Soap saver: before the invention of fairy dish washing soap or Dawn as they use in the states. Women used to buy SUNLIGHT SOAP which came in a huge block about a foot long and you cut off the size of piece you required. You would put a bit in your soap saver and swish it in a basin of hot hot water which melted the soap to the required soap to water ratio then you washed your dishes but always rinced them in fresh clean water to remove all soap residue. Sunlight soap was also used with a washboard and scrubbing brush for clothing. You could also scrub your floors with it. It is a multi purpose soap... you can still buy it today. XxX

Hi Emily! I collect vintage kitchen appliances and your juice o mat is a NJ-848 model juicer. The NJ-848 patent design was produced between 1939-1946 so your juicer is from the late thirties to mid 1940s! I love old kitchen appliances cause they were made to last. I have a 1931 vintage oster blender that I still use and works perfectly and has a beautiful beehive base design. In my videos you see little peeks of the antique kitchen appliances I have, they are great and you got a beautiful piece of 1940s kitchenware!

I love how they use to name everything "o-matic".

that soap saver would be fun with bubble bars from lush!

I inherited the hand press juicer from my mom. The best juicer and doesn't leave a single drop of juice behind. I am 58 years old. I had fresh squeezed juice every day from our naval orange tree outside when I was little. Excellent. We would peel the dry meat off the orange halves and have that as a snack. The chopper you used on the zucchini was used for nut meats, onion slices and such and would have been used in a bowl for convenience.

Never realized, until this video, that I had never seen a pecan still in its shell. Love the cheese grater, we have one like it. The Juice-O-Mat is awesome!

The soap saver was being sold until the 1960s. I had one but it got lost when I moved. You may have to cut the soap with scissors or a knife and soak it for 2-3 minutes in HOT water. Then swish it back and forth. Yes it really worked. Those were the days when NOTHING was wasted, even a tiny piece of soap.

I totally thought the first item(soap thingy) was for making s'mores over a camp fire🤣

I want that Juice-O-Mat!!

Emmy, have you ever used a bar of soap for your laundry called Fels-Naptha? It's an old fashioned way to treat stains in your laundry. I love the stuff! It works when nothing else will! That first gizmo would be ideal for swishing the bar of soap around in your washing machine.

The one you used on the zucchini is a parsley chopper. My grandma had a similar one

My mom had one of the graters when I was little. I used to play with it and it was a "telephone". Many hours were spent on the "phone". Wow a lovely memory. ❤️

We had a Mouli-style grater when I was a kid, used strictly for converting hazelnuts into nut flour for tortes. Cleaned out the parents' house and it had vanished, along with various other things from my childhood, given away by parents slipping into dementia or stolen by caregivers. Sigh.

I'm so happy to watch emmy, she has so many layers and categories of videos about food, kitchen, and recipes. I never get bored

thats a herb chopper your using on the green thingy

Your Mouli grater would have been made of steel (or maybe tin for very cheap ones). Remember, aluminum is still a fairly recent addition to our kitchens. It was rare to see up into the '50s. This is one reason why "tin" foil is still used in common speech; the prevalence of aluminum in day to day life differed not so long ago, and in living memory.

I actually own one of those rotery graters. It's great at grating almonds for marzipan or grating anything that's too small to grate by hand.

In my home we use mouli grater to grind nuts for cookies or cake :)

I love these kinds of videos! And I absolutely adore you! Every single video you make I always watch the whole entire thing! And usually even if I like a KZfaqr I still won't watch every single video they make from beginning to end! But yours are always so interesting and informative that I just HAVE to watch the whole thing! Keep up the great work! Your awesome! 🌺❤️️

I remember actually using a Mouli Grater with my Grandma when I was a little girl. We used it for grating nuts mostly for recipes. I'm sure she grated some cheese with it too. I actually have two new ones now. They aren't Mouli Graters though. One is a Cooking Chef I believe and the other is Pampered Chef. They both have removable barrels, but they also have about 5 different replacement barrels. One slices and the others have different grating sizes from large down to micro graters. As with the Mouli Grater, they all can change around so you can use them with the right or left hand. They are very handy gadgets. I do think the Pampered Chef grater is a much better quality than the other though. I wish I still had my Grandma's Mouli Grater though just to keep around for the memories.

