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Poor Emmy! We all have days like that, you displayed so much grace and patience throughout it all though and I know we can’t all say that about ourselves! You are so completely lovely, inside and out! ❤ Thank you for being you… and for sharing yourself with the world!
You can clean new/new to you peppermills by grinding some rice, doesn't take a lot. also you should be able to adjust the grind by how tight you screw the top nut
I am 76 and still sometimes use the butter mold that belonged to my grandmother. I will soften a bit of Kerry Gold butter and pack it into the mold. When i push it out, i have a block with a beautiful design.
Hi Emmy, My dad was a milkman when I was a kid. This brought back those memories. Our milk was left in our milk box outside. If it was in the winter, many times the cream would freeze up and push out the paper cap that contained the milk to the bottle. Oh but it tasted so good. Hugs and blessings
What a day!😅 I love old kitchen gadgets. I have several that I have had since they were new. Now they are close to being antique. But, then again, so am I.😂
They are called salt cellars. We used them in our home because the salt shaker was constantly being passed to opposite ends of the table between my son and his dad. They were handy dandy little things!
@@sugarplum5824 Salt cellars are normally deep and had a little bitty spoon. My grandma had flattish ones like these, along with small deep ones with a cover and spoon. Cut crystal, with a silver cover and spoon. I think the shallow ones were for butter but they were small, square, and silver with a floral pattern on them. Cleaning silver, what a pain. I think they had servants though. Her adoptive family was well to do, so they had fancy place settings.
Salt cellars are tiny bowls that have a tiny spoon to serve the salt with; I used to work in a Victorian house museum that had them in the dining room. The tiny plates are called "butter pats" and they were used to serve each person and individual pat of butter (about few teaspoons' worth) so they didn't have to take it from a communal butter dish. We had those at the museum, too!
I'm envious of the butter mold. Yes, the way the spatula is made is called a full tang. The blade is made of spring steel, that's why it's so flexible. The reason the pepper mill doesn't go more coarse is because, in those days, if you want very coarse, or "cracked" pepper, you just used a mortar and pestle. The beater is definitely for looser liquids. More for cream, eggs, and such. It works better if you hold it so that it rests on the bottom of the bowl. Yes, I'm old. And, yes, I have all those tools. I've even churned multiple pounds of butter at once. Sitting at the churn was the only time my grandpa would let me sit still to read a book for entertainment.😂
I am so sorry you are having a rough day. I guess we all have those every now and then. My daughter just started high school today she is a freshman. I can't believe how fast kids grow up. She will be 16 the end of January. Emmy I hope you have a better day.❤🙏
As a teacher I have so many days I feel like this. My little family and I love your videos! Thank you for teaching us many good things and we hope you continue Emmy.
I love butter molds and stamps! It isn't really needed but it is fun and my boys love love them! I have ones for all Hollidays and for all the seasons! ......... yes, we have a lot, lols 😅
I got some of those egg beaters recently at a thrift store. I, too, was extremely excited to try them out. I tried making a small amount of whipped cream (about 1/2 cup) using them and found that they need to be for a MUCH bigger amount than I was using them 😅. Come the fall/winter, I'm going to make a large amount of eggnog with them. Also, ages ago I learned that to unhomogenize whole milk, you just freeze it. It doesn't damage the milk or anything, but it does leave you with unhomogenized milk. (For those of you wondering, I can buy 2L of milk for like $5 or 4L for $6. Freezing it makes my budget stretch much farther). (Yay capitalism /s)
I have the very same OXO pepper mill, it's ok, but if I'm using a lot of pepper, I have to reverse the direction of the grind a few times to get a decent result. But at least it is a decent result! A few years ago, my husband got into wood-turning on a lathe. Made me a lovely pepper grinder from exotic wood and new metal inserts! Unfortunately, the exotic wood couldn't withstand the pressure of holding the grind, split, and ended up being a lovely knic-knac for a few years, until it got tossed! I'm in my 60's and, until recently, when I inherited my mother's KitchenAid stand mixer, the only mixer/beater I owned was a hand crank, manual mixer. I bought it for a couple dollars at a second hand shop, and it served me well for a couple dozen years. Still have it, just in case, because I live out in the woods, and the electric mixer could fail, or the electricity itself might fail. I like having options! Sometimes the old stuff is nice to have, because it has withstood the test of time, and doesn't require anything but elbow grease to work!
