Are Vintage Kitchen Gadgets Better?

Did our ancestors have vacuums? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. We're about to guess when popular appliances first came out. But first, this portion of today's episode is sponsored by Helix, the right. mattress for your body and sleep style. I love sleep. That's why I start it by 9:00 PM every night.

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all our favorite appliances were invented. To the desk. Here we are. Okay, that's great. Let's start. All right. The crew has managed to find some very vintage and very early editions of. common heil- household appliances, just like this blender, and all we gotta. do is put them in chronological order. Right, Chase? That's right. Uh, so you have a board here, and I want you to get them in the exact right order. Otherwise, you're not gonna get a prize this time. What's the prize? Something very special. Oh, you're not gonna tell us?

Oh, okay. I'm not gonna tell you. Okay. All right. So Chase, what we have been told is that we don't necessarily have the first. blender ever, but we have, like, among the first blenders available to people. Yeah. I mean, this is one of the first ones that was available to, I think, not just us, 'cause this exact model is in the Smithsonian, uh, their Museum of American History. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Oh, that's … Well, then how much did we pay for this? $75. Okay. It's thick- American dollars … thick glass. Well, this is what you want.

So many of the carafes on the blenders now are plastic. Mm-hmm. You get all those mic- this is before the microplastics. You know? In the good old days. Okay, why don't you- Is it dangerous? Why don't you make a smoothie for us, Link, just based on your, uh … Liquid first. Liquid first, right? Liquid … What? Don't tell me how to do it. Well, it's- It's kind of my thing. It's a liquid first. I think that's gonna be enough. Okay. And then, yeah, I do do the liquid first, but I was just testing you. I also said doo-doo. I said doo-doo.

I do do the liquid first. Two scoops. Come on, Chase. You gotta, you gotta keep it together, man. Sorry, I'm just noting it down for my research purposes. Next time I say doo-doo, don't point it out. Okay, you got … I'm just gonna- All right, we got some of these. What, you … Go ahead and- You want me to blend a little just to sh- Yeah, yeah. Just to get this thing in action? Nice. And let's put some- It works. Put some. Yeah, I'll do all those for you.

I did what I did, and I stand by it. Then I'm gonna put some of this… These are not your actually pre-portioned ingredients. You don't put that much peanut butter in there, right? You're just taking from that. I mean, roughly. Huh? Mm. And then I always throw some of this on the top. That's good green. Okay, and right there. Green. On top. Okay. And-. See if it's t- I don't expect it to, to work, but it is. It's working great. I mean, this looks like something that would be in one of those, uh, soda jerk shops.

Can you hear me? Smells good, man. If you're a soda jerk, you got one of these. Hold on. Is that your breath or is that… Does the peanut butter smell is your. breath or coming from the smoothie? It's my breath. Hmm. Sn- snab it. Snab it. Which is a verb I just made up. Can, can I snab it? Hmm. It tastes a lot like my smoothie. It's good. Mm. It's good. It's good. It's good. snab it. Taste it. Yeah. It's good. All right, put that, put that right in the middle.

It's good. Can we, can we, um- That snabs good. That smells good. Put it, put it in the middle. Right between 2026 AD- Well, there is no middle … and 2026 BC. We don't know what. else we're gonna be looking at, so just put it somewhere in the middle, top or bottom. You feeling like a top or a bottom today? Bottom. All right. Well, that was quick. We have an ancient toaster. Now- It looks like a torture device. The, we don't have the power cable for this thing.

I mean, that's where it would've plugged in. Mm-hmm. But let me just show you how this works. There's a coil here in the middle that would get hot. Which is in any toaster. But you put the bread in. So put a piece of bread in. And so you would turn this thing on, toast it, and then check this out. This is the thing that was so innovative. Flip-aroo-ski. Oof. And you're toasting the other side. Oh, okay. Toast both ways. And then this, the other side has the other thing, and let's put a Pop-Tart in there. Yeah, go Pop-Tart. Okay.

