferred haha. it's such a small step and makes them so good that idk why people don't do it. I know most people I know don't add it though.
the opener you were using on the Jar opener is for lifting the Mason jar lids off as they were often stuck on any jams jellies or other canned sugar based foods
On the pie crimper: I think you are using it backwards, as the curved 'knife' edge is for cutting excess dough as you go around the edge. On the juice extractor that you screwed into the orange: I have a plastic one and you use the end to cut the hole, remove that bit of peel, then fully insert the extractor. You'll get a lot more flow without the peel in the way. Never saw the 'egg scrambler' before. Neat. Loved the little citrus wedge squeezer: you won't get squirted with that and it looks to be extremely efficient. Very cute.
I have actually used nearly every one of these unironically. My grandmother raised a millupn lids on a farm and she had many versions of these gadgets. I miss seeing them. It makes me want to grab some. Thank you so much.
They used the egg whisk to beat egg whites until stiff. We also had one of the juicers that you showed at the end. You were supposed to just squeeze the juice into a bowl and not drink it out of the juice nozzle. We used that little tool to core apples also.
The "egg whisk" is for picking up eggs from boiling water. I have a whole set with red painted handles, from my grandma who raised her family from 1900-1930s. The paint has lead in it, though, so for the chipped ones a few coats of clear varnish should seal it. As long as paint particles aren't dropping into the food it's fine.
I don't know if it's vintage or not, but I have a palm sized, hinged, metal dumpling press that speeds up the process of making dumplings a lot faster than just using your hands and pinching the dough together. You just place a certain sized circle of rolled out dough (or you can use pre-made eggroll wrap dough) on top of it, add the filler meat and veg or whatever you want inside your homemade dumplings, move the left and right handles towards the middle and gently squeeze and release. Easy to use, edges are securly pinched closed, and you're dumplings are ready to be steamed or fried. YUMMY!
If any Australians are watching this, I feel like you know what I mean when I say that she has the perfect voice and personality for Play School. Idk, just my weird opinion.
it's really nice to listen to your calm voice ! most of youtubers just scream at the top of their god damn lungs, like they just forget they have a mic right by their face. cool channel btw !
As a note for the orange juicer - you're supposed to remove the initial core before threading it in all the way, leaving a pocket for the juice to be squeezed into. My family had a plastic model as a kid, and smooshing and squeezing OJ right in the orange was breakfast bliss. Also, love the Opinel as a kitchen tool! A No. 8 Gardening lives in my pocket everyday, and it occurs to me much of my frustration with chef's and pairing knives would be alleviated with a nice No. 10 carbon, well tended, in the gadget drawer. You'd be a blast to go flea-marketing with. Thanks for the vid!
When using the last item, you roll your orange around first to loosen up the pulp and break down the pith, etc. then when you screw in the juicer you do get more juice. I have one and use it frequently. Also, when you first cut through the rind, I unwind and take out the piece of rind and then screw it back in.
I watched my grandmother use the egg whisk in her kitchen when I was a child. She didn't use it in a bowl, however. After frying the bacon, she would add the eggs to the hot skillet, then a little milk and seasoning. She then whisk it continuously until the eggs were fluffy. I remember her scrambled eggs were always so light and airy.
What a great memory!
Donald Conrad is that how it's supposed to be used?? makes sense now.
I watched one video one time where someone said the trick to scrambled eggs is to KEEP THEM MOVING. Never stop whisking. And my eggs have always been fluffy and perfect since :)
That seems a much better way to use the egg whisk
Thanks for letting me know I am officially OLD now; I knew what those gadgets were! Concerning the lemon press... Did you know that from the mid-1800s well into the early 20th century, serving tea was nearly an art form? It was as much about class and status as the tea itself. So fancy gadgets designed to, say, keep your well-heeled guests from squirting acidic citrus juice into their eyes or staining their gloves or dresses showed even more class and panache. Just a fun fact! And you have the nicest smile!
Someone from Japan know, "serving tea was nearly an art form?" Yep, I bet she does.
I love the word "panache"! @froggy... Emmy is not Japanese.
@D-Baby Broussard she’s chinese, but still. Tea is an art in east Asia.
Emmy never mentioned the possibility of using it with tea service, this was a good comment.
Engrish Muffin oh really, how do you know she wasn’t born and lived in Japan? Especially with the name of her channel, one would not be stupid to think she might be Japanese!
What's so impressive is these tools are all very old and still work perfectly. They were made during a time when quality trumped $$$$$$!. Today I believe things are made with the intent for them to be easily broken and disposable.
