American Reacts to British Kitchen Objects
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2023
- As an American who does not cook I am absolutely hopeless when it comes to kitchen items. However that is exactly why today I am rectifying that. I am very interested to see if there are really 14 unique things from British kitchens that I have actually never seen before. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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It is so sad to think that Americans kids grow up having never experienced the joy of dipping their toast soldiers into the yolk of soft boiled eggs in egg cups.
Some of us did.
Or putting the tea cosy on their heads when the grown ups aren’t looking😁
Gonna be messy without an egg cup! Soft boiled, so you can just pop the top off, no need for fancy gadget, and dip your soldiers in.(Bread in strips, or toast, fresh from the rack!).
@@lisadowsett6836 To quote Billy Connolly "never trust a person who when left alone with a tea cosy doesn't put it on his head"
I know it my favorite breakfast.
Tea cosy to keep the teapot hot. The teapot will hold several cups so you want to keep the teapot hot until you are ready to drink it.
Washing up bowl. Smaller than the sink and uses less water, can be taken out if you need to access the sink (old sinks didn’t have a second sink), also stops the sink getting scratched.
Egg cups. Love a boiled egg with toast (but I don’t have a toast rack - hotels often use them). Don’t have an egg topper either, knife will do the job.
Some of these items are not common in homes
I don't know where you found this video, but nearly all these things are very old fashioned and most are not really used anymore! I don't know anyone with a pie dolly, even people who bake regularly, it's a specialised piece of equipment. Unless you want your kitchen to have a certain look to it, you would use a modern pair of scales and the reason we don't use cups, is that is a purely American thing, the rest of the world weighs out the ingredients. if you were to go to any culinary school, you'd be taught to use scales!
They must be shopping in upmarket London vintage/antique shops etc, where these items are used to decorate a shabby chic retro kitchen along with an Aga range 🤣
You are wrong, all my family use most of these items regularly.
@@ianarnett I’m 57 but I inherited at a lot of these items and still use them, the pie bird is used a lot, plus an old mincer, but the people in the video are assuming we don’t use or buy modern scales etc, I still use my brass weighing scales for large amounts of flour etc for baking, but electronic scales for small amounts,
I have bought measuring cups from Amazon for ease of use, a lot of recipes I find online are American, it stops all the faff of converting the measurements
@juliajoyce4535 were in our 60s but our daughter is in her 30s and she uses most as well!
Once you've eaten a boiled egg from an egg cup you'll never go back. Nothing is quite as good as dipping fingers of hot buttered toast into the yolk of a securely housed egg. Egg cups are definitely not a "posh" or "toff" thing, they're used by most people, as they are in Australia where I now live.
Egg cups are perfect
@@fayesouthall6604 Amen!
If you want to go posh, go Ouefs en Cocotte.
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@@grahamstubbs4962 I think you mean "oeufs" (which is French for "eggs"). ☺
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Quite right. I've lost the ability to tpye.
The toast rack is really a great thing... It does let the steam off a fresh piece of bread, let it aireate and get crispier, as opposed to the sweaty underside of a piece of hot bread on a plate we all loathe... And for the scales I have only one word: yes.
Agree makes the toast crisp!
I am from the UK and I have never heard of Spurtles. I usually use a Spoon to stir things that need it. Never heard of pie birds either. Oh well, you learn something new everyday.
Spurtles are a Scottish thing for stirring porridge. I have two of them
same here also
They are Scottish
Same here, turns out i'd just never heard them called spurtles before, my mum used to have one, she just called it her stirring stick. She also had several pie birds, so I knew what they are.
Pie bird are an older generation thing. They were used to let air out of your pie so it doesn't rise too much. My Mum has one and still uses it.
Spurtles are mostly found in Scotland
That pie bird isn’t being used correctly it should be holding the pastry off the contents so it remains crispy
We have progressed to digital scales and please don’t forget our recipes don’t use cup measurements we use imperial or metric measurements which are more accurate
The pie dolly is used to make “raised” pies like pork or game pies which you don’t have in the US.
UK puddings are not the custardy gloop you call pudding our puddings come in various types but those made in a pudding bowl are like cake and are usually served with custard only Christmas pudding is served with flaming brandy 🤦♀️
What British kitchen doesn’t have some type of Yorkshire pudding tins which you call popover tins
I personally don’t have a Tea cozy a washing up bowl or a toast rack NB toast racks are mostly found in hotels and B&B’s they are used to stop toast from going soggy
Egg cups and toppers are so you can eat your soft boiled eggs and soldiers without chasing your eggs all over the table and without it being covered in eggshells
Pot noodle is vile with or without the fork 🤢🤮 so not in my kitchen
Totally agree. Really don't know where they got their information from
Beef and Tomato Pot Noodle is the best. lol
@@MarkARhodie Absolutely, but nowadays you have to put your own MSG in and extra salt (or in my case Marmite) to get the real 70s/80s Pot Noodle taste (fucking nanny state salt police 😂). I do put a bit of Franks sauce in mine as well as ketchup.