Watching this video sitting next to my husband...and I gasped out loud when the cream toppled over. Kind of startled him! I felt so bad for you, but you rallied!! Thanks for all you do, Emmie❤
I have a whisk with a very similar design to yours in my kitchen that I bought at a vintage mall and it has a patent date stamp of 1921. It is by far the smoothest hand whisk I have ever had the pleasure of using, and it puts the standard modern one my mother uses to shame. It NEVER jams, unless you accidentally smack it against the side of the bowl, and whisks things up so quickly.
I love my modern kitchen gadgets such as my KitchenAid stand mixer, microwave, toaster oven and other things my grandmothers didn't have but there is much to be said for the old timey kitchen doo dads. Until a year ago, I was using my husband's grandmother's Depression era citrus juicer. There was nary a drop of juice left inside the fruit when I used it. Unfortunately, my husband broke it 😭 and I'm left with a much less effective plastic juicer. My grandmother used those old beaters for cakes and whipped cream and, yes, they're not very steady. I also use an old aluminum colander with little feet that's been in my family since as long as I can remember. It's much sturdier that the plastic ones.
OMG I love old things! My grandmother used to take us to garage sales on the weekends. Me & my sister would look through all the stuff and find little treasures. I've always had a powerful imagination, so things like that felt like an adventure to me. I'd always make up stories in my head about the people and objects we encountered. Whats the best thing I ever found? Probably these antique handmade slippers with embroidered flowers.
Your butter mold works better if you fill w soft butter, put on a plate, then chill in fridge. I used to help mom fill her butter mold for company. And often got the jo of making butter. We used a regular jar w a screw lid, and shake shake shake. Dad finally bought her a butter churn, gallon or 1/2 jar to make butter with.
The rotary beater works better with more liquid mixtures. You can make it more stable by pressing the bottom on the bottom of the bowl while turning the crank.
Hopefully the audio is back to normal soon! Emmy, you are my ASMR! Your voice/videos put me to sleep every night! Anybody else listen to her vids when going to sleep? Cannot be just me!?!❤
Hey Emmy! If you have an Albertsons grocery or similar (pkind of medium-fancy grocery store) near you or a local market you can usually get non-homogenized milk in glass bottles (there's still a bottle deposit). In Ohio there was a creamery called Hartzler's, I live in Washington where our glass bottle creamery is Twin Brook, highly recommend finding one if you can! Though I do also appreciate homogenization and high temperature pasteurization, slow pasteurized unhomogenized milk goes bad in days.
I was thinking that since that juicer was made in Japan, maybe it was used to extract yuzu juice also. It's smaller than a lemon. And my mom had wooden salt and pepper shaker/grinder just like that wooden one you found but the wood was darker. I wish I still had them. I'm a sucker for old kitchen gadgets. I'm so jealous of your finds today. 😊
My mom had one of those beaters when I was growing up. It hung by the handle on a hook on the inside of a cabinet door. We always specifically called it an egg beater. We never used it for anything thicker than an egg. (I don’t think my parents ever bought cream, so it never occurred to me to use it for whipped cream, but it would probably work.)
Yes, one of the things we had to learn as little kids was how to use an "egg" beater and not decorate the kitchen and ourselves. It was especially nice for mixing instant pudding and for mixing made-from-scratch hot cocoa. I've found that using a bowl or container with straight sides works well. I have my mother's EKCO Best beater. It's a slightly newer and heavier design, works great.
Talk about memories! The juice squeezer was what my parents had for their bar. My parents entertained when my dad was in the Liquor Control Board of our state. I remember a couple coming into my room to 💋! Lol! That was in the early 60’s. I miss them soooo much. Not the couple, my parents. 😂 P.S. ~ My mom had the beater and I loved to use it. So, those 2 are my favorite! 💜
My best find would be a vintage steel garlic press, like my Mom & Dad's. The little steel cup, where the garlic clove sits, is removable for cleaning. The lemon/lime juicer may have been used when making drinks, possibly at bar or at home. I don't remember lemons being as large as we find today. If you needed more juice you would use a vintage citrus juicer. I have my Grandparents vintage electric stand mixer from the 1920s or earlier. It is green and made of steel. It still has the original glass mixing bowl. When I lived in my first apartment the first thing I used it to make was a lemon meringue pie. I also have their hand mixer, similar to the one you found. It's adorable the things children believe they invented. The beginnings of an inventer. I think it's sweet.
