Not stupid now, but I’ve always had an N95 mask in the kitchen for working with super hot chilis.
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I bought a set of espresso cups and saucers for espresso, but like the ramekins and butter pats and cazuelas and sauce dishes in this thread I use them more for mise-en-place than for coffee, especially the little saucers. They don’t take up a lot of room in the dishwasher either, which is nice.
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I have scissors like that without the comb. They are great to cut up stuff when you don’t feel like shredding
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Like Chris, we also have lots of ramekins, repurposed from Gu desserts.
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Very old ovenrack puller from great great aunt Emma! Lives with the toaster oven. And some old weights that get a lot of use in the kitchen.
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You’ll have to share what you use the weights for. 
That oven rack puller – is this from before the invention of oven mitts? I’m now so curious!
If you don’t have a cast iron press, one of these (or both!) would be good for a pressed panino on a grill pan! Just wrap them with foil for easy cleanup.
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Just thought of another one. I got a package of 6 aluminum baking nails countless moons ago when I was first out on my own (I’m talking maybe 40 years ago?). I’ve never used all 6 of them at the same time, and one of them is slightly chewed up after having unknowingly fallen into the disposal and I turned it on), but baking potatoes without one shoved through the center of a fat Idaho Russet, EVEN in my Breville Convection toaster oven, is a non-starter for me.
(This is not my package of nails, but looks like them)
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I also have a stack of old weights; I use them to press tofu.
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Thanks.
I think Ham Holder is destined to be my new screen name.
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I just had a perfect 7 minute egg for breakfast, I use a push pin to poke a hole in the egg.
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I mostly use the weights for paneer and other random uses that don’t come to mind right now.
I can’t imagine that oven mitts weren’t around when the oven puller came to be. Maybe some old old ovens were fiery so the mitts could get scorched??
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Somebody makes this for the same purpose, to pull out oven rack.
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Same! I have very little counter and cupboard space so I use little dishes and cups for many things. Some of them are random bits and pieces of East German porcelain called “Blau Saks”/“Saxon Blue”.
This is a saucer
An old-fashioned butter dish (comes with nice lid). Not long ago butter used to be round.
Lidded round butter in the background has soup!
A coffee cup
I save all the terracotta dishes for the same reason
Same terracotta dish(es)
Wicker baskets double as bread baskets (when not using for proofing dough)!
I use an old metal container (Portuguese olive oil) as a holder for a bunch of things such as pasty brushes, chopsticks (for eating crisps), nut/crab cracker etc.
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Classico spaghetti sauce jars for storing dry ingredients, cereal, candy, etc.; for holding small tall utensils like iced tea spoons, chopsticks, and straws; as measuring cups (they have 1/2 cup gradations on the side); and as blender jars because their screwtop is exactly the same as the screw on our blender blade holder.
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I find them very valuable because I have a hard time estimating (for instance) how much parsley I need to stem in order to chop one tablespoon. With the scissors, I just keep snipping 'til I get there. It’s also good if you’re super-anal about all your chive pieces being exactly the same size. I hear some people are like that.
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I really don’t know how folk live with themselves if they have uneven chive pieces. It’s just gross. Really gross.
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There oughta be a law.
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:::making a mental note to chop the chives in my dinner tonight as uniformly as I can::: 
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