Curry pot noodle is elite
Excellent summary
A toast rack is simply to prevent the hot toast creating condensation on the plate.
I don't think I've ever owned one, but you will always see them in hotel restaurants.
Egg cups are not a luxury item. We were poor in Canada, when I was a kid, and we had them. Basically they are for soft boiled eggs. My grandmother loved soft boiled eggs, and my dad did too, so I am quite familiar with them.
My mom also loved to collect them, but they were never used for day to day use.
( I learned that the hard way when I was a kid)
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Crumpets have a totally different texture to bread, English muffins and pancakes. They have bubble holes across the top that hold your melted butter, jam or whatever other toppings you want to use.
A spurtle is used in honey 🍯. You dip it into the honey and use it to drizzle the honey over your pudding or breakfast cereal etc .
A spurtle is used in Scotland to stir porridge and you use a “honey dipper” to drizzle your honey on food.🍯 🙂
Toast racks are used to keep your toast toasted instead of getting soggy from putting it directly on a plate
Toast racks are common in large households where several people may be eating at a table and you're very likely to see one on your table in a hotel, especially at breakfast, where toast is almost obligatory. (We eat toast every day at home)
As to washing-up bowls, everyone uses one for the simple reason that you are far less likely to damage crockery in a plastic bowl than in the metal sink.
Not used one since had a kitchen with a Belfast sink (becoming popular again and not just for bathing the baby). Only things washed by hand now are pots too large for the dishwasher Aluminium/Copper items or lead crystal glasses. Toast rack used every morning as don't mind cold toast but hate soggy toast. Oh and not that sliced Chorley Wood process stuff (Flour to sliced wrapped loaf in 40 minutes). Wonderloaf and the Aerated Bread Company (ABC Bakeries) has a lot to answer for.
I grew up in an house of 3 and we had a toast rack. It was basically a convenience thing for breakfast. Mum wakes ya and says "breakfast is on the table". You go downstairs and you got some bowls laid out, a rack of toast, box of cereal and few pints of milks
The pie dolly is used for a specific type of pie. Usually for raising a water pastry, you mold the pastry round the dolly remove it and put in contents and a lid. Used in the making of "pork pies" which originated in Melton Mowbray and are eaten cold. Original fast food, was eaten by the fox hunting fraternity, whilst seated on their horse.
They have found some obscure (though legit) things. The spurtles and pie birds are things I feel I've heard of but never used. Scales- I have both the traditional weight balancing type and a small square digital readout base. In Britain we don't measure for recipes using 'cups' but in weights,so we don't have cup measures. 'Puddings' in Britain are traditionally fruit sponges, or suet sponges. The pudding bowl gos inside the pudding steamer, as the pudding is steamed rather than baked in the oven like a cake.
The tea cosy doesn't go over the kettle which heats the water, but over the pot the teas is stewed in. It keeps the tea warm so you can get refills from the same pot. Everyone has one, whether they use them or not! Mine is a quilted cat.
Americans find washng up bowls mad- but I can't see why. It means you use less water, your plates don't get bashed against a metal or enamel sink. Tradtionally kitchens came with one sink, so having a bowl meant you could either empty pans, or run water down the side of the bowl to rinse without diluting your soapy water. Now most modern kitchen have at least an extra half-bowl.
Toast racks are a bit old fashioned, but were useful where one person made the breakfast for everyone, and so put it on the table in the rack, and each person could then take what they wanted.
I find the egg cup thing odd. How on earth do you eat your eggy soldiers? (strips of toast dipped into runny egg yolk. If you are using an egg cup, the eg topper is a useful tool.
Never heard of a pot noodle fork. It must have been a marketing wheeze by Pot Noodle at some point.
measuring with cups is an american thing. the rest of the world uses grams and liters to measure things, depending if it's a solid or a liquid. the kitchen scales, i'm sure there's digital ones, and i think those ones with the weights are more old fashioned and most people wouldn't have them, but the ones often used, that i always grew up seeing, aren't digital, they're analog, you put something on the little bowl thingy and there's a pointer, like a clock's, that goes to the number of which represents the weight of that thing.
for measuring liquids, we have jugs with markings that have lines marking it from 0 milliliters to 1 liter
Ever before we went metric,we'd still use scales rather than measuring cups, though tea and table spoons were also used for measuring.
The scales they showed though? Much more prevalent in shops, I'd think.
Normal people used spring based scales with the dial to indicate weight.
I have a measuring cup with millilitres and US cup size on it. Lots of online recipes use US cup. I use digital scales for larger.
I still weigh in pounds and ounces although a lot of British people weigh in metric now. I am not likely to change. Incidentally litre is spelt like this.