Well, those implements were made in a time where money was hard-earned cash, not easy-come-easy-go credit-card debt.
My grandparents bought things once.
and made in the USA
keveseb66...it's called Planned Obsolescence. Google it.
But you can get plenty of quality made products today as well. And there were plenty of rubbish products back in the day as well.
Someone else might have mentioned this but I didn't read ALL the comments to find out.
Regarding the pie crimper: you didn't try the little knife edge which works great for cutting the dough. Also, you missed the opportunity to use the devise on the reverse side from the crimping wheel. The little design of 2 arcs and 2 dashes is for pressing into the top crust dough several times (before lifting from rolling surface) to make the steam vents.
I have this gadget and use it quite often - because pies are the best of foods!
huge thumbs up - pie is my favorite food group!
Hi thanks I have a pie edge crimper. Neighbor was moving in to an assisted care home. Her daughter was going to throw a lot of kitchen items in the trash!! Question could you use the vent side for design in the top of sugar or peanut butter cookies?
@@sandranevins2144 I haven't done it but it is worth a try. It should leave a faint design at the very least.
If I'm not mistaken, the back side of the pie crust crimper will also cut off excess crust as you crimp the pie, and you can use the "blade" to make the slits on the top of the pie too.
I really enjoyed watching this. ♥️ You're just all around too adorable for words! 🙂
"Lickity-split"
Aww that made my heart so soft ❤
I know it! My eyes opened wide and I thought, 'how on Earth did someone so young know anything about that phrase?' She is so cute and wonderful, and I can't wait to find more of her videos. I have an antique something-or-other that I got at an antique store in town that nobody can figure out. I'll have to go on her site to ask.
I think on the cheese slicer the tines are to give you uniform cheese slices. if you turn the slicer 90 degrees so that it's parallel to the table and the tines are pointed at the cheese they will act as guides keeping the slices even an uniform.
Also, the end of the jar opener is a can opener. The big side goes inside the rim of the can and the small side hooks against the bottom outside edge of the rim. then you pry against it forcing the large side into the can. Do that all the way around to open the can.
Thanks for a great video!
I would absolutely buy and use the genie lamp juicer.
They still sell them, a lot of restaurants here in Europe bring it on the table when you order tea.
FrancesBaconandEggs so cute!
@@Larrysbride Really? I would love to have one and will see if I can find one on the internet.
There’s a seafood restaurant I know that had them at table - lobster, butter, and lemon? Yes, please!
Same
I think that plastic lemon squeezer was more likely for a tea tray than a dinner table. You could squeeze the perfect amount of lemon for your cuppa. And I think the orange squeezer was probably for a bar.
Williams Sonoma still sells the lemon squeezers. Definitely made for tea time 🙂
Yes, I was yelling “It’s for tea time!” at her when she was talking about it but of course she couldn’t hear me 😁 I love a little bit of lemon in my tea so I love this vintage gadget. I also recognize a lot of the other ones and still have some of them that were my grandmas.
I would prefer lemon with my fish not the tea
@ja da simply because I don't like a splash of lemon in tea.
Sourkraut is one of the best sources of Vitamin C, Captain Kid always had Sourkraut on his ship for this reason, and I have some of my own home made Sourkraut almost everyday.
@ja da nope I'm not a big fan of prepared mustard, but have are mustard seeds into the home made kraut.
For the jar opener, you can use the bottle opener part to open jars that are too big for the jaws. The trick to opening any jar is to break the vacuum seal, so a bottle opener works wonderfully if a jar opener, grippy pad, or beefy-handed helper isn't available. Just hook it under the rim like you would a bottle cap! :)
her voice would be perfect for childrens books
No it wouldn’t
7saany it reminds me of Jennifer Garner's voice
I agree
Yes her voice is happy and perky. Great for childrens book reading.
It's also perfect to dub some of that crazy tentacle-stuff on PornHub.
I love that little lemon wedge juicer. It's so cute and works beautifully.
I'm smiling ear to ear!! My grandma had every single one of those gadgets in her kitchen when I was younger. Brings back many memories of cooking and baking with her. :)
Leanne Zackowski that's so cute
Daww...😍
Leanne Zackowski I hope you have them. That'd be so cool!
Unfortunately I don't.
Same here! I’ve kept them all.
I really enjoy hunting for vintage Gadgets because some of them are so hilarious and funny ...and I kept smiling at all of these really unique pieces as somebody had taken lots of time in thinking them up . And all of them worked really well so we can say that they were successful. I like the bottle opener and the egg whisk very much. Thank you for this video.
