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6165616 No.6165616 [Reply] [Original]

Can anyone think of what cooking utensils were essential to kitchens in the past, but have gone out of style or significantly changed form in the modern era?

>> No.6165731

>>6165616
Potato Ricer
Universal Food Chopper
Food Mill
Mortar and Pestle
Molcajete and Tejolete
Flour Sifter
Potato Masher
Pressure Cooker
Tomato Strainer/Juicer
Pie Iron
Mouli Grater
Butter Churner
Pie Safe
Shoo Fly Covers
Ulu
Mezzaluna
Milk Can

That's all I can think of off hand. I have most in my kitchen though. lol

>> No.6165982

>>6165731
>Flour Sifter
>Pressure Cooker
>Mortar and Pestle
nigga these are all still very relevant

>> No.6166011

>>6165731
>mortar and pestle
>flour sifter

These literally haven't changed at all and if you are grinding herbs for cooking there's not a more efficient way to do it than with a mortar.

Flour sifter is self explanatory I would think.

>> No.6166213

>>6165982
>>6166011
Hardly anyone uses or even owns that shit anymore. I've never known anyone in my life to own a flour sifter outside of an antique store. No one normal uses a mortar and pestle and pressure cookers are those things people regift and never use.

Must be hard living in a 3rd world country.

>> No.6166231

>>6166213
>pressure cookers are those things people regift and never use.
I use mine several times a week, and have several friends/ family who love theirs. My sister asked me to get her one for Christmas this year.

You're way off on this one.

>> No.6166236

>>6166213
Ladies and gentlemen, I present someone who has never set foot in a kitchen that wasn't his shitty dorm room set up.

>> No.6166237

>>6166213
I used a couple pressure cookers in Boston a while back

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>>6166237
made some baked beans I assume?

>> No.6166283

>>6166240
Oh I made something alright, but it wasn't too popular with the locals. I guess it's just something about runners that I don't get.

>> No.6166474

>>6165731
Potato Ricers are god tier for mashed potatoes.

>> No.6166507

>>6166213

If you're serious about baking a flour sifter is a good deal easier to use than a normal sieve. I got a pressure cooker for Christmas and it's fucking useful to be able to reduce the cooking time of various things by 80%. If you don't have a mortar and pestle you're a gigapleb.

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>>6166231
>>6166236
>>6166237
>>6166507
Why be a moron when you can just order delivery? Toss all your meme tools, you hipsters. There's literally no need for them at ALL in modern society. Leave the cooking to the professionals.

>> No.6167274

>>6166213
>2015
>not using mortar and pestle to grind fresh herbs
>not pressure cooking risotto
nigga u trollin

>> No.6167396

>>6167274
>pressure cooking

Enjoy your extreme lack of nutrients and horrifically mushy consistency. Just because you have dentures doesn't mean the rest of us need to eat food through a straw.

>> No.6167398

>>6167266
All those crossdressing slavic boys...

>> No.6167498

>>6166213
>not sifting flour
enjoy your inferior baking results

mortar and pestle is standard in any southeast asian kitchen, among other cultures. your curry will be shit without one.

>> No.6167525

>>6167396

Just because you have a pressure cooker doesn't mean you have to overcook food in it.

It's entirely possible to cook things without them falling apart, christ.

>> No.6167536

>>6165731
lol potato ricer
food mill
mortar and pestle
sifter
masher
pressure cooker
all still very relevant.

>> No.6167548

>>6167498

>having a single-purpose flour sifter rather than using a fine sieve and a spoon

pleb. I bet you own a bacon-wave.

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6167565

Pic related, a bottlescraper. Used to scrape the last little bits out of bottles. The English wikipedia page describes it as still very popular in the Netherlands, although I doubt many people of my age would recognize it, never mind use one.

>> No.6167584

>>6167565

I've seen those before, but in a chemistry lab for getting powder or crystalline material out of containers. Never seen or heard of anyone using it in the kitchen.

>> No.6167605

>>6167548
not assuming a flour sifter is a general purpose sifter.

>> No.6167885

>>6167536
no one really uses that stuff except hipsters

>> No.6168274

>>6166474
No anon, that is what a potato masher is for. A ricer is for making either baby food or a fucking mess. Sounds like you don't like your mash chunky with the skins on.

>> No.6168831

>>6167274
>pressure cooking risotto
I am intrigued. How would this work? Usually for risotto you have to frequently add small amounts of liquid, which you obviously couldn't do in a pressure cooker.