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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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Sid9nie · 23/12/2025 14:30

Belfast sink

IAmKerplunk · 23/12/2025 14:44

Lengokengo · 23/12/2025 14:21

Foil behind the radiator.

A little serving hatch to the dining room.

A dumb waiter ( different house)

I had a serving hatch between kitchen and dining room in my last house. Before moving in I was determined to close it up but before we got to that stage we used it so much and I bloody loved it! No room in kitchen for a table so it was great to communicate with dc who were doing their homework at the dining room table whilst I did dinner etc. Can’t explain how much I loved it and would have one again!

FurForksSake · 23/12/2025 14:47

A washing up bowl in the sink and a drainer in the draining board and a special caddy for the washing up liquid etc. I don’t have any of those items.

Tea towel hangers - we had rods that pulled out, they were rather fab.

mine just hang on the oven door!

TheTimeTravellersNiece · 23/12/2025 15:18

My mother had this contraption for peeling potatoes...it was plastic, with a circular band of sandpaper type stuff in the base and a rubber hose attached to the side. You squidged the hose on to the cold tap and when you turned the water on the base spun round, so the spuds got washed and scraped at the same time. The top was open so you could watch them tumbling around. Great fun.

Manzana · 23/12/2025 15:24

Chip pan, twin tub top loading washing machine, no hot water from the taps, coal cupboard

ODFOx · 23/12/2025 15:27

Virol
Minadex
tins of prawns
tins of potato or mixed vegetable salad
tinned cream
a tin opener on the wall

BettyTurnerthewindskeptlaughingatme · 23/12/2025 19:04

TheTimeTravellersNiece · 23/12/2025 15:18

My mother had this contraption for peeling potatoes...it was plastic, with a circular band of sandpaper type stuff in the base and a rubber hose attached to the side. You squidged the hose on to the cold tap and when you turned the water on the base spun round, so the spuds got washed and scraped at the same time. The top was open so you could watch them tumbling around. Great fun.

A rumbler?

TheTimeTravellersNiece · 23/12/2025 19:47

BettyTurnerthewindskeptlaughingatme · 23/12/2025 19:04

A rumbler?

Is that what it was called? I found this pic online, same except ours wasn't blue.

Name something you had in your childhood kitchen that isn't there today?
Ohpleeeease · 23/12/2025 22:37

A waste disposal unit. It was a truly terrifying machine. My DM kept a mangled teaspoon that had gone down the plug hole into the WDU as a warning of what they could do.

BettyTurnerthewindskeptlaughingatme · 24/12/2025 04:01

TheTimeTravellersNiece · 23/12/2025 19:47

Is that what it was called? I found this pic online, same except ours wasn't blue.

Oh I don't know if that was the official name for them.
I worked in a hotel kitchen when I left school and that's what all the chefs called it.

LittleMi55Nobody · 24/12/2025 06:17

OneUmberJoker · 20/12/2025 18:17

Microwave

twintub washing machine

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