Utensils in the Victorian Kitchen circa 1880

Copyright Images Jack Adams t/a Victorian Gems

Kitchen Utensils absolutely required by a good Cook

Set of 6 wrought-iron sauce-pans

1 wrought-iron stock pot

1 Bain-marie pan

1 wrought-iron kettle

1 oval boiler

1 digester

1 saucepan digester

1 stewpan digester

6 enamelled stewpans

1 Saute pan

1 French saute pan

1 potato steamer

1 salamander and stand

1 oval frying pan

1 round frying pan

1 fluted gridiron

1 bachelors frying pan

1 omelet pan

1 omelet souffle pan

1 braising pan

1 preserving pan and spoon

1 flour dredger

1 sugar dredger

1 brass bottle-jack

1 dripping pan and stand

1 basting ladle

1 wooden meat screen

1 coffee mill

1 meat chopper

Meat saw

1 colander

Pestle and mortar

2 gravy strainers

1 bread grater

2 sets of skewers

1 fish slice

1 egg slice and ladle

1 pair of steak tongs

1 egg whisk

1 beef fork

1 French cook's knife

1 steak beater

Fish kettle

Mackerel saucepan

Turbot kettle

Salmon and jack kettle

1 pair of fish scissors

Double hanging gridiron

Sliding toaster and trivet

Toasting fork

Carson's patent salting apparatus

Kent's patent soup strainer

Mincing machine

Weighing machine

Herb stand

Box of paste cutters

12 patty pans

3 tart pans

3 Dariol moulds

Marble slab for making paste

Rolling pin- American with removable handle

1 Paste jigger

"Piston" freezing machine

1 cheese toaster

3 larding pans

2 cook's knives

1 mushroom mould

1 star fritter mould

1 vegetable cutter, or "the French vegetable cutter"

1 vegetable mould

3 pudding moulds

6 jelly moulds

3 cake moulds

2 wooden spoons and mashed potato fork

Ice closet

Sugar spinners

Sugar moulds

The cost of the above would be 38l. 10s.

source:Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book

edited and compiled by Mary Jewry (1880 approx)

This is one long list of what is considered to be "absolutely required"

by the Victorian cook in her kitchen. In terms of price we can offer this comparison:

Current data is only available till 2008. In 2008, £38 10s 1d from 1880 was worth:

£2,857.98 using the retail price index

source:http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare