Ice Crushers - Vintage Appliances 

I just bought a Swing-A-Way manual model from E-bay. LOVE IT! It is exactly like I remember my parents parties in the 60's! LOL! My job was to crush the ice. My hubbs has been crushing ice for my latest cocktail kick using the baggie + mallet combo. I went to E-bay and found a model like my mom had an it came it today and I love it! I wasn't sure how to use the coarse / fine on it and that is how I happened upon your video! Thank you!

Oh my word I have the 3rd one from left where the cabinet is. I thrifted it and it’s in beautiful shape. I’m so glad I found this channel!

I had heard of ice crushers growing up, but never knew anyone who had it. We used the hammer method.

I need these in my life! Absolutely fantastic!!!

Ice culture in the U.S. is fascinating. A friend of mine, Teddy, was from Poland. When he immigrated to the United States he didn't understand our obsession with ice cold water and drinks. But with time he began to appreciate the luxury of having ice for everything! After years he was finally able to go back to Poland for a visit. For the trip he brought his own ice tray! His mother shook her head and responded... "You Americans!!" He thought that was pretty funny!! 🇵🇱 I didn't see the ice crusher from the cottage in this collection. Did it stay with the cottage?

Great content and great video! Thanks for the nostalgia. Such a nice escape from the modern / current times! 🙏🏻👍

I think the Rival in Advocado green did the best job. Our first and only electric cam opener was a Rival.

I have the swing a way ice crusher but it’s a different color. I use it all the time. I never thought I would but I literally use it every day. I love it.

Kev! What a “cool” treat! I love when you share your collection!!!! Can’t wait to see it all in person someday 😔... but til then how wonderful to see on here! My Mom had the white manual ice-o-mat one and I remember when I was younger I found it under the cabinets and took it out just to try it! Sooo cool! Looking forward to seeing more of your collection! 🥰🥰🥰 Jeff xo

Great Video with lots of cool info! 💟

Your Dazey at 3:29 took me back to my 60s childhood. For a little kid, that gizmo was so much fun to play with - and almost never used for crushing ice ʕ•́؈•̀ʔ

What great channel! Keep it going Kevin.

Ice crushers are so funny, or was it Kevin and Ralph? The Ice Age! I have a Ninja blender with double blades that I use to make ice drinks at various crush levels during the summer! But, I’m a vintage anything nerd at heart!

We had a GE electric ice crusher made in the 1970s. It was white plastic outside and it had a drawer at the bottom that pulled out from the front and raising the chute on the top started the motor running. I don't remember it having a coarseness adjustment. It was fairly quiet too. I also remember it dropping little black specks into the ice and at that point I decided to just use cubes from the icemaker.

There ought to be a poll taken which would show the number of people with hearing aids today that owned ice crushers back in the day. @13:45 Ralph and I said "whoa" at the exact same time.........love it!!!!!

Looking at that little instruction booklet that came with the appliance, I absolutely love the artwork of those booklets from the 50s and 60s. I buy a lot of them from thrift stores just for the great art and drawings. Not to mention the recipes that were in most of those booklets.

This is so cool and cute. I live it

I need that in my life (ice crusher)

So much fun to revisit the past. Thank you. Ice is ice And ice is nice. Haha

Hi Guy's, I haven't seen one video that you have done that wasn't interesting. Keep up the good work and Happy Thanksgiving! Ted

Wonderful , a new vintage appliance video which are my favorites! ! I’ve never heard of an ice crusher before now I need one & a Margarita ! Cool video! 😉

I'm sure it was painful to Kev for that one ice CRUSHER to break one of its parts on camera. Those things have served their purpose and like most old things should be watched over and appreciated. I'm not that old yet at 63 I might even be a Bionic Boomer I hear... Kevin appears to be in the same ballpark and the directions for the Blender attachment ice CRUSHERS should have been used with the PULSE BUTTON only and not at any high speed because continuously, I do believe the teeth on the blender base are made of a semi hard rubber material so as not to break teeth off when meshing with the teeth at the bottom of the blender vessel if the blades contacted something it couldn't cut, I believe. I have a like new Rival "Vogue" Ice-o-mat I found quite a few years ago and had every intention of using it for cocktails but became concerned about possibly breaking it or putting wear on the black painted parts or corrosion of the plated parts so it sat until recently because my 93 year old mother has a new desire to have crushed ice to much on, I believe it's because of during a hospitalisation for stomach ailment they gave her crushed ice instead of liquid water to quench her thirst so the old Ice-O-Mat is back on the job as it was intended with good old fashion home made ice cubes from the refrigerator. I saw a lot of memories in the background especially the "Electric Skillets" designed for "Cooking Convenience" and the new break through cooking surface coating "Teflon" 😂 so I'll be back to see more by subscribing to your channel. 👍

Yep. The mister and I love our holiday cocktails. I usually just use the big cubes, but one of these would still suit us. LOL

I have the ice-o-mat in mint condition mine is pea green 🥰

The first model's were great and not as loud as the blender model's, fun to see some old appliances.

I have fond memories of my grandma having a Swing a Way can opener mounted on the wall on the back porch and a red Ice O Mat ice crusher right next to it. Great video! :)

A whole lotta style points going on with whats on that counter right there 👀 😍🤩

Great video guys where the one on stand mixers?

