Your Kitchen Through Time

I remember going to the Ideal Home exhibition at Earl's court a very long time ago. I don't even remember any of the exhibits. I do remember that useless potato peeler thing though, my mum had one.

I remember all those K-Tel ads for kitchen gadgets that never worked.

As an adult I was never one for gadgets and I'm still not really.
I seem to manage with the basics.

My son has a machine that makes pasta and sorbets- at least that's what he uses it for but all the small working parts need cleaning so not sure it's that labour saving!

What channel is it on?

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I remember around 1970 my parents came home from the Modern Homes Exhibition with an Autochop. It looked very efficient at the exhibition but my Mum couldn’t use it due to her arthritic hands. It lay for ages in a kitchen cupboard till eventually my Dad used it to chop his pipe tobacco .

We also had wall mounted tea caddy in the 60’s for dispensing dry tea.

In the 1950's my parents bought a 'state of the art' spin drier they'd seen at the Ideal Home Exhibition, they thought it would make Monday washing day less of a chore.

My job was to sit on it to stop it from flinging itself round the kitchen floor and to stop the lid from flying open and gorging the spinning washing out. As the water gushed out of a spout at the bottom, the kitchen got flooded.

Not long after the old mangle was re-instated and the spinner, after being stripped of worthwhile parts, got carted off on the back of the rag-a-bone cart.

Channel 5 👍

NanKate

Channel 5 👍

Thanks!

The pressure cooker. Terrified us all!

I can remember my mother using a dolly tub and a mangle, then came the single tub washing machine, heated by gas underneath. It had a mangle at the top.

Then came the twin tub washing machine - a a wonderful innovation! Our very first fridge then arrived which sat in the large larder.

I had a twin tub years ago, very useful when there were two lots of nappies to wash.

We were astonished when my brother and sister-in-law bought a dishwasher, the first we'd seen. They'd been to stay with relatives in Canada and were very impressed by all the modern appliances over there.

Grannynannywanny
I had one of those choppers, they were quite hard on the hand but effective.

We had one of those tea dispensers Grannynannywanny .
Allira, did your mum's single tub washing machine, with mangle, have a "paddle" in the top lid to agitate the clothes? My mum also had one and donated it to us when we married in 1961. It was great, but we did have quite a flood once when opening the tap to empty it!
DH and I visited the Ideal Home Exhibition before we got married and bought our G Plan Dining room furniture, table, chairs and sideboard. Also a 3 door G Plan wardrobe. All still going strong, and looking good.

My mother had an attachment for her Kenwood Chef that peeled new potatoes - or rather just rubbed the skin off. It was some years before I realised that you didn’t need to peel or scrape them - better not to - but she’d never have been convinced.

I still remember the washing machine you had to pull out, fill with water, and put clothes through the attached mangle. But at the time I dare say she was relatively lucky to have that.

I’ve still got my autochop grannynannywanny.

We went frequently when we first married, mainly to look at the full scale houses the builders used to construct.

We first saw a freezer there and I was really taken by the idea. It stayed with me and some years later, six months before DD was born we went and bought a big chest freezer from Belam, and I have never regretted it.

When my mother came to stay after DD was born. I had made up all the meals for the week she was with us. All she had to do, was get them out and put them in the oven (it was before microwaves) and cook the veg.

She was so impressed she went straight home nd bought one for herself.

I bought my first freezer from Bejam too. It was a huge chest one and we had great fun going round Bejam buying stuff to put in it.

And, I subscribed to Home and Freezer Digest which I loved.

Auntieflo

We had one of those tea dispensers Grannynannywanny .
Allira, did your mum's single tub washing machine, with mangle, have a "paddle" in the top lid to agitate the clothes? My mum also had one and donated it to us when we married in 1961. It was great, but we did have quite a flood once when opening the tap to empty it!
DH and I visited the Ideal Home Exhibition before we got married and bought our G Plan Dining room furniture, table, chairs and sideboard. Also a 3 door G Plan wardrobe. All still going strong, and looking good.

I think so, can't remember.

I was going to post a picture of a Dean washing machine with attached Acme mangle but I think the image costs £350!

kittylester

I bought my first freezer from Bejam too. It was a huge chest one and we had great fun going round Bejam buying stuff to put in it.

And, I subscribed to Home and Freezer Digest which I loved.

Yes, our chest freezer was from Bejam, we went to a farm and bought quantities of meat and to a new frozen food outlet for vegetables and icecream to fill it. Arctic roll was a treat as well as Vienettas

Gosh yes. Our first freezer came from Bejam. We had one of their shops in our town. They had a good freezer section, and we also bought meat in bulk. Half a hind quarter of beef, half a pig and half a lamb. We did have three children to fill. The only downside was having to bag it all in readiness for the freezer. I dread to think how much that amount of meat would cost in today's prices. Good luck our appetites have got a lot smaller and we don't eat much meat these days.

Grannynannywanny the loose tea dispenser is one of the things I picture in my minds eye of being about aged 3 in our kitchen. ours was a “ 60s yellow”

Did anyone collect Green Shield Stamps, Co-op stamps, or shockingly Players coupons?
…. Then choose things from the catalogues😊

Granmarderby10

Did anyone collect Green Shield Stamps, Co-op stamps, or shockingly Players coupons?
…. Then choose things from the catalogues😊

Yes to the first two. My parents also collected the Kensitas tipped coupons, and my Mum went to the show room to get kitchen things in exchange.
I remember my Mum having one of those tea caddys.

Granmarderby10

Grannynannywanny the loose tea dispenser is one of the things I picture in my minds eye of being about aged 3 in our kitchen. ours was a “ 60s yellow”

Ours was yellow and we had a small yellow cabinet in the kitchen with a matching yellow bread bin 😊

Granmarderby10

Did anyone collect Green Shield Stamps, Co-op stamps, or shockingly Players coupons?
…. Then choose things from the catalogues😊

Green Shield stamps, there was a shop in the city where we lived years ago where you could go to exchange your stamps for goods.

We also collected Bsrclaycard reward points and you could choose gifts from the catalogue. Every time I thought we'd got enough for the Royal Doulton dinner service they'd increased the number of points you needed.

The electric carving knife? Redundant
The juicer? -ditto-

Did anyone else collect PG Tips cards? You could stick the cards into a book. We used to have an exchange club at school, but I never did manage to get a full set.

We still have an electric carving knife which DH wields periodically.

We have a hostess trolley which I always feel slightly embarrassed to admit to. But, it comes into it's own when we have big family gatherings.

I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1970 and also bought an auto chopper after seeing one demonstrated. I still have it although the box is a little battered. I use the chopper quite regularly for chopping nuts when I make a fruit loaf. The bowl on my food processor which is supposed to do the same thing reduces nuts to dust so I much prefer the older gadget.

Over 50 years ago, when Tesco used to pile special buy goods in the window and sell them cheap, I bought a Kenwood Mixer for £24. I bought it on a Tuesday so that I could get double green shield stamps. I then used the green shield stamps to get myself a really sturdy prestige hand whisk, as my cheaper unbranded one had broken.

Both are still in regular use!