A kitchen stove, usually called a stove is a kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food. Kitchen stoves rely on the application of direct heat for the cooking process and may also contain an oven, used for baking

You might be thinking, “why would people need blocks of ice?” The answer is, for their ice boxes. Before electric refrigerators, ice boxes (coolers, really) were used to preserve and store food stuffs. Putting a block of ice in the upper section of the ice box would keep cool the food in the lower section.

This fancy cash register was most likely used in a big department store.

People living in rural areas used ice saws to cut ice from lakes during the winter, and then they would store it in ice houses, covering up the blocks of ice with saw dust. Saw dust is a really good insulator and so the ice would last for many months.

A cream separator separates the milk from the cream. Early farmers used these as the first step in a fairly lengthy process of making butter.

The pioneers used broad axes when building log houses. Each log would be trimmed at least twice length-wise, so that logs could be stacked on top of each other.

In goes cream and out comes butter! Well, it probably wasn’t quite as easy as it sounds, but just maybe all the effort was worth it when you got to enjoy toast with homemade butter in the morning.

More often than not, a cream separator and a butter churn were not enough to make butter. A butter bowl and spoons were used to get the butter milk out of the mixture gotten from the butter churn leaving you with butter (in case you’re wondering, no, I don’t think I could’ve used the word ‘butter’ more times in the previous sentence.