In article >,
Mack A. Damia > wrote:

> On Sun, 10 May 2009 16:26:26 GMT, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 10 May 2009 01:21:03 -0500, Omelet wrote:
> >
> >> In article >,
> >> "brooklyn1" > wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>>> In article >,
> >>>> "brooklyn1" > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> This is the only one you want, accept no substitutes:
> >>>>> http://www.shopworldkitchen.com/inde...pc=70950000306
> >>>>
> >>>> I just peeled a carrot with one of the ones you sent me many years ago.
> >>>> You're spot on about the carbon steel staying sharp. My Swiss Star
> >>>> peeler has a carbon steel blade, too.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Oh, you still have those... yeah, they work good. I'm still using the
> >>> same
> >>> one for more than 40 years now.
> >>
> >> Funny, this thread made me go and take a good look at the peelers I
> >> inherited from mom. There are two Ekcos in one of my two kitchen tool
> >> drawers.
> >>
> >> They are older than I am and still going strong. I'm 47.
> >
> >they seem to work perfectly well, too, unless you get confused and use the
> >toothed side. (not sure what that's for.) i could see that design with a
> >cushiony rubber handle if i was peeling mountains of stuff, maybe.
> >
> >i don't know what the original poster's problem was.
> >
> >your pal,
> >blake
>
> I created a fuss with my friend a few years ago by searching heaven
> and earth for one of the old-style can openers with a point. You
> stuck it in around the rim and did a wrist boogie around the can.
>
> I kept saying that they disappeared because they worked too well!
>
> No fuss...no electric....just a simple tool that worked!
>
> And it disappeared. A curse on mankind.

I have mom's. She got it when she was in the Air Force.

>
> I actually found one in the boxes of stuff that I have accumulated
> over the decades, but it was old and rusty - not too good.
>
> I cleaned it up as well I could and gave it to my friend as a
> Christmas gift. Got a big laugh.

Should clean up with a bit of acid and some steel wool. :-)
Then oil it!
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