What do we NOT have in the kitchen these days??

I love my old fashioned balance scales, very accurate. I splashed out on them after I knocked almost half the contents off the top of the scales I was using and the dial remained at the same weight.
I also love my pressure cooker. Great for soup making.

Yes, we had a chrome double-spoon loose tea maker - just reminded me! It must have a shorter name!!

Milk jug!

I love my cake forks. We have a few saucers that the dog eats her dinner from. I was talking about mangles to my mum this morning. I said I bet they got sheets drier than a washing machine can spin them. Of course they didn't have fab con in those days which retains so much water in the fabric. I don't have steamer, sandwich maker or lean, mean, grilling machine any more.

I no longer have a mangle, separate washing machine and spin dryer, mincer - I do have saucers, loads of them! I do have a carpet sweeper which I never use. I bought scales with weights in a Boots sale in Aberdeen about 30 years ago - I love it!! you can keep the spring ones, they didn't last!

I would really like a grapefruit knife but they seem to come in sets of 4! I wish I had a marmalade cutter. My friend inherited one and I’m envious.

threexnanny

I've got a pickle fork and a set of cake forks lined -up for the charity shop when they reopen.

I have my late mums cake forks. They were something I remember her wanting for a long time before she got them.

DH got "messy" cake the other day and served it with dinner forks. I teased him and said that we did have cake forks and when we had some more the the following day he got the cake forks out!!

My grandma had a washing machine with gas burners underneath and a mangle on the top

Was given scales with weights for a wedding present 40 years ago and still use them. Hubby loves them for bread making.
My MIL’s mixing bowl - identical to the one my mother had
3 hand whisks
Potato ricer
Cast iron teapot with built in strainer / I love loose tea
Stainless steel double walled butter dish
Blackbird pie funnels
All the above in regular use

I would really like a large fat separator.

Years ago we had a twin tub which leaked. I hated it with a passion - inherited from hubby’s previous marriage!

Having sliced off the tops of peppers for stuffing, I find my grapefruit knife (redundant with current meds) ideal for removing the unwanted seedy bits inside.

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My dh sold our dishwasher as he said we don`t use it enough grrrrrrrrrr.
Great ..it`s your job from now on i informed him.
He didn`t say a word but i know exactly what he was thinking.

I would never be without a pressure cooker but I've recently updated my ancient one to an fancy dancy electric multicooker.

It meant I could also throw out my ancient slow cooker. The settings on the dial had all worn away so it was just as well I knew them off by heart.

I have a full set of fish knives and forks - never used. What a shame, I think I might get them out and see what they're like to actually use.

I used to have a coffee percolator but always disliked the slightly stewed taste of the coffee.
We moved to a flat recently from a house with loads of storage, a big kitchen and a larder so I sorted out my kit into "keep" and "charity shop".
Fortunately the charity shops were shut when we moved as the hob and oven in the flat are awful and slow so I've been using a portable one pan induction hob, an old combi microwave and a multicooker rescued from my charity shop boxes. I'm so glad they survived the purge when we moved!

Just talking about grapefruit knives on radio 4!

I don't have a Donkey Stone or a posher.

MiniMoon I have one of those somewhere! Going to look for it now!

JackyB

^I also have saucers, grapefruit knife and cake forks.^

Me too! And fish cutlery!

Me too. And grapefruit spoons and egg spoons!

Somebody upthread mentioned a cream maker. I think they were by Bell? Blue plastic top and glass bottom. Essential for 1970s frugal dinner parties!
I actually bought a new yoghurt maker a couple of years ago to cut down on plastic use. Use it every week.
I have also kept my grandmother’s earthenware salt pot. Apparently she used to buy salt in a block and break it into pieces, judging by eye how much she needed. She was cooking for 11 children so it must have been quite a lot!

Never had a Spong mincer though and ditched pressure cooker when slow cookers arrived.

A gas fridge with elegant curved legs - I remember it so well. The pilot light underneath used to blow out now and again when someone shut the back door. I was very good at detecting when that had happened.

Such a dangerous thing!

Goodness me.... I have loads of cups and saucers. They are rarely used but I have them. Tea has to be made in a cup. I don't have a microwave....dont see the point...waste of space.

Mil and Fil gave us a set of cutlery for our 25th Wedding Anniverasry. Last year I thought , for goodness sake why am I keeping it? So now we use it along with our ordinary cutlery and the kids took the wooden box.
The first time we used it we found that forks are blunt and the knives uncomfortable to use - and I kept it for nearly 25 years to keep it ‘safe’!

A chip pan full of lard! My mum always had one for home made chips, etc. So dangerous, always remember as a child the fire brigade being called to houses cos the chip pan went on fire. Air fryer healthier and much safer nowadays.