Last week, at Uptake, I wrote about a visit to The Woodside Store, a historic museum in Woodside, off of King’s Mountain Road. The best part about the visit was that I was able to check out all the cool kitchen gadgets they had way back when. Here is my favorite:
Any ideas what this is? Give up?
It is a toaster!
You put a slice of bread on each of the 4 sides and put the whole contraption over your wood burning stove. And look, there is a coffee pot right next to it, as coffee and toast go really well together.
I also saw this wall of typical kitchen items:
There are many gadgets I love in that picture – I have one of those older muffin/popover pans (lower left corner). The strainer on the top also looks interesting, somewhat like my Chinois that I used to strain soups. Of course, the kids loved the popcorn maker (lower right). Any ideas what those items on the second shelf are? They look a little like muffin pans – right behind the cheese grater-type gadgets.
Also on the shelves were these interesting bottles:
I wonder what a Woodside Cabernet would taste like? I don’t see a vintage year, not actually sure there is anything in the bottles – it would probably be vinegar if it was!
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Some of those kitchen gadgets look familiar. We have some that were left in our house(1908). We, too, have some cool toasters, little cutting things, interesting cookers(?), ice block hooks just to name a few. Really fun stuff and very effective.
Julie
What a cool toaster! I can’t imagine what people will be using in 100 years from now!
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Julie, I would love to see your collection of old gadgets! Maybe next time I visit you can show me your stash. I could share some of your treasures on KGG!
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Maris, dare I get all hyper green and say that if we aren’t careful with our natural resources, we might be back to making toast over an open fire. Best keep those marshmallow sticks around, just in case.
We had a toaster exactly like that for camping. We used it on the propane stove in the trailer. I can’t find a good picture online of my parents’ kitchen – but they have antique kitchen gadgets all over it. Nutmeg grinders, butter molds, candle snuffers, all sorts of random things.
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sounds like your parents had a great camping kitchen box! Maybe as I get older, I will start to collect old kitchen gadgets, that could be very interesting…