My grandmother bought that juicer in 1953 in England when things were made of orange coloured Bakelite and not lethal plastic.
60 years later during one of my annual visits there I was .'inspecting ' her kitchen chests to see which things I could "borrow accidentally on purpose..." grandma what did you use that for ..do you really use it now "and so on and so forth... until she got really exasperated and would say, I don't use it, take it!
These ruthless steps had to be taken because I knew that if I did not get these vintage items in my hand some other light fingered relative who would not appreciate their value would just walk away with them and never use them ever ever ever again.
I think my Instinct was working overtime here because this was the only piece of Vintage stuff from her chest of drawers ""rescued by me because the next time I went to her place ,she was dead aged 96 the whole kitchen had been cleaned out including her priceless wedgewood crockery and Limoges collection...nobody knows where it is and others are not telling... it happens in the best of families!
Regardless of whatever we think that we have all the time in the world and we will say something or do something next time it doesn't happen that way...
I actually have three of those items in my kitchen. The egg whisk was my grandmothers and she used it to make meringue. That tool is very old. She was born in 1899.
Green paint 1930's.
Red paint 1940's.
I was born in 1999💙
@@rachaelallison5303 Say that you were born in 1999 in another 50 years, then maybe it'll be significant. Sorry to break it to you, but being 20 years old in 2019 is nothing special, dear. All of my kids are older than you.
WatchingMyLifeFlashB I just thought it was cool that some of the things are from 1899. No need to be rude
I thought the egg whisk was for getting things out of a fryer..guess it could be used for several things maybe..?
the orange juicer you twist it in til you hit the threads then pull out the core you made then the juice should flow out better
Yes! Pop out the 'skin' of the orange, screw that juicer back in and it will give you more. Also, roll the orange on the counter first and the juice will flow! :)
This reminds me of something my mom has been doing for years at her museum she curates ! It's a "What's it" table and she puts out different vintage tools and gets people to guess their uses :)
Ha! Aren't mamas the best? 🤗
You are holding the cheese slicer incorrectly. Hold it horizontally. The tines help measure the thickness of the slice and keep it uniform.
She is holding it horizontally. How else would you cut cheese?
Nemo Sundry no you have to cut it horizontally. you drag it along the top
Yep, growing up we had one with a roller that performed the function of the tines. You could adjust the roller for different thickness and you pulled it across the top of the block, parallel to the table.
@@anewagora - No, she's holding it and using it vertically. If it were turned 90° and still pushed downward, it would cut off the end if the block with a uniform thickness to each slice. The tines are not meant to go into the cheese, but rather, they ride along the edge of the cheese block to guide how deep the wire should be placed.
@@alancarlson94 I still use mine!!
If you're interested in these gadgets I'm planning on doing a giveaway for them on my Facebook page. Stay tuned and good luck! Thanks @Cherry Lee for the suggestion!
emmymadeinjapan 😘
emmymadeinjapan This was really cool Emmy. Shame we always have to "reinvent" the wheel. At least some of these tools work perfectly fine-but someone had to make them "better". Sadly no contest for me. I don't have FB. Thankyou for the nostalgia tho Emmy. Good luck to the people that enter.😍🎁
emmymadeinjapan i would love to have that cheese slicer! hehe
Dem rich people gadgets. But vintage
I have seen variations of these in practice, a lot.
Many restaurants serving tea or fish would hand you a lemon squeezer like that one.
And wire cheese cutters are just common sense, really. Cheese sticks terribly to knives.
I have one with a roller for cutting long strips of cheese evenly.
Still, the plethora of lemon juicing gadgets all seem kinda pointless when you look at the simplicity of a lemon press and just how efficient they are when compared to a thing you screw into your orange.
The first gadget is actually for folding in egg whites. My grandma most often used one to make angel food cake.
Jeremy Ellringer came here to say this, definitely for whisking and folding in meringue
Your answer makes complete sense and you are correct.
From what I'm reading in the comments you're suggesting like a fifth use for it 😁
It was actually pretty multi-purpose, though used primarily with eggs and egg-related products. Whisking eggs in pan for fluffy scrambled eggs, or for folding in egg whites to aerate them for meringue, etc. there are many uses.
Ooooo
The pie crimper has a cute venting tool on the other side. You just press it into the top of the pie.
+amy wyman Ahhh...genius!
emmymadeinjapan Emmy you were using the egg whisk wrong. the idea is to break the eggs over the coils then pass the gadget back and forth flush to the bowl if you catch my drift lol
I was going to say the same thing!
My Grandmother used this tool to beat egg whites, not whole eggs. You lift as you beat and the coils help incorporate air. This was the go-to tool for meringue.
