For the most part, they don’t really make kitchen tools like they used to, but most importantly, as the following list makes clear, they actually…simply don’t. make Most are no longer there. We combed through the always interesting r/vintagekitchentoys subreddit to find the most amazing kitchen tools from yesteryear. Honestly, I’d do anything to own one of these. The coolest among them are:
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Original cookie gun and pastry decorator. This makes it easy to pipe into shapes for cookies and frosting.
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DrinkMaster, basically just mix drinks.
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This is, believe it or not, a toaster. And I wish they still made it like this.
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When times were simpler, many people really needed an egg sorter that weighed individual eggs in cute little cups and sorted their size appropriately.
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Food processors used to be much cooler.
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Before the electric hand mixer came along, actual As you know, it’s a hand mixer that you have to turn by hand.
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Speaking of the mixer, this mixer has three beaters. I don’t know why, but I’m glad that the power has increased.
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This white-and-blue porcelain thingie adorning the wall is actually a coffee grinder with a metal crank, and I need it ASAP.
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And the perfect place to get your coffee is a vintage Sunbeam coffee maker.
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The can opener is a topic that was once hung on the wall. TBH, Sears really changed the game with this one.
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My little digital kitchen scale will never be able to compete with this giant old manual scale.
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The 1965 Mince-O-Matic, not to be confused with the Dice-O-Matic or Veg-O-Matic, was basically a glorified juicer.
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This exhaustive handwritten metal shopping list is a testament to the fact that times were indeed simpler back in the day.
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Take a look: Nut grinder.
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This is also a nut grinder.
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As you’ve probably noticed, this is yet another nut grinder. People in the 60’s clearly loved nuts.
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Back in the days when ovens had built-in baking cheat sheets with recommended temperature and time information for baking just about anything.
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I tried hard to figure out exactly what this is called, but all I know is that people call it a “fruit masher” and it was usually used to make jam. did not.
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It’s 50% horrifying, 50% iconic, and 100% just a vessel for the once-popular cream pie.
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This 60-year-old egg poacher…
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I know juicers still exist…but they don’t look like this anymore.
twenty two.
These days most kitchens have big stainless steel exhaust hoods, but back in the 50’s they had these.
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The “Foley fork” was actually a fairly common kitchen item at one time. Fun fact: Julia Child loved to make mashed potatoes.
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The Cook ‘N’ Stir blender does just that. Not only does it cook and stir liquid foods (such as soups), it also literally doubles as a blender.
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And last but not least, a microwave oven so old it’s impossible to date.