Kitchen

[godi]

No Tupperware! 

[queendiva]

My mother's kitchen was much larger than mine and she cooked for a lot more people, although cooking was a chore for her. What I have in my kitchen that she did not back in the day:

TV, Keurig cafe that makes cappuccino, lattes and iced coffee (she liked her instant), under counter light, recessed LED lighting and a chandelier over the dining table, Boos cutting board, KA stand mixer, KA food processor and chopper, Ninja Foodi, ice maker in the freezer section door,  plants, computer, tile backsplash, marble countertops, stainless steel appliances. a great variety of spices and seasonings, shelf displaying decorative items, high end cookware, lock & lock, dishwasher for many years until her brother gifted her one.

I doubt most of it would have made her enjoy cooking any more. 

I remember her having good knives (Cutco?) a toaster , a waffle iron, electric can opener and a double oven range, a ceiling fan light fixture in the cooking area. I can't remember what type of lighting was over the large dining table. I do  not recall her having a desire for any kitchen cookware or gadgets, except of course the DW. She also cooked a lot more frozen, canned and processed food, as many women did in the 50's, 60's and 70's. She also had super heavy cookware which sat in a base cabinet. I never saw it used. Must have been a wedding or shower gift. There it stayed for over 50 years, unused, until we moved her into a smaller house.

[Pook]

I have an air fryer, silicone bakeware, bacon crisper sheets,  digital thermometer

I have a Ninja multi cooker but my mother had an electric fry pan, big food processor and I have a small Ninja food processor and electric griddle.

She had one of the first electric can openers years before most ever heard of them.  My dad sold appliances and got them for companies he did business with and she loved gadgets.

[JYWilliams]

Dishwasher.

[FastDogWalker2]

My Mom always had an electric can opener - I use a hand one!  She had a percolator to make coffee - I have a drip coffee maker and a Keurig.  Mom had a microwave and a dishwasher but she didn't have an ice maker and she was terrified of pressure cookers and I love my Instant Pot.  I think that is everything!

[CatsyCline]

Another its easier to say what my mother had and still has. She is very Early American right down to her home decor.     My mother had very few kitchen items.Electric range and Her HG - a black cast iron skillet and a set of RevereWare pots.  Some half-dull knives and a wood cutting board.  A stand mixer for baked goods and desserts... baking sheets and a few cake pans.  Drip coffee maker, Toaster and a rotisserie for outdoors she used in the summer.  She finally got a frost-free fridge after i left home.

She did all the cooking herself in the kitchen because she said she could do it faster. She was too impatient and irritable to  let me try fixing a meal. my job was pot and pan scrubber.

[msgb]

My parents had 7 children so they had to have a kitchen that worked for 9 people.

I do not have children ( due to a health issue). I always wanted a Le Creuset dutch oven and when it was the TSV a bit ago I bought one. (I saved up for when I found one at a good price). I have a stand mixer (Kitchenaid) --my parents had a hand mixer. It took awhile to get a microwave when we were younger --I think I was in college. We have one as norm of course.

I guess it is what we can afford and then what we need.

[Daysdee]

My Mom didn't have much and she was an excellent cook and baker.  I wish she was alive when I started watching QVC as I would have bought her a matching set of cookware.  She never had a matching set.  She had an old cast iron fry pan she used a lot.  Unless my Dad BBQed, all steaks were fried in that pan.  She never had a blender --just toaster, waffle iron and Sunbeam mixer.

[lynnie61]

My mom had a GE percolator —  best coffee ever.  A wonderful black cast iron pan, that I do not have. Most everything else we both had.  She did not have a pressure cooker.  I still want that cast iron skillet when my dad passes, I don’t have the heart to ask him for it.  He loves cooking with it.  It is probably almost as old as I am.  Everything tastes great made in it.   She didn’t have the constant change of cookware that I had.  Hers lasted what seemed like forever.