19:29 they're for boiled eggs. They're eaten by breaking the shell at the table and digging your spoon inside to eat the contents. But it won't stay still on a plate, so you need an egg cup to hold it. They are used all over the social spectrum, and while the basic shape is pretty universal the colours vary a lot!
when i was a kid you would get an egg cup with some easter eggs. never get anything nice like that now - just a hollow chocolate egg and maybe a chocolate bar with it
English muffins are called breakfast muffins here. Crumpets are very different. Its a stretchier airated bread that form little holes on the surface that butter melts into thats a much nicer IMO.
Crumpets and muffins are two entirely different things! Both great but very different. Most people just use digital scales!! Never heard of a 'pie dolly' - looks like a rolling pin to me. And how else to eat a soft boiled egg unless it's held in something?
A pie dolly, is used to form the pie case around, normally a hot water pastry, for making pork pie.
@@stephenlee5929 I now know what they're talking about - I couldn't see it clearly at all.
@@stephenlee5929 Specifically a HAND-RAISED pork pie.
@@stephenlee5929 and in Scotland, a Scotch pie - you haven't lived until you've tasted one😁
The toast rack is useful if you’re preparing a meal, typically breakfast, and serving it at a table for one or more other people. They’ve grown out of fashion over the years, but you’ll still find them used in Bed & Breakfast hotels.
But I have to bring this up, you don’t eat toast or eggs, do you eat?
Yes I was at a bnb recently and got 4 pieces of toast and whole pot of tea with my breakfast, loved it
Yeah he eats burgers
Toast racks mean you can put toast out and it’s separated so it doesn’t get damp as it cools. Handy when having a number of people for breakfast lol
I never knew they were called pie birds but we used them for making steak and kidney pie - only they were white porcelain. We haven't got any these days but they were a standard fare. Given that my grandmother, born 1898, was a cook in a large house most of her working life, a lot of these things are perfectly familiar to me. My wife was watching this over my shoulder, shouting at the screen because these things are widely known to people who can cook. The only one neither of us knew is a spirtle, though it makes perfect sense to have such a tool.
Toast racks keep the toast slices in better condition than if it's left on a plate by letting them breathe - haven't you ever heard of toast sweat?
Can't beat a soft boiled egg and soldiers. Literally the central theme of our breakfast table.
Hurrah, someone who knows and hasn’t forgotten how and why things were used!
Pie birds are also known as pie vents, pie whistles, pie funnels, or pie chimneys.
@@wessexdruid7598 I can't remember what we called them, I just remember using them.
I have to say most people don't use a teapot much these days unless they are been posh but when I was a child you would see tea cossys everywhere then you had loose tea so had to make it in a pot now we have tea bags no one bothers with making in a pot of tea, but back in the day it would keep the tea warm.
I live on my own and always make tea in a teapot and I have several tea cosies. Making tea in a cup I personally think is horrible.
I don't know how many egg cups I have here. Everybody in the U.K. must have an egg cup. I have some here that my mother bought in Yugoslavia so I feel they must be pretty universal things except in the U.S. I wasn't particularly impressed by the video that you reacted to. I always enjoy your presentations though.👍
The pot noodle folk is a novelty gadget that usually comes in a noodle gift set.. its not very common at all x
My friend, I have said this to you before... you are not an average or ordinary American to me. You are a very intellegent and moreover a very perceptive person. You have a good thinking mind... also you are very amusing to listen to. Love your channel.
Toast racks are extensively used in hotels and B & B's as it allows toast to be delivered to your table and is then waiting for you when you are ready to eat it. As someone has already said, it also keeps your toast crisp, because nobody wants soggy toast. We still use a tea cosy as it keeps the tea hot while it is brewing (5 minutes) in the teapot. They were often knitted by grannies and moms. tea must always be served piping hot! Love your posts, by the way.
Crumpets are nothing like English muffins! American muffins tend to be big and sweet cakes, English ones are more of a savoury bread.
Toast racks are usually used in hotel breakfasts or large gatherings at home where multiple breakfasts are being served and people haven’t got time to eat the toast immediately or there’s no room for the plates to put the toast on.
Egg cups are usually used for SOFT boiled eggs where you can remove the top of the shell and dip thin slices of toast or bread into the yummy goodness.
Sweaty toast eliminated with a rack.
Also, to have knobs of butter mixed in with the yolk.
It seems they didn't just travel to another continent, but also to another time. I think the only things regularly still seen are the egg cup and washing up bowl, (and toast racks in b&b's etc). And the pot noodle fork? Just, no.
Wrong, most still used every day in the homes of all my family.
@@ianarnett that surprises me - but I did talk about things 'regularly' being seen not never and I still stand by that.
@@cathrynlisa totally agree, some folk may use some of this old fashioned stuff but most won't or even know what they are beside washing bowl (still getting rarer by the year) egg cup, Yorkshire pud tins and an occasional toast rack
Toast layed down flat steams and gets soft. The rack keeps the toast, well toasted :)
I had no idea a toast rack was a Brit thing and not used all over! It’s always been a staple part of my life!
It blew my mind when I found out that Americans don't know what a kettle is. They make tea on the microwave 🤮
Wrong on so many levels!
