I'm not at all parochial.🤣
Acquired many years ago, my one of these belonged to my grandmother. It has been so worn out with use that my father bronze welded repairs to the whisk blades that had worn away at the bottom.
He did that because they were no longer being made.
This one is a gift from Bro who found it in a second hand shop. These whisks are worth more than their weight in diamonds to their devotees. Their manufacture stopped several decades ago and the remaining examples are coveted by old fashioned bakers who don't own electric cake mixers.
(I believe someone tried to resurrect the design but used inferior materials and cheaper construction - needless to say the venture failed. I guess the original manufacturers closed up eventually because their product was so good we never needed a second one and second hand ones still have generations of life in them!)
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteI had been hoping to inherit mum's version of this (a British make, but very similar and made in the early 1960s), but younger sister acquired that. She's the magpie of the family. I did, however, manage to grasp the family electric whisk, vintage 1970's and still working better than the interim 21st C version I had to use... These things matter! YAM xx
I love these! I’ve been looking everywhere for one. Now I know why. I might have to go and acquire my mothers lol
ReplyDeleteI think my.mom had one of these, but used a fork anyway!
ReplyDeleteA New Zealand invention! Go clever kiwis. Of course I grew up with this eggbeater. Some years ago one turned up in a sale og goods from a house an English couple were leaving. I snatched it up. I used it a few times but alas found I preferred the electric kind. However it remains in my kitchen drawer. My Greek son in law collects vintage utensils.
ReplyDeleteHand powered and made to last.
ReplyDeleteI could never get on with mine. Food used to fly all over the place.
ReplyDeleteI have one, a slightly younger version where the business end is longer, not round. Worth it's weight!!
ReplyDeleteI remember these. Why must there always be 'improvements'?
ReplyDeletemy mother had one of these, and it was her grandmothers, which means it belong to my great, grandmother.. I used to have one but it was the new ones and is long gone. now I have an electric hand held one that has not been out of the cabinet in so long I can't remember when it was last used. what a wonderful gift from your brother
ReplyDeleteI once did a blog post on my treasured egg beater. I didn't know they were made in New Zealand :)
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