Old Forks and Handleless Cups.

I have various precious kitchen things that belonged to my mum, granny and mother in law. And an old handleless mug of no sentimental value whatsoever which I always use for water to dampen pastry edges - why I don’t chuck it out I have no idea.

It's not just you, Calendargirl. I treasure these old things and always use them. My grandmother's real silver (badly worn) tablespoon. A fork I used to dish up the cats food with (many years ago). An old mug for beating eggs in. My grandmother's old sewing box still with some ancient needles and cotton and funny little swan neck scissors. All used regularly.

An old, bone-handled table knife that I inherited from on eof my grandmas and which I always kept sharp was my vegetable knife for many years. Now it is only really used for chopping mushrooms and it's kept in a separate drawer from other table cutlery. DD1 remembers it from her childhood and loves it.

Yes, I have loads of everything, but tend to use the same few items for specific purposes. DH insists on using wooden or bone handled knives which then need hand washing, and guess who gets left to do that. I swear he does not like getting his hands wet.

My mum told me to always throw egg water away as it wasn’t nice, so I always do.

She gave me a silver coloured metal pan which I used only yesterday to cook some sausages and bacon in the oven.

I bought from an antique shop a gold coloured spoon with a long handle which was a free gift from Nescafé. I love using it.

Thank you calendargirl.

My children don't use a separate egg pan and don't have warts either!!

kittylester

I have a specific egg pan too but - why?

I think it’s because a lot of myths abounded about boiling eggs- the egg water gave you warts if you touched it was one so probably not surprising the saucepan was only used for just one purpose.

I still use the Pyrex gravy boat which is the only piece left from a dinner service we received as a wedding present in 1969. I believe the range was called Chelsea. I also still use a little vase I gave to my mother as a Mother's Day present in the 1950s.

Yes it posted! Urmstongran I've got the lid that I use for a small pie dish.?

I keep things that I still find useful, even if they are old, bent or mismatched. DH included!
For mugs, it depends on where the chip is; sometimes they need to be tossed. my DH is a bit rougher than me doing the dishes, so there are indeed a few chipped ones.

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I came across this little Pyrex a few weeks ago. I’m 67y. This was the dish for my first ever domestic science lesson - cheesy mash aged 13y. I remember feeling so grown up smelling this potatoes cooking on the hob at school while I grated the cheese. THIS was proper cooking!

Also, years ago I remember my mum saying ‘anyone who goes through these kitchen cupboards will wonder why I keep one or two ‘odd’ items. They each have a specific purpose but known only to me. They will in time just get thrown out. But it makes me sad to think I’ll be gone before them and only I know why I kept them.’

With you right there mum. I have my idiosyncratic favs too.

I have a specific egg pan too but - why?

I still use a fork for beating etc that belonged to my Granny.

The prongs are all worn away into a slope on one side

I also keep a small wooden hammer from a toy peg bench
thingy, very useful for gently knocking tacks in to hang pictures or other art work.

My mum's Tupperware rolling pin that can be filled with cold water.

Camping knife, fork and spoon that clips together used by my sons when he went camping with the cubs and scouts (30years+)

I'm still using my mother's rolling pin that was part of a child's set that she was given in the mid 1930s

The soup spoon I use for putting coffee in my moka pot is one I dug up in the garden of an old chapel I lived in years ago. I only ever use that spoon for coffee and to use it for anything else would seem totally crazy to me - I've no idea why.

I use a rolling pin that belonged to my mums friend I’m guessing it’s old as I also have her engagement ring which is engraved with the date 3/1/22.

A lidless Pyrex casserole dish which was a wedding present. We drove miles to our new home, the back of the car piled with wedding presents.
I opened the back door of the car and a box of wedding presents fell out and landed in the gutter, the dish survived but not the lid!

These aren’t broken at all but they were my mother’s possibly even my grandmother’s. Anyone else got these ?

Nope.. Bin it or demoted to garden shed.

Another vegetable knife here that was my mums and also her cake knife. At least 70 years old.

Dads spool string holder is used all the time in the garden. Probably around 60 years old.

My Grandmothers strong square cake tins used for Christmas cake and other celebration cakes for the last 80 or more years.

2 tablecloths embroidered by my Grandad , probably around 100 years old.

My vegetable knife is forty three years old and held together with string and superglue. It's a catastrophe when it goes missing, as it freqently does.

I love old bone handled knives. Whenever they come into the charity shop where I work I snap them up.