Thermometer - Fowlers Vacola

Overview

Item A: original cardboard box with images and text
Item B: stainless steel casing and a glass tube with numbers (for water temperature reading)

Historical information

A vintage Fowlers Vacola thermometer is a classic, often brass or stainless steel, temperature gauge used for traditional home preserving (bottling/canning) in Australia, essential for ensuring food safety by monitoring water temperature in large preserving cookers, acting as both a functional tool and a nostalgic piece of kitchen history.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-124-2025.290
Inscriptions and markings

Trade Mark Vacola Registered
Stainless Steel
Fowlers Vacola Mfg. Co Ltd
Made in Australia

"This is your Fowlers Vacola thermometer, specially designed to fit your Fowlers Vacola Home Fruit Bottle Sterilizer."

Contextual information

The thermometer was a crucial tool for the original Fowlers Vacola method, which relied on heating produce in jars in a large boiler to a specific temperature over a set period of time to create a vacuum seal and sterilise the contents

Keywords
Place made
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Primary significance criteria
Artistic or aesthetic significance
Social or spiritual significance
Last modified
Saturday, 13 December, 2025
Completeness
88
Busselton Historical Society

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