View Full Version : Lets talk about the homesteader's kitchen


homesteadmamma
09-30-2002, 11:41 AM
As a homesteader or dreaming of homesteading, what is your kitchen like? Describe it for us.

Mine has a creamer in the corner, a butter churn in another corner, an old wash basin yet on another wall. NOT!!

I have a pantry in one corner that is usally full but we've been living off it for a few months now and it is drastically low. I have my washing machine in my kitchen, I don't own a dryer.

I also have a 6 qt. KA on my kitchen cupboard along with my Whisper Mill. In the very corner of my kitchen cupboard is a ceramic mother hen with 3 little chicks, a gift from a friend when we moved here.

I have some electric appliances but not many. I have an old rolling pin, an old jar lifter, a potato ricer (antique) along with an electric frying pan and an electric grill.

BUT I'm slowly decreasing my electric appliances and going for hand ones instead. My grain mill and KA will continue to be electric because of health, but other small electric appliances are not being replaced when they quit.

I'm looking for a butter churn (glass one), a cast iron skillet along with a cast iron frying pan. Once I have those, my electric frying pan will be donated to goodwill, along with my skillet.

So tell us about your homesteading kitchen!! Your dreams of one.

heaven
09-30-2002, 12:52 PM
i love the butter churn in the corner, i could just see that sitting there in the corner. That would be your house as i see it. and the chickens do they hold anything?

MJsLady
10-06-2002, 03:21 PM
Lets see my kitchen. Well I am not a homsteader I guess, although if dh were willing...
Ok my kitchen and dining room are one huge room. In the kitchen on the counter is dhs toaster oven I have many electric things, hand mixer, bread machine, wok (works great as a griddle!), cofee maker,blender, food saver bag melter thing, pop corn popper. Now out of all this stuff I have bought.... none of it! The only thing I have picked out was the crock pot and it was a freebie at an online site. Its HUGE, runs about $50 or so at Wal Mart.
In the middle of my kitchen floor is the old dining table. We bought it for the dining room when we moved in then dhs mom offered to sell us her old dining room table, so now we have both.
The walls in the dining room part hold most of my 350 S&P sets.
There are few things on my counters, and a few neat things on the walls. I lovbest the kitchen tabe as it is just the right size for me to knead dough or roll out cookies. I am very short, and the counter tire my arms a bit!