vintage kitchen appliances

[jill1990]

Those sound like nice collections. I have about 8 vintage electric perculators. One of them is a glass one by proctor silex. The base is green. My favorite perculator is my ge potbelly. It just looks so art deco. They say drip coffee is best but I love perculated coffee. I think it tasts better. I have 6 retro toasters. I love the old toasters with cloth cords. My daily use toaster is kind of vintage. It's made by cuisinart. It's slim, all white cool touch plastic and it has touch pads. Instead of pressing a lever you touch the start touch pad. It chimes when the toast is done. I have a retro blue sunbeam mixmaster I found at a yard sale for $5. It's in excellent condition and even had the paperwork. I have 2 kitchen aid mixers. A red modern one and a gold one from the 50s. I also have a very unusual stand mixer made by jennair. It's all stainless steel and has a Ruby red bowl. It's quite powerful but not very practical. It weighs more than the kitchen aid and while the bowl is a work of art the beater doesn't touch the bottom so you end up with un mixed batter. For bread and cookie dough nothing is better than my Bosch universal kitchen machine. It has boxes of attachments for food processing. I have 11 hand mixers. 4 of them are the pastel GEs. I have pink, yellow, white and red. I love that the cords match. My favorite hand mixer is a grant made. I've never heard of that brand. It's chrome with a white Handel and trim. I have a kitchen aid electronic I use for small mixing jobs.I have 3 osterizer blenders. White and chrome , green and chrome and just white. I also have a chrome bee hive model. I have 4 waffle irons . Those also look like art. I have a new rowenta iron but the green Mary proctor iron my grandma gave me does a better job. I think the older irons work better because they are heavier and I also think they get hotter. I have a set of flameware pots and pans that my grandma gave me. I LOVE that cook ware. It's like the visions cookeware only much older. Most of mine is clear but a couple of pieces have a blue tint. I also plan to get the visions cookware.

 

[suckolux]

Sweet!! Some pics please!

 

[delaneymeegan]

yes, pics, please !

 

[suckolux]

Speaking of retro? Those old Toastmaster I think with the cloth cord?? Slower toasting but some of the best made and best toasting I have seen! A buddy had one forever, unsure where it went to, he lived at home till age 99, used it every day

 

[human]

That's quite a collection of vintage kitchen appliances. I managed to accumulate a few Mixmasters myself a few years ago. I have an all-chrome one with brown trim from probably the mid '70s, and a chrome Mixmaster Vista from the same era with built-in work light and a brown base, and an incomplete chrome and brown one sitting on a white base that's actually an assemblage of spare parts.

The all chrome one came to me with a broken base and turntable, thanks to improper packing by the seller. He made good on it and told me to keep the mixer, so I found the white base to complete it. I later found another, newer all chrome one for a cheap price that lacked beaters, bowls, and a power take-off, so I bought it for the base. The power take-off is important because I have a food processor attachment that fits the power take-off on the two older ones.

I also used to have an all white one that was a bit newer than the rest but I gave that one to my girlfriend. It was complete with beaters, dough hooks, bowls and owner's manual but lacked a power take-off and its beaters were incompatible with the others.

I've also got a few vintage toaster ovens. The one I'm presently using is a GE Deluxe Toast-R-Oven Broiler from the '80s that has an unusual brown and wood grain color scheme. I've never seen another one like it. I've also got an early '70s vintage GE Toast-R-Oven that's slightly smaller and has a door that pops open when the toasting cycle finishes. The oddest one of all, though, is a Proctor-Silex that has an oven door in the front as well as slots in the top to allow it to be used as a conventional pop-up toaster.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

We had that Toastmaster toaster, too.

It finally died. However, I have another one..NEW IN THE BOX !! It was free, too. I was in the right place at the right time, a rarity.
John

 

[vacerator]

Lucky to have spares John! those are nice.
I always wanted a chrome Sunbeam automatic toaster. Never see one anymore.
My Kitchen Aid stainless steel large counter top toaster oven is going on 9 or 10 years old though.
Jill, I left a post regarding vintage appliances on the vintage vac section.

 

[dysonman1]

(left) The Hoover Pancake Dial Iron, (middle) The General Electric hand mixer in original box with malt/shake maker, (right) The Hoover Percolator.

 

[dysonman1]

The Eureka cordless iron - very sophisticated for 1950.

