Let's be... a kitchen appliance from the 1970s!!!!

I am an electric stove from Magic Chef and I am also avocado green. I’ll never go out of style, right? Right?

I'm the Harvest Gold colored stove and refrigerator. Avocado and I got along really well but I never took off on my own. Corning Ware tried to make me happen in cookware.

I am a first-generation Cuisinart food processor. I show that my owner has Continental aspirations. She is sophisticated. She cooks from the Julia Child cookbook.

She tried to chop onions with me and ended up with onion slurry. I didn't get much use after that.

I make repairmen lonely.

I like that.

I would 100% buy that blender now.

My mother used to brag that our bathroom was “Pampas Grass” which apparently was the shade next to Avocado. She thought it was classier than Avocado. Pampas Grass bathroom carpet, yum!

I'm a hand-crank pasta machine. If r3 had had me and a copy of Marcella Hazan's [italic]The Classic Italian Cookbook[/italic] to learn how to use me, he would have known better than to run onions through the Cuisinart.

What about me?

I'm the yogurt maker that was used twice.

Not exactly an appliance but no 1970s kitchen was complete without a set of these.

I'm the copper jello molds shaped like zodiac symbols hanging on the walls.

I'm the push buttons. So many choices, yet so few.

I’m the rabbit shaped Jello mould. No children’s birthday party is complete without me!

i save many marriages

I'm the microwave oven. I'm an enormous, ugly beast and I cost about $650 in today's dollars. But by god, I'm a space-age appliance right out of the Jetsons, and guests gather to marvel at me (and envy my owner's wealth).

My owner has a vastly exaggerated idea of what I can be used for. That's encouraged by a cottage industry of demented cookbooks suggesting I can magically brown, braise, sear, and bake.

I'm the air popcorn popper and the cotton candy machine that never really worked.

R14 I'm the "nuked" honeybun coming out of said oven! delicious

Fondue anyone?

I'm a Sunbeam mixmaster.

My owner was ashamed of her 1950s-era Kitchenaid stand mixer, which she inherited from her mother. So bulky and old-fashioned! She got rid of that old thing and now she has a sturdy modern mixer that'll last a lifetime!

R17, I do hope you are filled with melted American cheese.

I'm an electric can opener. Keep me on the counter at all times. Harvest gold with fake wood panel accent.

I'm an Easy-Bake Oven! I'm training little girls to enjoy staying in the kitchen, so I'm sort of a kitchen appliance.

Gender politics aside, it's worth staying in the good graces of your little sister if she learns how to actually bake treats in me.

I'm a GE Toast N Broil. I'm a sign of bigger and better things to come.

r11 That's the exact range we had when I was growing up ... but our house was built in 1957, not the '70s.

I bought this in 1975, and I still have it. (And use it all the time.) I also have one from 1949 that my mother got as a wedding present.

not from the 70's but as a young gayling i "used" this in the 70's. its like fisting, i assume

I'm the Presto Hotdogger. I can cook 6 hotdogs in just 60 seconds!

r26's last name = Nahasapeemapetilon

I'm the little scorch marks on the stove's spiral burners, testifying to my secondary usage as a cigarette lighter.

Salad Shooter. Don't knock the pasta machine!

As if hot dogs need cooking.

R29 whatya call a vegetarian with diarrhea'?

Salad Shooter

R24 Thanks but the link didn't work.

R26 thanks for the memory. The Presto Hot Dog Cooker! As if dropping wieners into boiling water was too much of an effort. Presto had many of these supposed 'super-fast' products. I remember an egg poacher, too.

R13 I still have my Rival that was gifted to me in the late 70s and it works perfectly.

J'adore

r32 Works for me. Here's another pic.

Kitchen Aid really hasn't really updated their mixer.

The electric knife that stayed in its original cardboard box 364 days a year.

Remember that commercial that if it didn't say Amana it isn't a radar range?

I'm the Inside the Shell Egg Scrambler — from RONCO!

R37 Why mess with perfection?

R41 Exactly! The crap made now is designed to break down in five years or less so we have to buy a new piece of shit. I have a fucking Philco refrigerator in my garage (for keeping soda and beer cold) that's almost 50 years old. It served in the kitchen for at least two generations and now it serves a new purpose. Never a problem with it.

I’m the Daisy Seal a Meal.

I'm Shirley Jones. This is the Teflon II coated crepe maker that every home shouldn't be without. While I had the glamorous job as the face of Sunbeam appliances all through the 70s, my arch rival Florence Henderson was stuck selling Wesson Oil.

Yeah, Shirl? Well, try using your fucking crepe machine as lube, bitch.

I'm a harvest gold garbage compactor. Yes I push down garbage but I make the bag so heavy that nobody wants to carry me out.

I'm an original Cuisinart base, now going for $5 at a yard sale. No other parts. Later I amreduced to free. There still are no takers.

R45, my anus has a certain... Wessonality!

I'm the obligatory reminder that all replies in a "Let's be..." thread must begin with either "I'm" or "We're."

Those crepe makers machines are popular in Europe and North Africa.

I'm the matching Avocado Green Hotpoint Refrigerator and Oven found in apartments all over the US of A.!

I wonder, r47, why that model of Cuisinart was called "original." The first two—at least the first two to be released in the USA—didn't have that black flap on/off flap. That was added later, after the actual originals were judged to be unsafe because you turned them on and off by turning the top clockwise and counterclockwise.

This is the more expensive of the two, the CFP-5A, which listed for $175 back in the late '70s.

R42 , I have a Samsung microwave from the late 80s that still works. I replaced a fuse in it twice over the years, but I don't think I can find another one if this one goes.