Those crushers like you used had a suction cup on the bottom that kept them still while you turned the handle. I still use mine because we have well water and I dont want calcium inside my ice maker and water lines on my refrigerator. I grew up with the wall mount ones until we got 'uptown' and got the green one with the clear lower part. We all learned about drinking and alcohol being 'bar tenders' for the neighborhood's parents who gathered every weekend to play penny poker or board games.

One can never have too many ice crushers. When my mom tells me I have too many, I mention a man on YT who has more than I do. That same ice bucket is in my collection NOS with box. Your Oster all-in-one is really something and I have never seen it.

Just got an Ice-O-Mat that sadly came from a smokers home. Other then NOT buying stuff that smells, how do you get rid of bad smells?

We have the first crusher you show, but it is a Maid of Honor from Sears. My mom had one, and rarely used it. We did find the ice crusher disk, with cover for our Sunbeam Mixmaster that goes on the slicer/shredder attachment. It came with a sad rusty shredder attachment, and I only bought it for the ice crusher disc, and cover....also rusty. I cleaned it up, and coated with mineral oil. I've only used it once to crush ice, for a shrimp cocktail buffet dish.... I was horrified when I saw some of the rust bleed through the ice once on the table.

Hi Kevin and Ralph! Man, I had forgotten about the ice crusher! I clearly remember that first one, black and white, manually turned. I am seeing this video after Thanksgiving so I hope you both had a fantastic Thanksgiving with your loved ones or friends, or both! I had a great Thanksgiving with all my family present, except one grandson who is in the military and stationed in Alaska- But, he'll be home for Christmas! It has been over a year since he has been home. He has been to Iraq, Afganistan, and Syria since we last saw him. I hope this is a wonderful Holiday Season for you guys and that you make out like bandits in gifts, but more than gifts, I hope you have the spirit of Christmas in your hearts. You are 2 of my favorite guys on RU-vid-I hope you know it. B l e s s i n g s !! :-)

I am loving your videos. Love your studio and all your beautiful vintage items. Also I recently bought a General Electric combination can opener/ice crusher. Haven't used it yet, just got it because it was cute and old. The can opener part works.

Nice job Kevin and Ralph! Surprised you did not have a Hamilton Beach Gourmet Center with the Ice Crusher attachment and Hamilton Beach Blenders had their "Quick-Crusher" attachment for their vintage blenders too. Blender Ice Crusher attachments were not very effective and very noisy! They were meant to operate at the highest speed when crushing ice. My mom still has an Ice-O-Mat Bucketeer the is still mounted on the cabinet above the sink, she bought it about 45 yrs ago! I was the ice crusher, daiquiri maker We were not allowed to drop whole cubes of ice in her blender! "You are making it work too hard! And you will burn it out!" She still has that blender too!

Not sure if you've done a showcase video on vintage stand mixers but that would be neat to see :)

Oh man! We had one of the Oster crushers with the clear plastic container. Lots of daiquiris were made, back in the day! BTW, it was harvest gold, from the early seventies

Shouldn't the last one (waring) been called Presto instead?

is the ice o matic made with any lead parts?

Great video Kevin. Can we see one in the future with electric waffle irons?

Hi Guys! Kim here! I have so many items of days gone by, as my Polish Grandmother kept everything! LOL! I don't know how to contact you, Not tech savvy. You might be interested, please let me know how to contact you. I even have a Kitchen-aid mixer from the 40's I think( It still works). And a ringer washer all used up till my Grandmothers death!(2007) Even thou we had the modern appliances, she's not use them..lol. Her home is a time capsule !

I like this. I actually have the Ice-o-mat, but a later iteration of it as it's harvest gold instead like your white one. Not certain it was ever used, nor mounted on the wall as it was complete with original wall bracket still attached to the back. Anyway, found mine sans box at the Goodwill in I think 2010-2011 for my now late mother who loved crushed ice. I ended up with it back once she passed on in 2012 so it now finally hangs in my funky old kitchen. :-) I am now able to feature my house on my YT channel, John h Palmer (Little Haus, Big City) and the latest video is not even quite 3 minutes long but a quick intro to the channel. The previous vids are of weather related events that hit us, one was the major fires in the west and how it affected where I lived in Sept, and a year ago, also in Sept an unusual thunderstorm blew through one evening and resulted in some power outages and plenty of flashing lightning and booming thunder for much of the evening. Something we rarely get around these parts due to one missing ingredient, the high humidity that we got in spades that summer. More to come. Anyway, fun to see the variety of these ice crushers, both electric and manual models. I think I've seen the electric ones around from time to time. Dear friends of ours had I think a Daisy version hanging in their laundry room that was off the kitchen in their 1958 built house, complete with the original tubed Nutone intercom too. Don't know if they used it, but it may well have been from the previous owners that they bought the house from in 1969 and lived until Hank was too old to live there by himself and sold it and moved closer to his daughter in California. Both he and his wife have since passed on. I just recall it hanging just inside the laundry room when coming in from the garage. :-)

Will you be debuting a new episode on early Thanksgiving morning or has it been a busy week?

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