Retro cook's tools...

[RPCookin]

The only things I have of Mom's are an old orange pitcher that was used for water or Kool Aid from my earliest memories around 1950. It looks like this one:

I also have her old meat grinder that she always used when making hash from leftovers, or when making breadcrumbs from the loaf heels that were saved in a bag until there were enough to make a couple of quart jars full crumbs. I still have all of the parts, including the cutters for 3 different size grinds. Much like this one (only not rusty):

 

[CharlieD]

I live way the heck back in the woods... off the grid on 90 acres. I do have solar power so I could use all the modern gadgets and appliances, but I choose not to.

I have all kinds of old (were my grandmother's and great grandmother's) hand beaters, mixers, wooden potato mashers, graters, orange juicer squeezers, flour sifters, egg slicers, mason type jars, wire toasters, very old cutting boards... on and on. I also have some cast iron pans and pots that are more than 100 years old, which I use almost every day.

Anyone else???????????

Oh, you are one lucky dude, I tell you. Jealous big time here.

 

[Rocklobster]

I have a few things. Here are a few. A meat mallet, sharpening stone and butter molds.

 

[GotGarlic]

Good question... I run my business from home, so I MUST have the Google... there is a tower a few miles from my house. I plug this little thing in to my laptop (about the size of a memory stick) and it works well. My phone (flip phone) works well too.

I have a good solar power system, so yes, I have a TV... and the Net Flix!

I'm sorry, my true calling is copy editor The Google and the internet are not synonymous. The former is a search engine the latter is a whole lot more.

 

[Cheryl J]

It's evidently just a play on words. Earlier today when I was browsing through his website from the link Steve posted, I saw this:

".....One of the biggest concerns for people considering living off the grid, concerns the Internet. I call it “the Google.” You can get the Google easily these days, pretty much no matter where you are on the planet. In my case (quite handy) there is a tower about 4 miles away from my house. So, I simply plug this little thing (looks like a memory stick) into my laptop and bingo, I have the Google...."

RD sure seems to know what he's doing, and living quite nicely!

 

[Kayelle]

It's evidently just a play on words. Earlier today when I was browsing through his website from the link Steve posted, I saw this:

".....One of the biggest concerns for people considering living off the grid, concerns the Internet. I call it “the Google.” You can get the Google easily these days, pretty much no matter where you are on the planet. In my case (quite handy) there is a tower about 4 miles away from my house. So, I simply plug this little thing (looks like a memory stick) into my laptop and bingo, I have the Google...."

RD sure seems to know what he's doing, and living quite nicely!

+1 and I for one am very happy he's joined our community. I love your suspenders RD.

 

[The Rugged Dude]

The only things I have of Mom's are an old orange pitcher that was used for water or Kool Aid from my earliest memories around 1950. It looks like this one:

I also have her old meat grinder that she always used when making hash from leftovers, or when making breadcrumbs from the loaf heels that were saved in a bag until there were enough to make a couple of quart jars full crumbs. I still have all of the parts, including the cutters for 3 different size grinds. Much like this one (only not rusty):

Wow, that brings back memories... Kool Aid and... wait for it... FRESHIE! I think that was the rival of Kool Aid. Freshie was always cheaper... about .19 for a box with three packets inside. My mom would buy it at Kresgie's in the west end of Ottawa. Then, I would set up a drink stand at the corner and sell it for 5 cents a glass... These days, you'd need a GD permit to do that!!

I have a grinder like yours too... I make sausages each fall from geese, deer, bear and moose. (Rugged!)

RD

 

[The Rugged Dude]

It's evidently just a play on words. Earlier today when I was browsing through his website from the link Steve posted, I saw this:

".....One of the biggest concerns for people considering living off the grid, concerns the Internet. I call it “the Google.” You can get the Google easily these days, pretty much no matter where you are on the planet. In my case (quite handy) there is a tower about 4 miles away from my house. So, I simply plug this little thing (looks like a memory stick) into my laptop and bingo, I have the Google...."

RD sure seems to know what he's doing, and living quite nicely!

Hmmmmmmmmm, very observant, is that Cheryl J. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to get my take on "the Google." Not long at all, actually.

 

[The Rugged Dude]

I have a few things. Here are a few. A meat mallet, sharpening stone and butter molds.

WOW!!!!!!!! I love this stuff... especially, that old sharpening stone. I have one that was my grandfather's and it works really well. Keeps my knives wicked-sharp. I have an old kitchen mallet, but it's a wooden one.

Yours is more rugged!

RD

 

[The Rugged Dude]

I'm sorry, my true calling is copy editor The Google and the internet are not synonymous. The former is a search engine the latter is a whole lot more.

