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Do you own a jug?

I have a measuring jug, which is useful, because it measures things. I can't really see how any additional jugs would have any utility. One of those kitchen items I am bemused by.
 
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Plastic measuring jug. Pyrex measuring jug. Tiny milk jug. Gravy boat, not sure I still have it. Water jug with lid. 3 decorative.
 
I have one pyrex which is mostly used for the making and consumption of scrambled eggs during the week and occasional liquid measurement. Then i have a large plastic jug which was for car based fluids.
 
I started cooking at the age of about 9 or 10, so I've had my own measuring jug (at least 1, usually 2, because sometimes you need to measure different things at the same time) for as long as I've had my own home. :D
Currently have 2 pyrex ones, but some of the markings have come off so I may have to get a new one.
Also have a big glass jug which I've used both to make lemonade and iced tea in the summer, and as a flower vase.
 
I want one of these. I ordered one online a while ago but, thinking all gravy boats were about the same size, didn't bother checking the measurements.

What arrived was a tiny thing about 3 inches wide which seemed made for a dolls house.
That one is an antique. Of course. Because heaven forbid the kabbess buys anything less than 50 years old.
 
That one is an antique. Of course. Because heaven forbid the kabbess buys anything less than 50 years old.

Yes, my mum had something very similar that I think was my nan's previously. It's the classic shape that everyone thinks a gravy boat should be.
 
The plastic measuring jug has seen better days. A lot of them. It's not used for food liquids or measuring. That role is ably seen to by the Pyrex. The very small one is ornament. Antique I'm told. Of no use anyway. Holds maybe two thimblefuls. The unclean one with gravy detritus still in it is my personal gravy delivery vehicle.
Vase in shot cos it's pretty an 100% recycled glass.
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I want one of these. I ordered one online a while ago but, thinking all gravy boats were about the same size, didn't bother checking the measurements.

What arrived was a tiny thing about 3 inches wide which seemed made for a dolls house.
I also have a teeny milk jug for the same reason. Sometimes I use it to refill the iron.

Off the top of my head I also have 2 measuring jugs, possibly 3, 3 solo small milk jugs, 3 that are part of vintage coffee sets and 1 flower jug. Last year I broke my favourite large flower jug and haven't yet found one worthy of replacing it.

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Two glass measuring jugs and a big glass thing that would probably do for Pimms but as we're not young or posh sits unused. I deliberately smashed the gravy boat so I'd be allowed to be throw it out (I always serve gravy from the saucepan and kitchen space is at a premium).
 
Looonnnggg time (Suburban) lurker, Mrs B, has encouraged me to present her favourite (mint) jug.

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Picked up last year in the chassa for £2, Mrs B uses it as one of her mint nurseries; she buys yellow label herbs and brings them on in jugs. For the jugnoscenti it's a 1960s Susan Williams-Ellis, Port Meirion piece.
 
I'm aware that this post has the potential to send the thread into Brewdog territory ( :eek: ) but here are 2 more of Mrs B's mint nursery receptacles, neither of which are actually jugs, but she thought you might like to see them especially as the taller one is Rye pottery.

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Probably about 60 - my wife has a weakness for white domestic jugs dating from the 1930's onwards ,which can be picked up in charity shops for a few pounds - to be fair some are attractive with makers stamps etc on them , and they probably have lots of domestic history behind them.

Like me buying second hand books , she smuggles them in , hoping I have not noticed.
 
We own three jugs.
One Pyrex one for mixing stuff. No pic as it's dull.

This posh black glass one, made by LSA, that I got gifted. Really annoying as you could never see how much was in it, so it's been repurposed as a vase.

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And this smaller one, bought new from a shop on Streatham High Rd as I loved it. Used for refilling the coffee machine.

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back OT, Mrs B also has a few (>40YO) Whitstable Potters' pieces that we used to pick up for a song direct from the potters in their Summer Exhibition that used to be held in the St. Marys hall on Oxford Street. This one is deffo a jug; très 70's :D

probably 'sought after' now!

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Getting some jug envy here.

think I have a thing with seeing something as a jugs as anything but a functional piece of equipment and some of these look more ornamental (not originally but they are now?
 
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