I have the round metal colander my parents got for their wedding in 1952. I still use it! I refuse to get rid of it. Use it to strain pasta, veggies, fruits. It’s 72 years old and working great. My sister has an avocado green electric knife my mom got for Christmas in 1966. Cuts the hams and turkeys every holiday. Still in the original box.
We had that same electric knife. I think my father used if on one Thanksgiving turkey and then put it in a cupboard for ever more...right next to the fondue set.
Have used my aunts metal colander for over 50 years, not sure how long she had it. I still have same electric knife from a wedding gift, over 40 yrs old, electric hand mixer same. They were just made better
👁👁 I use moms Hand beater daily for eggs, trivets, cake breaker for bagels, canning strainer for canning every fall, lastly the three section server for most gatherings…I prepare two full meals daily for my family … I love my “out dated” kitchen tools …❤️
I am exactly the same. Why waste money on plastic when you can use what Mom used when we were growing up. They work great and last forever. They also bring back good memories.
I still use a hand mixer, whisk,trivets, condiment service bowls, metal strainers.You can still find a lot of these gadgets in thrift stores.We still need staple foods to survive.Love this channel🥰
I remember in the 1960's my mom's new refrigerator came with metal ice cube trays that you flipped upside down on a plastic bin. You then pulled the metal lever and the ice went into the ice bin. It worked better than the other ones. I still have my meat grinder, and many old hand appliances. Thanks for this video!
I was going to comment the same thing on the ice cube trays. My parents had a house built that had that type of refrigerator in 1960. The freezer compartment was at the bottom. My mom used the cone shaped strainer to make applesauce.
Awesome. I'm 53. I don't know how mom and gma did it. I've been a single dad for years, but I couldn't do it all from scratch and still care for us kids and go to work. Packaging changed everything.
Those can openers that were attached to the can were such a nuisance. Sometimes as you were rolling the strip of metal off the can opener would quit working because there was too much of the can strip left to fit on the key. You can still get cherry stoners and sieves. I’ve seen the stoners in the grocery stores all the time and sieves are out in the fall when it’s time to harvest the backyard garden. Those are the only items I know of that can still be bought. Thanks for the video. Always enjoy these trips down memory lane. And remember my southern mom-in law who mase so many things from scratch. Her holiday tables were a veritable feast and if you left her house hungry it was your own fault! During the winter in times of snow storms she would say “Nick go get some beer and cigarettes (that was before she quit smoking).” He would get out the boots and heavy coat and go to the store. She rarely gave him any other items to pick up because she made everything. Even loaves of bread-dad made the cinnamon raisin bread-rolls and biscuits. Worst thing I ever did was marry into that family . For my waistline at least. Having them as in laws was the best blessing I could think of!! I miss her so much. “It’ll be alright,” she’d say as she gave you s big hig. And somehow you knew it would!
Ohh I loved this episode!! I used to be an antique dealer and always sold older kitchen tools and doo dads! Best sellers were coffee scoops with advertising of a brand of coffee in them! Hand held mixers were so unique so many variations! Just a pleasure to see them. I have that cast iron cherry stoner. Does a lot of fruit quickly but u still have to go thru the cherry bowl and remove a stray pit or more. My best find was a Raisin Seeder! Made of cast iron back circa-late 1880’s. I still have it! I’ve never seen anther one! One thing you did miss was the Cast Iron Apple Peeler! Such a wonderfully clever and well loved device! I couldn’t live without mine! Nothing beats Homemade American Apple Pie!! Thanks for the memories love your content!!
5:10 My wife uses crystal condiment dishes at every book club meeting or dinner party. NO squirt bottles! She always gets compliments from the guests! Don't be lazy, ladies...that extra little stuff will set you up above the other ladies in the neighborhood. That, and a few of your Mom's appetizer recipes , will make you the envy of the neighborhood!
I kept my mom's kitchen the same as it was when dad bought the house in 1969. All of her gadgets, most from the 1970s, are still in the cabinets. At 66, I eat my meals on the same plates I ate off when I was growing up in the 70s.
And with spiral notebooks, 3 ring binders, scissors, or the hand written essays we used to have to write and the teachers marked us down for smeared ink because our hands moved over the page as we wrote. Good times anyways
I dunno, I kinda like the current days when I can vote, marry whom I choose, have a credit card and/or bank account in my own name, etc etc. As Billy Joel sang, "You know the good old days weren't always good."
@@susanowen1709 what is "current" about any of the things you mentioned? Women have been able to do, and have, those things for decades. You make it sound like women just began to be able to do these things since 2000. Women have been able to vote for the past century. They have been able to marry who they want for at least that long. And having their own bank account or credit card, women have been able to do that since the 1960s. (Which admittedly was way overdue.)
