Vintage Kitchenware

Vintage Kitchen

With the forecast trend for Kitchenware being 'Mixed Materials' for 2018, it made me look at my own kitchenware in detail. Out with the whites and in with the gold /brass and wooden.

You may have seen on previous blog posts and photographs, I have quite a collection of vintage and vintage inspired well made kitchenware. 

Why chose Vintage?

The saying goes 'Ifs its not broken,dont try and mend it'. I feel this applies to kitchenware perfectly. Over the years I have accumulated a wide variety of kitchen tools. Modern Ikea sets, classic wooden tools and vintage pieces given to be my family members or bought in charity shops.

Vintage kitchenware is still around , because it works. Its been tried and tested and is still going ! Consumerism says that buy cheap and cheerful and keep replacing. But I like to go against the grain and say, Buy well,Buy once. 

In our house, we do not purchase processed meat products. Yes it takes longer to cook proper meat, but I would rather know exactly what is going into our meals . From added salts and sugars to preservatives , so much is packed into convenience food . I will stick to the butchers and fresh cuts of meat thanks.

Home cooking deserves to be executed with the love it deserves. Spending the time making pastry only to ruin it by using bad quality cookware is such a shame. Nothing beats the proper fluted tops of a homemade pie !

For example...My old faithful Pastry Blender was given to me by my parents years ago, It may have even been my Nans before that. I not only use this for pastry, but also find it much more effective for mashing potatoes than any of the hand mashers I have acquired. Its one of those tools you dont know you need, then you use all the time. It must be top of my 'Most Washed ' kitchen items!

My Pie dishes are another essential item that gets used...and used..and used. Actually daily. I picked both of them up in charity shops for little over £1 each. A complete steal, the white one is Wedgewood so will last years . They are the perfect sizes and the thick bases on them ensures my food cooks evenly . No soggy bottoms here !

I would love to give my children the real experience of home cooking as they grow up. Where possible using our hands to mix the ingredients and licking the bowl afterwards, isnt that what cooking as about as a child?

My kitchen may not be fashionable but its functional....a bit like me!

XxP&TxX