 

[dysonman1]

1958 General Electric Mobile Maid dishwasher. Full Cycle takes about half hour.

 

[dysonman1]

This dishwasher does NOT have a pump, nor does it have a wash arm to spray the water onto the dishes. Instead it has a "Bow Tie" ribbon IMPELLER in the bottom to 'splash' the water onto the dishes with great force. We hooked it up and washed several loads of dirty dishes last year at the Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Convention, here at the Vacuum Cleaner Museum in St. James, Missouri. Everyone was shocked by how fast it washed, how clean the dishes were, and how well it dried them. Tried running it with the lid open, but we got splashed pretty hard. Going to have to get a clear plastic lid so we can watch it wash at THIS YEAR's Vacuum Convention, the second weekend in June.

 

[vacerator]

My mom had an older GE mixer than yours. It was yellow, from her wedding in 1959.

 

[human]

My mom still has the chrome Hamilton Beach stand mixer she received as a wedding gift in 1961. It's still going strong. Interestingly, my sister has a nearly identical one with an almond finish that she got for a wedding gift the first time around in 1988.

 

[vacerator]

I'm a Kitchen Aid man myself. 1990 vintage cobalt blue Ultra power tilt head.
My sister got a red artisan crank up bowl last year.
She made delicious gnocci, babka, etc, etc. for the holidays. Then we all had to lose more weight.

 

[vacerator]

Dormeyers are museum pieces if you can find one.
My Cuisinart from 1983 is still going strong also with two gourmet cooks in the house.

 

[vacerator]

Eureka iron

Outlasted most every car ever made in Detroit. Not that we didn't build some good or fast Iron, like Packards, or out of the Fleetwood plant, Wixom, Lansing, Pontiac, or Flint.
Cadillac's, Lincolns, Oldsmobiles, and large Buicks respectively.
Country Squires, Ltd's, Marquis, Colony Parks were either made in St. Louis, Chicago, Atlanta, or St Thomas Ontario.
Canadian Pontiacs always had Chevrolet engines.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I have 3 Dormeyers.

Here are a few of my vintage appliances.

 

[tolivac]

Remember one of those GE dishwashers as a child.Had to load or unload it depending on our turns on the "house duty roster"Was like the one shown.Great machine!Would like one today!!!
Have a GE handmixer-got from a yard sale-doesn't have the spindle blender attachment.The little guy works quite well.I am not a big hand mixer fan-mostly use my Sunbeam or Viking stand mixers-or the Vita-Mix or Blendtec blenders.If I spot a handmixer at a yard sale-esp older one-will get it.-Same with electric knives-don't know why-but get them anyway.

 

[vacerator]

vintage, and dishwashers

Well John, excuse my as I drool just a bit. Amazing spread of a smorgasboard of blenders!
All Hoovers, not a Waring in the house?
The fondue, and skillet brands? Also Hoover, or West Bend, Hamilton Beach? Reach for the Hamilton Beach.
Hoover, Nobody does it like you!
GE, we bring good things to life. Making your life a little easier, Whirlpool makes it easier. You get more, with a Kenmore.
Those were the days of our youth.
I recall our first dishwasher. A top load Lady Kenmore in white with a formica top, and rapid advance timer.
My dad was a Sears service tech, so he bought it from a customer who had a newer built in model. It was of course a Design Manufacture built machine with the split roto-spin top rack.
A year later, he sold it to our neighbors, and got another slightly used butcher block top portable in harvest gold. By then my mom had new gold appliances.

 

[cajunvac]

Nice Collections on display!

Nice sharing your pics of your collections. Have a few myself, a Hamilton Beach Model H in chrome, my mom has a white one that was a gift from my dad the year I was born. Also use a chrome KitchenAid and Sunbeam Mixmaster as daily drivers when baking.

 

[kenkart]

I have tons of stuff

But somehow my pictures vanished, if I can ever get them back I will post some, I switch mixers out , I use say a Sunbeam model 12 for a while, then a Kenmore, then maybe a Westinghouse..and on and on, I have probably 150 mixers, I also collect all sorts of electric frypans, griddles, cookware of all descriptions,waffle irons,toasters blenders...You name it, not to mention over 200 vacuum cleaners.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I just picked up a

Sunbeam CHROME hand-held "junior" mixer.  Runs PERFECTLY. a whopping $2.00

 

[ctvacman]

I hope to

Pass my VitaMix pro, Kitchenaid designer series, and the all clad pots and salad master skillet and machine on to my kids and their kids. Unless they've bought their own first.