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[veg-o-matic]

Here are a couple of recent finds, all by Sunbeam.
First up is M'Sieur Crepe. Anyone remember when crepes were all the rage back in the '70s? This made making them a little easier; rather than trying to spread the batter thinly and evenly in a pan, you dip the "bottom" in a pan of batter and cook it upside down. You can also flip the pan over and use it as a mini-skillet, which is what I use it for. Makes a nice egg & cheese sammie for breakfast.
Forgot to take a pic of the included recipe book, but that's okay since most of the recipes are pretty nauseating.

veg

 

[veg-o-matic]

Horizontal can opener

Took me months of looking for this, but I finally found one. I really wanted the turquoise model, but Pete got the last one in existence
Unlike a regular can opener which cuts the lid vertically, this one slices it open horizontally. I think that's to make the lid safer to handle, but I can't tell a whole lot of difference. Unlike the Westinghouse Sesame which cut from the outside and created a lid you could snap back on the can, this one cuts from the inside which just makes the lid harder to remove. Still, I like the style, and that's what's important, right?

 

[veg-o-matic]

Lather machine

This is kind of an oddity. You fill it with water and add a bar of soap. A heating element keeps the water warm and when you push down on the little platform, a rotating brush spins through the water and against the soap, creating lather. It takes a moment for the lather to start coming out and it's really more trouble than it's worth, but I just couldn't resist it. Got it MIB with the display card and a bar of Dove soap (still made by Lever Brothers.) It's dated 1969.

 

[tlee618]

Veg, when the crepe maker came out I just had to have one, you know how that is.... I tried crepes with it a couple times and never seemed to get the hang of it. Sold it a cold years ago at a garage sale for almost nothing.LOL

 

[vulcanchef]

nice toys

mate i'm a huge fan of 60's and 70 sumbeam small appliances myself . Sunbeam stuff just never dies

 

[polkanut]

Dearest Veg Honeylamb,

I'd love to take that lather dispenser off your pretty hands. Don't want you and your sweetie doing anything "naughty" or "illegal" with it. Lol! Seriously though, I'd kill for that faboo bathroom accouterment.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Terry, we had a crepe maker in the '70s, too. I think ours was by Nordicware and I'm pretty sure we got it dirt cheap at a Stewart's warehouse sale. If I remember correctly, it got used once... Probably made its way to the Goodwill.
Ah, well. It was just one more in the line of "Single Use Appliances from the '70s": first it was the fondue pots, then the crepe makers, then came the individual hamburger cookers...

 

[petek]

Neat stuff. I don't remember the lather dispenser at all.

I picked up this rather non-descript Sunbeam toaster a few weeks ago. It's in good condition and works well, just needs a little spit and polish. I may actually use it up in the kitchen because it's quite compact

 

[veg-o-matic]

Not mine

But you gotta love the name...

 

[goatfarmer]

Was it "hacksaw" Al that killed Sunbeam?

 

[supersuds]

"Chainsaw" Al Dunlap.

"Industry insiders revealed that Sunbeam's revenues had been padded because Dunlap had given large discounts to retailers who bought far more merchandise than they could handle; the excess merchandise was shipped to warehouses to be delivered later, but the sales revenue was booked immediately. With the stores hopelessly overstocked, unsold inventory piled up in Sunbeam's warehouses. Investors grew edgy, then panicky, and Dunlap himself was fired. He agreed to pay $15 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit."

Albert J. Dunlap - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[paulg]

Bank giveaways

You brought back an old memory. The bank I used to work at gave those Sunbeam Hot Lather dispensers out as freebies if you deposited a bunch of money. I cannot really imagine anyone (even in the 1970s - 1980) really making a special trip to the store to buy a device that turns bar soap into some lather facsimile.
We also used to give away RONSON electric hairbrushes. Not detanglers or hairdryers - but this stupid motorized rake for your hair. It looked like a lint roller with motorized barbs to brush your hair.

 

[conate]

actually hot lather shaves are the best.

Hot lather shaves are the best. Something like this looks awesome..but it takes up space (LOL).

(I use a shaving brush and pure soap. I was shaving with shaving cream, read the can, and thought 'Uh, what is all this sh*t in here?' and went to the soap lather. )

Nate

 

[toggleswitch]

Past life carry-forward?

I shave the first time (down) with shaving cream.
Then I shave (up) with soap and water.

Don't know where this odd habit of using soap to shave came from. Certainly not stinginess!

I have a small mirror in the shower and shave in there. Really softens the beard!

 

[bongobro]

"Love their quality!"--Shirley Jones

Was it just me or did every Sunbeam ad in the late 1970s and early 1980s (including the ads for M'Sieur Crepe) run a picture of Shirley Jones of "The Partridge Family" with the legend "Love their quality!"?

P.S.: Conate, I wasted half a can of Edge gel a couple of weeks ago when I dropped the can and the damn nozzle broke...went and got a badger brush and a shaving soap bowl, and man, what a difference! (P.S., Dove works just fine as a shaving soap...)