Suggestion: Using the beater for the cornbread ... mix everything but the corn using the beater. Fold in the corn after all the other ingredients were mixed. I think the corn got caught in the beater blades making it harder to turn the handle. Glad you added whole corn to the cornbread, makes it so much more interesting taste and texture wise. Love your review of antique kitchen tools. Also, separating milk from cream: I believe milk from that time had a higher butter fat content. When it floats to the top, put the bottle in the fridge so that the cream part will solidify and can be scooped out.
Hi Emmy! I remember when I was little, in the late 1970s, my grandma had a beater like that. I only saw her use it for things like scrambled eggs, egg whites for meringue, or whipped cream. It's not a good tool for thick batters. I used to love watching her use it and I would get in trouble for playing with it. 😄
That lime squeezer you had is actually for making bar drinks. My father had one in his home bar. It's for getting "a dash of lime" into certain drinks.
I have that exact mixer and I have several butter pat molds and presses that belong to my grandmother. That mixer is best used, I have found for me. For egg whites. For pies . Yum..
Oh my goodness. I remember using my mom's egg beater when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it. It went about like you. lol Thank you for another great video.
The hand mixer makes the best eggs ever. I have tryi3d many new ones and my grandma's old one was the best ever. Wish i still had that. Thanks for the memory amd hope to find one as you did.
I have used an egg beater like that. It works great for making meringue. It needs to be lower so you can get better leverage. Try putting the bowl in the sink. I have my grandmother’s full-size butter mold. I have churned butter, too. We used to have cows and the cream would rise to the top.
I love fresh ground pepper. Especially on my eggs. My husband is not a fan of pepper at all. I’ll have to check out local thrift stores for a nice pepper mill though. That’s a good idea
I use a badger called “my hands” for lemon and lime juice. After squeezing I squish the pulp together to release all that juice. I get it all out and then eat the leftover pulp ❤
When using a hand beater if you don't have someone to hold the bowl wrap a towel around the bowl or make a foil ring around the bowl, it keeps it from moving, though and extra set of hands is always useful. Lol.
OMG, I've had the same lime squeezer (but made in the USA) for at least 25 years (received from a friend of my mother's) and I didn't know what it was for! Thank you Emmy!!
I grew up with all of these tools…. Except that butter press or the milk jug…. But we did get non-homogenized milk delivered by the milk man in glass bottles…. We would usually shake the cream back in, unless someone snuck the cream off the top first. We never made our own butter…. But I have as an adult just for fun.
For the juicer, cut off the ends of lemons or limes and then cut them into quartered wedges (cut in half lengthwise and then cut those in half lengthwise). They fit perfectly and if you don't flip it your seeds stay in it 😁. I use mine everyday to flavor my water naturally. Your videos are always super fun, thank you!!!
Emmy, now you've gone and done it! 😂 I have almost every gadget you are showing. The one exception wss the lime squeezer/juicer. And.....no I'm not near a 100 quite yet. 😅
This video looks like my kitchen drawers. I thought this was all just old crap that I got when my grandma died. My parents already had it from when my other grandma died, so they gave it to me. I thought everyone had all of this stuff. I now have a new appreciation for it. My dad has that pepper grinder. We have given him new ones over the years and he still prefers and uses that one daily. He does get it to grind very coarse though. 😊
The term for the mixer back in the day was 'egg beater' so yeah, Jiffy mix w/ whole kernel corn is maybe a bit thick. And I'm not sure about the juicer, it just doesn't strike me as a thing for citrus but I can't think of anything.
I’m 47 & my G’ma had that same hand mixer. She’d let my sister & I mix flour, eggs & water & pretend to cook. We always made a huge mess with it but it was some of our best memories ❤
I have that lemon squeezer!! Lemons were definitely much smaller. Your lemon has a hugely thick rind, you could probably remove a fair amount of that rind and still squeeze it. We had those beaters too, Made many a cake with them...
I still have my mom's egg beater. We used it a lot, but my favorite was for pancake batter (made with Bisquick, of course). The citrus squeezer was a standard bar tool up through the 70s. Mostly for limes, maybe forvodka giblets or whatever. Not really used ar the table for fish.
