My kitchen/ dining/ snack/ everything table. It was given to me by my aunt Carmen. It came from the 1890's, is black walnut, with two drop leafs & with a particle board leaf my father made & another one my husband made so our newer leather chairs would fit at the sides. It will sit at least 12 people. It sqeeks when you lean on it and it has teeny weeny steel wheels on the five legs.

To boyersuz:

Glad to help! I enjoyed searching the Internet. I found a similar (U.S.-made) device, with brief instructions for use, at:

http://floridas-natural-grove-store.theshoppad.com/#/redirect/products/grapefruit-corer

Cheers.

I'm having trouble figuring out why somebody needs to core a grapefruit. I don't get it! LOL

Probably my fenugreek, which I don't remember purchasing and have never known a use for!

LOL! pam h..... Fenugreek is suggested for increasing the volume of breast milk....how old are your children? Might YOUR Fenugreek be as old as one of your breastfed children?

For boyersuz:

Here's my second attempt at posting the grapefruit corer (made in USA) link:

http://floridas-natural-grove-.theshoppad.com/#/product/grapefruit-corer

Hope it works. There are instructions on that page for using the corer. Perhaps you can adapt them to your English model--and let us know how it goes!

I used to have a grapefruit corer and knife set (probably left it with the ex). You would cut out the center with the corer and then use the special curved knife that was serrated on both sides to scoop out the pieces for whatever you were using them for. I also had grapefruit spoons that had a serrated tip to use when you just wanted to eat a half for breakfast.

my prized possession! A 1950s stove

This table belonged to my mothers first grade teacher...mom is 85. I grew up eating on it and since mom downsized, it's my kitchen table once again. It's probably from 1880 something

Just remembered when I got out of high school in 1965 and got my first job, I bought this General Electric carving knife. I was 18, and bought it for my mother for Christmas. I am now 68, mom has passed on but the G.E. Knife keeps cutting. We use it several times a week. Also use her old Hood cook book published in 1949.

Aside from me, probably the oldest things in my kitchen are cookie cutters that were my mothers, probably from the 1930s. However, the prize is a partial set of Russell Wright flatware that I bought from my sister-in-law's estate. She told me that she and her sister saved up to buy it for their parents sometime in the late 1940s. The pattern was released again about a dozen years ago but with a different finish and a different shape knife (I augmented the set with this new style). Some of the pieces are missing and one spoon clearly got caught in the garbage disposal. But I love it. We use the butter spreaders a lot--they really do spread butter well.

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My set of 1970 Tupperware Canisters. Still doing a good job!

I would have to say a glass colored orange /rust fruit bowl that came through 2 wars and 2 house fires.Belonged to my great great grand mother and was passed on to me

and I'm 67

@jalarse...this could have a whole 'nother meaning these days!! hahaha

@retropark!!! That is one serious beast of a stove you have!!!

Just stunning!!!! :0)

@judyg...My mom & Grandmother both used to make boiled dinner! I think it's a Celtic thing....

@Nicole Friedman...my boss GAVE me his Vitamix. He got it from his mother & it was her mothers! He never used it & knows how I love cool old stuff!. Works like a charm!

@craigmerrow! I have a nearly identical whisk I picked up at an antique shop downtown! My dad had a "church key"...it had REAL mink on the backside...I thought we were rich because we had something with real mink! hahaha

Since I'm reading this at home & can take a few pics...here's my grandmother's little silver teapot with the teak handle

Here's her flour sifter

These are various pieces of sterling & cobalt glass I've collected over the years. You can see my sugar bowl in that second pic...

Bungalowmo: Cool! Nice to see another one like it! My Grandmother used to have a flour sifter much like yours as well - not sure what became of it, but I used to play with it as a little kid.

China

Organizedsarah, that's it! Probably given to me by my very sweet mother-in-law with the gripe water and other things I received in her help basket that was waiting for me when I came home from the hospital with my 12 year old! Youngest is 8 so I guess it's safe to toss! I kept thinking- if I throw it away, one day I'll need it, won't be able to find it again and then where will I be!

Have numerous things from my mom, grandmothers, grandmother in laws . I think the oldest may be a cast iron fry pan that is civil war era. Still use it and all the other old stuff regularly.

The chandelier hanging over my kitchen island (another previously owned -- by someone else -- piece) was my mothers and dates from 1972. I've got all too many tools and implements from long before that but this light makes my heart sing. At one time it was colorful but I updated it (sprayed it white although some color peaks through on the flowers) about nine years ago!

As far as I can remember, a faded yellow Pyrex mixing bowl is the oldest thing in my kitchen. To date it's 20 years old,

55 years old tea cup from my mother in law. She got a set as her wedding present. Now there are only 3 cups left.

My oldest and prized items in my kitchen as of March 2015 :)

I'm pretty sure the oldest thing in my kitchen is a cast iron dutch oven (with lid) my grandmother was given as a wedding gift in 1915. When she moved to an apartment in 1975, she gave it to my dad. Being the ever creative farmer he was, and knowing my mother would have a problem lifting it, he decided to use it to catch used oil as he was servicing farm vehicles. About 25 years ago, I recognized it for what it was, and got him a real used oil receptacle. I spent the next year cleaning the oil residue from the pot by keeping it in the fireplace on a grate, and by dumping my burning charcoal into after I was finished grilling. A full year later, the pot was back to bare cast iron, and I started seasoning it. Today it sits on the stovetop and is used weekly - and my son has already asked for it when I'm ready to pass it on.

