Help me choose new breadbin please :)

BitterAndTwisted

And I like huge earthenware pots with a nice lid. Just like the one I found in a charity-shop recently for a fiver. I nearly gave myself a hernia carting it home but I'm happy now that I've recovered

PasturesNew

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

And I like huge earthenware pots with a nice lid. Just like the one I found in a charity-shop recently for a fiver. I nearly gave myself a hernia carting it home but I'm happy now that I've recovered

And the previous owner's new husband is glad he's finally got the ashes of the old husband out of the house.

TravellingAbuela

At home I don't have a bread bin - I keep everything in the freezer and just get out what rolls, bread etc we will need for the day. When we are at the caravan, however, we don't have the luxury of a freezer so need to keep the bread in a bread bin. I got a lovely enamel one in TKMaxx. It's black and has BREAD printed all the way round the base. The rrp was supposed to be £19.99 but I paid (I think) £6.99. May be worth a look in there if you have a branch handy and see what they have to offer.

BitterAndTwisted

I am prepared to accept that I could be considered a contrary old baggage but I hate, loathe and abhor kitchen items with the name of the function on the front. I bought it so I know what I'm using it for. A pot with "utensils" on it? Well, the blessed items sitting in it aren't invisible so it's fairly obvious what the thing is for!

Which is why I was very delighted with my "bread crock". It isn't a bread-crock: it's massive earthenware pot with a lid which I happen to keep fresh bread in.

franticflyerSue56

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I hate, loathe and abhor kitchen items with the name of the function on the front. I bought it so I know what I'm using it for. A pot with "utensils" on it? Well, the blessed items sitting in it aren't invisible so it's fairly obvious what the thing is for!

LOL @ B&T - bit off topic, sorry. But your comment struck a chord! :rotfl:
I have in my kitchen a wooden pot for utensils bought at Wilkins0ns for a paltry amount. But engraved on one side is the word UTENSIL.:eek: Argghh! A pot for one item? Thankfully I can select another three sides to face me, or I'd continually have to fight the urge to scrawl an S after the offending word. Who designs these things?

Sorry people, rant over! Have fun selecting your bread bin OP!

FFS56

BitterAndTwisted

I hear your pain and frustration! I am an awful pedant with a tendency to bloodymindedness so that would drive me to distraction.

I found a nice blue and white striped utensil pot at a car-boot for 50 pence once. It's rather nice but I have to turn the side which says "Utensils" to the wall so it won't annoy me.

I won't go into all of my other foibles and faults as I don't have enough time to list them. Rest assured I know that most of them are unreasonable and/or pointless but I have no intention of giving them up.

Dharma_Bunny

I used to have a breadbin, and frankly it was just another thing that needed cleaning. The bread sits on top of the biscuit tin quite happily.

So, super moneysaving - don't bother.

bananadog

lol ty for all your replies ...some of them did make me laugh! :rotfl:

I have decided not to bother buying any after all and save £20 min and a long walk to the shops in doing so :j

Maybe my £20 should go towards a bigger house then I can have loads of room and be one of them odd people that you see on TV who collects strange things...I can see it now..

"Hello, how many bread bins do you think you have?"
"urmm..maybe about 350?"
"and how did you get started?"
"well it all began by chatting on a money saving forum!"
"not very money saving is it?"
" "

hahaha :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

TravellingAbuela

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I hate, loathe and abhor kitchen items with the name of the function on the front. I bought it so I know what I'm using it for. A pot with "utensils" on it? Well, the blessed items sitting in it aren't invisible so it's fairly obvious what the thing is for!

You'd hate my kitchen then! I also have a revolving wooden spice rack (bought in the sale at Julian Graves) which has "herbs & spices" printed repeatedly down the side! :rotfl: