A couple of years ago during the winter I began a series of posts on kitchen essentials but I didn’t keep it up, I suppose because there were always other topics to post. Today I looked around the kitchen and noticed how many different wooden pieces I use every day. I thought it was time to resurrect the series.
Clockwise from top left: my great-grandmother’s bread board, showing the cuts of well over a century of bread knives, and its edge carved with the words ‘Waste Not’; a wooden tortilla turner that we bought in Navarra, one of Lo Jardinièr’s essentials as he’s the tortilla-maker usually; an assortment of spoons, fork, spatula and tongs, including the large spoon second from right that my mother bought in Turkey fifty years ago and that has been well used ever since; a lemon squeezer; my first proper kitchen knife (in those days they had wooden handles) that I’ve used since I was eighteen; and under these a chopping board made for us by our son. There are others….I think there’ll have to be a Part II for this one!
I love old wooden chopping boards – that one’s particularly good 😉
Love your collection – I have an enormous old meat chopper with a wooden handle which my dad inherited when he took over a butcher´s shop. It´s ancient and weighs a ton….I love it. Your great grandmother´s old bread board is wonderful!
Do you use the chopper? I’d like to see a photo of it on your blog!
Beautiful artefacts – wood just continues to mature into a more wonderful thing.
I’ve just been having an enjoyable 20 minutes or so catching up with all of your recent posts. I don’t know how you do it with Blip as well!
That chopping board of your grandmothers caught my eye immediately, how wonderful to have that in your kitchen .. i am sure you use it and Waste Not!! c
Love your “toys”. I have quite a batch also… maybe I’ll share some pictures one of these days too! Isn’t it fun? I’d love to see more…
Love wood and this is a great selection. I have a beautifully carved bread board but mine is only about 30 years old. Diane
I like your collection of wooden kitchen utensils. I have a lot as well. I love the feel of the wooden handle on my favorite spoon…like shaking hands with an old friend.