1960s seems right on for the citrus squeezer. That's the one we had when I was growing up. I have never wished for one like it since I grew up and experienced much better options. :D
05:45 IMO that's professional grade equipment. The full tang and through rivets are miles beyond home-cook (I'm looking at YOU, Ekco) utensils of the period. 09:05 The Nevco juicer is indeed a lime juicer, meant for bar use. In the kitchen, it's just not what you want and there are many newer and better designs (will plug my fave kitchen hardware maker--not spon--Oxo). 17:50 Absolutely yes! Many years ago, while cleaning out my grandmother's farmhouse, I found a larger size of stamp which my grandfather had intended to carve--he was a woodworker--but was killed before he could do so. Yours would have been meant to form dinner-table pats to be served next the bread plates. 11:30 You'd get anything from two to five cents for empties depending on size, but often the dairy would demand that you put out your empties in the carrier for collection by the milkman, or they'd tag a charge on your monthly bill. 15:16 Ekco (Edward Katzinger Co.) has been making kitchenware since 1888. That piece could be anything from 1945 (the year they started selling to the public) to 1970, though my own belief is it's in the early part of that period. They're still around and still selling kitchenware. Despite owning a stand mixer, multiple whisks, and a Blendor _(sic)_ , I still sometimes pull out my crank beater to whip together some eggs or a crepe batter. (The cornbread's a REEEEEEEEALLY thick batter to try to drive yer beater thru. A KitchenAid works much better for that application.)
Emmy, my parents had this exact same style of pepper grinder when I was growing up! I wish I had inherited it, but I don't know what happened to it. But it was great. Watching this brings back memories❤️ Thank you for sharing.
I always use my hand funnel when I am filling up salt an pepper shakers with the little mouths on them, my mom has a similar hand crank beater she picked up with some old rolling pins years ago, I've used it to whip up stuff before.
I know your intent was not to sell Oxo peppermills but I am obsessed with the one you demonstrated! I went straight to Amazon and purchased one for $17.95. 😂
I use the hand held beater all the time still - whipped cream, pancake batter, merengue. Pretty much, if it would call for a whisk, I prefer the hand held beater.
In the UK back in the 1950s we had milk bottles and milk of the type that cream floated to the top. The bottles were left on the step early morning, by the milkman, for us to take in when we got up. The cream was there only if the birds hadn't pecked through the foil top of the recyclable glass bottle - and nicked the cream!!
Emmy, I do think it’s sweet that you found using a hand funnel on your own but I am pretty sure most of us do this already but it was very sweet watching you so proud of it.
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I got Le Creuset Dutch oven at a yard sale for $3.00
I love finding a nice porcelain or bone china cup and saucer set😊
A gold metal tissue box cover with a rose on it. My grandmother had one exactly like it in her bathroom. It reminds me of her daily.
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Poor Emmy! We all have days like that, you displayed so much grace and patience throughout it all though and I know we can’t all say that about ourselves! You are so completely lovely, inside and out! ❤ Thank you for being you… and for sharing yourself with the world!
I believe your juicer is actually a garlic press.?
@@johngion2 I thought it was a juicer
You can clean new/new to you peppermills by grinding some rice, doesn't take a lot. also you should be able to adjust the grind by how tight you screw the top nut
I am 76 and still sometimes use the butter mold that belonged to my grandmother. I will soften a bit of Kerry Gold butter and pack it into the mold. When i push it out, i have a block with a beautiful design.
Hi Emmy, My dad was a milkman when I was a kid. This brought back those memories. Our milk was left in our milk box outside. If it was in the winter, many times the cream would freeze up and push out the paper cap that contained the milk to the bottle. Oh but it tasted so good. Hugs and blessings
What a day!😅 I love old kitchen gadgets. I have several that I have had since they were new. Now they are close to being antique. But, then again, so am I.😂
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The little plate you used for butter it was actually originally for salt. Everybody got their own little salt at each place setting
They are called salt cellars. We used them in our home because the salt shaker was constantly being passed to opposite ends of the table between my son and his dad. They were handy dandy little things!
@@sugarplum5824 Salt cellars are normally deep and had a little bitty spoon. My grandma had flattish ones like these, along with small deep ones with a cover and spoon. Cut crystal, with a silver cover and spoon. I think the shallow ones were for butter but they were small, square, and silver with a floral pattern on them. Cleaning silver, what a pain. I think they had servants though. Her adoptive family was well to do, so they had fancy place settings.
Salt cellars are tiny bowls that have a tiny spoon to serve the salt with; I used to work in a Victorian house museum that had them in the dining room. The tiny plates are called "butter pats" and they were used to serve each person and individual pat of butter (about few teaspoons' worth) so they didn't have to take it from a communal butter dish. We had those at the museum, too!
@thecupthatcheers9763 You are 100% correct about the butter pats!
I'm envious of the butter mold.
Yes, the way the spatula is made is called a full tang. The blade is made of spring steel, that's why it's so flexible.
The reason the pepper mill doesn't go more coarse is because, in those days, if you want very coarse, or "cracked" pepper, you just used a mortar and pestle.
