Black Friday used to mean one thing: A day of shopping the day after Thanksgiving. These days, you can find great deals all weekend long, from Turkey Day through Cyber Monday, meaning you're not stuck trying to snag that one-day-only Black Friday sale anymore. But filtering through every online retailer and big box store's special savings promotions is overwhelming. Lucky for you, we spend time during this part of the year culling some of the best Black Friday kitchen deals we can find,
Every year new products launch at trade shows, and every year most of them disappear without a trace (often for good reason!). A few become solidly successful, and a much smaller number become all-time classics that change the way we cook. With the passage of decades, those all-time classics often become highly collectible. Some people value them just for their aesthetic qualities. Others collect vintage small appliances because their rarity, or their historical importance, means they can be treated as investments