We here in Australia use all the utensils you have shown on your site so they are very familiar to us. We use them most days.
That is because originally Australia was populated by British people and they took their customs with them.
@@valeriedavidson2785 and their bosses silver toast rack.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Well America was colonised by the same British people who came to Australia surely they bought the same utensils with them.
@@annak011 Apparently not. Their table arrangements and manners are very different from ours. Of course they were colonised a lot earlier than Australia was.
The toast rack is for putting toast on in the centre of the table so people can help there self's to toast.. mainly used in hotels or B&Bs etc or homes but these are not as common today x
Tyler, a teapot and a tea kettle are two different things, the kettle is for boiling water, the teapot is where you make the tea and then pour it into individual cups for serving. In the colder months, your teapot cools down much quicker than in the warmer summer weather, so the tea cosy helps to insulate the tea pot so you can enjoy a second cuppa and still drink it hot. I’m Aussie and we have all of these things here.
We call them washing up basins. They are to protect your sink from scratches from knives, forks, heavy metal items etc, all of which can ruin the surface of your expensive sink. The basin can be filled and emptied into the sink without doing any damage.
If you put your hot toast on a plate, the underside gets steamed and becomes soggy. Toast racks aren’t often used at home unless you have a large family, but often used in hotels and restaurants.
Crumpets and English muffins are 2 different things, crumpets are like pancakes and English muffins are more like bread consistency. In the UK English muffins tend to be called breakfast muffins.
My wife is from California. The first time that I went there I was suprised that many stores advertised "real English muffins". I didn't recognise them because they were not the muffin that Dave talks about and that I knew back in England. Instead they were more like a fruit cup cake. Suprise suprise that's now what some supermarkets sell, as for example blueberry muffins. To me a muffin is a flat bread type that tastes nice toasted with an egg on top.
I have a hollow ceramic open beaked pie blackbird that I bought in the 70s. Ideal for letting the steam out of a pie, preventing the pastry lid from lifting up and contents spurt out. The bottom sits in a hole in the pie lid, and top half is above the pie lid. Oh my...its 50 years old...20 less than me 😂
Pie dolly is used to shape the pie (often pork pies) pastry is shaped around it to make bottom and sides.
Pudding bowl (most often used for Christmas puddings) but mostly general purpose bowl too.
Tea cosy - just helps keep the tea warm in the pot longer (we love our tea!) - they can be very random designs and are sometime meant to be naff
Toast Rack - if you are making loads of toast and don't want it go soggy by stacking it on top of one another then you would want one (mostly used in hotels to be fair)
Pot noodle fork is a joke thing - only students eat pot noodles
They missed off Egg Coddler!
In Australia we definitely all have egg cups- the kids have ones that look like a chick, and the egg topper is a fantastic invention. Tea cozies are often sold at fetes and market stalls. And crumpets really are not like English muffins at all!
I’ve never used a Spurtle or seen one for sale in Wales/England, I just use a wooden spoon for porridge, it is Scottish
I've always assumed the reason washing up bowls are used is they are usually smaller than the sink they sit in ,so you use less hot water when washing dishes,so you save money.
Or is it because, if you have only one sink, as soon as you put in the plug and fill it with water, there is nowhere convenient to pour away liquid waste such as the dregs from tea and coffee cups etc. prior to crockery being placed in the washing up bowl (if you forget to do this before starting). I stopped using a washing bowl when I got a double sink.
Stops chipping the china on the sink sides.
@@MrBulky992 Same - I don't use one now I have 2 sinks. But before, yes, it gave you the option to access the drain.
@@dinastanford7779 That might have been true when we had hard, rigid, porcelain sinks in the 20th century but most people have stainless steel or plastic sinks now where chipping is less likely and fewer people use delicate bone china crockery! Also, in my experience, it is contact with other crockery which is as likely to cause chips.
Pudding is dessert, they’re synonymous terms in the uk
You have steak and kidney pudding for desert?
@@muchsake ?? I’m referencing the fact that pudding isn’t the same here as in America (where it refers only to a custard type dessert). He didn’t seem to know there’s a difference
'it really is a cup for your egg' by this point I had tears in my eyes. We do have some pretty bizarre things in the kitchen
During covid restrictions I decided to make crumpets, had no rings and my local pie bird shop, which has a nice line in neon coloured spurtles and a range of 21st century tea cosies was closed due to non essential restrictions, so I made crumpet rings out of tuna cans
Everyone has egg cups. I lived in Germany, they have them. They have them in France, even in stylish Italy. Ireland is awash in eggs cups. How do you eat runny eggs (soft-boiled) without them? What's wrong with you people? I still have my noddy egg cup, with his little felt hat and bell, so my egg has a cosy!
We use scales, usually digital, I think people have the weight balance ones for decoration
I never knew pie birds had a function, so cheers for that. Pie dolly? Never even knew it had a name
Old scales can look good on display in a kitchen, most often there will also be some easier to use digital scales stored in a cupboard or drawer somewhere nearby.
