Kitchen gadgets that bring back memories?

We have a sprong mincer that we found in a skip out side a sausage factory years ago. We've never used it just as decor in the kitchen.
Got an electric sausage maker we've used once.
Made nice sausages though.

kitty - at least he revived a lovely thread!

tanith

I have a bread knife that was my Dads I use it all the time. Funny too that also have my Mums glass lemon squeezer ?

I also have my mom's glass lemon squeezer ?
I have absolutely no idea why!

My Nan died recently. My aunty has said that I can 'have a rummage' around Nan's house, and have whatever I want
It's going to be very difficult deciding what not to take...

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I have pairs of DM's scissors - one of which she used to cut my hair over 70 years ago; a big bone handled fork with a guard to use when carving meat, same age. I have a hand-sewn and monogrammed linen sheet and bolster case, made for her trousseau by a much decorated French Resistance fighter. Best of all, my DGM's teapot which Granddad bought her on a day trip to the seaside - now over 100 yrs old which I've used with some of her precious bone china floral cups and saucers {all different} for tea and home made scones, when I've done an "English tea" for friends and neighbours. Old items with a family history are fabulous to hold onto.

I use my mum’s teapot. It doesn’t look pretty with several dents but it’s the best pourer ever.

Two bone handled knives. My daughter has one which she cherishes, and I have the other which has been used over the years for many tasks - one of which has helped me cement some crazy paved steps in our garden many years ago. It is still going strong and I use it daily. I also have my mother’s pastry cutters. A friend of mine has amassed a collection of old domestic utensils and takes them round to local retirement homes - the residents love to see and discuss these objects.

I have a large pudding basin that my mother queued for in Hounslow High Street in 1946 when the news went round that a shop had them in.
I also treasure a large stoneware jar that my grandmother kept salt in. I was told it came in a block and was broken into small pieces with a special hammer. She would reach in and select just the right sized piece for whatever she was cooking. A family of 11 children must have needed big pans of vegetables!

Yes, rissoles, generated by the mincer! Served with baked beans. I always preferred them to the rather dreary roast that preceded them.

mincer.....

she also had a bean slicer for runner beans!

I still have my mother's spong mince...we used to have rissoles on a monday from Sunday's joint.

Oh yes, the Spong mincer - I used to have a screw-on one that had belonged to my Granny. Messy old thing, and hard work too - I much prefer using my little food processor now.

Sorry OP that didn't answer your question - I may yet find another mincer, but it wouldn't be my mother's one.

My mother had a Spong mincer, which she clamped to the dining table and I had the job of mincing leftover meat from the Sunday roast to make shepherd's pie later in the week.

She also loved her Prestige pressure cooker, but I just recall the awful smell and have no desire to use one.

She didn't have a washing machine until years after I had left home, just a gas 'copper' to boil the sheets. I remember the arrival of a Spinarinse in the mid-1960s to replace the mangle in the scullery.

My first boyfriend's mother had a Kenwood Chef, and gosh, didn't she go on about it! She was a hopeless cook, but loved to show off. She got a Keymatic washing machine, which was a big thing to boast about, but it didn't wash things well enough and she reverted to a twintub!

Spong Mincer. Turned the remains of the Sunday roast into tasty Cottage or Shepherd's pie.

I have a large spoon that was issued to my great grandfather when he was in the trenches in WW1. It has his army number engraved on the handle.

Grannyticktock---My mother and then I had one of those gadgets for making cream out of butter and milk. It was called the Bell cream maker and we used it a lot (This was in the 50s and 60s). The reason it was so useful was that if you wanted cream you had to order it in advance from the milkman and it wasn't always available, or, more commonly, you bought cream in a tin and it wasn't very nice at all. I can vividly remember pumping the warm mixture , hearing the hissy clunk of the pump lever and seeing the cream squirting out of the tiny nozzle. Eventually, cream was available frozen in sticks in freezer bags which were easy and convenient. I wish they were still available---there was no waste.

And one of those sandwich maker thingies where the melted cheese was as hot as molten metal and couldn't be eaten for an hour. That was a waste of money and cupboard space.

I had a melon baller for a while. No idea why.

Does anyone remember silly, pointless kitchen gadgets? In the 1970s I had a burger maker, a chip chopper, and a gadget for making cream out of unsalted butter + milk (I mean, why???) They all required assembly/dismantling and were fiddly to wash and store. Other things I can do without are a meat thermometer, egg slicer, bean slicer and teabag tongs.

My MIL's Sunbeam Mixmaster... it just stopped working last week when I was baking with my granddaughter.

Thankfully my husband is an electrician and good with small appliances. We sourced a replacement part from a repairman and are having it sent to us. I have every hope that it will continue to work for another 50 or 60 years. She can't quite remember what year she got it, but it was early in her marriage, and my husband is 59.

I have my Parent’s 70 year old bread board & knife which I use daily. Also have a hand operated whisk and a big Mason Cash mixing bowl complete with crack. I also have a tiny fruit knife in a leather cover which she kept in her handbag!

I haven’t got any thing from my mother, but I have got a wooden chopping board my dad made for me, and a wire knife sharpener he sent me, by post, first class, after he had been so appalled by my blunt carving knife. I was making pancakes last week when my daughter said “I remember that whisk, with the red handle, you used to use it in the first house I can remember!”