10 Old Appalachian Kitchen Tools Getting Harder to Find

10 Old Appalachian Kitchen Tools Getting Harder to Find My granddaughter handed me a flat gray stone last spring and asked me what kind of rock it was. It came out of my mother's kitchen, and that stone baked every pan of cornbread this family ate for forty years. She laughed at me, because you can cut the thing with a handsaw. So I cut a piece off the corner, set it in a hot oven, and poured batter straight onto it — and she went quiet. Ten old Appalachian kitchen tools that are getting hard to find, counted down from ten to one. You'll find out which one cooked a pot of beans all day on twenty minutes of fire. You'll find out which one has a patent stamped on the handle that belongs to a Frenchman nobody here ever heard of. And you'll find out which one the federal government still writes a rule about — a rule about a seam. Every claim is sourced, and the sources are on screen. That includes the parts that don't flatter the story: the apple parer was never actually faster than a knife, America's thriftiest Depression tool is a French patent under license, the fireless cooker died because a thermostat beat it, and three different people are credited with inventing the biscuit brake. Food safety note: this video describes historical cooking and dairy practice. Food held between 41°F and 140°F grows bacteria. Follow current USDA guidance, not the old methods, when the two disagree.#Appalachia #AppalachianHistory #Countdown #OldWays #HomesteadSkills #LostSkills #CastIron #SaltGlaze #BeatenBiscuits #AmericanHistory #SelfReliance #ruralamerica 1. Digitalfire — Glaze Crazing (thermal expansion mismatch) https://digitalfire.com/trouble/glaze+crazing 2. Digitalfire — Crazing in Stoneware Glazes https://digitalfire.com/article/crazing+in+stoneware+glazes:+treating+the+causes,+not+the+symptoms 3. U.S. Patent 103,811 — Turner Williams rotary eggbeater, May 31 1870 https://patents.google.com/patent/US103811A/en 4. U.S. Patent 16,267 — Ralph Collier, 1856 https://patents.google.com/patent/US16267A/en 5. FDA Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance — pails seamless and of the hooded type https://www.fda.gov/food/milk-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/grade-pasteurized-milk-ordinance-pmo