Which household item should make a comeback ?

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:44 pm

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Just reading some news items and this one jumped out at me.
For me the chip maker. What a tool, peel the spud drop it in pull the handle, perfect chips. Then into the chip pan, another icon ( ok for health and safety reasons make a cupboard with a built in breathalyser so you cant open it after a session.) so much better then oven chips or the sanitised frozen chips lowered into a deep fat fryer. There are no better chips. My mum RIP made the best chips ever with such items.
Maybe a fondue kit ?
Whats yours ?

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:46 pm

The wall-hung tin opener!

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:47 pm

jdrobbo wrote:The wall-hung tin opener!

Oh yes, next to the plaster tin !

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:53 pm

bfcjg wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45427232

Just reading some news items and this one jumped out at me.
For me the chip maker. What a tool, peel the spud drop it in pull the handle, perfect chips. Then into the chip pan, another icon ( ok for health and safety reasons make a cupboard with a built in breathalyser so you cant open it after a session.) so much better then oven chips or the sanitised frozen chips lowered into a deep fat fryer. There are no better chips. My mum RIP made the best chips ever with such items.
Maybe a fondue kit ?
Whats yours ?

Don't chipshops generally still fry their chips? I agree with you though as my late mum also fried them. You can often tell when food is frozen.

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:54 pm

The Dolly tub to do wash all your clothes.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:56 pm

Vino blanco wrote:The Dolly tub to do wash all your clothes.

Never met her.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:57 pm

bfcjg wrote:Never met her.

She can make a sandwich as well.

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:02 pm

You didn't want to meet her, she was fat, round, and and took some cleaning after you had used her.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:03 pm

Put the chip pan on, neighbour calls the fire brigade....

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:24 pm

The mangle and the carpet sweeper should be revived,get these lazy millennials off their blessed smartphones and doing some proper housework

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:25 pm

Yellow Pages.
Doubles as a doorstop.

cloughyclaret · Post by **cloughyclaret** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:31 pm

Twin tub. Concrete floors

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:35 pm

Paraffin stoves. That lovely blue flame and gentle heat and what a smell.
Forget the fire and carbon monoxide risk what an asset.

LeadBelly · Post by **LeadBelly** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:05 am

Little TVs with only one station & containing a huge amount of hardwood that you could build a modern sideboard with.

Racks (clothes dryers) that you hoisted up to the ceiling near the coal fire in the kitchen via a cunning array of pulleys. (cheaper than tumble dryers- although your clothes ended up smelling of food that had been cooking, usually chipfat).

Those huge sinks in the alcove in the kitchen that you could bath in up to about age 7.

Hand-powered whisks - fun job for kids and lower running costs compared to modern fancy mixers.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:45 am

The oven. Not used one one in 4 and a half years, since living on my own.

ontario claret · Post by **ontario claret** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:41 am

Was that wall-hung or well-hung?

todclaret · Post by **todclaret** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:25 am

Probably off topic, but seeing as they were a fixture in our house - Astin's meat pies

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:07 am

Those sandwich toasters which put lines on your cheese and tomato toasty and then burnt the roof of your mouth off.

Character building.

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:33 am

Wall mounted loose tea dispensers .....

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Hroogar · Post by **Hroogar** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:44 am

The housewife.

Jimmymaccer · Post by **Jimmymaccer** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 10:11 am

A portable telly.......

BFCmaj · Post by **BFCmaj** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 10:15 am

The radiogram.

Tread Warily · Post by **Tread Warily** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 10:32 am

bfcjg wrote:Paraffin stoves. That lovely blue flame and gentle heat and what a smell.
Forget the fire and carbon monoxide risk what an asset.

Best heaters ever,are they still made?

Jakubclaret · Post by **Jakubclaret** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:22 am

CB radios, used to be fun when plenty of people had them.

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:25 am

Another vote here for the mangle but also the washboard. Use it to scrub your clothes and then with a sewing thimble go and join a skiffle group.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:07 pm

Carpet beaters. Has multiple uses!

The Enclosure · Post by **The Enclosure** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:27 pm

The posser and mangle and dolly blue.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:01 pm

Soda stream - still available I think but a bizarre idea.

claptrappers_union · Post by **claptrappers_union** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:20 pm

Good old-fashioned doorbell.

With a big brass button, waterproofed brass housing that can be heard anywhere inside the house as well as outside when it’s pressed

Not these new plastic radio ones that run out of batteries and interfere with the neighbours bells. I cant do with going to peoples houses and pressing the bell and your not sure if it even rang or not.

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