Pans

I'm still looking at lots of the same old stuff because I still like it :-)

Much of it wasn't new when I acquired it. Kitchen table, WW2 utility model, cost £1 at the Scouts jumble sale in 1980...ish. I'm sitting on a kitchen chair which cost 2/6 in 1970. Last survivor of a set of 8 which cost £1 the lot in a junk shop. Its currently painted red, but in previous i decades it has been black, white, and blue.

My saucepans were new ( from Ideal Home Exhibition in 1982. Prestige SS with copper bottoms, Lifetime Guarantee and still perfect)

I remember my sister and mum doing "swaps" as mums pans had been family size and my sister had lived alone and had smaller pans, but when she had a family , they just swapped over, which was quite good.

My pans have changed over the years, according to what was going on. When we had the boat, I bought a pressure cooker for £5 from a car boot sale, which became an excellent boat pan, as it was both economical with the fuel and was safe, so that if , (despite the good use of the ubiquitious bungy cords to anchor it to the cooker) it fell off the cooker, it remained safely shut, no hot liquid got out. Used that for many years along with a pan that had a steamer on top so that I could manage more things on a two burner cooker. But as things change despite having a whole group of pans I find there are one or two that are always the favourites to use. Could never get on with Creuset I think it was called. They were very heavy , even when I was up to lifting hefty things , and it would be impossible now.