@@willhorting5317 Since this video is focused on 50s gadgets, I presumed that "I miss the old days..." to mean missing the 50s. Not all women could vote in the 50s. While women could, technically, get a bank account in the 60s, many banks would not allow them to do so without permission from their husbands. It wasn't until the mid-70s that the practice became illegal. And no we haven't always been able to marry who we want "for the past century." If I'd wanted to marry a black man, for example, it would have been illegal for me to do so in the 50s. If I'd wanted to marry a woman, that would have been illegal in many states until a mere 9 years ago. So again, the good old days weren't always good, which was my point.
The ice cube trays were a problem for me especially those metal ones. I loved the hand egg beaters. They were a favorite toy even when they weren’t intended for playing with.
@@glennso47. Hello put in a deep bowl. Mix on low until it starts to thicken then turn the mixer on high speed and whip until when u turn off the mixer pull the beaters up and u should have stiff peaks of cream. If they fall over whip it until that stage. Then here is where u can add sugar 1/4 to 1/2 cup is usually enuff. U can also add vanilla if u like! Easy to make. You will do great!!
I'm 45, and I still use a cherry pitter and iron trivets. The manual egg beater is in the drawer just in case (and it goes with me on camping trips). Anybody else still use an old-school citrus juicer? I've got a green Depression glass juicer that comes in handy way more often than I ever thought it would!
@@ashextraordinaire Hello. Lucky u having a green juicer! Cool. I have my moms Yellow depression glass one. Use it all the time. I hate that orange plastic thing u put into the citrus fruit and then squeeze. What a joke. Don’t like the wooden reamer one either. I don’t use it but I do have my grandmother’s cast iron and porcelain lemon squeezer. I love to bring old can openers and whisks and yes the trusty hand cranked mixer!
Oh I almost forgot I inherited my grandmother’s Pie Ice Cream Scoop! Just as it states. It makes a piece of ice cream about 1/2 inch thick that Fits perfectly on a piece of pie!! It’s awesome! I also kept all the old steel and bone handled carving sets; knife ( or 2) 2 prong fork and the old knife sharpener. A couple r still in the original boxes. Damn good kitchen knives also made of steel. I can’t help myself. I am very sentimental. Some of my friends just crack up when I’m cooking with older utensils! I even have moms jam and jelly and apple butter long handled wood spoon. Didn’t want to get splattered with hot apple butter! Fun stuff!
@@karenroot450 Ahhh I love the pie ice cream scoop! I've never seen one! I'm just glad I'm not the only one who's sentimental about good old kitchen utensils.
@@ashextraordinaire Hey. Ya know I went and bought a new potato peeler. Was a piece of crap! So I dug around in my goodies and came up with 2 of them one even had that red handle with a cream stripe on it. Perfect condition. You can bet I hand washed that one
My mom had a measuring cup she got for a wedding present back in 1951.she started to cry when it cracked in 2016.she said I used that for so birthday cake’s & Christmas cookies.
The two tools I enjoyed using as a child were the egg beater (something about it just fascinated me) and the flour sifter. I was sad to not see the sifter included in your gadgets. It served an important purpose back in the day, when flour could be very clumpy, especially in the more humid areas of the country. I gather that nowadays flour is more refined and doesn't clump, but I still itch to sift the flour when making something!
Never saw a pie bird before, but my mother used to insert four or five paper straw segments into her apple pies before baking. They vented the steam and kept the filling from boiling over.
My mom had a nut cutter. Usually used for walnuts. Rotating prongs in a metal box would cut the nuts into small pieces for baking. It had a small crank and a glass jar which the metal box screwed onto. The hand mixers were used after electric mixers came out. They were one piece which was handier. My mom bought a set of pots and pans with a handy gadget in the lids. There was a device that would start tapping when the water or whatever would start to boil. They were sold door to door. Do people still use whistling tea kettles?
I use a whistling tea kettle daily. If it didn’t whistle, it’d probably boil itself dry; I multitask too many things to remember a kettle on the stove without it reminding me it’s there!😊
@@asteverino8569 Hello! Yes I still use my moms Copper bottomed tea kettle from Revere Ware. I remember the door to door salesmen! This Pan set was called a waterless cook set as the lids fit tightly inside of the top lip of the pan. You would use very little water as when the lid sealed tight to the pan due to the steam you wouldn’t lose any moisture/steam. Does anyone remember the Avon Lady and the little samples of lipstick in the tiny white tubes? Boy did I decorate myself with those!🤣🤣
My mom used to give me the “keys” from the metal cans so I could have my own set of keys! I was 4 or 5 (I’m now 72!) when she would do this. Mom even put them on a key ring for me!
