Roll up your sleeves and don your aprons, because this month’s issue of Discover Vintage America is headed into the kitchen as we explore antique and vintage kitchen appliances. But let’s not forget about those smaller kitchen tools that we might take for granted but hold just as many memories (and usefulness) in the pursuit of culinary perfection. It’s always good, too, to know their potential monetary worth. Is there money to be found in your everyday vintage kitchen items? Is Grandma’s old mixing bowl worth anything?

An article published last month on delish.com attempts to answer these and other questions. As you might expect, that cast iron skillet, which you have to remind your husband not to wash every time it’s used, is one of the most valuable of kitchen tools. Those pieces from the 19th and early 20th centuries are the most difficult to find, with skillets made by companies like Griswold and Wagner fetching especially high prices online – anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.

CorningWare! What 20th century kitchen didn’t have these pieces as among the most often used. Made from Pyroceram material (itself invented in 1958), Corning-Ware, with its cornflower blue floral design, has earned a reputation of being durable. These can be worth up to a couple of hundred dollars.

Next to licking the mixing spoon, using cookie cutters are easily the best part about baking a fresh batch of sugar cookies (my favorite!). The three things you want to look for when starting a collection of cookie cutters are color, size, and shape – those pieces that are either extra large or extra small are highly sought-after, and “darker tins distinguish hold old the items are,” according to delish.com. You can buy old cookie cutters for as little as $25 or as much as a couple of hundred dollars as well.

Every home needs a KitchenAid Mixer, those sturdy old workhorses from midcentury America. KitchenAid’s inaugural model, the Model H-5 mixer, was released more than a century ago, in 1919. The most coveted models from the 1930s and ‘50s usually fetch high prices as long as they’re in great condition, but much of their value is sentimental, evoking memories of mom or grandma.