Bernar

 

Bernar was founded in Gijon by Bernardo Suárez Fombona in 1946. Its history is that of an industry that for 74 years manufactured kitchen and household items, and thanks to its good design entered the international market. 

At the beginning of the 1950s, Bernardo Suárez invented a churrera that was easy for all kinds of people to handle. Together with his brother Aquilino, he designed a new churrera made of anodized aluminium and made up of a cylindrical body, a chrome knob and a screw spindle. The mechanism consisted of filling the body with the dough of the churros and turning the spindle so that the plunger pushed the dough outwards. Since its launch, it was the symbol of the brand and its flagship product. This churro maker continued to be manufactured in aluminium until 1996, when it was modernized and began to be manufactured entirely in injected plastic. The change was presented as a process that combined tradition and technology. By 2000, Bernar sold more than 200,000 churreras.