Okay. Same idea, right? Come up here. That's an ingenuity. That's an ingenuity. And this- Doesn't it look like- … old- You were talking to me about. torture devices the other day. Like that one that you like- I love to talk to you about torture devices. You know how when you go camping and you, like, clamp stuff down, and then you put it over a fire? I know that's not a torture device, but it's like a torture device for, for food. Food. That's what it is. So, hold on. So you see cooking food as torturing it? That's interesting. Yeah, I mean, you're burning it. Uh- Well, hopefully you take it out before it burns, actually.

That's a little trick for you, Linkster. Well, you're, you're hot, you're hot. Well, I mean, will this fit? Yeah, yeah, so it, this thing stretches. Like, they thought of everything. This doesn't work. How much did we pay for it? We paid $34. I think $40 was to include the power. No. Yeah, we, we didn't want to pay that much. We stopped short. I mean, it'll hold half of a bagel. Now, why is it green, at that point? I mean, that's impressive. That, so that means it was a different metal that has, like, greened it. Is it, like, copper and now it's turned green? All I know is it's older than that blender. It was, uh, I think it's mica, mica. M-I-C-A. Like mica and wood.

You're saying this metal is called mica? That's what I read, and I don't know if mica is a metal or not. I read that it's, uh- No, yeah, it is. It is, it is … mica and wood. The handle is wood. This is definitely older than that blender. Yeah. We'll go to the very bottom. Oof. BC's. I don't… Uh, maybe we should leave room, 'cause here's the thing. If there is something that's older than that and it doesn't work, then you're g-. gonna definitely have to put it somewhere else, and then remember to switch it. And you said your brain's already acting up today. That's not- I don't, that's gonna be tough. Yeah, so let's put it right under the electric blender.

We know it's older, but we've got room for something even older. You got it, boss. We'll figure it out. This thing looks super cool. Where do we plug it in, Chase? That's actually a manual vacuum. My research says it works kind of like a piston. It was a two-handed job that you, one person would- What? … like, pump the piston up and down, and then the other hand, like, guides to vacuum up all of the mess. Let me s- I mean, it's h- it's hard to read what it says on here now. Vacuum was a two-person job?

Like, Warner Guaranteed Five Years Vacuum Cleaner, Vince Mutied Vrerare, Vrer. I don't know what that means. I'm gonna direct it. Well, I want to open it first. I want to see what's gonna happen That hinge is off. And then in here- It's a little… We've got a cloth vacuum bag. Yeah, standard. Which then you can get rid of all that. Is- Smell of that. No. Oh, whoa. You see all that? Can you see that? I didn't sniff. I s- Once I did that, dude- As soon as I saw it come out, my, my whole face.

closed up … I think you clapped. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't, don't be breathing that. All right. Put it back in there? We need to…. Oh, God, I got a… I literally ha- I just got an instant headache. I didn't even breathe it. Okay, I'm gonna direct it. C- you got some stuff you could, uh… Yeah, I got some confetti here. And you're gonna be the pumper. Oh. You're the pumper. All right. So angle it more higher, more high. And then what happened to this? Is it- There was probably a handle at one point that was like this.

See what I'm saying? See, why can't you do both? Why can't you do that? You see, you don't need me. Do it. Is it sucking? I'm feeling a little suck. When I put my- Am I getting any of the paper? … finger all the way over. Angle it higher. Higher. There we go, like that.

Is it getting anything? I think it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. I hate vacuuming. Yeah, yeah. I used to love vacuuming, but not anymore. God. Well, let's see if there's anything in there. That'll make you hate housework. You open it up again? I gotta open it up again to see. How do you get this part out? My research says we don't know. Don't break it. How much did we pay for it? We paid 59.99. Not bad. That much I know. We, it, we got some up.

Dude, this is … This does not- It sucks. It just sucks so bad. It actually doesn't really suck. I mean, because, yeah. That was, yeah, that's a joke. You … Why would you even? Well, I mean, it's better than what they did before this, which is just crawl around. and suck on the floor with their mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know all the people who cleaned in the days. Because brooms weren't invented until- Brooms, didn't have brooms. Decades later. You had to get your hor- maybe you got your horse to do it. After your horse made your soup for you, the horse went around and licked up your mess.

We know the electric blender needs to move up because it's electric. This is a non-electric item. This feels older than the toaster, because the toaster was electric. Oh, we have room right there in the bottom because. you gave us the flexibility- That's right … to not have to move anything. Put it on the bottom, bottom. Yeah. You got it. That looks good. Thank you. Clearly this is a coffee maker, but Chase, give us a little context here.

