{"id":868,"date":"2010-03-09T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:51:22","slug":"my-kitchen-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2010\/03\/my-kitchen-timer\/","title":{"rendered":"My kitchen timer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magic Chef Kitchen Timer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/timer.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><br \/>\nI have owned several kitchen timers over my 20+ years cooking, but none have lasted very long.  Now this may be because invariably I&#8217;ve bought the cheap kind, or it may be because timers today are not made that well.<br \/>\nFor the last couple of years, though, I&#8217;ve been using my grandmothers old Magic Chef timer &#8211; which I would guess (by the style and my grandmother&#8217;s last trip from Argentina to America, where she bought it) dates from the 50&#8217;s or 60&#8217;s, for the last couple of years and I love it.  It works perfectly every time, it runs neither quick or slow and it doesn&#8217;t stop.  It has a loud but not annoying ring and I&#8217;m just happy with it.<br \/>\nThe kitchen timer is not in the best condition.  It&#8217;s rusted in the back and the front plate is sort of lose.  It&#8217;s lasted 50 years and I hope it&#8217;ll last a couple of more decades. I hope.<br \/>\nI was reluctant to use the timer at first, just as I am reluctant to use any of my grandmother&#8217;s kitchen utensils.  I brought them with me from Argentina after my adored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxpublica.org\/2009\/09\/gladys.html\">aunt Gladys<\/a> died because of the emotional attachment I had to them.  I grew up seeing Granny and Gladys cook and bake with them, and when I look at them (the utensils) I can feel the warmth of their kitchen, and remember those sweet moments.  But there is some sweetness in using the utensils, it&#8217;s almost like maintaining the connection between Granny and Gladys and I.  So for the time being at least, I&#8217;ll continue using my timer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have owned several kitchen timers over my 20+ years cooking, but none have lasted very long. Now this may be because invariably I&#8217;ve bought the cheap kind, or it may be because timers today are not made that well. For the last couple of years, though, I&#8217;ve been using my grandmothers old Magic Chef [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}