The beater is definitely for looser liquids. More for cream, eggs, and such. It works better if you hold it so that it rests on the bottom of the bowl.
Yes, I'm old. And, yes, I have all those tools. I've even churned multiple pounds of butter at once. Sitting at the churn was the only time my grandpa would let me sit still to read a book for entertainment.😂
I had a rotary beater like the one you demonstrated. It was great for beating egg whites.
Used mine for cake mixes.
I am so sorry you are having a rough day. I guess we all have those every now and then. My daughter just started high school today she is a freshman. I can't believe how fast kids grow up. She will be 16 the end of January. Emmy I hope you have a better day.❤🙏
As a teacher I have so many days I feel like this. My little family and I love your videos! Thank you for teaching us many good things and we hope you continue Emmy.
I'm glad you left the spills and messes in. It's just real life
The hand beater was for things like eggs (egg whites), whipped cream, or managing hot liquids that needed beating while hot.
My granny also used to put the bowl in the sink when using that beater. Easier to use when it is lower down and bowl doesn't fly around.
Yes, when Emmy added the corn, I thought, "Oh dear, that's a fair test."
I still have my mom’s old hand beater, and it’s great I use it for whipping cream and egg whites, and for making mayonnaise. No corn!😀
i didn’t wake up today thinking i’d need a butter stamp, but now i do! 😂
Same!
It's very fancy!
I love butter molds and stamps! It isn't really needed but it is fun and my boys love love them! I have ones for all Hollidays and for all the seasons! ......... yes, we have a lot, lols 😅
I got some of those egg beaters recently at a thrift store. I, too, was extremely excited to try them out. I tried making a small amount of whipped cream (about 1/2 cup) using them and found that they need to be for a MUCH bigger amount than I was using them 😅. Come the fall/winter, I'm going to make a large amount of eggnog with them.
Also, ages ago I learned that to unhomogenize whole milk, you just freeze it. It doesn't damage the milk or anything, but it does leave you with unhomogenized milk. (For those of you wondering, I can buy 2L of milk for like $5 or 4L for $6. Freezing it makes my budget stretch much farther). (Yay capitalism /s)
Indeed, capitalism has lifted countless millions out of poverty.
These are some of my most favorite Emmy videos!!!❤❤❤
Me too! I love having a reason to collect fun stuff.
@@emmymade same!!
I do the hand funnel trick too. LOL
We call that last tool an egg beater. We use it for making scrsmbled eggs
And whipped cream.
I have the very same OXO pepper mill, it's ok, but if I'm using a lot of pepper, I have to reverse the direction of the grind a few times to get a decent result. But at least it is a decent result!
A few years ago, my husband got into wood-turning on a lathe. Made me a lovely pepper grinder from exotic wood and new metal inserts! Unfortunately, the exotic wood couldn't withstand the pressure of holding the grind, split, and ended up being a lovely knic-knac for a few years, until it got tossed!
I'm in my 60's and, until recently, when I inherited my mother's KitchenAid stand mixer, the only mixer/beater I owned was a hand crank, manual mixer. I bought it for a couple dollars at a second hand shop, and it served me well for a couple dozen years. Still have it, just in case, because I live out in the woods, and the electric mixer could fail, or the electricity itself might fail. I like having options!
Sometimes the old stuff is nice to have, because it has withstood the test of time, and doesn't require anything but elbow grease to work!
I think it's made of plastic and you will get micro plastics on your food. The vintage one is metal.
Oh I’m going to be looking for one of those butter molds. I love that! My granddaughter and love making butter
Isn't it cute? Apparently, they come a range of different sizes. 🧈
I love old kitchenware. I have some from my mom, grandmother, and my Aunt.😊
I invested in a peugeot pepper mill. they are the best, really a buy it for life kind of thing!
The spills and thrills of the average kitchen ❤
I think the whisker along with a support should work spectacularly.
Watching this video sitting next to my husband...and I gasped out loud when the cream toppled over. Kind of startled him! I felt so bad for you, but you rallied!! Thanks for all you do, Emmie❤
Omg yes!!! I first found your channel with you testing antique kitchen gadgets years ago!!
Me, too!
I have a whisk with a very similar design to yours in my kitchen that I bought at a vintage mall and it has a patent date stamp of 1921. It is by far the smoothest hand whisk I have ever had the pleasure of using, and it puts the standard modern one my mother uses to shame. It NEVER jams, unless you accidentally smack it against the side of the bowl, and whisks things up so quickly.