So not only is that a coffee maker, it is the very first electric coffee. maker that was invented for the home. So- Wow … I've been told that this one doesn't work, though. It doesn't work, and even if it did, we would need a voltage converter, 'cause it operates at 220 volts. Sound like a European thing. Which is a lot. Um- Now, how much did we pay for this thing that doesn't work? We paid $276 and 11 cents. Great. So this part down here heats up the water. Mm-hmm. It splurges over into this hole down in here.

It's just what you would expect. I mean, it's not rocket science. But I would suggest that what if we took this thing and we, like, moved it over here right underneath? Maybe if you, like, poured the water in, like, a container, and then this thing. was in this thing, and then that water kinda came over the top, it was all a. container, and then it just came out. How about that? That would be better, probably. We just invented the modern coffee maker. Now, before this was the case, how did you make your coffee? I think you had your horse do it for you. Yes, Chase.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, guys. You had a French person push it. Ah, yes. Eh? Well, 'cause- French press used to be a person. Cowboys made coffee. Cowboy coffee is- Well, cowboy coffee's with, like, eggshells. What? If you do it, like, in just a pot, you put eggshells in there, and it. keeps the grounds at the bottom. So if you pour it straight out of the pot, you won't get any grounds in your coffee mug. They stick to the- Eggshells? Mm-hmm. The coffee grounds would like, yeah, congeal more with like whatever is. on the inside of your eggshells.

And then you're drinking a little bit of egg? Yeah. Well- Just a little bit … like a whiskey sour. Wow. Well, how do you feel about this being more recent than the electric blender? It feel, it feels right to me. Th- yeah, this is so close to like what it ended up becoming, but the-. And the blender just has to, you know, we just need a motor for it. This thing's got multiple parts. There's something about the electric blender- Plastic … being, yeah, being very non-plastic and very, um- This is like from the '70s … unsafe.

'60s? Yeah, this is newer. Yeah. I like this. You know what? Let's put it in the middle there- Oh, God … of the, of the final three. Right here? Oh, God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't panic, just put it there. All right. Don't panic, don't panic, Chase. Little bit of panic. We're gonna get to this bathroom contraption in a second, but speaking. of bathroom contraptions, you know what? We made a change recently in our bathroom locks here at Mythical. And, uh, my personal belief is that was, uh, a change that was made because of.

Link's aggressive knocking that he, and the, the s- Well, he has scared many people. who were peeing or pooping- I don't know if that's the case … in the bathroom. So we did an investigative- Uh huh. Vlog. Yep, we did. And- And you can go watch the whole thing unfold, mythicalsociety.com, and you can. be the judge of why we made that change. Yeah, I mean, what, what's my interaction with employees who are going to the bathroom? Well, it's the only way to find out. Yeah, right.

So y- you s- Chase, you told us this is a bathroom contraption. Tell us more. That is actually a bidet. We paid $241 for that bidet. Oh, it's porcelain, right? Now, you can see there's no- Mm-hmm … faucet or anything. It's just a pan of water. Now, I will say- So you just pour water in it. Yep. And then you Now there's a hole in it, Link. Well, well I didn't know there was a hole in it. There's a hole in it. Yeah. Uh, so maybe… Do you know what bidet means? Uh.

It's French. It is French. See. It is French for pony, because- Pony? … that's how you would use it. 'Cause you have to sit on it. You gotta ride that pony. You gotta… Yeah. Now, I was recently in Europe and I… There was a bidet and, and I, you know, we've got bidets here. I was recently in Japan, and boy do they. The, here's the thing. The Japanese style bidets, which is what we have here in My- at Mythical, and we both. have at home, you're sitting on the toilet. Can you see me? Well, you- Yeah. You're sitting on the toilet, and then without getting up, a little.

thing comes up and shoots water at your butt hole, and it cleans it. Or wherever you wanna shoot. Wherever, and it's the best thing ever. But in Europe, it's a completely different thing next to the toilet. And so I was like, I've never actually used one of these things, these European. bidets, and I don't really… It d- the nozzle doesn't go up, it stays down. And so I started doing some research, and the way that you use a European bidet is. there's special soap and a special towel.