Where I'm from in the UK, calling someone a toff is an insult, akin to calling someone a 'Posh tw*t'. A few of these items are quite posh (and new) to me, definitely wouldn't find some of these in the local shops round here.
And from the 50s/60s/70s, I've had and still got some of these. My dad was a miner in Nottingham, so not posh in the 50s/60s. A necessity in those days if you baked/ cooked for a large family.
This couple is shopping in the wrong places, these scales are sold as antique, vintage/decorative and are very expensive, most scales sold in the UK are now the flat electronic ones or plastic types, the UK has used cooks measuring cups for decades, I inherited my mothers and you can still by the same Tala measuring cup.
My grandmother used a washing bowl in the US. I think it was a habit from earlier days to save hot water, but she still washed dishes like that in the 1990s.
For the Toast Racks, they are used mainly by people who prefer their toast to be cold before they apply butter & condiments to the toast, which avoids condensation from the toast to the plate.
For the Egg Cups & Egg Clippers, hard/soft boiled eggs are eaten hot with a spoon and also often with toast soldiers (a slice of toast cut into slices just wide enough to dip into the egg yolk).
IIRC pudding is something that is steamed like black pudding but more typically a sweet steamed sponge pudding for desert. Also I think the pie dolly is to form the pastry shape of a pork pie.
When you said, regarding spurtles - 'it's a stick', I fell off my chair, laughing. I'm an old UK lady so I do possess a pie bird and old style scales with weights
A toast rack is used to hold a number of slices of toast, to carry them to a table for example. However, one of the main uses is to keep the toast crunchy, if hot toast is laid down flat on a plate or wooden board, or stacked on top of each other it will go soft.👍🏻
Being a Scot I can say that WE do use Spurtles to stir porridge. If you remember the TV programme THE HIGH LIFE you will know that the CHEIF PURSER was called SHONA SPURTLE.
Muffins and Crumpets are two completely different things ! And we just call them MUFFINS !!
Those old weighing scales are NOT used anymore ! People have them in a cottage kitchen just for show. The are " antiques" now. We don't use " American cups" either. We use digital scales.
The pie dolly is usually ceramic and is used to form the pie base by working the dough up the dolly so you have a cylinder shape to put the meat into before adding the pie top.
You put the raw pudding mix into the bowl and either cook it in the oven or steam it. It's NOT for eating your pudding out of.
PUDDING in the UK is not just those little plastic cups of chocolate mousse that you have in America. A pudding can be sweet or savoury, hot or cold. Yorkshire pudding. Spotted Dick is a steamed pudding. Black pudding (blood pudding). So if someone in the UK says to you after your meal " do you want pudding" they are just asking if you want dessert.
Tea POT not tea KETTLE. The kettle boils the water that makes the tea in the tea pot ! A tea cosy is basically a hat for your tea pot to keep the tea hotter for longer.
The washing up bowl stops the stainless steel/ceramic sink from getting scratched by the cutlery when you wash them up.
Toast is an everyday thing in the UK....and NOT just at breakfast.
If Americans don't have egg cups , how do they eat their boiled egg and soldiers !? They are a very common thing in the UK. And I just use a knife to decapitate the boiled egg.
I have NEVER seen a " Pot Noodle Fork " ! It must have been an advertising gimmick.
We have a lot of egg cups. If you want a semi soft boiled egg you need the cup and a small spoon to eat it, otherwise the yolk will spill onto your plate and you'll burn your fingers trying to hold it. Assuming you don't eat many boiled eggs in the US 🤔
Toast racks are to stop your toast going soggy. If you butter toast when hot then leave it it goes soggy. If you leave it to cool upright then it will not go soggy when buttered .
We don't have English muffins, we have muffins, which are not like English muffins. I purpose English muffins should really be called American muffins.
Your a muffin ya platypus
Bacon and egg muffin 😋 class
Yes, we use toast racks because families sit down for breakfast together and share. We have butter dishes to take to the table too. Tea cosies keep the teapot warm so we can have hot tea and not lukewarm tea. Pudding bowls are for making things like steak and kidney pudding - savoury and delicious - which steams to cook.
I haven't heard of all these things lol..unfortunately many Brits now dunk a tea bag in a mug but us purists still use teapots 🤣 there is nothing worse than cold tea so tea cosies are to keep it warm while it brews. I don't have one but always warm the pot and even the cup with hot water first. A washing up bowl is essential if you don't have a double sink, otherwise your dregs get in your washing up water.
Always had a double sink and yes still wash by hand in a bowl and rinse dishes in the other bowl then air dry on the rack. Both bowls of water go on the garden somewhere.
None of these things are widely used in the UK anymore.
The scales are SO antique. It's 2023. We have digital scales.
We also have digital measuring cups, but that's just overkill.
Washing up bowls save water and not every house in the UK comes with a dishwasher. (Think of it like a bath for your dishes - you wash them in the bowl and then tip the water away instead of running water constantly).
Toast racks are normally found in restaurants/pubs/hotels where they make large quantities of toast and need to store them for guests.