I love my modern kitchen gadgets such as my KitchenAid stand mixer, microwave, toaster oven and other things my grandmothers didn't have but there is much to be said for the old timey kitchen doo dads. Until a year ago, I was using my husband's grandmother's Depression era citrus juicer. There was nary a drop of juice left inside the fruit when I used it. Unfortunately, my husband broke it 😭 and I'm left with a much less effective plastic juicer. My grandmother used those old beaters for cakes and whipped cream and, yes, they're not very steady. I also use an old aluminum colander with little feet that's been in my family since as long as I can remember. It's much sturdier that the plastic ones.
OMG I love old things! My grandmother used to take us to garage sales on the weekends. Me & my sister would look through all the stuff and find little treasures. I've always had a powerful imagination, so things like that felt like an adventure to me. I'd always make up stories in my head about the people and objects we encountered.
Whats the best thing I ever found? Probably these antique handmade slippers with embroidered flowers.
My dtr did that with her kids in Kindergarten many yrs ago!! It was Delicious!!
And so easy!
Hi!!! Love your channel!, btw your hair looks so adorable ☺️
Your butter mold works better if you fill w soft butter, put on a plate, then chill in fridge. I used to help mom fill her butter mold for company. And often got the jo of making butter. We used a regular jar w a screw lid, and shake shake shake. Dad finally bought her a butter churn, gallon or 1/2 jar to make butter with.
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The rotary beater works better with more liquid mixtures. You can make it more stable by pressing the bottom on the bottom of the bowl while turning the crank.
We all have days like this! 😮
You are awesome Emmy!
Hopefully the audio is back to normal soon! Emmy, you are my ASMR! Your voice/videos put me to sleep every night! Anybody else listen to her vids when going to sleep? Cannot be just me!?!❤
Hey Emmy! If you have an Albertsons grocery or similar (pkind of medium-fancy grocery store) near you or a local market you can usually get non-homogenized milk in glass bottles (there's still a bottle deposit). In Ohio there was a creamery called Hartzler's, I live in Washington where our glass bottle creamery is Twin Brook, highly recommend finding one if you can! Though I do also appreciate homogenization and high temperature pasteurization, slow pasteurized unhomogenized milk goes bad in days.
In the 60s we used egg beaters for cake, pancake & waffle batters. The bowls were heavy ceramics that were deeper and stayed put during mixing.
I was thinking that since that juicer was made in Japan, maybe it was used to extract yuzu juice also. It's smaller than a lemon.
And my mom had wooden salt and pepper shaker/grinder just like that wooden one you found but the wood was darker. I wish I still had them.
I'm a sucker for old kitchen gadgets. I'm so jealous of your finds today. 😊
I also use the hand-funnel method!
YAY!👏🏼
Love the kitchen gadget videos. Thank you for keeping me entertained at 4am lol
My pleasure!
My mom had one of those beaters when I was growing up. It hung by the handle on a hook on the inside of a cabinet door. We always specifically called it an egg beater. We never used it for anything thicker than an egg. (I don’t think my parents ever bought cream, so it never occurred to me to use it for whipped cream, but it would probably work.)
These vintage gadgets are so neat. It’s cool to visualize the technology of today and how some of these have evolved into what we see now.
Yes, one of the things we had to learn as little kids was how to use an "egg" beater and not decorate the kitchen and ourselves. It was especially nice for mixing instant pudding and for mixing made-from-scratch hot cocoa. I've found that using a bowl or container with straight sides works well. I have my mother's EKCO Best beater. It's a slightly newer and heavier design, works great.
Talk about memories! The juice squeezer was what my parents had for their bar. My parents entertained when my dad was in the Liquor Control Board of our state. I remember a couple coming into my room to 💋! Lol! That was in the early 60’s. I miss them soooo much. Not the couple, my parents. 😂
P.S. ~ My mom had the beater and I loved to use it. So, those 2 are my favorite! 💜
My best find would be a vintage steel garlic press, like my Mom & Dad's. The little steel cup, where the garlic clove sits, is removable for cleaning.
The lemon/lime juicer may have been used when making drinks, possibly at bar or at home.
I don't remember lemons being as large as we find today.
If you needed more juice you would use a vintage citrus juicer.
I have my Grandparents vintage electric stand mixer from the 1920s or earlier. It is green and made of steel. It still has the original glass mixing bowl. When I lived in my first apartment the first thing I used it to make was a lemon meringue pie. I also have their hand mixer, similar to the one you found.
It's adorable the things children believe they invented. The beginnings of an inventer. I think it's sweet.
