I’ve decided to start posting more of the interesting thrift and flea market finds we’ve had up here on the blog, even if it’s a single item and not a large group of finds. In the past, we’d just upload the pics to Flickr and just talk about them there. But I’ve been thinking – tell me again why it is I’m giving free relevant textual content to Flickr when no one really clicks through into the blog?

[**crickets**]

We’ll still post the pics on Flickr, but just put more of the discussion here.

Anyhow, this was an interesting find. It’s a yellow mixing bowl by Hammarplast. I’d originally thought this was a Rosti (from Denmark) item, because the plastic has the same heft and it’s nearly the same color.

It’s actually marked on the bottom as made in New York. That’s interesting, because I’d read that it was a Swedish company.

I believe it originally may have come with a cover. One of the interesting things is that researching this bowl online, I came across quite a few “bread-making” blogs that all seemed to say that this was a great bowl for letting dough rise in. The thing is, so many blogs mentioned Hammarplast, and yet very few seemed to have a picture of the bowl. That seems a little strange to me – why would you wax all poetic about a bowl that you don’t even have a picture of? Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.

In any case, I’d be interested to hear if this really is the bread-making bowl they’re talking about. The Hammarplast company still exists, and they still sell a similar mixing bowl though it’s not exactly the same and in fact looks to be made of much cheaper plastic. I originally thought this was an item from the 70s, but maybe it’s newer, considering that they still make similar ones.

Edit: We now have this Hammarplast bowl up in the store – just in case there are any bread makers out there who might be interested!