13 WEIRDEST Home Appliances From The 1970s, Nobody Wants Back!

I miss the original Hot Air Popcorn Pumper. While there are still hit air popcorn poppers being made, they quality just seems to get worse.

My 97-year-old grandfather uses an electric can opener. I will say they are really great for elderly people and people with arthritis.

Microwave popcorn wasn't commercially available to consumers until 1981. A simple Google search revealed this.

Good greif🤦‍♂️ The fact that every product that you highlighted in this video is still available in one form or another, makes your title ridiculous.

3:03 I bought this popcorn popper in the late-70s or early-80s and still use it. It even has a metal tray at the top to melt butter. While microwave or stovetop popcorn is handy, it's also loaded with all sorts of additives. Mine makes a large bowlful of just air heated popcorn that can be salted and buttered to taste.

Before the microwave - Jiffy pop on the stove was easy, delicious & no clean up required

I worked in hardware stores in Canada for 38 years, and I can tell you, we sold a lot of popcorn machines. A LOT. The beauty of the air popper was that you can make a bowl without the added fat of the oil, and as long as you didn't put butter on it, it wouldn't go stale or rancid if you couldn't finish it immediately. There are also devices which allow you to pop the popcorn in the microwave without using a bag.

Normal people didn't have microwaves until '82 or later. We couldn't use a microwave to make popcorn in the '70s

I still use a Salad Shooter to grate cheese. Easiest thing ever.

I love my dehydrator and air popper. I still use both regularly

I'm 59 years old now i was a kid in the 1970's and I remember all of these appliances as my parents and kinfolk had them some of them i wished we had back today but I really enjoy watching these blasts from the past and as Bob Hope always said Thanks for the memories.🇺🇲📺📻📺📻🇺🇲

I'll bet 50 years from now, people will wax nostalgic over air fryers. 🍖

But they worked so good in the infomercials. Ron Popeil was a master salesman. Give it up for the dude. Hey, he sold spray paint as a cure for baldness!

Don't hate me for this comment. Looking at the salad shooter, I think about the Snoopy Snow Cone Maker. It is pretty much the same design. If you have one and you like it, that it wonderful. If everyone liked the same thing, the world would be pretty boring.

electric slicer and shredder is still pretty popular in korea and other asian countries. It never stopped being popular specially in korea coz they have dishes like bibimbap and many other meals that require a lot of slicing and shredding. They use it on the daily. I think one of the reasons why a lot of these kitchen processors fell out of popularity in America is primarily because a lot of people stopped cooking, and the popularity of fastfood chains in america skyrocketed. America popularized cheaper fastfood chains and many popular restaurants resulting into its people having less need to cook at home with their busy working lives.

I know a lot of people that use dehydrators. Especially for chili peppers in a humid area.

Bagged microwave popcorn was not available until the 1980s, but the flavor was far inferior to the Stir Crazy popcorn appliance my mom made popcorn in all the time. She used a Stir Crazy until well into the 2010s.

The popcorn machine is readily available in Australian discount stores, as is the food dehydrator. In fact, high-end dehydrators are available to dehydrate fruits, veges, meat, and homemade dog treats. Salad shredders are still available, as are soda streams, with supplies available at supermarkets and electric ice-crushers are a feature of most high-end refrigerators. How soon before coffee-pod machines fall out of favour as a too-expensive way to have a cup of Joe?

“Super fluis?” And many of these products are modern with a filter applied. I promise you there was no hot dog toaster commercial in the 70s featuring an actor with a tattoo, let alone modern three prong outlets.

I have no recollection of the hot dog toaster from the 70s. What I do remember was the Presto Hot Dogger, which didn't work like a toaster, you know, with heating elements and all that; nor did it warm buns. What it did do was literally plug your hot dogs into MAINS VOLTAGE and electrocute them. They tasted weird, and it was fire hazard since there was no timer or safety cut-out device of any kind. THAT deserves to be swept into the dustbin of history. The hot dog toaster seems like a work of genius by comparison.