Do you still use primitive or folk utensils and things in your home?
By djoyce71
@djoyce71 (2511)
Philippines
October 5, 2008 7:32am CST
I can still remember the times when we used banga(clay jug) to store our drinking water, the palayok(clay pot) where we cook our food, and the bao laddle for sauteing. We also had this charcoal plantsa to iron our clothes, palo-palo(wood slab) to get the dirt in clothes, and the baol(old wooden storage) to keep our clothes and other important things. Our family still use them during the early 80's, but now not anymore except for the palayok because we still use it for cooking paksiw and pinangat. I guess, some still use them because they're still available in the market.
How about you, do you still have folk utensils and things in your home?
Have a nice day!
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5 responses
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
6 Oct 08
Oh I miss the big black tapayan that was once our main water storage. I really regret that my family disposed that tapayan just like that. I did not foresee that someday I'd be looking back at the importance of that tapayan. I could have kept it if only I was already that mature. Also the small brown one with faucet which was then our drinking station. There was no refrigerator way back then but the water from that banga was cold! I also miss the clay pot. I wish I could buy the same quality again because the food cooked from clay pot tastes better and safer. Yes, paksiw and pinangat are meant to be cooked in palayok but I'm having a hard time looking for fine palayok these days! They are available in the market but not the same as the old palayoks we had before. Another old thing I missed is the baul. It was an antique baul made of narra and my mother disposed it just like that. Now, I saw in the mall how expensive a baul is and I could just breathe so deep upon the thought that it was just disposed by my Mom to a garbage collector. Who would know that the old baul would be so expensive someday!
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@sandymay16 (1617)
• Philippines
5 Oct 08
We still have a clay pot a big and a small one. The small one we still use for cooking paksiw then the big one for boiled babanas or boiled cassava also using charcoal or wood in the dirty kitchen. The charcoal iron we gave to our househelp to take back home to her mother, they still don't have electricity in the mountains. The clay jug in my grandpas house in the barrio is still there but I plan on getting a new smaller clay jug for daily use in the city because it's cooler than the tap water and not too cold like water from the refrigerator.
