Kitchen Utensils

Thousands of small kitchen utensils were manufactured during the 1900s. Some collectors specialize in a special kitchen tool—an eggbeater, spatula, corkscrew, or bottle opener. Others might want anything with a Bakelite or green wooden handle. Bakelite, a phenol-formaldehyde resin and an early synthetic plastic, was invented in 1907 by chemist Leo Baekeland. He patented the […]