I'm pretty positive that Emmy is the cutest person on youtube!

Emmy, please consider captioning your videos for those that are deaf or hard of hearing. You can even choose the option to let your viewers caption them for you, sometimes in different languages. The channel Eat your Kimchi does this (as do many others) and I think they have fewer subs than you. Within a day their videos will be captioned in several languages. We would definitely help you out if you asked!

Last gadget is genius! Hi Emmy btw 👋🏼

We found the most awesome vintage kitchen tool while hitting garage sales one spring! It looked almost like a metal foursided cheese grater but it was actually a vintage toaster to be used with a wood burning stove or fire grate. We paid .25 cents for it, cleaned it up until it was like new, and used it when we would go camping for the perfect side to go along with our Dutch oven breakfasts.

Beware of chipping paint with the vintage juicer! I believe they are known to have lead paint.

The three bladed chopper is likely for herbs, rather like using a mezzaluna to create a fine chop.

Awesome video Emmy but that 3 blade/knife chopper you used on the zucchini, maybe it's for chopping herbs?

My great grandma would use the same hand chopper for her food when she was in her 90s. She would chop her salad and meats into little bites, so she didn't choke on large bites.

you just brutally murdered a zucchini

I'm watching this with my Mum who remembers using the soap saver when she was young. She recalls it *only* being used in the bathtub to make a bubbly bath - not for dishes. Hand soap apparently never worked well for dishes.

I think the triple blade chopper was more for things like lettuce & cabbage

I'm in my 50s and my grandmother used the cheese grater to grate eggs for egg salad. It makes more of an egg paste, which is really nice. The old graters were a pain because if you didn't get them absolutely dry they would rust. After she washed and towel dried hers, shed put the gas stove on very low and put the grater over the flame to finish drying it. These style graters are also great for grating nuts and chunks of chocolate.

Yes! Love this series! And that juicer is amazing

Just came across your vintage test videos and I love them already. I love collecting and using vintage items when I can and hope to surround myself with a mostly vintage lifestyle some day.

I've been watching ur channel ever since u had only 100,000 subscribers! It's amazing how much your channel has grown since then! Ur almost to 1,000,000 EMMY! So exciting!?

I've never seen a video of yours but I can see why so many people subscribe. You have lovely way about you. I enjoyed learining about the old timey gadgets. Blessings to you and yours.

Soap bubbles & suddz are a new thing. In Europe you wont find nearly as many suddzy soaps. I'm not surprised that an old soap isn't causing bubbles.

The zucchini chopper looks like it would be used more for chopping herbs, rather than veggies. Please post more of these vintage kitchen gadget videos, I really enjoy them! 😄

I love the Juicer. Have a beautiful weekend.

Mouli also made a gadget that had 4 discs (2 for slicing, 2 for shredding) that would slice potatoes,, carrots, shred cabbage. Sort of a mechanical food processor, actually quite efficient. My father loved it, he would make fried potatoes all the time, & we loved to take it when we went camping, to make huge skillets of fried potatoes (Dad's fav food, lol). Easy to use & clean. I still have it, along with the rotary grater, perfect for hard cheeses. Most things were built to last back then

I love these videos PLEASE make more Emmy!

As a child in the 80's, I would use the Pecan nut sheller with my great grandmother who lived in Texas! Thanks for the re-memories! I also used the the cheese grater all through the 90's and early 2000's. I'm sure my mom still has it! Sounds like it's time for a visit with mom to use her vintage kitchen! ;)

Do they sell bigger sized juice-o-mat? Preferable the size of a head? Asking for a friend.

We had the skimming ladle when I was growing up. Very handy to have, especially when using the cheaper ground beef (higher fat content) in your soups/sauces. And honestly, you just didn't worry if you got a few drops of broth along with the grease because this ladle was so much easier than using a spoon to skim with.

this is such a neat series!