And what you do, is you go over there and you sit down, and you wet your butt with. this faucet, but then you take your bare hand and you put soap on it, and you wipe your. booty hole with your bare hand with the soap. This is what you're supposed to do. I'm not making this up. This isn't some crazy American. This is what they do in Europe. And they, you wipe it off, and then you, and then you stand up and you wipe. it, you wipe your, you dry yourself with a towel that is specific to that. And once I researched it, I was like, "Oh, this is why the hotel. gave us two little towels, and gave us this thing called intimate soap.".

The Japanese way, so much better than the European way. But what I'm telling you right-. Intimate soap. What I'm telling you right now, is that what you would do before, uh, plumbing, is you. would take a dookie in the toilet, which is probably a hole in the ground, and then you. would go sit on this thing, and you would put your hand in this water, and you would. wash yourself with your wet hand, and then the dookie would go back into this thing. Ugh. I'm telling you, that's what happened. Stop, don't say dookie. And then that's just on your hand. And then you wash your hands.

In what? Ano- you got a hand bidet? And I don't know why they haven't updated- … their technology, because. the Japanese way of it, like shooting at your butt crack while you're on. the toilet, that's the way to do it. And that used to be a Frenchman sucking up a bunch of water, just going… Right. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Useful people. Well, they're more than just useful. Yeah. They're, uh, con- they're- They have inherent self-worth. Yeah, they have inha- inherent self-worth. They don't have to, like, just suck up your trash- Right … or. blow water at your butt hole. Of course.

That's implied. So Link, I'm afraid to tell you that- Oh … this is the oldest thing. I can't get over what you told me about intimate soap, dude. You've been to Europe and you've seen these things. Yes. You gotta move everything back. And I guarantee you, you tried to use it in the Japanese way. You're like, "This thing doesn't hit my butt." I've never. It's not supposed to. Like, it can't hit your butt hole. You can, but you can try all you want. It won't. Like, the Japanese way of it, like hitting your butt and cleaning with, like, pressure, that ain't the European way. But, but I think what you're doing here is you're dabbing and dousing.

You're, you're dropping like it's hot. No, your butt crack isn't getting all the way in there. Oh, yeah it is. Look, I mean it, it's shaped like a, like a bootie. But it doesn't have to. It's shaped like a- Your hand, your hand has to do it. Careful. You see how it's shaped? It's your hand. It's already wet. I mean- It's your hand. I'm just saying but you gotta get your hand up under there and wet your hand with. intimate soap and wipe your butt hole. But if- That's what you've gotta do. But, but if you- I'm sorry. If you wanna be a European, you gotta do it. If you keep smacking it in there- You don't smack anything … it's. gonna leave- I'm not smacking. It's gonna leave behind what you don't wanna keep.

I will be doing some, some squat smacking. That's just me. All right. Bidet, yeah, this is, this is ancient. How much did we pay for it? $241. What are we thinking? Now we got this big honking thing. I'm guessing this is a microwave. Microwave oven. Kenmore. Whoa, look at this thing. It's so heavy. I would say it's 80 pounds.

Yeah, you can't take that on an airplane. Well, you'd have to pay extra. I know. And why are you walking with a, a microwave into an airplane? I don't know why I'm… Well, no, I'm putting it in my suitcase. 70 pounds, I think is the highest you can get. Oh, okay. Um- This thing is industrial. This is, the, how, now this is reminiscent- I'm gonna, I'm gonna. pop- … of my childhood, your childhood. You want me to pop some popcorn? Heck yeah. Because this is almost what the microwaves looked like. How long, Chase? Two and a half minutes. Oh, right on it. Cook.

I mean, I re- I mean, this thing's got all kinds of radiation just escaping. Yeah. It is reminiscent of our childhood. You got, like, the- Yeah … I mean, the, even the ones now have the, like, the screen. with the holes in it, but- But this- I cannot see what's happening … that glass-. Oh, I'm getting the- … the glass in there like that, the fact that it didn't… I. remember the first time my parents got a microwave that had a turntable and I. was like, "Whoa, the future has arrived.". It was a big moment. So this is just before our time. Yeah. VCR was our big moment- This is- … as old people now … early '70s. Which I think, you think the electric coffee maker is more recent than this?

