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The Breakfaster

Monday, 22 June 2015, 17:00 Cardigan Uncategorized 38

I love vintage stuff.
Has anyone spotted one of these in a relative’s home?

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Retroplanet:

Vintage Finds: The Multi-Purpose 1930s Breakfaster

With the introduction of electricity into most homes by the early twentieth century, manufacturers of small appliances endeavored to produce attractive functional gadgets that every homeowner would want for their own kitchens.

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Designs of small kitchen apparatus were intended to be both beautiful as well as clever space-savers. They needed to be beautiful so they could be left on countertops, rather than being tucked way in cupboards. And they needed to be space-savers since these appliances were marketed primarily to apartment dwellers.

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38 Comments on The Breakfaster

  2. If it’s stuff that is in really good condition, I’m into the old appliances. However most of the time I find it all farmed out, so it hits the scrap pile because it was usually acquired with a load of other stuff.

  5. I love vintage stuff too, especially tools. My favorite in my collection is a powder actuated tool that fires a threaded stud pre-mounted to .44 caliber powder load, capable of fastening into 3/4″ of steel. The powder actuated .22 revolver is pretty neat too. They don’t make them like they use too.

  6. Breakfaster, eh? I’d like one that would serve me a breakfast of buckwheat cakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns, and a side of buttermilk biscuits with sausage gravy.

    I’d pay good money for one of those!

  8. We’re still using a Crock Pot that Mrs Mxyzptlk and I got for a wedding present. It’s the round, removable crock type that has veges pictured on the side. And tomorrow we will have been married 42 years. I might have to make something in the crock pot!
    And it was made in the USA!

  9. i have a triangle shaped toaster that was my grandma’s. the sides flip out.

    i had to change the cord, and one side is burnt out, but it’s just me… so one piece of toast at a time is okay.

    it’s got to be 80 yrs old

  10. Happy Anniversary Mr. Mxyzptlk !

    Heck I’m vintage.
    Vintage scarves, scarf clips and rings are one of my favorite collectibles. Volunteers of America has yielded up some wonderful ’40’s and ’50’s vintage designer scarves in great condition.
    As for kitchen stuff’ used my parents 1949 percolator for many years until the mid-1980’s.
    Also have gandma’s biscuit cutter and cookie cutters. Not high tech but still usable.

  11. @Mr. Mxyzptlk I’m still using Mr.Illustr8r’s art school 1980’s era Crock Pot. The removable crock is mauve with a blue and mauve dot border decorating the outer shell…all it needs are shoulder pads. 😉 I use it every week.

  12. I have my Grandmothers toaster from the 20’s, 30’s….maybe even the teens?….it’s MINT!…but it looks like it’d rather kill ya then make toast….when I get settled, I’ll send a picture to Cardigan…

  14. It sounds like my Grandma’s….what would ya pay me to have two slices of toast…LOL….see my post below….don’t get near it with a knife to help the bread out….LOL…

  15. I call your hip and shoulder and I RAISE you two knees and a wrist….and a biceps tendon…..6th vertebra in me neck…..and this ash tray…..and this lamp…..LOL….you crack me UP!…lol…

  21. I cook on the stovetop with only Griswold and Wagner cast iron. Non stick like teflon, but it will last you 3 life times, after the previous 2 owners and food cooks evenly.

  24. Yeah, I paid good money for one of those once, and when it decided it
    no longer wanted to make breakfast for me, I still kept paying for it.

    And paid… and paid. ..and paid…

    ; }

  25. My Nana was a real gadget person. One year she got a glass bottle cutter and yup, everyone got a set of glasses for Xmas. Of course drinking out of them was another story because she never quite got the hang of sanding down the edges…. 🙁

  27. Yeah, I paid good money for one of those once, and when it decided it no longer wanted to make breakfast for me, would you believe I still kept paying for it?

    And paid… and paid …and paid…

    😉

  29. LOl! I have a piece of my hip bone in my neck in place of a disc, and the left shoulder has been rebuilt. The list is a lot longer. I dropped an impact driver on my foot last week when I was replacing the bathroom faucet; and now I have a tattoo on my left foot in the shape of the pointed tip of an antique Phillips screwdriver bit. That rust is hard to clean out of a wound. People are going to be asking me why I tattooed an “X” on my foot. 🙂

  30. The things that were made in America prior to WWII were built with true craftsmanship.
    After the war we started seeing cheap Japanese crap dilute the quality of products. Now, it’s the cheap shit from China.

    I always wanted an old cast Iron wood cooking stove for the kitchen. The ones I have found are either too expensive or too far gone to restore.

    http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-903930/antique-karr-range-company-wood-burning-stove-original-blue-enamel-number-420.html

  35. Thanks, Eugenia & Claudia. You might have noticed that I mentioned that “I” might be using the crock pot tomorrow.
    True story: During the first year of our marriage, Mrs Mxyzptlk made a dish called Tuna Foo Yung. It was absolutely the worst tasting food I ever tasted. I’ve been doing the cooking ever since.
    Mrs M says she’ll sell you the recipe for 100 bucks.

  36. I love retro stuff, especially from the Art Deco and Arts and Crafts periods.
    I’ve decorated my house with some great pieces I’ve picked up at auctions or online for cheap.
    @Ted, that glass iron is beautiful.
    (Strictly as an objet d’art, not something that involves work. LOL!)

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