freemotion
Food Guru
We went to a new antiques and collectibles store in town today to poke around, and I came home with another Griswold skillet in PERFECT condition for $8!!!! Now I can have two going at the same time and make all the grilled cheese sandwiches at once. Or maybe I will make pizzas on them in the oven!I also have been wanting a new drying rack, and I found one that folds up. When it opens, it has three legs and on top is a cool piece of hardware, cast aluminum, that holds twelve 2' hardwood dowels that can be opened up like spokes on a wheel. You can open out one dowel, or any number of them.
Two dowels were missing, so we stopped at the hardware store and got a 48"dowel for $0.77 and a couple of washers for $0.11 each so now it will be in perfect working order. Easy to fix anything that gets broken, too. Woohoo!
The owner told me he just bought a barn from a retiring collector that is full of antiques and junk. He had me fill out a card with my wish list....so I put any Griswold or Wagner cast iron, but especially a dutch oven with a lid and a large skillet to replace my Lodge. WOOHOO!!!!
Dad had a great time pointing out things that his mother had and used. A gigantic wooden bowl used to press the water out of washed butter, and a large churn with a crank handle on the side....he mimicked his mother pushing him to crank harder and faster....she filled big crocks with butter all summer long. I reminded him that the reason I didn't respond with joy when he discovered a hand-cranked ice cream maker was because it gave me flashbacks of being told sternly to crank harder and faster!
WOOT Free!!! Great finds!! 
I have a great little red hand cranked juicer from the 50's (my 80 year old mother doesn't think it is quite an antique just yet, 
but it is to me!) I use that little sucker almost every week. I have a pair of hay hooks (hand made too) from the turn of the century that I couldn't live without.