Egg cups are only for BOILED eggs. The outside goes hard and you eat it with a spoon and strips of toast known as 'Soldiers'. The dish is called Eggs and Soldiers.
There is no such thing as a "Yorkshire Pudding Tray".
That is a baking tray or a cake tin.
Do not insult Pot Noodles.
I like scales that don't need batteries and last for ever. I'm still using the ones Mum got when she married in 1952.
@auldfouter8661 If you like them, use them! Antique scales are pretty awesome :) I was just pointing out that in general this stuff doesn't get used as much these days :)
@@ChronicPlays I liked them so much that I bought a set of metric weights for them to save converting modern recipes back to imperial to use the original weights. My local History Club published a cookery book of old local recipes and many of Mum's family recipes went into that.
I don't think I have heard them called "pie birds" but I am familiar with "pastry chimneys' or pastry funnels," as used by my mother and her mother, from childhood and grew up using them (I'm 72 now). They are particularly useful for large family pies that might need a central support in the dish. I never used one shaped as a bird; but it is obviously based on the w2ell-known nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence"
"Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?
The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose.
The only use I can see for a toast rack is if you have lots of toast then it stops it going soft with the steam like it would if you stacked it up.
That's its exact use.
I use a digital scale and/or measuring spoons. Toast Racks I've mainly seen in hotels.
Everyone has to have an egg cup, your soft boiled eggs usually served with soldiers (toast sliced to dip into the runny egg yolk (with a bit of salt on top), yummy).
My Grandma, who was English, sent us a tea cozy, in the mail. We didn't know what it was ... we thought it was a toque, with holes for pigtails!!
A hat with holes for pigtails! I can picture the confusion. Thank you for making me laugh out loud! 😊😄
My tea cosy is a seagull and I love it! I need to settle in and have a second cup of tea from my pot. Most British kitchens aren't big enough for double sinks. When you only have one sink, a bowl is essential - it means you can pour waste liquid away down the side of it without tipping out the whole washing up every time, run the tap and rinse items during washing up without overfilling the sink. If you eat boiled eggs for breakfast then there is nothing better than (marmite) toast soldiers and you gotta have an eggcup for that! It's not posh - just practical, especially for a simple kid's meal.
You're right, the scales are from a bygone era, my grandmother used to have a set. Some still have them as a show piece and you're likely to find them in certain antique shops. I have both measuring cups and electronic scales.
Measuring cup is perfect
I have a set of scales with Imperial weights for larger quantities and digital scales for more precision. The problem with the latter is that the battery doesn't last very long. But switching from one to the other is great for your mental arithmetic: one Imperial ounce is as near as dammit 30 grams.
6:59 my mum still has her set of scales! Hers are a bit more modern than those, but the principle is the same - amass weights equal to how much you want, put them on one side, start adding the thing to the other end and stop when it's balanced. Of course these days we just use digital scales instead. We don't use measuring cups, never have. Not sure anywhere outside the US does.
Hum crumpets are not sweet or muffins if you make then yourself but who dose that anymore buy them from the shop but I think you would cook them in those on top of the stove they have loads of holes in them so when you put butter on it all melts through they are yum.
Crumpets are English griddle cakes made from flour, milk/water and yeast and are traditionally eaten for breakfast or with afternoon tea. They’re soft and somewhat spongy in texture and their crowning feature are the dozens of tiny holes that dot the surface, allowing whatever you spread on them to soak down into them, making each and every bite an unforgettable one.
Crumpets are nothing like English muffins. English muffins are more like bread rolls; they’re doughy, heavier and bread-like. English muffins are also cut in a half for serving.
There's no such thing as an English Muffin. They were invented here but we just called them muffins, it was the Americans who started calling them English Muffins, as a means of distinguishing them from their sweet American style muffins(chocolate, blueberry, etc), which we've also now adopted.
Thank you Tyler, you have had me in fits of laughter watching this video. I have tears rolling down my face just listening to your reactions.
I’m literally having a crumpet now.
I think this video should be called traditional British kitchen objects.
Because they’re not very commonly used aside for a few.
I’ve only ever seen balance scales in antique shops. Growing up in the 80’s we had a mechanical scale before digital scales became common.
We have a pie bird, but its rarely used even when baking a pie.
Our Yorkshire pudding tray gets used every Sunday.
We have a pudding bowl.
We have a tea pot but it’s never been used, and I haven’t seen a tea cozy since I was kid.
Washing up bowls are extremely common though.
Always use my egg cup whenever we have boiled egg and soldiers, and I’ve been meaning to get an eggshell cutter.
I have had my eggshell cutter for 70 years. I bought in France whilst on a school trip and still use it when I have boiled eggs for breakfast.
My grandmother had a collection of pie birds she used to use different ones for different occasions
I‘m from Germany and I definitely grew up using e.g. egg cups and tea cozies. The two most common ways to crack an egg in Germany I think are to either hit the top of the egg with a spoon as long as it takes for the eggshell to crack and then you can just peel the shell off or you use a knife and just cut off the top of the egg. I did see a pot noodle fork on a German TV gadget show once but it really was more like a funny gadget than anything else.
