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

[OneUmberJoker]

Microwave

Damp kitchen towel, wipe it down

Egg slicer
Lard
Spam

We used to wash them in the sink and put them in a clean tea towel, take them into the yard and swing them vigorously around to get all the water out by centrifugal force.

I treated myself to a lemon squeezer quite recently and love it!

A microwave
Bread bin
Homepride jar thing
Gas cooker
Instant coffee
An ashtray
packets of those hard icing letters to put on birthday cakes
Mice

Oh! Model Milk!

Balancing scales with weights
Coffee grinder on wall
Lloyds Bank moneyboxes
Dripping (in fridge)
10-packs of mini pizzas and strawberry mousses from Bejam.
My one and only doggie ❤️

I have one of those now, it's great, although it's in the utility room, not the kitchen.

My parents had a loose tea dispenser on the wall. It was made of some kind of plastic and a coloured, but clear kind of window so you could see the tea leaves. I think it would be either blue or red for that window and you pushed a button for it to dispense the required amount of leaves. It's a very old memory so it's quite hazy

A picture of the sacred bleeding
heart of Jesus, with a red light.
The eyes staring at you . 😳😂😂

A sodastream and vast quantities of Tupperware

I forgot the Bejam food!!

Also remembering the eye level grill, the grill of all grills, modern grills absolutely do not go anywhere near a free standing eye level gas grill from olden days. Not even the airfryer grill.

why do you ask these questions? who cares?

Yeah who cares about memories, discourse with your fellow humans, nostalgia, learning something about someone elses experience.....

Citrus press - heavy white metal thing about ten inches high with a place to put a glass or jar underneath and a huge handle that pulls up to clear space for the fruit then down to press it.

Apple corer (manual - metal thing you push down to cut a circle round the core and the rest in even slices.

One of those Salton two-tier trolleys with the heatable glass top - indispensable for drying fruit for Dundee cake or getting your bread dough to rise, according to my mother.

I couldn't live without my salad spinner, though. Well, I could, but I'd be wasting a LOT of paper towels (or washing a lot of reusable towels) every day.

Camp coffee
Swedish crispbreads
Little soup bowls with soup recipes on them
Brown glass mugs

A fat back tv

Quite often a saddle with my mum yelling "will you take that bloody thing UPSTAIRS!" because it took up space but she didn't like me cleaning tack anywhere in the house really anyway.

And grapefruit spoons. Are they still a thing? Cake forks and fish knives and all that, because we had delusions of grandeur.

A mouli! I used to get to turn the handle to grate cheese.

A ringer that you rolled the wet washing in to squeeze out the water. (Before spin dryers were common)

A Dandycord mat (made of woven plastic cords
A sort of curtain made of multicoloured plastic strips hanging in the doorway to keep flies out of the kitchen
Melamine cups and bowls
A checked nylon overall which my mum and grand always wore when cooking and cleaning

I also have fond memories of my dad making coffee in a silver coloured perculator, which had a glass dome on the top so you could see the coffee bubbling.
Ice Magic - a real treat but apparently mainly chemicals 😂

We also had a mincer that clamped to the worktop and a chip pan. My DM also had an old saucepan that she would boil socks in to keep them white. I don’t have that.

Cockroaches. (It was a hot country)

Gremlin Cordial for the Soda Stream.
a Soda Stream.
mice

A tomato knife