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Does anyone know what this 70s kitchen gadget is?
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ISTR my parents having one but can't for the life of me remember what the hell it was for. |
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tea leaves or coffee bean dispencer
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Wouldn't a jar/tin be better?
I dunno, these modern people are soooo lazy. |
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Soap dispenser?
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
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Wouldn't a jar/tin be better?
I dunno, these modern people are soooo lazy. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/$(KGrHqNHJFYE88fNMCSIBP(iJm3P5!~~60_1.JPG?set_id=8800005007 |
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
I searched one out a few years ago and it is still on my kitchen wall and used when I make tea in a teapot, not very often these days though - tend to use bags. They are called 'tea misers' and dispense one teaspoon of tea every time you push the button.
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Blimey, that takes me back, we had one of those!
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
Teabags went in to the top and you put the teapot underneath and press the lever in. i know someone who still got one and uses it every day, no tea bags for her
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It was, I remember we had one on door on the inside of out pantry when I was a child.
Teabags went in to the top and you put the teapot underneath and press the lever in. i know someone who still got one and uses it every day, no tea bags for her ![]()
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We had one of those too!.
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My Gran still has hers on the side of her cupboard and uses it everyday
![]() Mind you she is like that, don't seem to got for a lot of modern food stuff, sticks with leaf tea, always fresh coffee, not a jar of instant in her house. buy all her fruit and veg from our local market and her meat from the Butchers. She grows as much as she can. gets her cheese and butter also from the market. she goes into a supermarket only when she needs to and that is normally the Co-op, she thinks supermarkets are evil. But technology wise it is a different thing, she got apple Macs, a pretty pricey music system, but she do tend to listen to Vinyl's most of the time. Very strange person. |
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Mind you she is like that, don't seem to got for a lot of modern food stuff, sticks with leaf tea, always fresh coffee, not a jar of instant in her house. buy all her fruit and veg from our local market and her meat from the Butchers. She grows as much as she can. gets her cheese and butter also from the market.
she goes into a supermarket only when she needs to and that is normally the Co-op, she thinks supermarkets are evil. But technology wise it is a different thing, she got apple Macs, a pretty pricey music system, but she do tend to listen to Vinyl's most of the time. Very strange person.
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Sounds quite sensible to me
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Sounds like an ideal person to me
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Sounds quite sensible to me
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It's a tea leaf dispenser.
Push the button and you get enough tea leaves for one cup of tea. My nan used to have one in the 60's and 70's
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
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Sounds like an ideal person to me
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yes ~each push of the button on the front
~dispenses a tea spoon of tea leaves~into your tea pot The tea leaf holding canister part ~was usually see through red perspex ~and the other parts were in white plastic and the device was on a bracket which was screwed securely onto the wall~or side of a cupboard Many people had these years ago~ |
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Yup, we had a blue but always wanted the red one my Aunt had.
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My auntie Irene had a red one, my auntie Peg a blue one.
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
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