Dec 24, 2025
It's 1980, a simpler time when "innovation" meant removing all the buttons from an appliance and just letting it rip at "surface of the sun" temperatures. Presto really leaned into the "Merry Crispness" pun, promising a "delicious future" that mostly involved the smell of peanut oil permeating your wood-paneled kitchen for three to five business days. There is something deeply nostalgic about an era where the pinnacle of domestic technology was a bucket that made things hot enough to turn a potato into a weapon of mass deliciousness.
Sourced from the December 1980 edition of Better Homes & Gardens.
