What does one cook in this?

caliloo

15 years ago

I've never seen anything quite like this. I presume it is used in the kitchen, but fot what?

Thanks in advance!

Alexa

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anoriginal
15 years ago
Sorry, don't have a clue but curiious to learn what it's for!?! I'm thinking it is for cooking. Does that half-lid come off? Is it curved naturally or does it look like it's bent? Looks "old"!?!
readinglady
15 years ago
Nothing, I hope. I believe it's a bedpan.

Carol

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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
15 years ago
I think it's used for shampooing the bedredden.

dcarch
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
15 years ago
I meant bedridden.

dcarch
caliloo
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15 years ago
OMG LOL. The matching ladles threw me. It is at my local thrift shop. They must have gotten the left overs from an estate because there was a ton of old odd stuff today. I bought a nice set of 6 transferware bread plates for $3 and some other old neat junk for the garden. I just didn't know what to make of this thing with the ladles. Thanks everyone
arley_gw
15 years ago
The ladles don't go with it.
ci_lantro
15 years ago
I just saw one at a rummage sale last weekend. I think it's a bedpan, too.
Teresa_MN
15 years ago
I think it would make a nice "wall pocket" or fence pocket. You could put dried flowers in it. Or if it was outside, some sort of annual vine. Do you collect other old cooking items? It might make a nice collection for a wall depending on the style of your kitchen. My sister had an arrangement like this in her laundry/mud room in her farmhouse.

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jude31
15 years ago
Somehow the idea of a bedpan in the kitchen is not very appealing to me, whether it's on the wall or not.LOL
katefisher
15 years ago
I would plant Hens and Chicks in it. Cool pan.

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Teresa_MN
15 years ago
Did you actually buy it or just take a pic at the shop?
caliloo
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15 years ago
I just took the picture

Alexa
loves2cook4six
15 years ago
OMG I BURST out laughing at Carol's post. dd keeps askin me what's so funny 'cause i can't stop laughing
lindac
15 years ago
LOL....I've stayed away from this one!!
I have a friend who has a new-ish white porcelain pitcher that looks very like a male urinal....I have never said anything...but I am a bit gooned out by seeing it in the kitchen!!LOL!
And I have a lovely white ironstone thunder mug with a lid in my bathroom holding "necessary items". I bought it for maybe $10 because it was labeled "old casserole, small chip under rim"...LOL!
Nothing that once held excrement hanging on my kitchen wall please!!
carol_in_california
15 years ago
Looks like a very old fracture bed pan...used to slip under a bedridden or casted person.
The others look like old ladles like we use to use when I was a kid.....at our log cabin on a mining claim. No running water or electricity so we would pump some water into a pail and use the dipper to get a drink of water.
trixietx
15 years ago
I think this is the best post ever (and replies also) and no, I didn't know what it was either!
readinglady
15 years ago
My DH got a real chuckle out of this, pictures and all. I think the "dippers" with the bed pan make an excruciatingly funny combination.

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stuartwanda
15 years ago
I am laughing so hard, the ladles are for honey dipping. Oh Lord!
sally2_gw
15 years ago
So, I guess if you planted flowers in it they would be pot plants!

Sally
jessyf
15 years ago
I've seen some pictures of meals that belong in that thing LOLOLOL
lindac
15 years ago
LOL! me too jessie....and I hope they got there without being "processed!"
patti43
15 years ago
I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around it being a bed pan, I mean, how did it work? (Although it does look like someone sat on that half lid.) You could use it for a litter box--comes with scoops!!
pink_warm_mama_1
15 years ago
Redden or ridden - it's a bedpan. Love the humor here.

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