Nope, you are wrong... Google owns the Internet. I know this because whenever I turn my laptop on, this big page comes up that covers the whole screen... and it says, "Google."

So, that's it... it's the Google. You have to get the Google if you wanna watch the Youtubes or the Net Flix. I know, because I tried otherwise, and it just wouldn't work.

RD

 

[The Rugged Dude]

+1 and I for one am very happy he's joined our community. I love your suspenders RD.

You like the suspenders? You could be a candidate for being a Rugged Dudette one day... we have training programs for that.

 

[Addie]

It's evidently just a play on words. Earlier today when I was browsing through his website from the link Steve posted, I saw this:

".....One of the biggest concerns for people considering living off the grid, concerns the Internet. I call it “the Google.” You can get the Google easily these days, pretty much no matter where you are on the planet. In my case (quite handy) there is a tower about 4 miles away from my house. So, I simply plug this little thing (looks like a memory stick) into my laptop and bingo, I have the Google...."

RD sure seems to know what he's doing, and living quite nicely!

The picture of his stove looks just like the one I learned to cook on with my mother.

 

[GotGarlic]

Nope, you are wrong... Google owns the Internet. I know this because whenever I turn my laptop on, this big page comes up that covers the whole screen... and it says, "Google."

So, that's it... it's the Google. You have to get the Google if you wanna watch the Youtubes or the Net Flix. I know, because I tried otherwise, and it just wouldn't work.

RD

Maybe yours does. Mine doesn't. I'm magic like that

 

[Mad Cook]

I live way the heck back in the woods... off the grid on 90 acres. I do have solar power so I could use all the modern gadgets and appliances, but I choose not to.

I have all kinds of old (were my grandmother's and great grandmother's) hand beaters, mixers, wooden potato mashers, graters, orange juicer squeezers, flour sifters, egg slicers, mason type jars, wire toasters, very old cutting boards... on and on. I also have some cast iron pans and pots that are more than 100 years old, which I use almost every day.

Anyone else???????????

Gosh, I never knew how retro my kitchen is!

My name is Mad Cook and I am a jam-jar-aholic. Can't throw one away! I even have Kilner Jars (like Mason jars) of the 1932-1948 vintage which I rescued from the jaws of the house-clearance man when my Grandmother died in 1983!!! And I use them!

I have a Kenwood stand mixer (similar type of thing as a Kitchen Aid) which is nearly 50 years old (inherited from my Mother but I think it may have had a previous owner!) and a 30 year old Magimix Grand Famille food processor, both of which I use several times per week. I never throw away any hand held kitchen tools if they are serviceable, whatever their age, and I have some of Mother's and my grandmother's essentials and I make a bee-line for old kitchen stuff in charity/thrift shops and antique fairs.

 

[Mad Cook]

+1 and I for one am very happy he's joined our community. I love your suspenders RD.

I'm not sure that respectable elderly spinsters like me should be reading this forum. Where I live "suspenders" are those things which rather fast young women use to hold up their stockings.

 

[Addie]

I'm not sure that respectable elderly spinsters like me should be reading this forum. Where I live "suspenders" are those things which rather fast young women use to hold up their stockings.

Oh my! Well, do not hide your head with shame. Here they mean to hold up a man's pants. Outer wear pants that is. You have not been shamed.

 

[Rocklobster]

WOW!!!!!!!! I love this stuff... especially, that old sharpening stone. I have one that was my grandfather's and it works really well. Keeps my knives wicked-sharp. I have an old kitchen mallet, but it's a wooden one.

Yours is more rugged!

RD

Yeah. That was my mother's. She didn't fool around.

 

[RPCookin]

Oh my! Well, do not hide your head with shame. Here they mean to hold up a man's pants. Outer wear pants that is. You have not been shamed.

For Mad Cook those would be "braces".

 

[Dawgluver]

For Mad Cook those would be "braces".

True. And here, "braces" are something we use to straighten out teeth!

 

[The Rugged Dude]

Gosh, I never knew how retro my kitchen is!

My name is Mad Cook and I am a jam-jar-aholic. Can't throw one away! I even have Kilner Jars (like Mason jars) of the 1932-1948 vintage which I rescued from the jaws of the house-clearance man when my Grandmother died in 1983!!! And I use them!

I have a Kenwood stand mixer (similar type of thing as a Kitchen Aid) which is nearly 50 years old (inherited from my Mother but I think it may have had a previous owner!) and a 30 year old Magimix Grand Famille food processor, both of which I use several times per week. I never throw away any hand held kitchen tools if they are serviceable, whatever their age, and I have some of Mother's and my grandmother's essentials and I make a bee-line for old kitchen stuff in charity/thrift shops and antique fairs.

Sounds like both of grandmothers had good taste!!