I miss the original Hot Air Popcorn Pumper. While there are still hit air popcorn poppers being made, they quality just seems to get worse.

Microwave popcorn wasn't commercially available to consumers until 1981. A simple Google search revealed this.

My 97-year-old grandfather uses an electric can opener. I will say they are really great for elderly people and people with arthritis.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="183">3:03</a> I bought this popcorn popper in the late-70s or early-80s and still use it. It even has a metal tray at the top to melt butter. While microwave or stovetop popcorn is handy, it's also loaded with all sorts of additives. Mine makes a large bowlful of just air heated popcorn that can be salted and buttered to taste.

Normal people didn't have microwaves until '82 or later. We couldn't use a microwave to make popcorn in the '70s

Good greif🤦‍♂️ The fact that every product that you highlighted in this video is still available in one form or another, makes your title ridiculous.

I worked in hardware stores in Canada for 38 years, and I can tell you, we sold a lot of popcorn machines. A LOT. The beauty of the air popper was that you can make a bowl without the added fat of the oil, and as long as you didn't put butter on it, it wouldn't go stale or rancid if you couldn't finish it immediately. There are also devices which allow you to pop the popcorn in the microwave without using a bag.

I love my dehydrator and air popper. I still use both regularly

But they worked so good in the infomercials. Ron Popeil was a master salesman. Give it up for the dude. Hey, he sold spray paint as a cure for baldness!

I still use a Salad Shooter to grate cheese. Easiest thing ever.

I'm 59 years old now i was a kid in the 1970's and I remember all of these appliances as my parents and kinfolk had them some of them i wished we had back today but I really enjoy watching these blasts from the past and as Bob Hope always said Thanks for the memories.🇺🇲📺📻📺📻🇺🇲

Don't hate me for this comment. Looking at the salad shooter, I think about the Snoopy Snow Cone Maker. It is pretty much the same design. If you have one and you like it, that it wonderful. If everyone liked the same thing, the world would be pretty boring.

Bagged microwave popcorn was not available until the 1980s, but the flavor was far inferior to the Stir Crazy popcorn appliance my mom made popcorn in all the time. She used a Stir Crazy until well into the 2010s.

electric slicer and shredder is still pretty popular in korea and other asian countries. It never stopped being popular specially in korea coz they have dishes like bibimbap and many other meals that require a lot of slicing and shredding. They use it on the daily. I think one of the reasons why a lot of these kitchen processors fell out of popularity in America is primarily because a lot of people stopped cooking, and the popularity of fastfood chains in america skyrocketed. America popularized cheaper fastfood chains and many popular restaurants resulting into its people having less need to cook at home with their busy working lives.

The popcorn machine is readily available in Australian discount stores, as is the food dehydrator. In fact, high-end dehydrators are available to dehydrate fruits, veges, meat, and homemade dog treats. Salad shredders are still available, as are soda streams, with supplies available at supermarkets and electric ice-crushers are a feature of most high-end refrigerators. How soon before coffee-pod machines fall out of favour as a too-expensive way to have a cup of Joe?

“Super fluis?” And many of these products are modern with a filter applied. I promise you there was no hot dog toaster commercial in the 70s featuring an actor with a tattoo, let alone modern three prong outlets.

I have no recollection of the hot dog toaster from the 70s. What I do remember was the Presto Hot Dogger, which didn't work like a toaster, you know, with heating elements and all that; nor did it warm buns. What it did do was literally plug your hot dogs into MAINS VOLTAGE and electrocute them. They tasted weird, and it was fire hazard since there was no timer or safety cut-out device of any kind. THAT deserves to be swept into the dustbin of history. The hot dog toaster seems like a work of genius by comparison.

I still love and use my showtime rotisserie a lot. I have 2 now the big one & the smaller one. GOD BLESS

I'll bet 50 years from now, people will wax nostalgic over air fryers. 🍖

I know a lot of people that use dehydrators. Especially for chili peppers in a humid area.

Although the person that narrated this video said most of these items were "weird", they were a daily part of peoples lifestyle as we grew up in those times, I recognize most of those items and we as a family used almost every one, except for the electric wok and the ice shredder, I think this person called these things weird because he did not see how useful they were to use.

