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38. My "Handy Housewife Helper"

Mon May 18, 2020, 03:10 AM

May 2020

It's a slick device that opens cans, takes corks out of bottles, cores apples, scales fish, drives screws, cuts glass, sharpens scissors, and takes corns off feet.

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What is one of your kitchen/house tools from long ago that you still treasure today? [View all] dixiegrrrrl May 2020 OP

Actually it is still in my mom's kitchen drawer, buty I hope to inherit it ;) FirstLight May 2020 #1

I have my mother's #10 Griswold frying pan. Makes the best fried...well anything. Lochloosa May 2020 #2

My Mother's heavy duty wooden-handled spatula, bread knife, her red-handled potato masher hlthe2b May 2020 #3

I can feel the handle of that potato masher just from your description dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #24

I have a nice, heavy Wok that has traveled across the country with me Siwsan May 2020 #4

My brother and I chipped in to buy a $6 hand mixer for our mother July May 2020 #5

I have one of those! Duppers May 2020 #39

Funny how the old made in America stuff lasts and lasts and lasts. n/t dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #51

A Melmac serving dish, an old aluminum colander The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #6

I have one of those colanders too MuseRider May 2020 #9

3 cast iron skillets, my favorite is a gently sloped side 10" chef pan. TexasProgresive May 2020 #7

An old style hand mixer. MuseRider May 2020 #8

Back in the 80's, BarbaRosa May 2020 #10

I see a lot of real Pyrex dishes for sale on Etsy dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #25

My pyrex mixing bowl/measuring cup csziggy May 2020 #11

I have a set of those Pyrex mixing bowls - The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #16

Yeah, if I'd had room, I would have taken them csziggy May 2020 #19

I have a set of those, a wedding present in 1969 Probably cost $10 at most yellowdogintexas May 2020 #44

OK, that explains where I got most of them (I'd forgotten). The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #48

My mother's silver pie server...has to be 80 years old. Hardly ever use it but am not going... Tikki May 2020 #12

I am still using that old cook book! dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #26

my favorite cookbooks are the fundraiser books yellowdogintexas May 2020 #66

I have a rolling pin that was my mother's. Lunabell May 2020 #13

Hands down, Mom's jar opener. no_hypocrisy May 2020 #14

I have quite a few old kitchen tools like that dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #27

50 year old Oster Beehive blender that my mother purchased when yankeepants May 2020 #15

Pie crust roller...haven't made a pie in 40 years. virgogal May 2020 #17

Is it like this? dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #52

I used to have one of those bottle opener thingies The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #54

Another garage sale goodie. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #55

In 1922 one of my Grand Mother's wedding presents gladium et scutum May 2020 #18

Well-seasoned cast iron is worth its weight in gold ten times over! lastlib May 2020 #42

amen n/t gladium et scutum May 2020 #43

A Wear-Ever standing juicer. LakeArenal May 2020 #20

My mother's heavy stew pot. Laffy Kat May 2020 #21

Pyrex dishes inherited from my mother. Wolf Frankula May 2020 #22

Cast iron frying pan. Actually, 3 of them. nt LAS14 May 2020 #23

My Mouli Cheese Grater Totally Tunsie May 2020 #28

I have that! dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #32

Still use the Mouli, and had no idea it had any value. Totally Tunsie May 2020 #35

I used to have the other Mouli (one of the first tv order by mail items) yellowdogintexas May 2020 #47

My Depression era AH green ribbed canisters and matching sinkingfeeling May 2020 #29

A screw mechanism to open jars that is adjustable Danmel May 2020 #30

I learned lillypaddle May 2020 #33

That is the design principle of the old one I have dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #34

Couple of things: dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #53

2 things come to mind lillypaddle May 2020 #31

Lol....you and me both. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #36

and to help get the cork out lillypaddle May 2020 #37

My "Handy Housewife Helper" Brother Buzz May 2020 #38

Two Old Hickory paring knives! lastlib May 2020 #40

A clothes iron made in 1870 by my great grandfather Ptah May 2020 #41

That is remarkable, for its age and for being hand made. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #50

I don't have a lot due to my mother losing her house in a fire yellowdogintexas May 2020 #45

Of course my cast iron and carbon steel pans.. Also my Mom's mitch96 May 2020 #46

Does anybody know what the heck this thing is? The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #49

Jesus...you could threaten growing children with that thing. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #56

Yikes! That looks like something someone smuggled out of The Tower of London. catbyte May 2020 #58

I found the answer: It's an antique egg topper from around 1900. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #59

I always notice, esp. in Brit movies, people eating a boiled egg dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #62

Now I'm going to have to get an egg cup The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #63

My grandmother's potato masher and a cutting board my dad made around 1972. catbyte May 2020 #57

I have my great aunt's meat grinder / sausage stuffer kit. hunter May 2020 #60

I have cast iron that belonged to my great-great grandmother. Solly Mack May 2020 #61

I hope you have family members who are interested in you passing them on. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #64

No. Not really. I have nieces and a nephew, as well as Solly Mack May 2020 #65