Suggestion: Using the beater for the cornbread ... mix everything but the corn using the beater. Fold in the corn after all the other ingredients were mixed. I think the corn got caught in the beater blades making it harder to turn the handle. Glad you added whole corn to the cornbread, makes it so much more interesting taste and texture wise. Love your review of antique kitchen tools.
Also, separating milk from cream: I believe milk from that time had a higher butter fat content. When it floats to the top, put the bottle in the fridge so that the cream part will solidify and can be scooped out.
Hi Emmy! I remember when I was little, in the late 1970s, my grandma had a beater like that. I only saw her use it for things like scrambled eggs, egg whites for meringue, or whipped cream. It's not a good tool for thick batters. I used to love watching her use it and I would get in trouble for playing with it. 😄
I have 5 different beaters. They are all different. Earliest is 1908. They were made different ways handle in different positions. 😊
I have that same pepper grinder with a matching , I inherited them from my Grandmother. Love them.
On the beater there should be a kind of wire brace on the end you rest in the bottom of the bowl to hold it stable.
Yea! Gadget videos! My favorite!
...couldn't stop giggling through your mishaps...adorable video!
Relatable- we all have days like that in the kitchen! 😊
That lime squeezer you had is actually for making bar drinks. My father had one in his home bar. It's for getting "a dash of lime" into certain drinks.
I have that exact mixer and I have several butter pat molds and presses that belong to my grandmother. That mixer is best used, I have found for me. For egg whites. For pies . Yum..
Love your gadget videos!
You adjust the grind of the pepper on the bottom of the pepper mill, from a light crack to course mill .
Hang in there Emmy! We all have those days, you are great ❤
We had the hand mixer growing up. You can't push down on it. You have to hold it slightly above the dish while turning. Takes some coordination! 😂
Yes, the beater was used for eggs. At least that’s all my grandma used it for. I also did the “cupping “ of my hands to fill a pepper grinder
Oh my goodness. I remember using my mom's egg beater when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it. It went about like you. lol Thank you for another great video.
The hand mixer makes the best eggs ever. I have tryi3d many new ones and my grandma's old one was the best ever. Wish i still had that. Thanks for the memory amd hope to find one as you did.
If i remember right that was for lemon wedges to squeeze them. My grandmother had one and we used it with wedges
I use the handfall thing too! Never a funnel around when you need one!
I have used an egg beater like that. It works great for making meringue. It needs to be lower so you can get better leverage. Try putting the bowl in the sink.
I have my grandmother’s full-size butter mold. I have churned butter, too. We used to have cows and the cream would rise to the top.
I love fresh ground pepper. Especially on my eggs. My husband is not a fan of pepper at all. I’ll have to check out local thrift stores for a nice pepper mill though. That’s a good idea
I use a badger called “my hands” for lemon and lime juice. After squeezing I squish the pulp together to release all that juice. I get it all out and then eat the leftover pulp ❤
When using a hand beater if you don't have someone to hold the bowl wrap a towel around the bowl or make a foil ring around the bowl, it keeps it from moving, though and extra set of hands is always useful. Lol.
OMG, I've had the same lime squeezer (but made in the USA) for at least 25 years (received from a friend of my mother's) and I didn't know what it was for! Thank you Emmy!!
I remember making butter in school when I was in 3rd grade, we put 3 clean popsicle sticks in the jar, and it really sped up the process
I grew up with all of these tools…. Except that butter press or the milk jug…. But we did get non-homogenized milk delivered by the milk man in glass bottles…. We would usually shake the cream back in, unless someone snuck the cream off the top first. We never made our own butter…. But I have as an adult just for fun.
Lol 😂 awesome video, Emmy! you had so many mishaps there. The gadgets were interesting 😊
That's me everyday in the kitchen! My husband laughs & shakes his head (on his way out). 😁 My best flea market find was an old juicer from the 60's.
I used to have one of those hand whisks - put a damp rag under the bowl to help keep it from moving around.
For the juicer, cut off the ends of lemons or limes and then cut them into quartered wedges (cut in half lengthwise and then cut those in half lengthwise). They fit perfectly and if you don't flip it your seeds stay in it 😁. I use mine everyday to flavor my water naturally. Your videos are always super fun, thank you!!!
Emmy, now you've gone and done it! 😂 I have almost every gadget you are showing. The one exception wss the lime squeezer/juicer. And.....no I'm not near a 100 quite yet. 😅
This video looks like my kitchen drawers. I thought this was all just old crap that I got when my grandma died. My parents already had it from when my other grandma died, so they gave it to me. I thought everyone had all of this stuff. I now have a new appreciation for it.