Food dehydraters still exist and people, especially who hike/camp a lot, use them all the time. Good video though, that rotisserie oven was massive. Lol

I still use most of these things.🤣 I LOVE my hotdog toaster, my wide slice toaster doesn't properly toast the buns, and I'm not willing to stick hotdogs into it to even try. 🤣 We fondu annually during the holidays. I love my classic popcorn cart popper, and my air popper. I don't have the patience to pop it on the stove. I do love microwave popcorn too, but classic popped is better. My brother used his dehydrator so much that he went through at least a dozen of them. He was a big camper drying his own jerky and fruits saved him a fortune. I love my pasta makers. My brother lived alone, and used his Showtime Rotissary oven more than his real one. He could make a juicy chicken, ribs, or roast then eat on it for a week, changing it up as leftovers. Sandwhes, salads, hotdishes, whatever he felt like making. He was also a big salad sh**ter. He didn't like slicing manually. We're not a fan of Soda Streams then or now. We had the electric can opener with knife sharpener growing up. It worked AMAZINGLY for 20 years. When it needed replacing, we've never found one that could do the same. My parents developed renal failure. Our ice crusher became a life saver. They were limited in their allowed fluid intake. Sucking on crushed ice made it easier to hold to their restrictions, and soothed mouth sores that are a common side effect of renal failure. Again, Fondu is a family holiday tradition. We have a wonderful battery operated sharpener that we use on certain knives, and stones we use on others. We used to use our electric wok when our kids were young. We just use our regular wok now that we're empty nesters. 🤣 We aren't big fans of the slicer/shredder. The Salad Sh**ter is the only one that stuck for us.

Food dehydrators still exist today for the usage of making beef jerky. A similar device; vacuum sealer, exists to seal up special packages for meats.

The hot air popcorn Maker was practical. Even in the late 70s, microwaves. Were like buying a Rolls Royce and putting one in your kitchen. Plus, microwave bags of popcorn weren't common until the 80s.

The Hot Air Popcorn Popper was a necessity for healthier popcorn. Seriously. Some folks want to enjoy their popcorn without oil or carcinogenic coatings hiding inside a microwave popcorn bag.

the OG salad shooter is the bomb! it slices or shreds and cleans up easily--plus i don't worry about hacking a finger off! And my H went out and scored a retro hot air popcorn popper--the slim one that doesn't use oil..best purchase ever! use your organic non-gmo popcorn, no oil, little sea salt if you want--and you have a healthy treat. Just bc something is old doesn't mean you throw it away✌️

Before the microwave - Jiffy pop on the stove was easy, delicious & no clean up required

Those popcorn makers with bowl are fantastic. Still around. Used them.

I’ve had my salad shooter since the late 70’s & I still use it. It works perfectly. I use a lot of cheese so I use it mainly for that. It saves me time & these day..aches from my hands. 👍😁

Ronco came out with the "Veg-o-Matic," in 1963. However, it was not a salad "shooter," but more of a rudimentary food processor. The "Salad Shooter," was released in 1988, not in the 70's. I took me literally 2 minutes of internet searching to gather these facts. As a child of the 70s, I can tell you it was the era of the fondue pot, the Presto Hot Dogger and hot air pop corn poppers. The real break-out star of the show was the Crock Pot though. The crock pot was a game changer and I remember my mom and the next door neighbor lady losing their minds, excited about dinner being ready when they got home from work thanks to the crock pot.

A simple mandolin is all you need for slicing. Unless making a ton of food, I don't even bother with my food processor. It is also just fun practicing my knife skills. I feel more involved that way, instead of letting the machine do it.

The utility value of just about any kitchen appliance is inversely proportional to how specialized and fancy it is. Microwaves, refrigerators, toasters and drip coffee makers have withstood the test of time for a reason and the less gadgety and more straightforward they are, the better.

Lots of people still dehydrate. But now we have better dehydrators to do it. I love my Excalibur dehydrator.

Big Lots actually still sells the hotdog toaster. A friend of mine actually bought one last October and it works great, but it's very difficult to clean.

I love fondue but don't need a dedicated fondue pot. Any double boiler will work. The key is not in the pot, it is in using the right ingredients in making the sauce.

