I'm Vicki. My husband Mason and I run this business together.

Every kitchen we know has something in common. Someone has a pound cake pan their grandmother used. Someone has a spatula their mother-in-law gave them when they got married. Someone has a wooden-handled spoon they found in an estate sale for a dollar and can't imagine cooking without.

These tools weren't bought new from a big-box store. They were inherited, gifted, hunted down, treasured. They were made decades ago by companies that have since stopped making them, or that don't exist anymore. The designs work better than anything you can buy at a store today. The materials were better. The handles fit the hand. The blades flex the right way.

When those tools get lost or damaged or worn out, they're impossible to replace. Bakers drive from thrift store to thrift store hoping to find a square tube pan that was discontinued in the 70s. Cooks scour eBay for a used granny fork from the 1940s. Grandmothers email us asking if we can recreate the kitchenware from their childhood that they can't track down anywhere.

After hearing these stories time and time again, we decided to invest our life savings to start Old Country Kitchenware and bring these treasures back into your kitchens. We're not a big brand. We don't have investors. We're two people who listen to our community and bring back the kitchen goods from the past.

Thank you for being here.

- Vicki and Mason