Retro Mixer

An earlier post on thesculleryblog showed a General Electric hand mixer, with some fairly stereo typical design aspects of that era: Colour (horrid), Styling (boxy like a Chevy Chase station wagon), Solid (over engineered before anyone knew about the money to be made in selling inferior quality), Toxic (I shudder at the thought of all those ozone depleting and carcinogenic chemicals impregnated in these products). 

I remembered that a hand me down food processor was slowly irradiating toward its half life in my cupboard, almost the same era - awesome!

This food processor is a utilitarian version with an interchangeable slicer and grater, and the instruction booklet contains some fairly whacky recipes like Chicken 'N Orange Toss, which might be all right if it didn't recommend the use of canned segments of orange or mandarin as a viable alternative.  Did they not have fresh fruit in the late seventies / eighties?  Oh yes, and if you thought plastic was not a material you should understand the food processor has a faux wood veneer detail panel at the front - "Ah! - The good old days when food processors were crafted from rare timbers and the family would stand around singing as mother cranked the handle."

I assume the timber is to remind us of the chopping blocks we threw away as we headed out the door to purchase the latest gizmo! "There I was chopping with a knife like a fool!!"

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Giles