I wouldn't think that, but the way it looked, it seemed more recent. But there's no way they couldn't have figured out electric coffee maker before microwave. I just don't think they needed it because of- French presses and whatnot? Yeah. It's popping. Yeah. What's popping? The popcorn. Uh, I don't feel right about that. Uh, nope, look what Chase did. He, you, you got ahead of us. There was only one spot there. I feel like we gotta put microwave as most recent and let, I mean, g-. give me a good reason why I'm, why that should, we shouldn't do that.

The, the coffee maker looked more recent. It looked more recent. I will tell you, this is a representation of the first microwave. Oh. Not the exact model. Oh, okay. If that does help. I'll also tell you that we paid $224.99 for it. That's a deal. Something weighs this much? I mean, most of that is just- I like thinking about- priced by weight. It's been shipped. Well, okay, so this is- My, my car is so heavy … this and other. items have been representative.

So it's the first microwave. Or the first electric coffee maker? All right, we gotta switch those two. The microwave, man. It's the most recent. Switch, switch those two. Let's see how that looks. Yeah. And how do we feel about the rest of them? 'Cause you're not gonna tell us- Well, it smells so good … how. many we have right, right? No, 'cause you need to get all right if you wanna win, so. Yeah, but we don't have a- You can just look at this and- Yeah … make some. swaps if you wanna make some swaps. The bidet is definitely the oldest. I feel good about that. The toaster and the vacuum cleaner, ooh, that's tough. That toaster looked really old, and that vacuum cleaner looked really old. as well, but the toaster was electric.

The toaster plugged in. Let's switch those two. Yeah, let's switch them. I feel like the toaster was archaic. Yep. The good news is, if we get these all right, we get a prize, and if. we don't, we still get popcorn. We still get popcorn. Ha. The timing. And we already win. Of course, we've gotten cancer from this. Yeah. So that is a trade-off, you know? You also get cancer from this, though, if you breathe this in. That's right. You get cancer from everything. You can't escape it. You can't win for losing.

I mean, I would think that it works. Ca- uh, can you set a paper towel down? A paper towel? Yeah, of course. We're eating popcorn popped by one of the oldest operable microwaves in the world. And does it taste like it's the '70s? No, it tastes like it's in my mouth. Mm. Mm. Okay. I haven't opened the script yet, but I don't like that last change you just made. It doesn't feel good to me. Hm. Well, why on earth would you tell us that if we were right?

I just don't like that last change you made. Okay, maybe we should change toaster and vacuum cleaner again. Yeah, let's change those back. Let's change that back, Chase. You wanna change these? I just don't like that. Yeah? Yeah, I just don't like that. I don't like the way it feels. Okay. So, um, you know, I, my intuition is telling me- Hey, whose idea was that? My hot dog on a s- intuition stick is telling me- You can say it was mine if you want. It's called a stick-tuition. Popcorn's good. I don't care- Who you are … what decade it comes from. All right, you ready to see which, how you did? Yep, we're locked in. Okay.

So, the bidet. Late 17th century. Late 17th century. Okay. Okay. The vacuum cleaner, 1869. Okay, we're doing good. We're doing good. Ooh. 1993. We were, man, I'm glad we switched those back. We were so close to not doing that. Mm-hmm. And, and 'cause they're so close in age. Great intuition. The electric blender, 1922.

Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay. Alright. Feeling good. Feeling good. Alright. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Electric coffee maker, 1954. 19… Oh, yeah. Yeah. And microwave, hold on, I'm gonna say 1967, brother. And the microwave. No! 1945. What? No way. Why did, why didn't you f- why didn't we feel- … a sort of. intuition about that one too? No- nobody… That's not true. 1945? I don't know why you didn't intuit it, but I do know that you failed.

Oh. So you don't get to be the Appliance Giants, and that means you also don't. get this teeny-tiny little coffee maker that actually fully functions. And, uh, it's really cool, but it's not yours, so. It, it literally works? It literally does. What, USB or something? Or something, but no, n- you're not the Appliance Giants. Oh. So that is mine. Well, all right. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is.

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