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Your Kitchen - 60 Years Of Fads & Gadgets review: When teabags, fridges and the spice rack were wonders of the Space Age


Bring back the toasted sandwich. It's a scandal they ever went out of fashion - a victim of the Delia Smith culture that claimed everyone ought to make a bit more effort in the kitchen.

Celebs Janet Ellis and Danny John-Jules demonstrated by whisking egg whites into fluffy peaks, though that is not using the device for its primary purpose — whipping up Angel Delight. There was no mention of the chest freezer, which stood brooding at one end of our garage like a sarcophagus filled with bags of peas and budget ice cream. And too much attention was paid to the Goblin Teasmade, an alarm clock with a water boiler that brewed a tepid cuppa to be sipped as you woke up with Wogan on Radio 2.

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