10 Kitchen Items Japanese Grandmothers Replaced for Good (And What They Use Instead)

📚 Everything I teach here, written down in my two books, The Japanese Home Way and Setsuko's Frugal Japanese Kitchen: https://grandmasetsuko.com The coating on your egg pan is already wearing away, the plastic boxes are warped, and the sponge smells after a week. A Japanese grandmother's kitchen often goes decades without replacing these things, because most of them were never bought in the first place. My name is Setsuko. I am seventy-eight and I have cooked in the same small kitchen most of my life. In this video I show you ten everyday kitchen items Japanese homes quietly replaced, and what we use instead: the iron pan, glass and enamel containers, the wooden manaita cutting board, saibashi and wooden tools, fukin cotton cloths, a plate and a cloth instead of plastic wrap, parchment for acidic food, the palm fiber tawashi, loose tea in a kyūsu, and the way of thinking that ends the cycle of buying and throwing away: mottainai. Tell me in the comments which of these is still in your kitchen. 0:00 The pan you keep replacing 0:36 My kitchen 1:04 1. The nonstick pan 2:12 2. Plastic containers for reheating 2:45 My books 3:25 3. The plastic cutting board 4:24 4. Plastic tools in a hot pan 5:05 5. Paper towels 5:56 6. Plastic wrap 6:41 7. Aluminum foil with acidic food 7:28 8. The synthetic sponge 8:25 9. Plastic tea bags 9:18 10. A kitchen built once (mottainai) 10:37 Where to start #japanesekitchen #zerowaste #minimalism #japanesehabits #kitchentips