Hey, we aren’t just into discussing art and design here on the Retro Kitchen Scales website! We like to show the lighter side of kitchenware at the same time! Yes – there is a lighter side, stop sniggering there at the back!
- Use the measuring bowl as a bird bath, just fill it up with water and leave it outside. Preferably out of reach from the next door cat!
- Use it as a door stop. This actually comes from personal experience! An elderly next door neighbour once used one in her living room. It was a big old rusty iron thing and it certainly did a great job of keeping doors open!
- Take it into the Chemistry lab with you, scientists are always measuring out various compounds ready to mix up in the lab. That said, a traditonal pair of weighing scales are unlikely to provide the accuracy required in a state of the art tech lab!
- Keep the soap in it. I swear the bowl we used to keep soap in when I was a child looked very much like it came from an old pair of kitchen scales! I guess I’ll never know for sure but it might explain why my Mother’s cakes never quite worked
! - Use it to measure out ingredients! Does this qualify as an unusual use? Given the amount of cooking that my friends do these days then yes – it probably does. My friends are more likely to buy in a take away than to get cooking in the kitchen.
So on that note, why not give some traditional home cooking a go, get kitted out with the right apparatus – go buy some funky retro kitchen scales to get you started. You never know you might turn out to be a great cook.
