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In reply to the discussion: What is one of your kitchen/house tools from long ago that you still treasure today? [View all]csziggy
(34,131 posts)It measures up to two quarts, has a handle on one side and is my go-to mixing bowl for most things. I bought it at Goodwill when I was in college. It was scratched up when I bought it, and is not totally scored all over the inside.
My brother in law gave me a newer one - he was selling Pyrex on eBay but people only wanted perfect and the one he had is slightly scratched. It makes my old one look really scruffy, but I keep them both. For Christmas and Thanksgiving, when I am making pecan pies, they are the perfect size to mix one pie in each.
What I wish I had snagged out of my mother's kitchen was her little one cup measuring cup. It's the only cup measure she ever owned - a little beat up aluminum cup, with embossed measurements. It was probably meant for wet ingredients but she used it for both wet and dry. I meant to grab it while my sister was sorting stuff but forgot to pick it up. Next trip, it had been thrown away.
Mom had a set of Pyrex graduated mixing bowls, the kind that each bowl is a different color. They were so old, the color was nearly scratched off. No one claimed those, either.