Old Toaster Memory - Page 3

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@Nomorebirthdays wrote:
@SilleeMee. I have this toastmaster toaster, the first and only one. I has a cloth covered cord. I had a new plug put on once and they used a period plug. Still works like a charm. They don't make stuff like this anymore.

Wow, @Nomorebirthdays, I had my cord replaced, too! When the cord became defective years ago, my mother asked me if it could be fixed. I told her I would look at it and low and behold, I replaced the cord myself! Works like a charm. You're absolutely right, they don't make 'em like they used to.

Big Joanie · ‎06-13-2016

Toastermaster was the best toaster we ever owned ...

Wish i still had mine .. must have been conned into thinking

something else was better ....

Sushismom · ‎03-09-2010

I have a very old Sunbeam toaster that I recall in my mother's kitchen when I was about 4. I won't say how long ago that was but it's at least 57 years old. We, too, had the cord replaced as it was fabric and starting to wear.

I love this toaster. It automatically lowers and raises the toast. But the slots are small. It's good for toast and English muffins. Could never fit a bagel into it.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@Marp wrote:
As I was waiting for my bread to toast this morning I started thinking about how excited I was as a kid when the family got our first pop-up toaster and replaced one similar to this:

@Marp

Sorry, this looks like a device of torture to me!

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

debcakes · ‎03-11-2010

@beckyb1012, I inherited that exact waffle iron. I still have it and use it. Sometimes I think about joining the 21st century and buying a new one, but nah, it still works perfectly.

faeriemoon · ‎03-14-2010

It is with great pleasure I announce that the toaster in the OP is before my time.

~What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.~ William Shakespeare

Marp · ‎03-09-2010

@Drythe wrote:
@Marp wrote:
As I was waiting for my bread to toast this morning I started thinking about how excited I was as a kid when the family got our first pop-up toaster and replaced one similar to this:

@Marp

Sorry, this looks like a device of torture to me!

@Drythe, I don't know about torture but it sure could be a shortcut to "chef's hands". A moment of lost concentration was almost a guarantee of a burn, sometimes with flying toast.

What is good for the goose today will also be good for the gander tomorrow.

KathT · ‎03-09-2010

@beckyb1012

@debcakes lol, you may have inherited your waffle iron, but I received mine from my in-laws for our second Christmas after being married. It is still going strong, makes the best pancakes. Memories of making those waffle cookies during the summer, so we wouldn't heat up the kitchen. Two of our kids have asked if we would like to part with it. No way!!!

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@beckyb1012 wrote:
@CareBears wrote:
@beckyb1012 Is that an egg cooker ( kind of looks like the one Mark Charles sells), on the left, brown small appliance.
@CareBears Yes it is, we did not have one of those but Mom had some special pan for making poached eggs over boiling water on the stovetop. Recently, the home she built when I was in the fourth grade and we sold my senior year of high school went back on the market. They posted 35 photos of our home with all the changes outside and inside. I saved the site on my favorites list and still look at from time to time. One owner actually moved the stove and fridge from one side of the kitchen to the other. It still had my Mom's huge beyond huge patio she added a few years after she built the home then a cover from the sun later. A woman in her early 20's, two incurable diseases, divorced with three children and made that home special always. I loved the 70's.

@beckyb1012 I have had the same experience. Our family home went on the market last year. My sister found the sales listing. The house has been remodeled and is beautiful. Original hardwood floor beautiful because mom couldn't wait to get wall to wall carpeting. It still just has one bathroom though. Wish the parents could see the new version. I saved it too.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

kivah · ‎03-11-2010

@Gram W wrote:
I enjoy going to old/antique shops looking at kitchen products from long ago. I remember helping Grandma in the kitchen and using those old toasters.

Oh my! Wait a minute I have those Corning, Revere, etc products in my kitchen. I still use them everyday. My Rainbow vacuum cleaner is used for the upstairs. Some items I received when we got married in 1962. Does that mean I am now an antique? I am 72. I don't think of myself as an "antique".

@Gram W

We BOTH qualify.