Can you name any five here?

Here are some very old things that was once used in our house. Can anyone name any five things seen here in this rack?

I will try but I will be wrong I think.....
bowl,two canes..rolling pin, Iron, cooking pots

Diana

Incense Burners? Difinitely an old iron....rolling pin, water canteen....

"eyes"

Chocolate stirrir, coconut grater, tea kettle, old charcoal iron, charcoal stove

Flatiron, kerosene lantern base, clothes wringer...?

An iron, and some things to take care of your husband when he comes in late? just kidding

~~snicker snicker~~

My husband?????

Some are right, some are wrong and some are really funny!
Let me tell you one by one, beginning from the top row of that rack from left.
That is more than 60 years old. It is a cooker to cook IDLI.
http://www.indiatastes.com/categories/26.html This is how it looks. It is a very healthy breakfast food very popular in south India, taken with a Chutney or a Sambar.
Below that is a bronze basin which is sitting on top of a firewood stove made of clay.

Sitting in the middle is a coal iron box with a smoke ventilator. This is sitting on a wooden mould to make KADUBU. http://www.ticon.net/~indu/snacks.htm That was Kadubu.

You can see another firewood stove made of iron. This is sitting on top of a coal roaster (you can see the cylinder to fill the nuts or whatever, and its handle on the right to rotate).

Then those two roundish things are churning rods (may be these are a hundred years old!) made of rose wood I think. One of them is highly decorated. I think these are the things which some of you have named as coconut graters because they have been kept upside down. That was what I felt was funny :)

Will be back again.

That is very interesting Dinu! (I was speaking of my husband)

Like we tell "My God!"?? Eh weeds??

Then in the second row, the first two are of bronze, called "Rail Chombu" -- meaning, vessel to be carried in the trains for drinking water. They have screw tpye lids so that water could not spill over. My grandmother used to carry them whenever she traveled. The container is almost half a KG! Those were the days when only glass bottles were known. Then that is another brass item, a kettle for boiling water, etc. In the bottom row you can see a rolling pin and a smaller version of a grinding stone (two disks are there, one is for turning after putting the material at the centre hole and the ground powder falls down between the two disks). There are a few more interesting things which I will post here sometime later. Hope you enjoyed looking at this little "kitchen museum".

My DW made fun of me when I told her that I am going to make a museum out of these things and there are several old things like that. There is one hand machine made of brass that used to make a sphagetti (we call it vermicelli) like preparation. Will try and post a picture of it when I am able to grab the cam from my friend again.

Dinu, what u call the churning rods is what i described as stirrir for lack of a better terminology. i am familiar with some of those stuff but could not describe or name them right.

the churning rods is what i recall my grandma use each morning making chocolate drinks out of cacao for breakfast. the real cacao is so much different from the processed chocolate they have these days.

i also remember the grinding stone. i do recall grandma making different varieties of rice cakes.

thanks for bringing back good fond memories.

They were used to churn the curds to produce butter. Note the grooves in them to run the rope to a pole and churn it with another piece of rope with both hands. Such excercises kept the ladies in ship-shape condition! Now, all the convenience gadgets have made them weak, lazy and unhealthy!

well it looked similar to what grandma used to use. she even had one of those pewster pitcher to make the chocolate drink.

the grinding stone is still pretty much in use in the Phil. the charcoal stove too! in fact, the charcoal stove is what we used to use for prolong cooking. i do recall grandma bringing some coconut charcoal shells to keep the stove going.

One thing I must tell. The cooking that was done the traditional way was much tastier than what we find now! Having tasted food that way prepared by my skillful grandma in bronze vessels I know what I mean! Yes, it was slow cooking and that did not let go of the aroma and all the good things. Some of my dad's friends too remember the super taste from her hands. They used to be always invited whenever they came down to Mysore or just like that. It was a treat. China and India have so much in common.