Finally using long-dormant contraptions

[Fat Guy]

We got a Russell-Hobbs electric kettle aa a wedding gift in 1994. Due to limited counter space and free gas we virtually never used it in our old apartment. Now there's a corner where it fits nicely, and our gas is separately metered, so all of a sudden an electric kettle seems workable. I love the thing and have used it a couple of times a day for about a week now.

Has this story happened to you?

[andiesenji]

As you probably know by now I have a lot of old (vintage) junk that gets brought out of storage from time to time, used for a while and then put away and something else takes the stage.

It's fun to rediscover how nicely some of these old appliances work - made when things were expected to last for years, if not decades.

I have one of the old Russell Hobbs kettles with the round plug in the kettle - purchased in 1977, still works. I got it because it had an automatic shutoff switch. Sunbeam made a nice kettle but it had to be unplugged and would boil dry if unattended.

[David A. Goldfarb]

We were admittedly regifted an electric waffle iron for our wedding from friends who got one for their wedding and never used it, and I do go on the occasional waffle bender, making waffles for breakfast for a few weeks at a time. Then it goes back into the cupboard for several months until the urge returns.

[Chris Hennes]

I have actually had a homebrew sous vide setup for a while now, used VERY rarely until Modernist Cuisine came out. Now I use it practically every day.

[catdaddy]

I have actually had a homebrew sous vide setup for a while now, used VERY rarely until Modernist Cuisine came out. Now I use it practically every day.

"homebrew sous vide setup" What is this?

[Chris Hennes]

Like so:

[Darienne]

Yes, this has happened to me in a way. My Mother and Father moved to California when I was about 25 and thus I came into all Mother's kitchen and dining room stuff. I hated cooking...as said before...until about 4 years ago now...and so what I did was to give much of it away and generally rid myself of all of it over the years as I gave up on my ever using it. An old stand mixer, a meat grinder, several original Salton trays, crystal, Wedgewood, Royal Doulton, mixing bowls, Pyrex, grill, pots and pans, and on and on and on. Andie would have loved to have a lot of it as it went back to the early 30s.

And now I have spent the last four years re-accumulating all the tools I need to cook and bake. Oh, and now I have a deliberately small galley kitchen which means that my stuff is stored in the kitchen, my studio, the breezeway, the cellar, the living room and the garage.