2:25 that little giggle was so cute!

love these videos about vintage gadgets!!! :)

I think its hysterical you're getting such joy out of things I still use every day!

so nice watching an emmy video now, been really stressed out from school :(

Hi Emmy! I live in Mexico and my two grandmas, from mom and dad sides, had the Mouli Grater thing, when they passed away, i rescued both of them from being thrown in the trash, i absolutely love them!

The juicer and cheese grater were so awesome 😃

I love you Emmy! And your channel, it's SO refreshing.

I like my fat in my soup. Flavor. But that cheese grater. I want one. Very cool.

As a boy, I spent a lot of hours shelling pecans with one of those Texan pecan shellers (we had pecan trees). It took some practice to get perfect, unbroken pecan halves. And even after the outer shell was off, you still had to clean the pecans with a pick. But the nuts were really delicious.

We had brisket for dinner. You?

My mom had the Juice O Mat when I was a child. I loved when she would make fresh grapefruit juice with it! She used it for making us Popsicles with real juice. She mixed the fresh squeezed grapefruit (sometimes orange/lime) with a light simple syrup (sugar water). They were better than any store bought. I still make them. I just got fancy and started making them out of hibiscus iced tea pops.

Love love love this channel and emmy!

I had the cheese grater given to me in 1972 at a bridal shower, used it constantly for over 20 years before it broke. Love it.

Did you sharpen that chopper before you tried it? It kind of looked like the blades were dull and could possibly have worked better if the blades were more sharp.

Thank you for the walk down memory lane. Some items I know and really fun to guess the others. Medieval torture devices really and most worked but others...oh lord my hands hurt. Like your jar opener...didn’t that hurt your hands using it? You’re genius idea fixing that chopper handle, I’d do that for comfort. You’re so much fun can’t wait to watch more. The biggest point to me is none of these require electricity so when the power goes out as long as you can see you’re golden!!! BLESSINGS OF LOVE

I want the juicer and the grater!!! So innovative!

Hi Emmy, My mother bought the gadget you used for grating cheese in Paris, around 1954. She always used it for grinding nuts--walnuts, pecans, and even almonds into a find powder for various nut cake recipes. We actually never used it for cheese, not even once.......

thay look like a medieval torture gadgets lol

My mom and grandma had some of these except the grease "getter" and juicer. The chopper was used (in our case) for chopping cabbage and other things like that after it was cut. Not sure if that was the target for it or not. Remember using the grater when I lived at home. It was terrific and no knuckles were sacrificed. Easy cleanup too. We often had nut cracking around the kitchen table to have for baking. Not exactly like this one though. This was so much fun to watch.

A lot of juicers you are supposed to put the flat side up, you should try that way cause you might get more juice.

The triple chopper was what my aunt used for mincing onions, hard boiled eggs and chicken livers for amazing chopped liver. The cheese grater is not that old. I got one in the mid 70’s with 3 sizes of graters. At the time I thought it was very cool.

Hi. Doesn't it worry you drinking out of aluminium?

My mom had a triple chopper. I never saw her use it to slice like you did but to chop as you did to the slices. The Mulie grater I saw my grandmother use any times to make a fine crumb of nuts to top a chocolate cake with buttercream chocolate frosting

What a hassle to crack open some pecans! Just put 2 pecans in your palm and squeeze lightly. Fastest and easiest.

My mother had a Juice O Mat, it was green, and she used to make us orange juice on the weekends as a treat from the concentrate we usually drankl. It was so well crafted and did the job so well. It's gone with the wind now, just like my dear old mum.

That juicer reminded me of fallout

That Cook's Illustrated magazine always has a segment for old/vintage kitchen gadgets people send in, its pretty neat, and overall a great magazine for cooking fanatics.

Did that old soap have any smell to it when you got it wet?

