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

Use a small bread plate?
Don’t have a mangle or a carpet sweeper...

Well I’ve got my Mums steamer and umpteen dozen saucers in the crates in the garage, but I gave my mincer to the Charity shop last year as I never used it.

I also packed away my cheese dish.

My first washing machine was a twin tub, long gone and I remember when young water was heated by a geyser that used to make me jump when it lit. I don’t have a hand whisk, the sort you turned round and round with one hand, holding with the other or a kettle to heat on the stove.

Young water! Hot.

Double saucepan for making lemon curd.

My mother used to have a little wooden press to make individual serving portions of butter. It left a thistle motif on the patties.
I wonder if I still have it?

I do not have a chef and that would be much appreciated!

Yogurt maker. Kettle used on the hob

My chicken brick, I think it's called? So, it's a terracotta domed container you roast a chicken in.
Spong mincer.
4-egg egg poacher.
Trivet.
Went overboard when I downsized - and these essentials went overboard too.
Madness, sheer madness.

When I was a young wife I had a set of scales with little black weights as small as a quarter of an ounce.

AGAA4

When I was a young wife I had a set of scales with little black weights as small as a quarter of an ounce.

I still have such a set, also a set of metric weights to go with it. I use this regularly!

What I no longer have is a butter dish.

AGAA4 I remember those! My sis had some for show, but I remember a shop which used those for cooked meats,etc.

I am sorry I let mine go Bathsheba. I have never found scales as good as those.

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

AGAA4 I too still have a proper balance, imperial and metric weights. It facinated the young painter we had earlier last year. He's never seen a balance.

I have a double saucepan for making porridge and it's great for keeping gravy hot when you have quite a few people for Sunday lunch (now a distant memory )

We used to have a copper boiler but not for washing clothes. I used it for boiling whole gammons or 'boiling fowls' when we lived in a large farmhouse. I used to do them for friends at Christmas because the gammons could then be cut in half and they could glaze them in whichever way they liked.

I was lucky to have a scullery in those days.

I am very envious of those of you who have kept your scales. I used to let friends borrow things and didn't get them back. I am older and wiser now.

I threw out our little pickle fork then thought why?

A mincer which clamped on to the table or worktop.
Chopping meat in the food processor gives it a different texture

Potato ricer, I now buy frozen mash.

I don't have my Aga now. I've missed it ever since we moved, two houses ago.
Lemon squeezer.
Piping bag and nozzles.

I bought a butter dish in the Spring ?.

This has reminded me that I’ve got no idea where my trivets are...

I meant to say that I have a sort of bomb in which to steam a pudding. Made from aluminium, it is in two halves, with a trivet and a handle which acts as a clamp. I have never seen another like it.

AGAA4

I am sorry I let mine go Bathsheba. I have never found scales as good as those.

I agree with you there, I love the accuracy and simplicity of my balance scales.

I don’t have
a tea strainer now as we buy tea bags. My mum always had loose tea and so needed a tea strainer.
a tea caddy - same reason
Spong mincer - just became redundant

But ...... I do have a serrated grapefruit knife yet hardly ever buy grapefruit.