I have and use one of the metal pot strainers with the yellow wooden handle...I love it. When I was growing up in the 60's, we had a Cake Breaker; it not only cut cake without crushing it, but it served the slice without falling apart.
I love using classic ktichen tools. I've not been able to have my mother's stuff (she is still around & is giving everything to my brother - 🤬) So I've been collecting special items at yard sales, rummage sales, estate sales & thrift stores - at decent prices. Actually today at a yard sale I got a smaller wood handled egg beater & a small wood handled turning fork. (Paid $3 total) I also have a avocado green metal stove top percolator! Best coffee ever! ☕ 😊
I have my Grandmother's "stand sieve," with the conical wooden pestle. She used it for making applesauce, with the fruit from her Gravenstein apple tree. I don't have a tree nearby, but I find so many uses for it. Thanks for the presentation.
Привіт з України! З приводу механічної м'ясорубки можна посперечатись. У багатьох вона вдома є, бо незамінна, коли відсутня електроенергія. Дякую за цікаве відео!
My parents married in 1948. My mom got a set of Revere Ware utensils and a rack to hang the five pieces on over the stove. She had Revere Ware pots & pans, some cookie sheets, and a few odds and ends for the kitchen. I still remember the manual hand mixer, the stainless steel colander (that I now have and use), the Revere Ware cannisters, and measuring spoons, glass measuring cups, etc. Those items were all built to last. One of my brothers has my mom's original pots and pans, and his wife likes them. I'm still using that old fashioned hand mixer (not electric) and the steak knives given to my parents for their wedding. I inherited my mother's Betty Crocker stainless steel (the pattern with the roses), and we still use that on a daily basis. Remember the hamburger press? The dishes that the markets gave out for shopping there? The gas station glasses? Still have them all----and enjoy using them. Remind me of happy times gone by when life was slower and there were no food processors or all the gadgets people believe they need to cook a meal.
In the 1960's, my mom used a colander to strain pasta (or other foods) out of boiling water. Now, for the past 20 years, I use a hand held pot strainer that fits most pot sizes. I thought it was a NEWLY invented device. But apparently, some old gadgets are so useful, they make their way back!
We still have one of those hand mixers, and I was glad that we did when our eletric mixer broke. Pie birds aren't necessarily commonly used anymore, but you can certainly buy them with ease. Amazon has them at prices ranging from $2.99 for a simple design such as the white one in your video at 5:41, to almost $50 for highly-decorative versions. I own several (including one shaped like a frog on a tree branch) although I've never used them for their intended purpose.
Hello I used to be an antique dealer so I had a few cake breakers. One of them was in it’s original box! People would pick them up and think they were for combing hair!🤣🤣
I recently bought a hand mixer/egg beater because sometimes I don't need to get out my electric mixer and a hand mixer is easier to use than using a whisk.
The metal ice cube trays were horrendous, not only would your fingers stick to the extremely cold handle fresh from the freezer but you’d hurt your knuckles opening the handle if it slipped
I hunt yard sales and thrift stores for our dated kitchen tools. Too many tools today are single use and take up too much room. I use a cherry pitter for my home grown cherries. I still use cast iron the older the better as they have a finer finish
Im 47 and love collecting and using old kitchen gear and i collect and use almost all my fire king jadeite and milk glass dishes and bowls ect. Makes me so happy to use that old stuff. I also remember thise metal ice trays, my grandparents always used those.
I'm pretty sure my grandparents had a hand-crank can opener in their farm house kitchen, and we saved it when they moved in 1988. On a different note, their washer and dryer were in their kitchen. There was just no other place to put them in the old farm house.
The grinder in the video is for meat. My mother would use it to grind up beef for hamburgers. She would grind up leftover roast to use in Shepards pie. The grinders for spices were much smaller
OK, that cake slicer toward the end looked like a Afro pick if I’m lying I’m flying in fact my brother probably had one in the 60s. I did back in the 80s 90s and in the mid 2010’s
When my son was around 7, I took him to a thrift store and told him he could pick something out. He picked an egg beater. Mind you he has no interest in cooking. He just thought it was really cool.
Back when people cooked from scratch, the food was MUCH more healthy and people were thinner. People also tended to walk more as they did not want to wear out their motor vehicle. Today, I see people that are lazy and wasteful.
My mom used so many of these things. But it wasn't until I started working at an antique mall that I saw and learned how the pie birds were used. She (my mom)baked {from scratch}a lot, but never used the pie birds -obviously since I hadn't seen them before. Cast iron pan cleaners from the Victorian era I expected to see in here. Can't think of much else that was missed 😊.
Iron trivets are still available for purchase as are cherry pitters...a lot of people still like to make things from scratch. We even bought the metal ice trays recently. Oh, pie birds are available too
We used to use a tin can key on the toothpaste tube. 3:16 we had one of those ice cube trays! It was a freaking pain for a little girl. Trying to get the overfilled solid block of petirified ice to crack. I don't know why anyone ever bothered to fill it. We never used the ice. You couldn't get it out!
