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| Not Mother's but the same era! |
When I was a little girl Mother had a cooker. A gas cooker. A pre-war jobby and a bit of a monstrosity by today's standards. Cleaning just the hob (which had to be totally dismantled for the job) seemed to take forever, as I remember.
She had a big silver kettle on that cooker so she could make tea as needed. There was an eye level grill, useful for toast. But that was it. Everything was cooked on the cooker.
I have a double oven. And a hob. Both easy to clean. And an electric kettle. And a toaster, rarely used these days as I rarely eat toast. But I also have a microwave. And an air fryer. There's an Instant Pot too as well as a bread maker and a slow cooker.
And of course I have a fridge, a freezer, food processor, electric whisk, blitzer. And a dishwasher.
How on earth did Mother manage?
(I don't know. But I do know that she bought me my first dishwasher and my first freezer as she was determined that I wouldn't have to do the same as her!)
Such a fuss when "eye level grills" came out. Being very short, I didn't like them at all. My auntie had one, I couldn't see if the toast was burning
ReplyDeleteBet you could smell it!
DeleteI used to love the eyelevel grills, much easier to use,
ReplyDeleteUnless you are like Ang (above)!
DeleteAll a mystery to me.
ReplyDeleteI think if had to go back to what mother had to do, I would find it a mystery too.
DeleteMy parents never had a conventional gas or electric cooker, just a solid fuel Truburn (like a Rayburn) that also heated the hot water. My mother found it quite a challenge adapting to a simple electric cooker when they moved into a OAP flat.
ReplyDeleteWe have always had an electric stove/oven across the pond here in Canada. I do remember trying to make toast on it once when the toaster broke down.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
According to my mother, her mother had to send her Christmas cakes, etc., to the local bakery to be baked, for a fee, as she had no oven. My mother's cousin had a small oven that fitted on the top of the kerosene oil stove and she used to bake the most delicious pastries and cakes in it. My mother bought herself an electric oven, but, all the daily cooking was done on a kerosene oil stove.
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