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Vintage Americana Hand Crank Universal Meat Food Chopper Grinder #2 L.F.&C.
$ 10.55
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Vintage Americana Hand Crank Universal Meat Food Chopper Grinder #2 L.F.&C.The Universal Food Chopper was first sold by L.F. &C. in 1897, and proved to be so popular that the company still offered it in its catalog over sixty years later. It was marketed as a device that not only ground meat, but also processed vegetables. In a 1955 address to an audience in Connecticut the company's then chairman of the board remarked that, with the introduction of the Universal Food Chopper to American kitchens in the late 1800s, "Odds and ends could be turned into hashes and casseroles with ease..."
The number 2 on the device referred to the size of the grinder. Made of cast-iron by L.F. &C. in New Britain, Connecticut many of these rugged grinders have survived to the present day, outliving the company who made them; L.F. &C. ended its 102 year run in 1965.