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

[OneUmberJoker]

Microwave

We had the (huge) malt extract jar and anotherof cod liver oil - my dad used to line the five of us, plus any unsuspecting friends, up for a dose.

Vesta curry

Eye level gas grill and chip pan full of solid fat

And cheese wire

A big box of matches,. There was no gas or electricity in our house out on the moors - we had a coal fire and a calor gas stove. My mum kept a diary and one entry was "Wonderful lit her first match today". I'd have been about 6.

We had a big playpen set up in the kitchen, not just for babies, but also for any orphaned lambs that needed to be kept warm.

You consider a salad spinner to be waste of space?

Colour me puzzled. Personally I don’t like wet lettuce, and I don’t know anyone who does…

Dangly bead curtain at the door of the pantry.

Loads of 'blackpat' beetles. 🤢

That's exactly how I was taught to dry salad.

From my mum's kitchen, which was huge, quite a list.

Table and benches
A gas cooker with an eye-level grill which you could sort of change in to a rotisserie meat spit, that was used once, where it spat fat all over the kitchen and anyone in there
Ashtrays
A hatch
An electric carving knife only used, bizarrely, to cut oranges to put on the orange juicer
A corner of the kitchen with a kettle, a bottle of milk and a tea caddy, tea must be made every 10 mins so no point putting the milk away
duct tape holding the freezer door closed because the seal had split.

A cream coloured gadget stuck to the wall that dispensed tea leaves.
Whistling kettle.
A whisk for beating egg whites or cream (or getting stuck in your sister's hair).
A gas cooker with eye level grill - DM still has it.
Meat grinder that attached to the edge of the counter.
Formica counter.
Short fridge that fit under the counter (DM still has one).
Lovely old pyrex dishes (still there).
When I visited last year I found a bottle of chicory coffee that was probably there during my childhood.

Twin tub washing machine washed clothes so good. My whites were so white. Bit of a fuss to use but much cleaner clothes than the washing machines we have now. If I had room I would love to have one now.

Very useful for getting the last of the Primula cheese spread out.

Clearly not you. Other like a good old bit of nostalgia. Get on another thread if you don't.

I came on to say Birds Apeel. That's also a great description of it. I can still remember the taste of it's bright, tangy sweetness now!

A lot of the things said, my parents still have; a whistling kettle (goes on the aga) formica benches, a salt pig for starters.

My Mum and I bought a big jar of malt extract a few years ago after having a really rough winter full of colds. We would have our teaspoon each before opening up our café eveey morning and praying it would keep us well. I might get some again.

Depends - my dad found himself working near one of the villages he grew up in and he went for a walk around to see what had changed. The inhabitant of the house my grandparents had rented came out to ask (nicely!) why he was standing in the lane staring at her house and he explained - she invited him in and got him to tell her which rooms had been what (as in dining room, living room, who'd had which bedroom) and how the kitchen had been kitted out, what shops had been in the village, what he remembered about the school...

An AGA 😊

Twin tub
Chip pan
Larder
Bush radio (the iconic one you see on period dramas set in the 50s or 60s)

My Nana's kitchen had the tealeaf dispenser. She also had a twin tub and a pantry.

In the pantry was a fridge, that ran on gas.

Orange walls
patterned plates made of Pyrex
milk bottles in the fridge with metallic lids that the birds pecked
ovalfine
wooden coffee grinder
large radio playing Wogan or Jimmy Young
yellow topped stools
wooden dispenser for things like kitchen roll
Formica table before we got a pine one
patterned saucepans
pull out cooker that was brown
serving hatch
heated trolley
chip fryer
yellow / white patterned tiles
net curtains
Ajax floor cleaner
Parmesan cheese gratings that were dry and digesting
Liebfraumilch wine

All this. And a crockpot. Also a mincer clamped to the table and a huge press that chipped the potatoes.

We also had various budgies in cages in our kitchen all through my childhood!

But you can dry salad leaves in a tea towel and that doesn't take up room.

I'm fascinated by the idea of a tea leaf dispenser. I have never heard of them before. Why wouldn't you just keep it in a caddy? Wouldn't it get dusty or dirty, mounted on the wall, rather than in a tin in a cupboard?

There's a picture of a tea leaf dispenser a wee bit further back and it's enclosed by the look of it with a lid 👍😁

I couldn't agree more, they were totally brilliant. My parents always had a cooker with one, and so did I when I first got married. That cooker lasted for years, and it was only when it finally conked out I discovered that you couldn't buy cookers with an eye-level grill any more. Decades on and I still miss having one.

I meant more of a "one more damned thing to dust" than worried about dust getting to the tea leaves.

Either way, what a remarkable looking thing it is!

My grandparents had a bath in their kitchen - I guess it was easier for the landlord to plumb it there - it had a big slab of Formica to cover it when it wasn't in its once-weekly use... there was an open fire next to it so must have been quite nice (no central heating, of course)... (and their toilet was down the end of their long garden)...