We had the pecan seller growing up. You nip the two ends, then you go along the sides, grabbing so to remove the side portion where the two halves meet. Nip the outer shell on both sides, and pull it apart, a nut pick to get any shell out of the nooks & crannies.

R.I.P Zucchini - Killed by Emmy with the Triple Blade Chopper.

I love the vintage kitchen gadgets vids. it's like antiques roadshow except that you are way more entertaining

I really want that fat separator thing. Can't stand pools of fat in my food

I do believe that the EmmyMade I ever watched was your first gadget test & I was hooked. I enjoy watching & learning about these things.

How do you not have 1 millions subs? :(

I am over 65 and when I was small my mother had a soap saver but not like that. I would love to have another one. It was green round plastic with a handle and it had an opening at the top where you could put the slivers of soap in- My mother was so cheap and she liked it too.

I thought the 1st gadget was supposed to grab noodles XD

My mother told me about using one of those soap saver things when she was a girl. But they used soap flakes or chips- what you’d get if you grated those pieces of soap. Also, they swished it in very hot water to get suds. But that’s how they did the dishes before liquid dish detergent took over the market.

Pecan....pe-kawn sounds better than pee-can. The latter sounds like a waste disposal container

I've seen "fat separation" gadgets before, but they where more like a flower watering can, except the pipe starts at the bottom. A really clever thing that I hope to one day have in my kitchen.

I don't understand it why does she not have a million subs i don't get it

Emmy you are so wonderful I truly love watching your videos. You really go into detail with food and do your research for gadgets, and I absolutely love gadget testing as I love seeing how far we have come in technology. Keep up the amazing work!!!!! You definitely have a lifetime subscriber here!

I remember my mother using the soap swisher when I was a tot (I'm 70 now). She used the same red bar soap they used in the movie The Christmas Story. I have the three-blade chopper (which I never use) and the Mouli-Grater (which is a great grater!).

The soap saver method my mother and both grandmothers used was to put all the little scraps of soap (softened up with water) into a wet washcloth and squish them into one multi-colored bar/lump of soap.

I used to have that same juicer. It was "lost" in a move (I think my now ex-husband sold it in a yard sale). Loved that juicer.

Great video! A couple of comments: The reason Mouli Graters are still very popular is because they're great for chopping MJ buds for smoking. ;) My grandmother had a home-made soap-saver for doing the dishes, which consisted of a tin can with a bunch of holes punched in the bottom with a nail, & a piece of plastic coated wire as a handle at the top so you could hang it from your tap while you were running the water. Even easier to use than the one you showed, because no swishing is required.

Thank you for this video! Shortly after seeing this video, I ran across the juicer in an antique store. I was practically giddy when I made my purchase. I love it..!! Gets so much juice from the citrus that it will have a place on my counter for all my lemon squeezing!!

The real perk with that nutcracker is that little red shield keep the nut shrapnel from hitting you in the eye , face or ending up on the other side of the kitchen.

We have a similar chopping device still in my family for chopping onions. But ours has a cylindrical "lid" around it and with every chop turns for a couple of degrees so there is no mess and it actually chops very evenly. I don't use it in day to day cooking but it's great for very large portions. 😄

Emmy! You are so calming and sweet. Your kids are very lucky!!

So excited I just finished part 1 and saw there was a part 2 I love baking and I'm in love with these definitely do part 3 please

I have been looking for a triple blade chopper for so long. I used one as a child. It makes chopping eggs for egg salad so easy. Thanks for finally giving me the name of it

I have a soap saver hanging up in my laundry. We also used them in home economics in high school in the late 1980's to do the dishes.

OGM, you have my grandmother's juicer!!! I was a child and lived with her in the summer and we used to make juice all the time with that juicer. You're soooo lucky to have one.

love these vintage videos :) we used to have a plastic mouli grater and had different spools for different results, large/small graters and julienne. No shredded fingertips when grating cheese!!

That citrus juicer looks big enough to handle a grapefruit half! (I remember most of the antique kitchen gadgets from my mother's kitchen when I was growing up in the1950s. I still have a few of my mom's old tools.)