I have the round metal colander my parents got for their wedding in 1952. I still use it! I refuse to get rid of it. Use it to strain pasta, veggies, fruits. It’s 72 years old and working great. My sister has an avocado green electric knife my mom got for Christmas in 1966. Cuts the hams and turkeys every holiday. Still in the original box.
We had that same electric knife. I think my father used if on one Thanksgiving turkey and then put it in a cupboard for ever more...right next to the fondue set.
Have used my aunts metal colander for over 50 years, not sure how long she had it. I still have same electric knife from a wedding gift, over 40 yrs old, electric hand mixer same. They were just made better
Hey, ya know what? I'm from 1952 and still working great!!!!
@@MyBizOnlu Was the colander round?
@@skyemacallister1306 No broken or replacement parts?
I still buy staples and cook largely from scratch. Economical, better quality, control sugar and salt.
Salt isn't actually bad for you but sugars are. And same here. It's rare for us to not eat from scratch.
@@katie7748 Processed food high sodium is not good. Too salty.
Me too. It's so much healthier, not to mention the joy and satisfaction of know how things are made and making them well.
@@katie7748 too much salt can be a problem for those with high blood pressure
I have my Mom's favorite trivet hanging im my kitchen, it brings me such joy to see it every day 😊
Me too, altho they were my Granny's!👍🤗✌️
The old bottle opener from when bottles didn't have twist tops.
👁👁 I use moms Hand beater daily for eggs, trivets, cake breaker for bagels, canning strainer for canning every fall, lastly the three section server for most gatherings…I prepare two full meals daily for my family … I love my “out dated” kitchen tools …❤️
I am exactly the same. Why waste money on plastic when you can use what Mom used when we were growing up. They work great and last forever. They also bring back good memories.
I miss our hand beater! I don't know what happened to it.
The items we used back then were/are better than new items of today!
Same here. I prefer things you don't have to plug in...bonus points for being metal or wood!
I still use a hand mixer, whisk,trivets, condiment service bowls, metal strainers.You can still find a lot of these gadgets in thrift stores.We still need staple foods to survive.Love this channel🥰
another episode that makes me feel old. oh wait i am old lol.
Me too ... 😂
Father Time waits for no man ...
(And yes, I was raised with many of these contraptions)
I'm not old, I'm retro.
Ditto
I remember the metal ice cube trays vividly. Pain in the you know what.
Exactly. Shattered ice all over the place.
And the hands, too. Fingers always getting stuck to the tray.
I can still hear the ice creaking before it finally gives way, hands freezing against the metal...
@@susanowen1709 It's true, there was that very unusual sound.
I remember in the 1960's my mom's new refrigerator came with metal ice cube trays that you flipped upside down on a plastic bin. You then pulled the metal lever and the ice went into the ice bin. It worked better than the other ones. I still have my meat grinder, and many old hand appliances. Thanks for this video!
I was going to comment the same thing on the ice cube trays. My parents had a house built that had that type of refrigerator in 1960. The freezer compartment was at the bottom. My mom used the cone shaped strainer to make applesauce.
I think I remeber when SPAM used the "tin key" opener. Though barely. When did these disapear?
Boy I spilled more blood with those ice cube trays how about you guys?? Either that or they flew all over the room😮
That's why my dad got us better ones and it got bent then broke
@@richardharepax123 I think we did the same thing.
I was born in 1969, which means I thought the cake breakers I saw were picks for the giant afros my older relatives wore at the time lol
YES!!
😂🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious!!
Awesome. I'm 53. I don't know how mom and gma did it. I've been a single dad for years, but I couldn't do it all from scratch and still care for us kids and go to work. Packaging changed everything.
Those can openers that were attached to the can were such a nuisance. Sometimes as you were rolling the strip of metal off the can opener would quit working because there was too much of the can strip left to fit on the key. You can still get cherry stoners and sieves. I’ve seen the stoners in the grocery stores all the time and sieves are out in the fall when it’s time to harvest the backyard garden. Those are the only items I know of that can still be bought. Thanks for the video. Always enjoy these trips down memory lane. And remember my southern mom-in law who mase so many things from scratch. Her holiday tables were a veritable feast and if you left her house hungry it was your own fault! During the winter in times of snow storms she would say “Nick go get some beer and cigarettes (that was before she quit smoking).” He would get out the boots and heavy coat and go to the store. She rarely gave him any other items to pick up because she made everything. Even loaves of bread-dad made the cinnamon raisin bread-rolls and biscuits. Worst thing I ever did was marry into that family . For my waistline at least. Having them as in laws was the best blessing I could think of!! I miss her so much. “It’ll be alright,” she’d say as she gave you s big hig. And somehow you knew it would!
