Tools that make life for the Cosie Easier

[Delmonico]

A handy pair of tongs, I have several.

And a spatula, useful for many things.

I could have these all made out of forged iron, but this stuff or varients of it were being made in our time period by mass production.

[Ozark Tracker]

I don't know for sure about colinder/seive, but I believe grandma had 3 sizes all fit inside the other one

[Silver Creek Slim]

A handy pair of tongs, I have several.

And a spatula, useful for many things.

I could have these all made out of forged iron, but this stuff or varients of it were being made in our time period by mass production.

That ain't a spatula. That's a frosting spreader.  I used one of those to put the frosting on my better-half's birthday cake on Saturday. 

Slim

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[Delmonico]

Works for both, you can also use it to turn the cake out of the pan.

Here is a turnin' type spatula.  Made by my friend Harlan Krueger, of Dream Catcher Forge.  He also is the fella that made the triangle.

[Delmonico]

I have a lot of dish towels, there sometimes is a lot of dishes to do, Some are terryy cloth, some are muslin and some are calico like the ones on top.  I need to watch the dollar a yard rack at Wal-Mart and find some cheap material to make some more, I like the colored ones.

I carry some thin rope and these old type clothes pins and put up a line.  That way the used ones dry and when I pack them up if I don't get to them for a day or so they don't turn musty.  I wash all the ones I use in hot water and Chlorox, that way they get sanitized well.

[Delmonico]

Since my perrsona is a portable Hell on Wheels type resteraunt instead of a chuck wagon cook, I add some nice little touches, the first one is a cheapy from a craft store,  new and unused yet, I haven't did anything that I took vinegar for yet.  but it will look good sitting around and makes a proper place for my vinegar.

The second one I've used a couple of times, Slim will remember it full of my very hot, thick pepper sauce at The GAF Muster.

[Goatlips]

I have a lot of dish towels, there sometimes is a lot of dishes to do

Hay Delmonico, ya mean that after you do all the cooking they still make ya do the dishes?    Now, the cast iron, I kin understand....

Appreciate this thread Pard. 

Goatlips

[Delmonico]

Accualy, I most times don't do many dishes in camp.  As I get to it I'll show some more of my stuff, but I have 2 large galvinized tubs I fill with hot water.  Every one gets to go through and washes their eatin' irions.  For some reason the ones of mine and any mixing bowls and serving spoons end up washed.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Since my perrsona is a portable Hell on Wheels type resteraunt instead of a chuck wagon cook, I add some nice little touches, the first one is a cheapy from a craft store,  new and unused yet, I haven't did anything that I took vinegar for yet.  but it will look good sitting around and makes a proper place for my vinegar.

The second one I've used a couple of times, Slim will remember it full of my very hot, thick pepper sauce at The GAF Muster.

My dad alway has vinegar on his spinach. The hot sauce was good.

Slim

[Delmonico]

I have a wooden handled, tin plate food mill.  Sometimes when we make a grocery run to a small town store they only have whole canned 'maters and I need crushed.  Out comes the food mill.

[Delmonico]

The first picture is my "wreck tubs" the place to put and do dirty dishes.  These are the large ones I take for when I cook for large groups. They are just galvinize wash tubs.  One for soapy water, one for rinse.   Everyone is expected to wash their own "eatin irons."

The other enemal ware ones work when there are not a lot of folks around.  They also double as bread panns, I can knead it as well as mix it in them and a dozen other jobs, like peeling and such.

[Delmonico]

One needs hot water to do dishes, i use one to three enemal-ware water bath canners near the fire to heat the water, I had a picture of them, but seem to have lost it.

[Delmonico]

Lye soap would be period correct, but I use Dawn because it I know is bio-degradable, I can just pour the pans out.  The bottle is interesting, my wife got me some by a chance, they have never been used, but they are bottles to grow bacteria in in vacine production.

I also add Chlorox to the rinse water, it will kill any germs that way, just to be safe.  The stone jug is for that.

[Delmonico]

Here is a neat item another blacksmith friend, Dave Zahm made us, we have 4 of these, they can be used as a trivet in a deep oven to hold up a pan.  Note the circle is forge welded and the legs are rivited on.  One can make these using more modern welding if wanted, but the hand made adds to the camp.

[Delmonico]

What these are nice for is to have them setting over by the ovens, when you remove the lid from an oven, you have a place to set it that is not in the dirt.  Maybe not what you'd see on a chuckwagon because of weight, but our perrsona is portable resteraunt anyway because we cook for more than a chuckwagon would in most cases.  You can see the leg of one under the oven lid.

[Delmonico]

One can also toss down a bunch of coals and set one of these on top of it and put a frying pan or coffee pot one it.  Most the time there is a oven with coals on the lid so we can put one of these on top of the oven and use the coals on the oven.

[Delmonico]

In the thread on making a cobbler I showed another type of trivet I use to keep pans off the the bottom of the oven when baking delicate things that burn easy.  I have two sets of these, here they are again.

[Delmonico]

Two more types of trivets in the gear are this cast iron butterfly it bought at a thrift store.  Someone thought it was an antique one time, but I found Tiawan cast in it on the back.

The other one is another one made by one of the blacksmith's with a sense of humor.  don't remember which one right now.

[Arcey]

Ain't said so yet 'n I need ta.  Enjoyin' the heck outtah this thread.  Almost like seein' things in a mooz'em.

[Delmonico]

Thaks, I enjoy posting them.