in the kitchen, just banging on the pots & pans

I was thinking about how different people prefer different metals for their personal use and such.

I started thinking of how many, myself included like the look of brass & copper and the varied shapes, designs, colors and patinas it can have.

Then I started thinking about the types of cookware that I prefer using. I like quality cast iron or good stainless steel cookware. I don't like aluminum or Teflon coated items as they have "problems" with their use that are not healthy.

I use plenty of glassware and prefer my beer, soda and other food items in glass bottles and containers when I can find what interests me at a fair value. I'm not big on beer & soda, but I do like some now and then as I mostly drink pure water. I like milk and good juices when I can "afford" them in the food budget.

I also prefer cooking with fire/gas over electric means. But the electric toaster and pop corn makers are nice for what they do.

I don't use microwaves as I know a bit about them that most would rather not know. Can you say mutations on a molecular level?,lol..

So what's in your kitchen?

Originally Posted by ChildhoodDream

So what's in your kitchen?

You don't want to know.......

Lets just says its 6 x 10 feet, have a sink bench at each end. The floors covered in computer power supplies exceprt for a 2x3 foot area, theres also boxs of relays and switches for Silver recovery.
I can't reach the lightswitch at one end and use a pole. I can only see one element of the stove. One end of the sinkbench is covered in dishes that have been there for about 12 months. The other end in food tins, electric jug and coffee etc. The sink is mostly empty.
The underbench shelves are coved in pots and pans that have not been used in over a year. The overbench shelfs are full of stuff, including my Silver and Silver/Copper contact jars and other stuff. Thats all covered in bird seed thats spilled from a packet 6+ months ago when the mice got at it, plus mice **** so I don't open the cupboards.
I cleaned up the 1/2 dozen CRT boards last week and theres a rubbish bin too, plastic bags for that and a pile of boxes covered in boxs to contain what the boxes should, except I can't get to them anymore because of more boxes.
Most of the power supplys have the plugs cut off, except for the odd one or two, they mostly have the steel cases on them, which is why they are there to start off with. Theres a sack full of power supply boards ready to have the Copper and Ali heatsinks removed, under a pile of plastic coated wire that needs sorted to get the Gold plated plugs cut off and then cleaned down for my plastic coated wire sack.
Theres at least one broom and a small shovel and brush thats been used sometimes.
My window sills covered in little piles of potential Gold plated stuff and chips of different sorts, also the cats pills. Covered in spider webs because they keep the flys away.
Some tools in trays on 'stuff' and containerrs of Copper containing Power transistors, theres a 5 gallon pail of them somewhere too, probably beside the other one full of Brass connections ready for burning off the plastic except they got dumped on a 1/2 full container of power transistors as well.

Theres a bottle of spray disenfectant and some paper towels to clean what I can see of the bench before putting food on it, and after cleaning down CRT boards as well.
Theres also a clear sack of green electronic boards to have the chips cut off as well as anything else valueable.

Thats all from memory. If I uncover stuff that could change.

Gotta get myself a woman......

interesting topic. I too prefer cast iron and good SS for cooking, drink from glass, and cook over wood fire.

there was a book written a while ago I read in college called Class. it talked about, among other things, that items of value, that hold value, and people with class tend to own are made from natural materials, not synthetic. things made from iron, copper, stone, wood, that kind of thing always tend to be things of higher quality...

"Covered in spider webs because they keep the flys away."

Good one.

I myself have never used the vacuum sealers, but I have received plenty of food items that others put up. I would use one for the meats and such that are better stored in a more military manner.

As for evil gas, I pretty much agree. I don't trust gas water heaters or furnaces and such. But I do like gas for cooking and it is nice for lights IF you KNOW your supply lines and lights and you ONLY use them when you are in the area that they are lit. I haven't used gas lights for years as they are a hassle if you don't really require them. They are nice when you have limited electricity as when camping or in areas that have no power hook ups and you don't want to use a generator.

I like wood for cooking and light also as well as candles and oil lamps that I have a very nice supply of. Nothing fancy as in old and valuable, but some of the oil lamps look very interesting with their painted flowers and such on the glass oil reservoir. I might be using some of the oil lamps in the next week as I have some in one of the school buses in my gravel pit that I used for light in the past as they ended up in there anyway when I brought them home.

I like the older restaurant dishes and such also. I have a couple of the nice large oval spaghetti plates that I kept when I ended up with many hundreds of pounds of restaurant dishes, cups and such. It was mostly the rounded bottom coffee cups, smaller dishes, some regular plates and a few of the big oval ones. I sold and traded most of the round dinner plates off to people that paint their art work on them. They would be the ones with the nice blue or green "rings" around the edge areas of the plates.

I have a nice selection of the SS items from Chinese restaurants and such. I don't have a lot of it, but the few pieces I have are nice. The little insulated double wall containers with the insulated covers and such. I also have a few SS water pictures that are what was used in older hospitals and such. Some of them are double walled SS with weighted bottoms and the design with the handle and weight makes them awkward to use.

I never thought of it when I posted this, but I'm a excellent cook and most of the men folk I know can cook their own meals as they are hunters, fishermen and outdoors men.

I thought I would add this bit of advice on chest freezers. I learned that it is best to buy the smaller ones for the amount of space you want. As with a larger chest freezer when it quits you lose all your space. With the smaller ones you just lose the space in the one that quits working. I also found that the electrical use per cubic foot didn't matter much between the large and the small. The up rights are another $tory in deed. They are nice, but spendy.

I use freezers quite a bit as I will have plenty of good breads and such as well as potato chips as they store well in the freezer and can be eaten right away after taking them out as they don't freeze much and they thaw quickly. Many don't know that chips store well in the freezer. I will buy up items that I eat when I find a deal and store them and have a nice selection. I don't let food sit long as I like to rotate and use things while they are still good. I'm pretty creative with the food items I will find and get that are not really meant to be used as a ingredient in something else. I will make interesting and tasty soups, casseroles and other multi ingredient vittles. Sometimes I make a soup that is so darn tasty that I just can't eat enough of it,lol...

I sometimes will wonder what sort of work I might of done if I lived a couple hundred years ago and one was a cook for a good sized crew of workers as I do enjoy cooking but never had any interest in it as more then hobby and good eats.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

Gotta get myself a woman......

Lol. Better clean up before you bring her home first.