I recognized almost all of these. I guess I am getting old.
None of us are getting younger !
Ohh I loved this episode!! I used to be an antique dealer and always sold older kitchen tools and doo dads! Best sellers were coffee scoops with advertising of a brand of coffee in them! Hand held mixers were so unique so many variations! Just a pleasure to see them. I have that cast iron cherry stoner. Does a lot of fruit quickly but u still have to go thru the cherry bowl and remove a stray pit or more. My best find was a Raisin Seeder! Made of cast iron back circa-late 1880’s. I still have it! I’ve never seen anther one! One thing you did miss was the Cast Iron Apple Peeler! Such a wonderfully clever and well loved device! I couldn’t live without mine! Nothing beats Homemade American Apple Pie!! Thanks for the memories love your content!!
Oh yeah--the apple peeler! My mom had one.
I think some canned products (corned beef?) still used the key into the 80s. The key came attached to the can.
And Spam.
Some canned meats still use a key. Usually oddball brands you find at dollar or convenience stores.
You can still buy corned beef in that kind of can.
Not oddball hrands.@@jasonwomack4064
And sardines.
One thing you can add is a potato ricer. Not many people use them anymore.
My Mom's hand mixer was my favorite toy.
My mom had an electric mixer, but my grandmother still used a hand mixer. My brother and I used to love to play with it.
Now you can go antique shopping and pay at least 5 times what those items originally cost 😂
5:10 My wife uses crystal condiment dishes at every book club meeting or dinner party. NO squirt bottles! She always gets compliments from the guests! Don't be lazy, ladies...that extra little stuff will set you up above the other ladies in the neighborhood. That, and a few of your Mom's appetizer recipes , will make you the envy of the neighborhood!
Those conical strainers (chinois) never left us. Pretty much every professional kitchen has them. I use one in my home kitchen.
I kept my mom's kitchen the same as it was when dad bought the house in 1969. All of her gadgets, most from the 1970s, are still in the cabinets. At 66, I eat my meals on the same plates I ate off when I was growing up in the 70s.
That so awesome! I wish stuff from my dad’s kitchen still!
I remember many of these types of items in our home when I was a kid during the 1950s through to the 1960s.
A Mom who was left-handed flat out struggled to use a spice grinder, meat grindr or coffee grinder
Not just moms. Us leftys deal with everything made for a right hander's world. Scissors are worst.
Lefty here. Still struggle with can openers
And with spiral notebooks, 3 ring binders, scissors, or the hand written essays we used to have to write and the teachers marked us down for smeared ink because our hands moved over the page as we wrote. Good times anyways
Another lefty here!
I would be so lost in my kitchen without my grandparents cast iron trivet. I use it daily!
I still have a couple of iron trivets from my Grandmother! 👍🤗✌️
😮Thanks RecRoad for these old memories!💯💥👍!
Oh how I miss the old days when life was slower and less complicated
How is using these devices less complicated?
I dunno, I kinda like the current days when I can vote, marry whom I choose, have a credit card and/or bank account in my own name, etc etc. As Billy Joel sang, "You know the good old days weren't always good."
And when the dream of retirement was still nearly tangible. 😢
@@susanowen1709 what is "current" about any of the things you mentioned?
Women have been able to do, and have, those things for decades.
You make it sound like women just began to be able to do these things since 2000.
Women have been able to vote for the past century.
They have been able to marry who they want for at least that long.
And having their own bank account or credit card, women have been able to do that since the 1960s. (Which admittedly was way overdue.)
@@willhorting5317 Since this video is focused on 50s gadgets, I presumed that "I miss the old days..." to mean missing the 50s. Not all women could vote in the 50s. While women could, technically, get a bank account in the 60s, many banks would not allow them to do so without permission from their husbands. It wasn't until the mid-70s that the practice became illegal. And no we haven't always been able to marry who we want "for the past century." If I'd wanted to marry a black man, for example, it would have been illegal for me to do so in the 50s. If I'd wanted to marry a woman, that would have been illegal in many states until a mere 9 years ago. So again, the good old days weren't always good, which was my point.
Wow, I'm 77 years old and there were a few things that I've never seen. Fascinating. Thank you.
Same here. I have never seen a pot strainer. They wouldn’t be a source of nostalgia for me.
The ice cube trays were a problem for me especially those metal ones. I loved the hand egg beaters. They were a favorite toy even when they weren’t intended for playing with.
How do you make whipped cream out of heavy whipping cream that you can get from the store? I can’t find a recipe for it.
@@glennso47 Just put the cream in a mixing bowl and then start whipping the cream until it becomes fluffy.
