Victorian Kitchen Tools

Kitchens and Kitchen Tools The images below were scanned from our private collection of antique ephemera. You're welcome to share them with friends and re-post them for your own private projects free of cost, but please remember to include a citation link to this website, www.thisvictorianlife.com For commercial usage, please contact us about. Check out our victorian kitchen tools selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our cooking utensils & gadgets shops.

Kitchen Antiques Historic kitchen equipment, culinary objects >> Resources divided into: >> Museum collections of culinary objects >> Fireplace cooking, cast iron >> 18th and/or 19th century kitchen items >> Early 20th and/or 19th century >> Earlier and miscellaneous Or jump down to the page to Victorian advice on equipping a kitchen Old or historic kitchen utensils go by various different. Miscellaneous kitchen tools and equipment in the past Before plastics and stainless steel became available, there was no shortage of other materials to fill the gaps. This page describes the most common ones and goes on to illustrate with early kitchen tools and equipment used at home for food preparation and cooking.

There was quite a variety of the kitchen items made from wood. A pretty good list includes wooden tubs, boxes, buckets, bowls, bread troughs, pans, sieves, sifters, potato mashing "beetles", meat "beetles", hickory egg-beaters, spaddles or round short hickory sticks flattened at one end, paste-boards, coffee-sticks, mush-sticks, clothes. As these articles show, the Victorian era saw some rapid and remarkable changes in the types of tools and equipment available to the housekeeper.

From the sewing machine to the safety match, this was the age of domestic inventions and improvements. For the most part, these were welcomed, though not every home immediately embraced the "latest technologies." Servants were often concerned, and. Shop our antique kitchen tools selection from top sellers and makers around the world.

Global shipping available. View our extensive collection of Victorian Kitchen Utensils on Antiques Boutique. The Victorian age was an age of rebirth in the kitchen.

Copper pots, specially tinned on the inside to avoid chemical reactions with certain foods, were replaced with cast iron and the tastes of the Victorian family were reflected by the invention of mass produced kitchen gadgets such as pastry cutters, jelly and pie moulds,and biscuit tins. VICTORIAN KITCHEN & TABLE TOOLS The Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences houses the Rietz Collection of Food Technology, an assemblage of nearly 1400 food-related items. Assembled by Carl Austin Rietz, an American inventor and businessman whose lifelong interests related to the study of food, this international collection documents cultural traditions from around.