Susan Dyar I was just about to comment that!
The juicer you showed near the end is made more for squeezing a little juice out of a lemon or lime, then leaving it for more use later. You also need to remove the cut-out circle of rind before screwing it all the way into the fruit. Pampered Chef made a plastic version years ago that included a cap over the end that strained out the seeds and sealed the fruit, along with a storage container to keep the lemon in the refrigerator until it was needed again. It was called the Lemon Aid. I used to sell Pampered Chef at home shows and I once left the lemon in the container after the demonstration and forgot all about it until the next show. Boy, did that smell horrible when I opened it up again a week later!
On the cheese slicer, it's made to pull toward you. The tines act as a size gauge. Great episode!
That's what I was going to say. I thinking that looks wrong.
Yep, hold it perpendicular to the cheese with the tines against the outside edge of your slice. It will make every slice uniform.
I was hoping someone else noticed it was held wrong. she was tearing her cheese up :p
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw her using the cheese slicer. The tines were replaced by a roller later on, but that is totally supposed to be slid across the top of the cheese, pulling off a slice at a time. I thought when she switched to the velveeta she would figure it out, but nope! I guess she's too young to have used an adjustable roller wire cheese slicer on velveeta, but that was my entire childhood!
1neerdowell My Grandpa had the type with the roller! That’s how I knew what it was. Best thing ever until it broke
The first juicer, the plastic one, would be found near a household bar for adding fresh lemon or lime use to cocktails. Today they are made out of stainless and mine is in the shape of a bird. The last item, the other juicer, isn’t for juicing oranges to drink the juice. Rather it is for having fresh juice to add to recipes. Squeeze the amount needed and put back in fridge nail needed again. Today’s versions are stainless with small blade like metal to aid in screwing it into fruit. I put a cork in mine before I put into fridge. Hope this helps! Oh! The wisk! I have a collection and the version you have was quite popular!
With that last orange juicer you made the little mistake of forgetting to remove the plug of peel you first cut. You cut through the peel, remove the plug, then continue screwing the juicer into the orange.
Agreed. Removing the plug increases it's efficiency greatly. Also, it's not for drinking directly from the fruit, but more as a tool to squeeze juice out into a bowl or cup, then use the collected juice for cooking and/or drinking.
I had one. I thought that you were supposed to put it down in on the side. I never really liked it, but, it’s good if you don’t need to use all the juice. You can put the fruit w/spout in frig.
If you roll the orange on the countertop before you insert the juice spout then remove the plug you get a lot more juice.
I bought a new chromed steel one France a few years ago. Roll the fruit on your counter top to 'loosen' the juice, screw it in and squeeze. I use it all the time. There's another version that gives you a spray of juice.
Did you say aluminium? If so, do not use it, especially not with acid substances, it is highly toxic.
I have my mother's egg whisk just like that, and I love it. You can actually beat egg whites stiff with it and a little patience. It doesn't feel awkward to me because I'm used to it.
Love your videos, Emmy! Wonderful job. Just enough commentary to be interesting, without any hemming and hawing, or time wasting babble. You explain everything clearly, and handle the tools and gadgets with competence. Excellent, I wish more TH-camrs had your flair. You go, Girl!
+jbeargrr Thanks so much. 😊
Ahmado7 xc troll. Two spelling errors, no punctuation and an erroneous claim. People DO like you, Emmy! What's Ahmado ever done? Keep it up!
I agree! She had a very pleasant voice as well!
If you roll the oranges before it makes the juicing a lot easier! ☺️
and take the circle of peel out.
I honestly thought it was a muzzle break for a rifle for a second.
I love love Emmy and her videos. she deserves an Emmy award
the Amazing 4 I see what ur going to! I love this joke! But she really does deserve one!
the Amazing 4 we all derserves an emmy!
the Amazing 4 z
nice
Zing! I love both her *And* a good pun!
Regarding the first gadget - my grandmother had one (I have it now and have used it) - it is for whipping egg whites and/or making meringue. I was told the design introduced air into the egg whites. It works!
Me: "Oh well this one's definitely a nutcracker" Emmy: "This is pretty self explanatory, it's a jar opener" Well f*** me 😂
😂
Same lol
“Son of a NUTCRACKER!”
-Buddy the Elf. 🎅🏻🎄
I HAD to say it! 😉
(Elf was JUST on TV this Memorial Day weekend!) 🤷🏻♀️
Same, lol and I am vintage 😆
Right, it wasn't obvious to me at all.
