Completely non gun/hemp related... Ancient Kitchen Gadgets!

[Old Ironsights]

What is your oldest (at least annually) USED BY YOU "Kitchen Gadget". (Note, "gadget" excludes Cast Iron Cookware...)

Here's mine:

Every year around Christmas I am innundated by "in the shell" roasted peanuts. Nd if no one uses thm the are wasted.

So:.. I dug out my great grandmother's "Keen Kutter" (#22-1/2) food mill. ($2.00 MSRP) to make Peanut Butter..


The manual also is Original. There is no date anywhere on any of it. The recipes are... interesting.

It predates Internet Fakes because I remember it being in Mom's "knicknack" armoire since, oh, the early '70s..

It'ts pretty cool... though I need to have a couple of the cutter plates re-machined...

Makes good 100% natural Nut Butter though.

[cshold]

Completely non gun/hemp related...
That's just gotta be illegal

[Tycer]

The coffee grinder I use every day, from 1908.

[Chuck 100 yd]

They are defiantly built to last , unlike most stuff today.

[Old Ironsights]

Completely non gun/hemp related...
That's just gotta be illegal

Gotta get some Hemp Seeds...

D'oh!... (had to go there...)

Oh, wait... roastsed (non-viable) Hemp Seeds are OK...

Honestly, let's leave Hemp out of this and stick to strictly "legal" products... like Peanuts, Soy and Nutmeg...

(Wait, isn't Nutmeg a Hallucinogen?...)

Seriously, though... Pics of regularly (or at least annually) used Real, Old "Kitchen Gadgets" is what this thread is about. We'll leave (non-joking) Libertarian Political Commentary to the Political Section...

Please....

[Old Ironsights]

The coffee grinder I use every day, from 1908.

Pics please.

I'm still trying to date this Food Mill...

(Ebay has it as 1906-1915 or so... and is available for $5 to $40 depending... I like mine and it would most certainly be worth buying anywhere in that price range so long as it has all 4 blades (5 cutting surfaces). I actually could use to regrind/replace at least one of mine...)

[cshold]

[765x53]

I still have Mom's Keen Cutter grinder. Every canning season she used it to make pickle relish, pickle lily and home made ketchup. After every holiday she made ham salad or turkey salad.

[earlmck]

Several candidates in our kitchen, but I think this grater is probably the oldest...

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We have a nest of three, but I left out the lesser two in favor of this greater grater.

[Mescalero]

I have a grinder simular to that, no idea how old it is.
I like hamburger steak, french fries and brown gravy.
Got to get someone to teach how to make good brown gravy.
Thinking of getting a new fancy electric grinder.

[Tycer]

Nice one casastahle! Mine's just an old Universal with no top jar and a short jelly jar. As it turns out the threaded portion of the hopper is just the right size to grind a perfect french press of java.

[Steelbanger]

Mescalero,

I use this stuff and I believe they have 57 varieties of gravy. Try to enjoy the gravy and not think of John Kerry and his bride Ter-ezza.

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[Mescalero]

Thanks steelbanger,
at my consumption level, I doubt I will increase the family fortune too much.
I thought she was deceased.

[Sixgun]

Our Bloomfield Manufacturing Company French fry maker. This sucker weighs 21 pounds and you just pop a potato in there and give the handle a push and out comes perfect potatoes for frying.

When I was about 6-8 years old, (1960 or so) I remember my dad coming home with this telling the family, "look what I got out of Smitty's Tavern". Smitty's tavern burnt down the previous week and was in operation from the turn of the century.

Yea, my dad was a looter, always looking for ways to save money.----6

[Mescalero]

I would like to have one of those for the bar I am on the Board of Directors for.

[92&94]

No pics I'm afraid... I can take some later, like in a couple days, but my stuff isn't really as interesting as some (can't even hold a candle to sixgun's fry cutter )

I have my favorite butcher's knife, carbon steel, gets as sharp as can be. Mark is still visible but no readable something like XXaco Forge. Keep it in the kitchen at work along with a smaller and newer Ontario carbon steel butchers knife.

Also have a coffee grinder from the 1930's or so. Sees almost daily use when I'm home, though it's not so good for oily beans, grounds seem to get full of static and stick to everything. Smells great while grinding though.

Both the grinder and knife came from the summer camp my grandfather built in Maine. House is gone now but I still have some of the stuff I remember being there when I was a kid.

[Meeteetse]

What is your oldest (at least annually) USED BY YOU "Kitchen Gadget". (Note, "gadget" excludes Cast Iron Cookware...)

Here's mine:

Every year around Christmas I am innundated by "in the shell" roasted peanuts. Nd if no one uses thm the are wasted.

So:.. I dug out my great grandmother's "Keen Kutter" (#22-1/2) food mill. ($2.00 MSRP) to make Peanut Butter..


The manual also is Original. There is no date anywhere on any of it. The recipes are... interesting.

It predates Internet Fakes because I remember it being in Mom's "knicknack" armoire since, oh, the early '70s..

It'ts pretty cool... though I need to have a couple of the cutter plates re-machined...

Makes good 100% natural Nut Butter though.

Got one just like it that came down through the family. Have no idea how old it is but my great grandmother used it and she died in 1963 and was 92. I know it is atleast from the 1920's. I also have a porcelain/metal camp cook and dinner set that is pre WWI. All in great shape. I have nothing built in the last 20 years that will last as long.