Belisima, I have one of those tea cups (along with quite a few of other designs)! Then there's my Grandmother's copper stock pot, silver strawberry spoon from 1912, china, rose glass footed bowl, milk glass vase, a clown lollipop canister, and many other items (including the stainless steel bowls from my first stand mixer 31 years ago and my Grandma's corning ware).My every day dishes are from my first house 31 years ago and I still love them--Lenox Chinastone Poppies on Blue. I still use my Great Grandmother's silver ladles.

Probably my grandmother's Dutch oven

1) My great grandmother's dutch oven
2)the kitchen cabinets ;)
3 My grandmother's avocado green kitchenaid mixer

A shallow bowl my great grandmother used to make banana pudding in for me back in the early 60s.

RedSam

Besides myself, the oldest items in my kitchen are my grandmother's cast iron skillet (Love cooking in it. Makes the best grilled cheese sandwich.) and my husband's grandmother's Blue Willow China (So beautiful and goes with everything.))

In the kitchen? My grandmother's Dutch oven, probably.

My stove/oven! When I bought my 1949 home nothing was updated, just maintained immaculately. When I bought it, it had original steel framed, single pane windows. Had to replace those immediately, but I still have some of those too!

A traditional red and white plaid Betty Crocker cookbook and some casserole dishes, wedding gifts in 1975, still being used by me.

Back in the mid -70's, my husband and I were walking on a little beach at Willaby Spit, Norfolk, VA and we found a silver spoon, with a round bowl. We still have it. We call it our pirate's loot. And one of those volcanic rock mortar and pestles that he carried with him traveling through Mexico, that he bought for me, at the airport. I asked him why he didn't just buy it on the way home, he said all he thought about was how much I'd like it, so he bought it when he saw it. The thing weighs a ton! I don't think he'd do that again...

I have many wedding gifts (1957) that I still use, and things that were in my parents' home when I was a child. I have my grandfather's oval cast iron Dutch oven, probably more than 100 years old, and an antique plate that my father's great-grandparents carried west in a covered wagon from Pennsylvania to Missouri sometime in the early 1800s.

This punch bowl and twelve matching cups. It's from the 1960's and belonged to my next door neighbor. She gave it to me when I moved out of state 29 years ago. My mom had one just like it, which I believe Mrs. Wade had given her at the same time she bought this one. Mama's bit the dust in the mid 90's when my sister broke it. The next oldest thing is the Mr. Coffee in the picture. I bought it in 1982 as was I buying things to prepare to move out of my parents' house! I use my 4 cup coffee pot daily, but break out Mr. Coffee whenever I host large crowds for brunch!

the oldest thing in my kitchen is a peeler made in W. Germany, circa 1983. Still works great!

My grandma's Jadeite salt & pepper shakers, her favorite Fire King coffee mug and also a glass carafe that she used to keep drinking water in her fridge. Her drinking water came from a well on her farm--much cleaner and fresher than anything we can get in the cities--from a bottle or the tap.

The oldest most interesting thing is an oyster knife I can still see my father using and he's been gone since 1973. Of things I've acquired myself, it would have to be a Belgian enameled dutch oven-a knock off of Le Creuset and in better condition than my Creuset purchased ten years later.

My mom's potato ricer.

The oldest is an L L Bean sandwich spreader my Grandmother had and gave to me as she had 2 of them. The 2nd oldest item is an old stainless steel dutch oven that belonged to my Mother. And the 3rd is a set of stainless steel set of bowls my Grandmother gave me as a wedding present almost 51 years ago.

I bought my good china while I was still in High School over 50 years ago and still have it and use it. Not one of my 3 daughters [we have no sons] want it but one of the friends of my youngest would love it so I will give it to her. I also have a piece of art from our first home together that leans against the backsplash in our kitchen. It is by one of the Group of Seven famous Canadian artists...just a print I'm sure.

My Mom's "Watkins Cookbook" with her name in her handwriting on the inside cover and dated "1948" - the year I was born. It sits on a recipe book stand on my kitchen counter and I love it!

1940s cookbook of mom's , probably grandma's first. It has recipes for petit fours and how to roast a possum which was never served a our house.

The oldest things in my kitchen all come from my grandmother's house. One is aluminum calendar, circa 1920. I have some old baking tools including a flour sifter than may be equally old, one from my grandmother's home, and the other purchased second hand. I love these items - they offer a sense of continuity with the past, even though my grandmother died long before I was born.

There's a Kitchaid mixer that we got as a wedding gift 34 years ago - still works!

A few years ago I did a little research and these older mixers are actually worth more than the new models

Wait, just thought of something older - My husband's grandmother had a child's highchair that folds down into a stroller. I'm guessing it's from the 30's. It is just a decorative piece. When she died, no one else wanted it - I did.

Me !

The oldest thing in my kitchen is my wedding china, Wedgwood Strawberry and Vine. This pattern was introduced in 1988, the year we were married. The dishes have an embossed design of strawberries and grape leaves on bone china. Based on a pattern from the 1800's, a classic look for sure. The teapot is the most beautiful tea pot I've ever seen. It's just gorgeous.

Wedgwood Strawberry and Vine

I have a wire cake tester with a red top loop that belonged to my mother's grandmother. Hangs on a hook and has been used on many a cake or cupcake! Oldest thing that originated with me is a set of nesting mixing bowls that were gas station premiums in the early 70's. Right up there with the butter dish I got with Green Stamps.

I have my mother's wooden rolling pin and her well-seasoned aluminum cookie sheet - browns sugar cookies like nothing else! Wonderful reminders of her that I use almost daily.

I also have her high chair, built by her uncle - solid maple, close to 100 years old.