@@glennso47. Hello put in a deep bowl. Mix on low until it starts to thicken then turn the mixer on high speed and whip until when u turn off the mixer pull the beaters up and u should have stiff peaks of cream. If they fall over whip it until that stage. Then here is where u can add sugar 1/4 to 1/2 cup is usually enuff. U can also add vanilla if u like! Easy to make. You will do great!!
I'm 45, and I still use a cherry pitter and iron trivets. The manual egg beater is in the drawer just in case (and it goes with me on camping trips). Anybody else still use an old-school citrus juicer? I've got a green Depression glass juicer that comes in handy way more often than I ever thought it would!
@@ashextraordinaire Hello. Lucky u having a green juicer! Cool. I have my moms Yellow depression glass one. Use it all the time. I hate that orange plastic thing u put into the citrus fruit and then squeeze. What a joke. Don’t like the wooden reamer one either. I don’t use it but I do have my grandmother’s cast iron and porcelain lemon squeezer. I love to bring old can openers and whisks and yes the trusty hand cranked mixer!
Oh I almost forgot I inherited my grandmother’s Pie Ice Cream Scoop! Just as it states. It makes a piece of ice cream about 1/2 inch thick that Fits perfectly on a piece of pie!! It’s awesome! I also kept all the old steel and bone handled carving sets; knife ( or 2) 2 prong fork and the old knife sharpener. A couple r still in the original boxes. Damn good kitchen knives also made of steel. I can’t help myself. I am very sentimental. Some of my friends just crack up when I’m cooking with older utensils! I even have moms jam and jelly and apple butter long handled wood spoon. Didn’t want to get splattered with hot apple butter! Fun stuff!
@@karenroot450 Ahhh I love the pie ice cream scoop! I've never seen one! I'm just glad I'm not the only one who's sentimental about good old kitchen utensils.
@@ashextraordinaire Hey. Ya know I went and bought a new potato peeler. Was a piece of crap! So I dug around in my goodies and came up with 2 of them one even had that red handle with a cream stripe on it. Perfect condition. You can bet I hand washed that one
@@karenroot450 Score! Is that the one that also cores apples? We had one when I was growing up, but I have no idea where it is now.
My mom had a measuring cup she got for a wedding present back in 1951.she started to cry when it cracked in 2016.she said I used that for so birthday cake’s & Christmas cookies.
The two tools I enjoyed using as a child were the egg beater (something about it just fascinated me) and the flour sifter. I was sad to not see the sifter included in your gadgets. It served an important purpose back in the day, when flour could be very clumpy, especially in the more humid areas of the country. I gather that nowadays flour is more refined and doesn't clump, but I still itch to sift the flour when making something!
Never saw a pie bird before, but my mother used to insert four or five paper straw segments into her apple pies before baking. They vented the steam and kept the filling from boiling over.
@@KAT-dg6el i suppose that would work, too. Paper drinking straws aren't as common today as they were when I was growing up.
Those old metal ice tube trays were the BIGGEST pain in the butt!
ice cubes would go flying all over
@lovly2cu725 yeah, and the freezing metal trays would stick to your fingers!
And the ice had a metal taste
I still use a metal tray! The plastic ones break.
Yeah, and often the ice came out "shattered," rather than cubed.
My mom still has her metal trays. The trick was running hot water over it first. But now the refrigerator makes the ice.
That's what my mom would do to. A little hot or warm water would make cracking them a lot easier. 🧊
exactly) hot water and they make perfect ice cubes, without much electricity for huge refrigerator in a country house ))
My mom had a nut cutter. Usually used for walnuts. Rotating prongs in a metal box would cut the nuts into small pieces for baking. It had a small crank and a glass jar which the metal box screwed onto.
The hand mixers were used after electric mixers came out. They were one piece which was handier.
My mom bought a set of pots and pans with a handy gadget in the lids. There was a device that would start tapping when the water or whatever would start to boil. They were sold door to door.
Do people still use whistling tea kettles?
I use a whistling tea kettle daily. If it didn’t whistle, it’d probably boil itself dry; I multitask too many things to remember a kettle on the stove without it reminding me it’s there!😊
@@asteverino8569 Hello! Yes I still use my moms Copper bottomed tea kettle from Revere Ware. I remember the door to door salesmen! This Pan set was called a waterless cook set as the lids fit tightly inside of the top lip of the pan. You would use very little water as when the lid sealed tight to the pan due to the steam you wouldn’t lose any moisture/steam.
Does anyone remember the Avon Lady and the little samples of lipstick in the tiny white tubes?
Boy did I decorate myself with those!🤣🤣
My mom used to give me the “keys” from the metal cans so I could have my own set of keys! I was 4 or 5 (I’m now 72!) when she would do this. Mom even put them on a key ring for me!
