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Earlier this year, the BBC aired a TV feature in which Stephen Fry looked at what he considers to be the hundred greatest gadgets ever invented. Not surprisingly, quite a few of them involved the kitchen, including the toaster (patented in 1919), can opener (patented 1855), coffee maker (1840), microwave (first sold in 1947) and corkscrew, the earliest reference to which described it in 1681 as a “steel worm used for the drawing of Corks out of Bottles.”The food processor was invented by a French catering salesman and first marketed in 1960, while we owe the invention of the first self- off-shutting electric kettle to G.E. (1930).
