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19 comments:
Inside the kitchen and scullery block built in 1912. Stove and hot water fitted around 58 ...
I like the top kitchen... I'd love a dreary rundown kitchen like that... to go with my potato-waffles gasfire in the parlour... and that industrial oven/stove thang is just too phunkie..!
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HAHA Gledwood, phunkie oven/stove would need a bit of a clean before potato-waffles could be eaten afterwards but agree - great kitchen to look at ... it's too much like my last kitchen to imagine actually cooking in it ;)
it reminds me of my Nans kitchen....(except hers was tidy!!)
Now you mention it Simon, it reminds me of my Great Aunts kitchen, except hers was tidy! She also has a gas fireplace with combustion oven which is even more ancient ...
The shelves are my favourite, clear lines without any clutter.
Heehee, you must be hungry Modroom!
My Nans had a Kookaburra oven, and the original wood stove to the left of the sink. She always used a plastic tub to wash up in because she did not want to ruin the shine on the stainless steel!
My pop would always place his steak on the fuel stove and cook it unitl it was nearly charcoal... ( a habit from his days as a boundary rider on the Paroo) :o)
Funny how this photo has had a real impact...
I was meant to type "she also HAD", it's great when images bring back memories. Our memories are important because the next generation will remember very differently Simon! Designer kitchens ... okay not my kids but most HAHA :)
yes- thats why I like taking my kids to the national parks that were once Sheep stations eg Mt Wood (Sturt Stoney Desert) or Kinchega.. There are no TVs, no computer, no playstation, the shearers kitchens are old with fuel stoves but clean...
Once, my daughter burst into tears because she said it was horrible. So I told her to imagine what it would be like for the ladies to cook etc for all the shearers a hunred years ago...
After a weeks stay she burst into tears because she did not want to leave!! :o)
Now we go every year, and they love it! :o0
Anon, I kid you not - this kitchen looks just like the kitchen in the hospital where I trained. It was an old building built before World War II. The sink especially looks like where we washed our hands. I like the color of these walls.
My favourite place I lived (for about four years) apart from family home had a combustion stove for cooking and heating the water. Was a fine wood chopper back then Simon!!
The sink area was upgraded around 58 Ces, but the sinks themselves are probably older. I'm not surprised it looks like where you trained - nurses ate from here! That colour is my parent's living room :)
Someone on Radio 4 recently mentioned that no-one actually liked agas or the equivalent to cook on... and though I doubt they heard I TOLD them my aunts and my gran had all had them and cooked wonderfully on them...
Oh those old memories...
Not that any of the aunts or other family kitchens resemble your photos... those look more institutional to me... less cosy.
I cook on gas Caroline, it has better control of temperature and cheaper expense wise. However, I don't like the dirty saucepans which discolour from the flames, and make washing up a difficult chore if you like sparky stainless steel (like Simon's Nans) :)
Gas stove is better than electric. We only have electric. I miss the flames. I like fire.
I mean controlled fire on a stove. I hate fire(s). My city burned when I was a child.
Does this mean everyone in England (Caroline) and America (Ces) have electric or only older places have gas? Gas is quite popular in Australia - it preserves energy consumption for the environment as well. Agree, controlled flames on stoves make better cooked meals Ces!
We have gas stoves in the US but it depends where you live. The gas companies don't service all the cities and it also depends on the builder of the homes. I used to cook with firewood in the Philippines. We used dried faggots sold by the firewood vendor who had a carabao-driven cart full of wood stacks.
I understand about gas in the US now. A lot of properties inland are wood driven probably because of the same service reason - but never pondered upon it because wood was so practical in the country. There was plenty about which had dried since falling or been through a burnoff or fire, and of course you can always visit the forestry if the property is sparce. Didn't travel with a cart of water buffalos though Ces! Hhehee. Or kangaroos ...
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