I love that aladdin lamp lemon thing and the sinister jar opener, they seem pretty useful
Its sad to see that modern utensils aren't made to last for very long. The ones that you have shown us are made so well they will outlive all of us.😀😨
Donna G I totally agree! Wish things were made better.
I've gone through 3 blenders, several pots and pans and two food processors. I've had spatulas and ladles split while I'm cooking. I'm only a home cook.
The pie crimper is just darling! All gadgets seem made to last! Great find!
The second gadget would be great for tables at restaurants or anywhere that serves iced tea (I live in the South). I mean, if it weren't kind of cumbersome and (probably) expensive, that is. Great video!
If you microwave the lemon before juicing you get twice as much juice. The juicer would be great for pancake day in uk
The thing for the pie crust looks perfect for empanadas!!!
I concur.
Great idea
You’re right, such a good idea, thanks
.... genius idea!
Ravilolis too!!
if you draw the pie crust crimper the other way, it will slice off the extra dough as it crimps...
Extra bonus for the pie crimper: if you turn it around, the 'blade' will trim the crust to size as you crimp the edge.
This video made me feel old old old. I’m only 63 and I knew what every single gadget was for and how to use them. Oh man Between my mom, my grandfather and some country gardening, canning great aunts, they covered them all. Nice to see them again the remakes of the cheese slicer isn’t nearly as good and neither is the orange juicer. New ones are chintzy plastic. You do still find these things at flea markets, estate sales and auctions.
These vintage kitchen gadgets are very interesting compared to the type of stuff we have now.
Twilight Warrior I thought it was funny to see that orange juicer! I never would have guessed they had something like this, that far back! lol I think with most of these, you can totally see where the ideas of the "newer" gadgets came from. We still have those individual screw in citrus juicers and pie crimpers... They're just designed a little different now.
Twilight Warrior yeah and what's interesting is the fact that if something made of metal, not plastic, it's automatically a luxurious stuff.
+Twilight Warrior I love the fact that they are made of metal (mostly) but are all very durable. The crap that is on the market today is mostly disposable junk! Too bad most people do not take pride in their craftsmanship anymore. Now it seems like most manufacturers are all about produce fast and cheap with a "keep 'em buyin'" attitude.
Definitely! They need to start making stuff the way they use too.
These tools are mostly from 1930s... Awesome find. Would use all!
The lemon wedge juicer I recall from my grandmother's home, maybe 1970's. A time when women were obsessed with putting lemon on their salads. I wouldn't think that you would have had more than one of these--ladies had their salads and a bowl of fresh lemon slices on the table.
Love that you do these vintage kitchen gadgets videos!
citrus juicer looks like a genies lamp.
ziljin I was thinking gravy boat, but yeah. I see it now.
Or a teapot...get it, lemon juice for the tea.
My grandmother also used the pie crimper not only to crimp, but to decorate. The opposite side of the crimper has a 5-pointed star for poking a vent in the centre, and the crimping wheel, pressed into the dough, makes a pretty design as well!
That jar opener is old enough that it would be able to open a wide mouth Mason jar. Those jars were common back when that was made. No one would buy it if it couldn't open a home canning jar.
greyeaglem and the beer bottle opener is for prying off the sealed lid
Ooooh, now I want one! I can and with my arthritis and grip strength problems, that would be lovely! (And no, I’m not old enough that anyone in my family would still have one, lol. I’m still young-ish, just disabled.)
The vintage gadgets are ok but I just love watching and listening to you.
Hi Emmy, The "egg whisk" we used to lower eggs into boiling water and then took them out when the eggs were soft boiled, we didn't think of it as the egg whisker, maybe we were misinformed LOL merry Christmas
Probably multitasking.
Yes that's what I thought too!! Also my great grandma used to separate egg whites from yolk, but also as you said... To lift eggs in and out of boiling water! She was born in 1925 and still here today! I'm 35 and she's my great grandma and my childrens great great grandma!
"So I put together a little pie..."
What magic is this!?
Well said, hope she is not planning on presenting cooking videos next
I'd have thought the 'egg whisk' thingy was more for pulling boiled eggs in & out of the hot water. But I'm no kitchen utensils expert, it just looks like it's for that purpose!
abingleyboy Also for lifting donuts out of the hot oil. It would have been a versatile tool
Helen Nelson or Bahji & samosas or perogi if you're from Poland or pasta if you're from well...anywhere we all eat pasta, I think. You can also remove an expired Goldfish to the toilet bowl too..sorry!!
abingleyboy It's actually for whipping egg whites. I remember watching my grandfather beating egg whites until they were stiff and ready for grandma to use. it was pretty hard work. (I am now a grandma myself, so it was very long ago.)
cister30328 it looks then like a very cumbersome utensil to use, Size wize. I'd've thought a fork or common whisk would be better. Probably why you don't see modern versions of them nowa days. Mind you they have electric mixers now don't they. I think cakes made by hand mixing taste a lot nicer. Sometimes an electric mixer can mix ingredients too much & you end up with a heavy cake. Hand mixed is much better, even if it does take a little longer.