All the item my mind has forgotten thanks for the memories and smikes❤❤❤❤
I have and use one of the metal pot strainers with the yellow wooden handle...I love it. When I was growing up in the 60's, we had a Cake Breaker; it not only cut cake without crushing it, but it served the slice without falling apart.
I love using classic ktichen tools. I've not been able to have my mother's stuff (she is still around & is giving everything to my brother - 🤬)
So I've been collecting special items at yard sales, rummage sales, estate sales & thrift stores - at decent prices. Actually today at a yard sale I got a smaller wood handled egg beater & a small wood handled turning fork. (Paid $3 total) I also have a avocado green metal stove top percolator! Best coffee ever! ☕ 😊
I grew up well into the 1970s with the ice trays.
There was the potato ricer and electric knife. I don't know it they're still used. I used the electric knife to filet fish. I still have a hand mixer.
I have my Grandmother's "stand sieve," with the conical wooden pestle. She used it for making applesauce, with the fruit from her Gravenstein apple tree. I don't have a tree nearby, but I find so many uses for it. Thanks for the presentation.
I used my hand me down to make tomato juice with my home grown tomatos.
Привіт з України! З приводу механічної м'ясорубки можна посперечатись. У багатьох вона вдома є, бо незамінна, коли відсутня електроенергія.
Дякую за цікаве відео!
Are we not supposed to use our iron trivets anymore? I still use the ones that belonged to my grandmother 😊
My parents married in 1948. My mom got a set of Revere Ware utensils and a rack to hang the five pieces on over the stove. She had Revere Ware pots & pans, some cookie sheets, and a few odds and ends for the kitchen. I still remember the manual hand mixer, the stainless steel colander (that I now have and use), the Revere Ware cannisters, and measuring spoons, glass measuring cups, etc. Those items were all built to last. One of my brothers has my mom's original pots and pans, and his wife likes them. I'm still using that old fashioned hand mixer (not electric) and the steak knives given to my parents for their wedding. I inherited my mother's Betty Crocker stainless steel (the pattern with the roses), and we still use that on a daily basis. Remember the hamburger press? The dishes that the markets gave out for shopping there? The gas station glasses? Still have them all----and enjoy using them. Remind me of happy times gone by when life was slower and there were no food processors or all the gadgets people believe they need to cook a meal.
I still use Revere Ware copper bottom pots and pans, mostly because we had them when I was little.
@@FlexibleFlyer50 Yes that staple of the 50’s & 60’s kitchen!! Revere Ware! Love those pots and pans and tea kettle. We still have and use them daily.
@@karenroot450 Enjoy them in good health!
In the 1960's, my mom used a colander to strain pasta (or other foods) out of boiling water. Now, for the past 20 years, I use a hand held pot strainer that fits most pot sizes. I thought it was a NEWLY invented device. But apparently, some old gadgets are so useful, they make their way back!
Recently saw a new video of Jacques Pepin using an older metal pot strainer just like the one in this video.
@@mathewfullerton8577That strainer is called a chinoise and chefs use it.
I still just use the regular lid and Crack it ever so slightly to tip and pour the water out. I'm super old school or maybe just cheap.
"Hand mixer"? Far as I'm concerned, it's an "eggbeater"
I was thinking the same thing! This may be one of those deals where people in different parts of the country use different names.
They still make those cans that you have to use keys to open them. They have not disappeared yet.
We still have one of those hand mixers, and I was glad that we did when our eletric mixer broke. Pie birds aren't necessarily commonly used anymore, but you can certainly buy them with ease. Amazon has them at prices ranging from $2.99 for a simple design such as the white one in your video at 5:41, to almost $50 for highly-decorative versions. I own several (including one shaped like a frog on a tree branch) although I've never used them for their intended purpose.
Have not seen a cake breaker in years-they were the best for angel food cake.
Never heard of a cake breaker, but now I want one. I've never found a knife worth a crap for angel food cake.
Hello I used to be an antique dealer so I had a few cake breakers. One of them was in it’s original box! People would pick them up and think they were for combing hair!🤣🤣
I still have mine. Looks brand new.
@@jasonwomack4064 Sharp serrated knives & saw slowly works.
Great show! Great memories!🙂
Seems ironic, but there is an odd, mechanical and artificial cadence to the Recollection Road’s narration that sounds like AI.
I recently bought a hand mixer/egg beater because sometimes I don't need to get out my electric mixer and a hand mixer is easier to use than using a whisk.
I think that "spice grinder" is actually a meat grinder.
I still have one of those strainers. I have seen those cake rakers, but never knew what they were for.
I don't care what anyone says....I'd go back 50-60 years if I could!
7:30 When I was young, one group of people used these to fluff out their afro.
