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Name something you had in your childhood kitchen that isn't there today?

211 replies

OneUmberJoker · 20/12/2025 18:17

Microwave

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NextDG · 20/12/2025 18:30

So many sorts of tin openers- electric ones, wall-mounted ones, the basic one with a blade that turns the tin into a lethal weapon. Can’t remember the last time I used one now.

Appalonia · 20/12/2025 18:30

Meat mincer
Twintub
pantry
pressure cooker
kettle that you use on the hob

ginasevern · 20/12/2025 18:31

A hand mincing machine that mum used to clamp onto the kitchen table.
A kitchen cabinet before we had fitted kitchen units.
Scales with proper solid weights.
A coal fire.

keiratwiceknightly · 20/12/2025 18:31

Pressure cooker
egg whisk with handle that turned

MagicTape · 20/12/2025 18:31

An ashtray!

Appalonia · 20/12/2025 18:32

Flowersandfauna · 20/12/2025 18:22

We still have a chip pan 😀
but no leftover fat bowl by the side of the cooker (as it was called then) not in the fridge

Oh yes my mum used to keep a cup of cold fat by the cooker!
just thought of another thing, Berylware green crockery.

evtheria · 20/12/2025 18:34

Meat mincer - very heavy one that clamped onto side of table while my mum would manually turn the handle to grind the meat

Things that many still have but I as an adult don't, although I grew up with them:
Those twirly wooden honey sticks
A butter dish with lid, and a butter knife
A toast rack
A napkin/paper serviettes holder that was always on the table

tfu · 20/12/2025 18:35

deep fat fryer, a weird rotisserie style oven on the countertop, ashtray, bin under the sink, twin tub washing machine, box of white wine in the cupboard next to a bottle of whisky, black and white telly, hardwired dial telephone. Late 70s early 80s rural north Scotland

IdaGlossop · 20/12/2025 18:35

Jar of Bovril. My dad, who was diabetic, used to stir it into a mug of hot milk as a bedtime drink 🤮

Jar of calves' foot jelly (actually rather good, lemon or orange flavour)

Grapefruit knife

haribosarebest · 20/12/2025 18:35

@BlarnI had a budgie in a cage who died quite suddenly. This would have been in the mid 70s. I only found out about 3 years ago that he died just after my mum had used an oven cleaner which was very strong….🤔RIP Sparky 😏

JoyeuxNarwhal · 20/12/2025 18:35

Pull out breakfast bar.
Bowl of dripping.

Rainbow1901 · 20/12/2025 18:37

A pulley clothes airer that you could pull down from the ceiling.

Blueuggboots · 20/12/2025 18:38

Fred the homepride character.

Ellaelle · 20/12/2025 18:38

Whistling kettle you put on the stove lol

IdaGlossop · 20/12/2025 18:38

haribosarebest · 20/12/2025 18:35

@BlarnI had a budgie in a cage who died quite suddenly. This would have been in the mid 70s. I only found out about 3 years ago that he died just after my mum had used an oven cleaner which was very strong….🤔RIP Sparky 😏

Parents can be heartless.

Luckyingame · 20/12/2025 18:39

A Russian microwave, bread slicer and a great plastic container for whipping cream by hand.
Communist Czechoslovakia. 😊

ImWearingPantaloons · 20/12/2025 18:40

A chip pan, and a strange device attached to the wall which dispenser tea leaves

ACatAsleepInYourHat · 20/12/2025 18:40

Rainbow1901 · 20/12/2025 18:37

A pulley clothes airer that you could pull down from the ceiling.

I was just going to say that! Known as a "creel" in my part of the world.

BasilParsley · 20/12/2025 18:42

Ellaelle · 20/12/2025 18:38

Whistling kettle you put on the stove lol

I reverted back to one of those about three years ago. It's a Le Creuset whistling kettle which sits on the back right ring of my gas hob... It was invaluable (as was the gas hob!) when there was an unexpected power outage recently...

Triflingjelly · 20/12/2025 18:42

A loose leaf tea caddy that was attached to the wall and dispensed tea leaves into the pot via a push button mechanism. Ours was a deep red colour with cream contrasts.

NeedToKnow101 · 20/12/2025 18:44

A cooker with the gas grill at high level. A handheld whisk that you turn a handle to make it whisk, an in-built larder with air bricks to the outside (would love to have one now though).

Simonjt · 20/12/2025 18:44

Ecrire · 20/12/2025 18:29

Indian kitchen, and thus possibly still there in today’s Indians kitchens in India. But not in mine in the UK - a “boti”. https://www.amazon.in/Handmade-Coconut-Scraper-Traditional-Vegetable/dp/B0G53ZV1Q1
i would sit on the floor with my grandma and watch her shave out he insides of coconuts to then mix with other ingredients like ghee, jaggery and so on to make sweets. Yes my grandpa did die an early death of several heart attacks ….

Edited

We have one!

NeedToKnow101 · 20/12/2025 18:48

Rainbow1901 · 20/12/2025 18:37

A pulley clothes airer that you could pull down from the ceiling.

We had one of those as well. Loved it.

mismomary · 20/12/2025 18:49

Fish tank

Laiste · 20/12/2025 18:49

Sandwich spread !