I agree. My mother used it to make merangue and nighty-night cookies. She said it added more air to whites.
This is the first video of yours I have watched . A subscriber for sure . Sorry it took me so long to find your channel . Love it .
We always had a wire cheese cutter and an apple slicer/core-er in our house. I like the jar opener too! We always had the rubber disc for opening jars.
this video is so calming
Growing up in Florida we had the last juicer you used but they were plastic and orange. They work really well with smaller oranges than the kind you used. We used to pick the oranges in my grandmas backyard then she would microwave them for like 10 seconds and roll them hard on the counter before twisting the sipper in for us. We always got lots of a juice out of them and it kept us and her house clean from the mess oranges and little kids can make.
+AllRattedUp Microwave them first? Ha! Thanks for the tip. 😋
emmymadeinjapan Yup. Just for a few seconds. They don't get hot (well not any hotter than they were out in the sun anyways) but it just makes the juice flow better when you roll them around. :)
Works for all citrus fruit if you're trying to juice them.
That last tool looked to be made of aluminum, which interacts with citrus acid & is unhealthy, so I hope you either donated it to a museum or tossed it.
we used peppermint sticks. just shove it into the orange and suck the life of out it!
Love the ole Timey tools. You can see the fact that it is still here is really something. How long do you think any thing made today would last? See everything works perfectly.
Nice one Emmy. We used to have a plastic version of that screw-in juice extractor made by Tupperware. I think the idea was that you cut a plug out of the peel with the toothed bit and then pulled it out and threw the plug away before putting it back in again and screwing it down. Being plastic it broke eventually of course.
Nice! We still managed to get all of the juice out with the bit of peel in. My boys especially enjoyed drinking the juice directly out of the orange. :)
Harold Weaver Smith also a must have been around forever is the Tupperware orange peeler.
Harold Weaver Smith my mom used to buy bags of lemons and the little plastic ones would come with the bag, so we had multiple ones.
+carissa Carissas LOL - I made another comment about those! Here it is again so you don't have to go searching for it:
Probably the longest-lived gadget in my house is a Tupperware Orange
Peeler that must be 40 years old if it's a day, and still works perfectly despite being worn down and manky-looking. There was a long period when you couldn't get them, but a quick web search shows that
they're readily available again: moo.review/orange-and-citrus-peeler/
3:13
Emmy: This one is pretty self explanatory...
Me: Is it a nut cracker?
Emmy: It is a jar opener. :D
I think you are supposed to discard the initial round peel plug that was cut out then continue screwing in the citrus juicer.
I'd like to see you test a potato ricer. Sure there is one at the same thrift store. Looks like a jumbo garlic press.
I have a cheese slicer that has a roller on one end to give you perfect slices every time and I also have an old egg beater that has two whisks on the end and a handle to crank them with. I love them both and use them all the time.
My mother had an egg whisk like the one you showed. Instead of using it like a normal whisk she would lay it flat & sort of swish it from side to side, she used it mainly for making pan gravy & the like. I have no idea if that's it's intended use though as she was prone to doing things her own way.
That is exactly what my mother and myself used it for. Mine disappeared several years ago and I was devastated. The whips now days just don't work as well.
We had all of these growing up. I still have the little netti pot cirus juicer, cheese slicer and jar/bottle.opener. memories.
the lid crimper also cuts the pastry as you go I remember seeing nan use one when I was a kid .
+Andy Ward So smart. I see it now, I'll have to try it out next time.
A tip for everyone who has a struggle opening jars: use a beerbottle opener to get some air in the jar(you do the same as you would open a beerbottle but don't try to open the jar just use it to get some air in) then try again to open, it wil be very easy.
I think the egg whisk is supposed to be used in the frying pan. You crack the eggs directly into the pan, add the other ingredients of your choice and then gently stir while its cooking. Love this old things!
One small detail on the pie crimper: if you flip it over you can press the top of the pie with the little vent thing there like a flower.
We have a meat /food grinder from 1914 and my family has used it every year to make cranberry slaw for thanksgiving.
We used to make ham salad with the meat grinder. so good!!