My dad has that pepper grinder. We have given him new ones over the years and he still prefers and uses that one daily. He does get it to grind very coarse though. 😊
All the mess-ups are all the more lovely, I'm glad you included them, we all have those days and what else can we do but laugh about it ❤
The term for the mixer back in the day was 'egg beater' so yeah, Jiffy mix w/ whole kernel corn is maybe a bit thick. And I'm not sure about the juicer, it just doesn't strike me as a thing for citrus but I can't think of anything.
Hang in there Emmy. You’re a legend, don’t forget that no matter how your day goes 💪
I’m 47 & my G’ma had that same hand mixer. She’d let my sister & I mix flour, eggs & water & pretend to cook. We always made a huge mess with it but it was some of our best memories ❤
I have that lemon squeezer!! Lemons were definitely much smaller. Your lemon has a hugely thick rind, you could probably remove a fair amount of that rind and still squeeze it. We had those beaters too, Made many a cake with them...
I still have my mom's egg beater. We used it a lot, but my favorite was for pancake batter (made with Bisquick, of course).
The citrus squeezer was a standard bar tool up through the 70s. Mostly for limes, maybe forvodka giblets or whatever. Not really used ar the table for fish.
I fill my salt and pepper grinders the same way with a hand funnel!! 😊
1960s seems right on for the citrus squeezer. That's the one we had when I was growing up. I have never wished for one like it since I grew up and experienced much better options. :D
05:45 IMO that's professional grade equipment. The full tang and through rivets are miles beyond home-cook (I'm looking at YOU, Ekco) utensils of the period.
09:05 The Nevco juicer is indeed a lime juicer, meant for bar use. In the kitchen, it's just not what you want and there are many newer and better designs (will plug my fave kitchen hardware maker--not spon--Oxo).
17:50 Absolutely yes! Many years ago, while cleaning out my grandmother's farmhouse, I found a larger size of stamp which my grandfather had intended to carve--he was a woodworker--but was killed before he could do so. Yours would have been meant to form dinner-table pats to be served next the bread plates.
11:30 You'd get anything from two to five cents for empties depending on size, but often the dairy would demand that you put out your empties in the carrier for collection by the milkman, or they'd tag a charge on your monthly bill.
15:16 Ekco (Edward Katzinger Co.) has been making kitchenware since 1888. That piece could be anything from 1945 (the year they started selling to the public) to 1970, though my own belief is it's in the early part of that period. They're still around and still selling kitchenware. Despite owning a stand mixer, multiple whisks, and a Blendor _(sic)_ , I still sometimes pull out my crank beater to whip together some eggs or a crepe batter. (The cornbread's a REEEEEEEEALLY thick batter to try to drive yer beater thru. A KitchenAid works much better for that application.)
Emmy, my parents had this exact same style of pepper grinder when I was growing up! I wish I had inherited it, but I don't know what happened to it. But it was great. Watching this brings back memories❤️ Thank you for sharing.
I always use my hand funnel when I am filling up salt an pepper shakers with the little mouths on them, my mom has a similar hand crank beater she picked up with some old rolling pins years ago, I've used it to whip up stuff before.
I know your intent was not to sell Oxo peppermills but I am obsessed with the one you demonstrated! I went straight to Amazon and purchased one for $17.95. 😂
Peugeot makes the best pepper mills.
This is probably my favorite video of yours. Thanks for sharing
I use the “hand funnel” when refilling my pepper mill too!
I use the hand held beater all the time still - whipped cream, pancake batter, merengue. Pretty much, if it would call for a whisk, I prefer the hand held beater.
Que impresionante que es tu español! Muchas felicidades, soy mexicano.
In the UK back in the 1950s we had milk bottles and milk of the type that cream floated to the top. The bottles were left on the step early morning, by the milkman, for us to take in when we got up. The cream was there only if the birds hadn't pecked through the foil top of the recyclable glass bottle - and nicked the cream!!
I love old kitchen tools too.
THANK YOU for leaving in the part when you knocked things over. It’s not just me!! 😂❤❤❤
Still use and buy those pepper grinders. If you loosen the screw a bit you get a coarser grind.
Emmy, I do think it’s sweet that you found using a hand funnel on your own but I am pretty sure most of us do this already but it was very sweet watching you so proud of it.
A clean clothes peg (not the kind with a spring) in the jar of cream will help the butter form faster.