Some of these items are still around in more modern looks.
The metal ice cube trays were horrendous, not only would your fingers stick to the extremely cold handle fresh from the freezer but you’d hurt your knuckles opening the handle if it slipped
I hunt yard sales and thrift stores for our dated kitchen tools. Too many tools today are single use and take up too much room. I use a cherry pitter for my home grown cherries. I still use cast iron the older the better as they have a finer finish
Food browns and tastes better out of cast iron... also get iron in your diet! Win,win!
I would add the waffle iron to put on the flame or electric.
I loved popping those old metal ice trays. They were the best!
In the 70s my mother still had a few of the metal ice cube trays. I hated them. Spam used to have a can key.
Im 47 and love collecting and using old kitchen gear and i collect and use almost all my fire king jadeite and milk glass dishes and bowls ect. Makes me so happy to use that old stuff. I also remember thise metal ice trays, my grandparents always used those.
I'm pretty sure my grandparents had a hand-crank can opener in their farm house kitchen, and we saved it when they moved in 1988. On a different note, their washer and dryer were in their kitchen. There was just no other place to put them in the old farm house.
They still use butter molds at Buckingham Palace (and some of the fancier restaurants I’ve been to) 😊
Forgotten by whom? I still have all of these. Tin can keys are good for getting everything out of tubes. All of these tools are multifunctional
The grinder in the video is for meat. My mother would use it to grind up beef for hamburgers. She would grind up leftover roast to use in Shepards pie. The grinders for spices were much smaller
You're correct 😊
I still have most of these and use them.
OK, that cake slicer toward the end looked like a Afro pick if I’m lying I’m flying in fact my brother probably had one in the 60s. I did back in the 80s 90s and in the mid 2010’s
When my son was around 7, I took him to a thrift store and told him he could pick something out. He picked an egg beater. Mind you he has no interest in cooking. He just thought it was really cool.
I still make my whipped cream with a manual hand mixer and I still use an iron trivet to rest and cool my rice pot before fluffing the rice.
3:16 Bought loads of these NIB about 35yrs ago from an old appliance service center that was closing. Sold them all.
Good stuff! Thanks.
Making our own dishes versus now eating highly processed foods is what has made this nation obese.
Full of sugars, seed oils, endocrine disruptors...yep. It's sad.
The collander strainer works well for 'ricing' spuds. That's how I remember it being used. My brother has inherited it from Mom's estate years ago.
I think your "spice" grinder was actually a meat grinder.
I remember the ice cube tray and hand mixer but that's it. Guess I'm not as old as I thought.
Back when people cooked from scratch, the food was MUCH more healthy and people were thinner.
People also tended to walk more as they did not want to wear out their motor vehicle.
Today, I see people that are lazy and wasteful.
I still use a hand mixer for scrambling eggs as it adds way more air for fluffier eggs than just using a fork.
You missed nut chopper, grinders...i still use one from the 40s. Not for nuts though! 😀👍
The hand mixer was a toy of competition between us cousins. Fingers in, let the turning begin.😂
My mom used so many of these things. But it wasn't until I started working at an antique mall that I saw and learned how the pie birds were used. She (my mom)baked {from scratch}a lot, but never used the pie birds -obviously since I hadn't seen them before. Cast iron pan cleaners from the Victorian era I expected to see in here. Can't think of much else that was missed 😊.
Ahh.. I still use these.. 😊
I remember quite well watching my gram cook and bake. She had those metal trivets and the beater.
Iron trivets are still available for purchase as are cherry pitters...a lot of people still like to make things from scratch. We even bought the metal ice trays recently. Oh, pie birds are available too
We used to use a tin can key on the toothpaste tube. 3:16 we had one of those ice cube trays! It was a freaking pain for a little girl. Trying to get the overfilled solid block of petirified ice to crack.
I don't know why anyone ever bothered to fill it. We never used the ice. You couldn't get it out!
that grinder that attached to the counter was used for meat...as in making hamburger - thats what my mom did anyway.....
Keys for cans, pot strainers (I was just sent a brand new one that came with a new set of pots & pans) & hand mixers are still extensively used.
Copper jello or patè molds.
We have the trivet on the first picture with the brooms. Crazy
Pie birds can still be purchased. The internet is full of sellers.
I still have a meat grinder
Me too! Gets a lot of use! Great for making burger!
Pot strainers are being sold today I believe they’re made of silicon
Cast iron trivets are sold on Amazon today. Some are quite pretty.
3:26 Still have one of these ice cube trays in use... was my Mums.
I stiil use the hand egg mixer and the metal trivets. Our old house had a manual meat grinder and a manual coffee grinder as well.
Cake breakers were also great Afro combs.
Thought the same when I saw that!😅