I remember those popcorn popper that had the rod in bottom that spins the corn. and the top used as a bowl. These poppers did a good job at popping corn. We used our almost every night. Thanks for doing this, it brought back memories of the simplicity of the 70s.

They still sell the hot dog toaster and I gave it as a gift about 5 years ago to my brother who loves hot dogs and the 4th of July🇺🇸 🤗

I have the hotdog thing and as a history major and a film studies co major mostly in classical Hollywood films and film noir I love this!

Still I have a salad shooter and I still love it!

Microwaves were expensive and still new back then ,popcorn maker was excellent ,we used the hell out ours when I was a kid.

Your research leaves a lot to be desired! A lot of these "gagets" are still extremely popular. 😂😂

Food dehydrators are a big thing now 🤷‍♀️

My mom had a Salad Shooter when I was a kid and I enjoyed using it too! Miss it🙁

I still use an electronic can opener

I always liked the idea of the Salad Shooter.:)

I liked the popcorn popper

We loved our Salad Shooter ❤😊❤

I bought an air popcorn popper a few years ago for a healthier popcorn option without oil or butter. I have always had an electric can opener. You can still buy rotisserie ovens, pasta machines and food dehydrators. So most of these items aren't weird

I still have the rotisserie you featured. Easy to set up and use. Most parts dishwasher safe. As good as Costco chicken

We now have air-fryers to dehydrate foods.

I own a dehydrator now. Two actually. They works great. You just rotate the shelves. We have 5 apple trees and it gets used every fall. Also used for anything else I have extra of. With food cost being high and freezer space needed for meat, dehydration for future use is ver practical.

I loved our ice crusher. I used it daily because I put the ice in tea, soda, water, and even milk to keep drinks ice cold..

The Salad Shooter will be back with easier clean up, more blades, and it will be wireless.

I use a bowl with a lid with vents to make regular popcorn in the microwave, no oil needed and much less expensive than microwave popcorn bags. It works about as well as an sir popper and much less noisy! HAHA

Duuuuuuuuude. I still have--and LOVE--my oil popcorn maker. Nothing tastes nearly as good. And, okay, it's a one-use appliance. But popcorn out of this bad boy tastes AMAZING, while, when my coworkers make microwave popcorn, it either smells like cat pee or burnt leaves. I'll keep my bulky, weird oil popper. And my kid has already claimed dibs on it when my popping days are over.

I still have a popcorn maker.

I gave my fondue pot to my friends when I moved across country. They were borrowing it often and I didn’t use it except with them 😂

My mom still uses the popcorn maker till this day and so do I, my 15 year old son also loves making his popcorn this way versus the microwave.

Loved them ALL

I loved my presto salad shooter and I had it in the 90's. Can't find another like it 😢

Because microwave popcorn is nasty

i got a popcorn popper in my home and a light blue aqua Microwave and Toaster

Stores still sell food dehydrators .

I still use the shredder attachment to my kitchenaid. Use it a lot.

The hotdog toaster and popcorn popper seems like they would be popular with college students back them. I had one of those food dehydrators that I never used…… My husband got many years out of the salad shooter

The old air popper was/is the best. I still use it. The one I have is decades old. Way better than the weird microwave or messy stovetop option.

Glad I didn't have all of the items though I do admit to having more than half of the list and still using my dehydrator, rotisserie, popcorn popper, and a few others. I kinda wish we could get a new Electric Wok the later designs with the temp controller were not as bad as the original ones. Some kitchens still don't have the best stove position in layout for traditional wok on the burner. and its not practical to redesign the layout just to get the elbow room needed. Hope there weren't too many people who pointed out two of your items on the list were effective repeats.

Wrong about the popcorn popper. Many people I know including my family use it regularly.

My stepmom used an electric wok every week and it was my chore to clean the monster. It was really difficult and I hated it.

A common theme in all of these appliances, and why some have not survived is that they are not used regularly. Either because they are for special occasions or because there are other simpler alternatives. A lot of these could be replaced simply by learning some knife skills. In the case of the crushed ice maker, I make crushed ice for cocktails just by tapping the cube with the back of a spoon. If I am mixing drinks, there is the added bonus of showing off my bartender skills.

hot air poppers are still plenty easy to get as well as food dehydrators

The air popper was used many times. We would keep it running until the huge steel bowl was filled (20 or 30 quarts) and melt butter and take it to the drive in movie. The Showtime rotisserie worked as advertised. I had one but my ex has it now. I bet she never uses it.

