Another vintage contraption question
Feb 12, 2022 22:42:33 #
robertjerl wrote:
Store bought anything is not the same. My Grandmo... (show quote)
Good memories. Nothing beats fresh. My paternal grandmother was born in 1889 and then raised in S Philadelphia. No land there to grow anything. She got farm fresh fruits and vegetables, like her mother did, off a horse drawn wagon that went by every other day. I remember in the early 50s when we went back to the old neighborhood to visit family watching it stop and people buying off of it. At least by then they had refrigerators. My grandmother never smoked or drank and only ate fresh, no canned or processed foods. She lived to the age of 96 and never saw a doctor or needed glasses. I wish I could remember all the thing she told me about her growing up. She kept telling us how lucky we all were to have all the modern conveniences we had as a child.
Feb 13, 2022 03:08:32 #
RainierView wrote:
Good memories. Nothing beats fresh. My paternal gr... (show quote)
Yes, good memories for you also.
In some ways the modern stuff is good, but in other ways the old ways and things were also good.
Feb 13, 2022 06:25:20 #
After you roll out your pasta dough to 1/8”, you cut it into long 6” wide strips, roll the strips through your spaghetti cutter and catch spaghetti on the other end.
Feb 13, 2022 06:56:49 #
RainierView wrote:
You guys have helped before. Looking for more help.
My wife picked this up at a garage sale around 30 years ago for a quarter. It's been with our antiques and other vintage items. There are no markings on it. We don't know what it was used for. The red handle still cranks the spools for putting something thru it. It looks too fine for even angel hair pasta if for kitchen use. Does anyone know what this was used for?
My wife picked this up at a garage sale around 30 years ago for a quarter. It's been with our antiques and other vintage items. There are no markings on it. We don't know what it was used for. The red handle still cranks the spools for putting something thru it. It looks too fine for even angel hair pasta if for kitchen use. Does anyone know what this was used for?
Just for the hell of it, why don't you bolt it to a cutting board and get some store dough and thin it out and put it through the rollers. If it is a pasta maker, then you will know what kind it makes....Simple? and then you can show us the result.
Feb 13, 2022 07:32:14 #
RainierView wrote:
Back in the 50s my Italian grandmother that lived ... (show quote)
Yup, when my mother came here with my grandparents they had a rectangle-shaped frame made from wood with piano wire from end to end and they would put the pasta sheet and then roll the pasta with a rolling pin and it would fall down. You removed some of the wires to make different widths. My sister had it and now her daughter. It doesn't get much use these days.
Feb 13, 2022 09:01:38 #
I have an old razor sharpener that looks like that but is less fancy, no clamp to hold it down.
Feb 13, 2022 09:16:30 #
Your grandparents probably came from the Abruzzi region of Italy where this contraption supposedly originated, though it may have been available in other regions of the country before they emigrated. It's called a "chitarra," literally a guitar, obviously because of the way the wires are strung, and the classic Abruzzese dish you make from it is called Spaghetti alla Chitarra. You can buy modern mass-produced versions, but the one your grandparents brought with them may have looked more like the one in the video below. I like this one because the way the carpentry seems entirely assembled with pegs and rawhide and the patina of the wood makes it look like the woman is using a beloved family heirloom from generations gone by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_B8JTqvwoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_B8JTqvwoI
Feb 13, 2022 09:20:02 #
I read recently Italians never eat spag with meatballs, but do eat meatballs, just not with pasta. Is this wrong?
Feb 13, 2022 09:22:52 #
Feb 13, 2022 10:25:44 #
robertjerl wrote:
Yes, good memories for you also.
In some ways the modern stuff is good, but in other ways the old ways and things were also good.
In some ways the modern stuff is good, but in other ways the old ways and things were also good.
Feb 13, 2022 10:38:34 #
Maybe the folks you bought it from also bought it a garage sale 30 years before that and were getting rid of it because they never found out what it was😳
Feb 13, 2022 11:14:27 #
imagemeister wrote:
Pasta forming tool ?? PASTA it is ...
Funny! That was my first thought.
I don't see that exact model, but very similar.
https://www.google.com/search?q=old+pasta+makers&tbm=isch&chips=q:vintage+pasta+maker,g_1:antique:0wH3f9k_RVg%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi85OjIif31AhXPrXIEHe3gCtwQ4lYoAHoECAEQHA&biw=1903&bih=937
Feb 13, 2022 11:16:34 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
RainierView wrote:
Back in the 50s my Italian grandmother that lived ... (show quote)
Store bought pasta doesn't have the love that your grandmother put in hers.
Feb 13, 2022 11:17:10 #
Feb 13, 2022 11:35:33 #
Alafoto wrote:
Store bought pasta doesn't have the love that your grandmother put in hers.
But it's so convenient to just take a handful out of the box.
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