The egg cup is for soft boiled eggs not hard - usually served with bread soldiers to dip in the runny yolk and then a spoon to spoon out the rest, usually served at breakfast time or sometimes for lunch - I for one used to love this as a child.
Never heard of spurtles, or pie birds in my 66 yrs of being here, not from my long passed grandparents either, nor in my travels around the UK
I have, though I thought it was just for dripping honey.
I'm 70yrs old, and I've got a pie bird from the 70s.
Most of those object are pretty obscure, you don't really find them in an average home any more. Although your Gran might have a Tea Cozy - they just keep the tea warm, and everybody that eats boiled eggs would have an egg cup Oh and English Muffins don't exist in the UK and it's "York-sher"
You’ll mainly find toast racks used in restaurants and cafés. It allows them to serve lots of toast without stacking it, which prevents the toast getting soggy.
The egg cup is useful, because you can dip toast in the yolk of a soft boiled egg, since it holds the egg upright.
If your using a pudding bowl, then you're also going to need a pudding cloth.
Toast racks are very useful if you are inviting friends or family to stay the night. For breakfast, you can put around six slices of toast in them and let your guests help themselves. Every household in Britain have egg cups, how do you eat a 3 minute egg without them? I don't have the egg slicer though, I just hit the egg with a tea spoon and pick the shell of with my fingers, much more satisfying!!
Well I'm not from the UK but from Austria and I can't believe you don't have egg cups in the USA.
They are not posh at all but just necessary for eating soft boiled breakfast eggs.
I use them several times a week.
How else do you eat your eggs without burning your hand and spilling the yolk?
My mum is always knitting tea cosies. She has pineapples, Santa hats, and after a bet with my husband, a Sherman tank.
Toast racks are used to keep the toast crispy, if you put hot toast straight down on a plate it sweats and goes soggy. Although I don't have a toast rack, when I take my toast out I stand it up on the plate by leaning them against each other.
You are so amusing in your surprised facial expressions and words, I can't help but watch you! Everything is a surprise! Porridge stirrer! 👍 Lumpy porridge 😫 (alternative is washing it!) "4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie" lets out the steam! 😄 Crumpet rings, make perfect crumpets! 😋 Muffins and Crumpets! Scales, with balancing weights, weigh all your ingredients for perfect baking! 😊 Pie dolly, rolling pin! Yorkshire Pudding Tray, muffin tray! Pudding bowls, my mum had several! (We had lots of puddings, upside down, top first, pore in the rest, wrap tight, steam it, yes) Steamer is for dried fruit like in Christmas pudding, a longer process! 👍 Tea Cosy, we used to knit/find those for my Nana, she used them every day! (Find out! 😁) You bring the warmed and filled teapot to the table, put it on the trivet, cover it with a tea cosy, pat it! Pour and enjoy your tea! 🤗 Washing up bowls, eek, grubby! 🧐 Toast (with butter and Vegemite! 😊) Rack, from toaster to table, choose a piece, great for large families! The Silver ones are quite toff! 🤓 Egg cups, yes, delightful, beautifully decorated, individual choices, perfect size! 😍 Yes, essential next to the egg cup, you have perfectly neat egg tops! 🤩 Pot noodle fork? Lost me!! 😫🥺😃
The Spirtle was originally from Scotland, made for stirring porridge, most English people have never seen one.
No we just use a wooden spoon like most people
Pie birds are used to let out the steam from a pie. The alternative would be to pierce the pastry numerous times with a fork, however this makes the gravy seep out of the holes all over the pastry.
Cups measure volume, weighing measures mass. Different products are more or less dense, so 1 cup of dry icing sugar will weigh less than 1 cup of granulated sugar for example. We measure liquid by volume usually (in millilitres or sometimes teaspoonfuls up to tablespoons)
This was a funny! I use £10 Digital Scales to measure the weight of food.
You mean cocaine hyper Dave.
i have lived in UK my entire life and have never heard of any of these things! English muffins are just called "muffins" in England and i always thought they were an American food 🙂my Nan had a tea cosy she also had a similar knitted thing for her loo roll - with a little lady on top so the knitted part was covering the loo roll like it was her dress - they were weird AF!!
Weird indeed
@@fayesouthall6604 They were quite common in the 1970s
Most still used by us.
@@paulharvey9149 I know! I’m old enough to remember that
I'm 37 and I have most of these; apart from the potnoodle spoon, pie dolly and crumpet rings. I'd say most of my family and friends have most of these items!
Egg cups being 'fancy' items amuses me so much as a German. Just about every household has them.
I have seen tea pot covers in Norway (and/or Sweden), but not common. I guess they are useful with ceramic pots, to keep them warm.
I guess they are less usefully if you use an pot like thermos.