I use my cast iron grinder often.... Chopping nuts, grind meat, making baby food. Back in the late 1800's, things were made to last a lifetime, and my grinder lasted 5 generations now, plan on passing it along when I go.
Rebeckah Iding us toooooo!!!! 🥰
my favourite old kitchen gadget is an 100 year old butter curler in our draw at home- used in hotels and restaraunts
It looks like you're supposed to use that egg whisk more flat in a pan
It was probably used on a plate, at least that is the way we whipped our egg whites.
What memories your egg whisk brought. It works best whipping large flats (skillets, stirring egg drizzle into soups, etc. (at home we used ladder-style potato mashers for blending fruits in deep-round baking or mixing bowls. We also cheesecloth wrapped it with spices like crab boil in the gauze for quick dip-n-stir without the 'gravel'ing the stew, and to gauze strain bacon drippings into our Tappan's bacon cup. Spreading fresh berries on cookie pastries or cheesecakes gave a little more gentle handling and more space to see where berries were, than spreading with a knife or spatula. Some spoon springs were flexible enough to slide toward the handle (to scrape a scalloped potato serving dish bottom loose while leveling the potatoes) and toward the spoon-tip for stirring getting chicken noodles gently off the pot bottom.
2:40 is lime sized (bartender use or chef use) and so nice as a "no touch" style. Pyrex juicers for limes (xs), lemons (s), tomatoes (m), oranges (l). Presses will be metal, for garlic, etc. To clean glass, plastic, or metal, allow a stainless steel flatware utensil in the rinse water. Chemical reaction will rinse the strong smell off the item (and your hands too). The beauty of your juicer is seeds remaining in the base cavity. For tabletop use, your juicer's sculpted top piece allows showing off juice as it bursts from peeled wedges. Nice touch.
4:27 and 4:30 The reverse side shaping can be used for "hole punching" the crust vents before laying it on the pie.
6:36 The juicer plug is terrific in the home bar as much as using it for spout access into watermelons for added liquids (alcoholic or virgin) before serving fresh from the melon into glasses, or freezing for punch bowl halves or slicing.
☺ i think maybe ur supposed to roll the orange around a bit , sort of on a table, with ur hands pressing slightly to loosen the juice b4 u put the juicer tool in.
thats how we did it in the '70s ☺
ours were Tupperware tho...
just saying
Yes! Give it a pressing roll and the juice releases much more, much faster.
You are so good at this.. and Yes the citrus juicer end screw.. is more for citrus used for alcoholic mixed drinks.... You roll and squeeze the citrus before inserting the 'juicer'. Then you just squeeze as you go. At least that is what I have learned from research... and Yes... fish recipes used this to get lemon for them..
The so-called egg whisk is really for extracting hot eggs or potatoes from hot water.
Yeah, it can be used for that too!
I got one of those from my grandmother. I used it (as she did) for lifting donuts or fried things out of the fryer. If you were just scrambling up a couple/few eggs it would be way too big and bulky.
arbonac yes your correct
arbonac damn this is the most versatile tool, everyone saying it does a different thing lol...
This first item is not for whisking eggs.. it is for folding whipped whites so they do not deflate. example is like an angel food cake with chocolate powder.. you would gently fold the merangue
I thought the egg whisk was a masher lol
same
For the citrus juicer you showed last, I was taught to roll the fruit with your palm, applying pressure, before inserting the juicer. Makes it much easier to get most of the juice that way.
When she said "super easy", in my head I finished with "barely an inconvenience".
fuqinazhole Yes, i think we both spend too much time on YT! i heard same thing
For jars I can’t open, I was always taught to smack the edges of the lid with the back of a butter knife, it has never ever failed me to this day!
Wow, those are totally vintage!
I wish I knew how to add a pic here, but I've got a great thing that I found in a thrift store decades ago and I still use it. It's a contraption that turns any pot into a colander. It's aluminum, flat, shaped like a half moon and covered with tiny holes like a colander. It has a spring-loaded handle that stretches out from the middle. After you cook spaghetti or whatever, you snap this thing onto the top of the pot (the spring handle allows it to fit any diameter) and simply pour out the water through the holes. No separate colander necessary. I love mine, but when I show it to people no one can figure out what it is!
I thought the piece inside the plastic thing was a retainer lol
Sophie Wysocki I thought the same thing!
a 'lost' retainer? LOL!! "Mom, have you seen my retainer?!" lol!
