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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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Thatonenight · 21/12/2025 15:29

Radio, deep fat fryer, egg cups

CMOTDibbler · 21/12/2025 20:01

@Gribouille at the museum of Welsh Life, the 1985 miners cottage has a bath in the kitchen with a wooden top. If you scroll down to the 1985 one here https://artsandculture.google.com/story/rhyd-y-car-miner%E2%80%99s-homes-through-time/GwWhwQqgrbN8mA?hl=en you can see it. It says it was common as it meant you didn't add a bathroom in the tiny houses

Rhyd-y-car: Miner’s Homes Through Time - Google Arts & Culture

Travel through time at Rhyd-y-car miner’s cottages.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/rhyd-y-car-miner%E2%80%99s-homes-through-time/GwWhwQqgrbN8mA?hl=en

Jemimapuddleduk · 21/12/2025 20:40

Mincer, egg chopper, Rosehip syrup, toastie machine.

Jemimapuddleduk · 21/12/2025 20:44

Also a rabbit shaped blancmange mold, grapefruit bowls and grapefruit knife!

BettyTurnerthewindskeptlaughingatme · 21/12/2025 20:54

My mum's diabolical cooking.
Mince boiled for 2hrs anyone
Grilled (burnt)findus pancakes (crap in first place)

MeouwKing · 21/12/2025 21:15

Rats

CosyMintFish · 21/12/2025 21:22

Fish paste (shudders)
a pressure cooker
a device for pricking a hole in eggs to stop them cracking when they were being boiled
a little pan for boiling eggs which appeared to be made of limescale on the inside
lots of tupperware
a fish kettle

cadburyegg · 21/12/2025 21:24

Cold tiles
A massive salt pot
Homemade muesli
Wooden worktops
Butter dish
Boiler
A broken light fitting tied up with string
Velvet tablecloth
Venetian blinds
Bread bin
Fish knives and forks

thisisajoke22 · 21/12/2025 21:27

Salad spinner

BrightBlueFlamingo · 21/12/2025 22:46

Cade lambs in boxes, bring cared for by the family dogs 😍

SophiaSW1 · 21/12/2025 22:51

Soda stream

Wasywasydoodah · 21/12/2025 23:01

Someone else mentioned one - my mum had a pump device that mixed milk and butter under pressure and made a cream substitute.

eurotravel · 21/12/2025 23:02

chip pan

ArcticGrass · 22/12/2025 09:59

RescueMeFromThisSilliness · 21/12/2025 13:58

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.

Eye level grills were the best! Properly cooked the cheese on toast - rather than kind of warming it up....

youegg · 22/12/2025 10:07

Egg slicer
Rotary cheese grater
Robertsons gollli fridge magnets 🫣
A big monthly calendar with every female in the house’s menstruation due date on it.

ArcticGrass · 22/12/2025 10:11

@youegg A big monthly calendar with every female in the house’s menstruation due date on it. No way!

Hadalifeonce · 22/12/2025 10:16

A copper, my mum used to borrow a neighbour's mangle.

HelpMeGetThrough · 22/12/2025 10:20

Hostess trolley.

Sounding a bit Generation Game there.

Pointystickystick · 22/12/2025 10:22

Wallpaper! The wallpaper had fish on it and my dad hung the paper upside down, by mistake.

EleanorReally · 22/12/2025 10:23

twin tub
enormous saucepan for boiling hankies
mincer
teapot

EleanorReally · 22/12/2025 10:24

oh yes a little pan for boiling eggs which appeared to be made of limescale on the inside
my dm still has this
and i gave her my salad spinner as I have no space in my kitchen !

ReignOfError · 22/12/2025 10:25

Don’t ask me why, but a right-handed tin opener. Both my parents were left-handed, as am I, and I thought for years that it was normal to open tins upside down over a saucepan or bowl.

IsThisACrazyThoughtDec25 · 22/12/2025 10:27

Electric yoghurt maker. Made 6 glass pots of yoghurt. I want one now!

Wallywobbles · 22/12/2025 10:28

A coal aga.

Redburnett · 22/12/2025 10:31

I have forgotten what it was called but i think it was a mangle: Two long rubber rollers on a stand with a handle that was used to wring out wet sheets after washing.
This was either late 1950s or early 1960s. I remember it well, and the warnings to keep my fingers out of it so they didn't get squashed by the rollers!
If we think women's work is hard now, it was even worse then.

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