Egg cups are fairly common in Norway too, if you enjoy eggs for breakfast with a spoon.
I think they are more useful if you prefer soft boiled eggs, to make them stand, without spilling.
I prefer my eggs on a slice of bread.
I cut it in half, with the shell.
Put on half in an egg cup if it's soft and liquid.
Scoop out the other with a tea spoon, putting in on my bread.
Scoop out the one from the cup.
Then gently slice and scramble to spread.
And then there are egg hats, to put over eggs in the egg cups, to keep them warm, if you set a table then wait for everyone to come.
Is this video from the Victorian era? Nobody uses most of this stuff these days 🤣 Apart from egg cups totally essential and not at all posh.
I have all of these 😊 The scales are my grandmothers and only used as decor , I usually use electronic scales but have recently purchased American style measuring cups and they’re so much easier!
Back in the day when things weren’t so rush rush for convenience like drive thru’s, coffee makers for a single cup or McDonald’s breakfast we used to sit around the breakfast table sometimes having breakfast (different names around the UK like Fry’up, the full English breakfast, full welsh, ulster fry) usually all have similar ingredients and different ingredients) mainly sausages, eggs, bacon,baked beans, fried tomato’s and mushrooms all served on a plate also on the table would be a tea pot with enough tea for everyone with a tea cozy around to keep it warm and a toast rack full with toast.
Egg cups are still common in the UK and other Commonwealth countries...even at easter a gift chocolate egg can be sitting in an egg cup that can be used to eat real eggs, but they usually have a rabbit and extra bulk that just gets in the way so they end up being useless.
But good plain sturdy ones are great for soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers (toast fingers that are a slice of toast cut into four strips).
Yes As others have said, these two live in a different universe to the rest of us Brits. I have unfortunately seen some of their other vlogs. They obviously had a very strange existence while in the U.K., obviously captured by “aliens” .
Thank you thank you, I thought it was just me thinking that. They make me angry as the actually do belittle us.
@Photogopinion Yes of course you are right. I saw a UA-cam from an American in Oxford Street shopping before Christmas last year and he was SHOCKED!! that it was dark at 3:30. Surely from the country of Newton and Darwin we should be be able to reconfigure the physical laws of the universe so we have more daylight in winter. I wish Americans would banish the words “shocked” and “awesome” from their vocabulary. Life would be better.
I’m always thinking this as well, I’ve seen other vlogs from them and get very annoyed with them 😂
@@johnnyuk3365please add two more over used and meaningless expressions often used - ‘cute’ and ‘cool’ ….an American reactor thought the Tower of London was ‘cute’ and it was ‘cool’ that none of the walls surrounded the Tower had been knocked down and moved to a museum…??🤔eh?? Ermm…. Noooo…. Historic and magnificent yes…. But “cute”? 😨😬🙄
@@weedle30 agreed
I'm sure I've seen toast racks in American movies
Me too.
I have a digital scale, I do have one of the weight measures,just on show though,never heard of spurtles. Rolling pins are for rolling your pastry flat. Egg Cups are for standing your soft boiled eggs in so you can dip your toast, yummy 😋
Pie birds act as a vent, if you don't vent a sealed pie the steam can make the pastry s bit soggy. Pie dolly's are for hand raising hot water crust pastry for pies like pork pie. Steamed puddings are steamed in a bowl that's placed in a pan of water, it's a form of slow cooking instead of baking. I have never heard of a spurtle lol.
Never heard of Spurtles, I wonder if they are Scottish?
Yep! I have two
I gotta say, I am Scottish and have lived in Britain most of my life and I have never heard of a lot of these things.
A lot them seem very old-fashioned.. like the kind of thing I grandparents would have used. 🤷
There's the washing up thing but, to my knowledge, most people call them washing basins, not bowls.
Scales of the type shown were considered old-fashioned as far back as the 1970s when most households used the type with a dish on the top and a dial on the front.
Tea cosies are, also, considered very old-fashioned by most.
Most people use toast racks. The reason is that, if toast lies flat the steam gets trapped underneath and makes the toast soggy and tough. Racks allow the steam to escape and keeps the toast crispy. 😋
Toast racks, egg cups and washing basins are, actually, very common to this day.
As for the Pot Noodle Fork, that was just a silly gimmick that the Pot Noodle manufacturers sold via mail order for a limited time. It was never really a thing.
I am not even English (italian in fact) but I own and appreciate my toast rack. It keeps the slices apart, so they don't stick together, and when I bring toast from the kitchen to the dinner table I can manage more than... say, two, and keep the floor crumble-less. And it's a beautiful object too, it just decorates the table while being useful :) And I also have an egg cup, for soft boiled eggs. It's really useful, you can get top the liquid center of the egg, without it running everywhere in your plate. I was curious about the pie dolly (never seen one!) and I found a video here on UA-cam, titled "How to Use a Pork Pie (Dolly) Block" that helped me understand how to use one.
Oh Tyler, please stop watching these videos full of twaddle that are only made to fullfill a need for content.