Hot dog toaster. George Carlin said that if you nail two things together that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it. He was right

Well, Uni-taskers are never great, but I can find Many uses for a fondue pot! (We have 2) I use my Kitchenaide mixer attachments regularly. Love making pasta! BUT a Kitchenaide mixer IS a multi-tasker. Stand-alone slicers and graters turn veggies to mush. Gimme a sharp knife, sharpcened by my husband on a good ole' whetstone- "

Jiffy pop was best. The kitchen aid attachments work great. Fondue pots were cool but were a fad. Women were not into homemsking like the 50s and time saving was important as they found jobs out if the home. I was s latch key kid which had its perks but you had to fend for yourself in the kitchen ❤❤

My family had a popcorn popper in the 90s, and it was fun as a kid. We ended up tossing it because the wiring was getting messed up

I have owned all the devices shown in this video except the soda maker and the last item (The electric slicer and shredder) .. I still use the knife sharpener and hot air popcorn maker..

I've got a dehydrator and salad shooter in my kitchen right now.

Ah the popcorn maker...Fond memories of Dad making popcorn before movie night at the old homestead. My brother and I lying down on the floor with my mother to watch Star Wars E5 A New Hope on Satellite T.V and falling asleep halfway through till the award scene.

We had a Ronco rotisserie oven and they were indeed a genuine pain in the neck to clean. We ended up giving it to a family member. Looks good on paper but..........

I will not have a microwave and I hate the popcorn bags that they use. I have one of these popcorn makers with the revolving wire. works great for me

The road to hell (or bankruptcy) is paved by good ideas. Did I see Mary Tyler Moore in the advert for the fondue thingy. In 20 or more years how many appliances today will be relegated to landfill. The big problem with most of these appliances was the difficulty of cleaning in most cases.

My mom used her dehydrator a lot She also used her soda stream a lot though not from the 70s this would’ve been from the 2000s.

I have a hot dog toaster and 2 teenage boys. Best $20 I ever spent. My boys agree 💯

Whoa, hey hey now, we had one of those Ronco rotisserie ovens. They actually did live up to their hype and made a fantastic rotisserie chicken. You just needed to make sure you get the right balance on the spit. We used that sucker weekly until we had a housefire that made us lose everything.

Ok I'm 36 but I didn't know they made ice crushers.

Most of these appliances were either from the 1980s and beyond or some were from decades long before the 1970s Very few were popular or even available in the 1970s As an example, the video compares popcorn makers being an unnecessary item because microwave popcorn was so easy and convenient. Microwave popcorn wasn’t even on the market in the ‘70s and most people didn’t own or even know what a microwave oven was. They didn’t become popular until the ‘80s. Other appliances like the rotisserie oven. These were around back in the 1950s and yes they were big bulky things, that took up a lot of space. You would very often find them at the local thrift store in the 1960s As usual for this Channel, much misinformation and lack of knowledge

Have to completely disagree re the food dehydrator. They are still well used by those who grow and put up food and herbs. We have one that we bought in 1993. It's just for meats. The other is for everything else

Hot air popcorn poppers are much healthier than microwave popcorn.....NO OIL

I don't know, I have a commercial popcorn popper. Sure beats eating microwave popcorn.

I'd be lost without my automatic electric lid unscrewer.

What is it with kitchen space you go on about, with electric wok, some people don't have a stove and if it had a temp adjustment it could work

Joke of the day: Question - What do you call a vegetarian with the runs? Answer - Salad Shooter!

Salad Shooter should have been Cheese Shooter 😊❤

I want the hot air popcorn popper it was great

I have a stainless steel wok it's great for beer-battered fish make beer battered fish all the time mushrooms mozzarella sticks

I own a hot air popcorn popper. How else am I going to get black truffle infused popcorn? You have so much more flexibility with them. Also, I would totally buy a hotdog toaster if I could find one. Luckily, I have never looked because I bet I can get one. Maybe it's time.

In 2024. I have an electric can opener. And have seen popcorn makers like the 70s and hot dog toaster in Walmart.

Does food dehydrators make really sweet beef jerky they make killer beef jerky