My mom used to collect antique kitchen tools and decorated the walls of her kitchen and laundry room with them. The green handle of the whisk was popular in the '30's/'40's and the bakelite handle cheese cutter may be that old as well! The lemon squeezer is probably the newest of them all, im guessing '60/'70's
I'm used to putting milk in scrambles eggs, Otherwise it's more or less an omelette. is this the norm or do others use milk or not. I have heard others don't use milk.
abingleyboy I'm not sure I've ever had scrambled eggs with milk
Candice Honeycutt its only like a small amount of milk. makes the eggs more creamy, but you can get like a yacky watery residue that soddens your toast, if you have them on toast. you have to remember to drain it off before plonking it on the toast. But with milk is how I've always known Scrambled eggs.
I mix milk in if I'm making scrambled eggs.
depanth yeah!! I'm not the only one then, well obviously I know my brother does too. He likes the yacky residue water tho & soggy toast, Which is nasty. But I'm not the only one other than my family to add milk to scrambled egg. so yeahh..again...lol!
+abingleyboy yeah, I think they taste way better that way. if I don't have milk, I will use a bit of water but it's definitely not preferred haha. it's such a small step and makes them so good that idk why people don't do it. I know most people I know don't add it though.
the opener you were using on the Jar opener is for lifting the Mason jar lids off as they were often stuck on any jams jellies or other canned sugar based foods
Maybe that first gadget can be used to whip heavy cream?
My Grandmother used it for meringue so I imagine it would whip cream.
Yup. My grandmother used it only to whip egg whites. She used a rotary egg beater for whole eggs or yolks.
Ellen Jaramillo I was wondering if it was made for beating egg whites. Thanks for posting.
On the pie crimper: I think you are using it backwards, as the curved 'knife' edge is for cutting excess dough as you go around the edge. On the juice extractor that you screwed into the orange: I have a plastic one and you use the end to cut the hole, remove that bit of peel, then fully insert the extractor. You'll get a lot more flow without the peel in the way. Never saw the 'egg scrambler' before. Neat. Loved the little citrus wedge squeezer: you won't get squirted with that and it looks to be extremely efficient. Very cute.
Not sure how I happen to get to your video but I'm glad I did! What a NEAT idea to do videos on. Thank you!
Wow, I remember my grandma had that egg whisk tool. I never knew what it was used for in the kitchen. Thanks for enlightening me.
at my cottage (no electricity) we have a hand crank mixer, it works amazingly well!
I have actually used nearly every one of these unironically. My grandmother raised a millupn lids on a farm and she had many versions of these gadgets. I miss seeing them. It makes me want to grab some. Thank you so much.
1:00 I was going to say tennis racquet but oh well.
They used the egg whisk to beat egg whites until stiff. We also had one of the juicers that you showed at the end. You were supposed to just squeeze the juice into a bowl and not drink it out of the juice nozzle. We used that little tool to core apples also.
2017 will be the year you pass 1m subscribers and i'm gonna be so proud. i've been a sub for the longest time!
The "egg whisk" is for picking up eggs from boiling water. I have a whole set with red painted handles, from my grandma who raised her family from 1900-1930s. The paint has lead in it, though, so for the chipped ones a few coats of clear varnish should seal it. As long as paint particles aren't dropping into the food it's fine.
what a great score for 3 bucks!
I don't know if it's vintage or not, but I have a palm sized, hinged, metal dumpling press that speeds up the process of making dumplings a lot faster than just using your hands and pinching the dough together. You just place a certain sized circle of rolled out dough (or you can use pre-made eggroll wrap dough) on top of it, add the filler meat and veg or whatever you want inside your homemade dumplings, move the left and right handles towards the middle and gently squeeze and release. Easy to use, edges are securly pinched closed, and you're dumplings are ready to be steamed or fried. YUMMY!
If any Australians are watching this, I feel like you know what I mean when I say that she has the perfect voice and personality for Play School. Idk, just my weird opinion.
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As a note for the orange juicer - you're supposed to remove the initial core before threading it in all the way, leaving a pocket for the juice to be squeezed into. My family had a plastic model as a kid, and smooshing and squeezing OJ right in the orange was breakfast bliss. Also, love the Opinel as a kitchen tool! A No. 8 Gardening lives in my pocket everyday, and it occurs to me much of my frustration with chef's and pairing knives would be alleviated with a nice No. 10 carbon, well tended, in the gadget drawer. You'd be a blast to go flea-marketing with. Thanks for the vid!
cool love it, gotta find me that jar opener!
When using the last item, you roll your orange around first to loosen up the pulp and break down the pith, etc. then when you screw in the juicer you do get more juice. I have one and use it frequently. Also, when you first cut through the rind, I unwind and take out the piece of rind and then screw it back in.