Inherited kitchen stuff

[Jenise]

In the Angel Food Cake thread, Barb and Cynthia mention having angel food cake pans that belonged to a mom or grandmother. I can relate: the angel food cake pan I own is the very one my mother made angel food cakes in (always box mixes, alas, but it was the only cake she'd bake and we kids didn't know the difference) when I was a little girl. I have probably used it three times in my life, and the last time was easily ten years ago, but would I part with it? Nooooooooo.

Ditto the Revereware 8 qt stockpot and giant frying pan, the former of which gets used fairly often and the latter of which I have never used. Ditto Mom's Ecko spatulas which I use daily, several of which Bob has bondo-ed as pieces of the handles fell off over the years.

Is your kitchen full of sentimental hand-me-downs?

believe it or not i still have a VERY old electric mixer that belonged to a neighbor - Mrs Cranmer - when i was growing up 50 years ago. she died and i got this when my mother cleaned out her kitchen for the family and give it to me when i was a grad student. it still works! i also have at least two old caste iron pans from my own mother that i use constantly.

See my list in this thread.

NJ has a shite-load of kitchen stuff she inherited from her Mom...too much to mention. Somehow I wound up with a rolling pin and a cutting board from my Great Grandmother...circa 1900, along with her convection oven (just joshing about the last item).
Wm.

I managed to kill my mother's Kenwood Mixer (brioche will do that), but I still use the mottley mix of cutlery she gave me when I was in college. Makes me feel like a young student in cheap rental accommodation, my version of a hippie era I never had. :)

Nothing actually inherited from my family, but I do have the Atlas pasta machine my mom gave me for my 16th birthday and the Cuisinart food processor she gave me as an engagement gift in 1978. Both are still used regularly and both still perform like champs.

I still have my mom's Sunbeam stand mixer. She used it for cakes and Tom and Jerry batter at Christmas. It is still beautiful and working. Frankly, I like it better than the new ones. My new Kitchen Aid does not have the room for dumping ingredients like the Sunbeam.

I have a very old Angel Food Cake pan, and the 12 qt. stock pot by Revere Ware. I also have a white mug with pink roses around the top edge. My grandfather used it when he shaved. My guess is that they picked it up at a carnival and being very thrifty, put it to good use.

My greatest prize is my Great-Grandmother's set of cast iron skillets: round, square, 4-inch round, round griddle. I have other things too numerable to list from my mother, grandmothers, and aunt.

rwj

[Robin Garr]

Is your kitchen full of sentimental hand-me-downs?

Not "full of," but I have a black-iron skillet (technically a chicken fryer) and dutch oven that I got from my mother when I first lived on my own, and I think they may have belonged to her mother, and they're still going strong and I use them constantly. Love 'em.

And a trio of Revere Ware saucepans that my mother gave me in the '70s (?) that I have never polished since then. Still in good shape and also in regular use, although I have cast aluminum saucepans and a couple of excellent sauciers that I use more often.

That's about it, though.

Well, a Chicago Cutlery 9-inch chef's knife (and a few other smaller ones) that's been my mainstay since I treated myself to it in the '70s. It's pretty much grown to fit my hand, and vice versa.

Yup!

Here are some I use the most often (from my grandmother and Amy's grandmother).

The (dough divider?) in the middle I use to slice pizza. It works great!




Obviously, the old Le Crueset is my favorite.

Best,
Joe