AIBU to ask what’s the oldest appliance / utensil you still use regularly?

We have a kitchen knife still in use which belonged to a relative who was born in 1799. (I've no idea whether she got it new!) That's probably the oldest, but there is plenty more which is over 50 years old.

I’ve jewellery and china which was my great grandmothers which the family hid from the Nazis during the war

A good old fashioned food processor.

It was a wedding gift. The gifters are long gone now, as is XH! It's 35yrs old and going great!

A butter knife that came from my nan's after she died - I remember using it as a kid 50+ years ago and it was old then: I use it every single day and think of her every time and about the summer holidays we spent with her - picking blackberries and making jam, baking bread and cakes, making apple and blackberry pies.

So much of my kitchen equipment is from my young adulthood 50 years ago, or from my mother and therefore 80 years ago, that I would struggle to pick out a particular item.

In summer we use my grandmother's butter cooler, a glass dish which sits inside a lidded pottery dish which you fill with water, so the evaporation keeps the butter cool.

@Longtimelurkerfinallyposts (nobody's been talking about using 100yo electrical gadgets with their original cloth-covered wiring).

You didn't read my post then

It wasn't the cloth cover that was the problem. it was the rubber cables which eventually perish, and crumble away revealing the wires inside.

I have a chefs knife that my grandad used when he was working in cruise ships. He died in 1963.

A Prestige carving knife that I bought in 1987.

My father was a chartered electrical engineer, with involvement in producing various editions of the IEE wiring regs. In his younger days it would have been well maintained. And a vacuum cleaner plugged in and used only under immediate supervision is less of a hazard than, say, an electric blanket left on for an hour or so in an unattended room.

Also have a few Woolworths plastic kitchen utensils left from a set bought for £5 in 1998. Only the fish slice I had to replace, as the head kept falling off as I was scooping things up.

I use my mum's Wood and Son's plates which date from the 1960s.Have lots of mid 20th century Staffordshire pottery things generally. I try to use most of them, they are pretty and well-made.

I have a Philips clock radio. It's pink and I got it when I was ten years old and 37 years later I'm still using it.

I also have a Russell Hobbs toaster that's 24 years old and still in regular use.

I love this thread, I have a tower slo cooker,big earthenware pot. Must be almost 50 years old.

We have a 27 yr old fridge freezer in our garage that still works , an electric hand whisk from 1989 and we still use our dinner service everyday that was a wedding present in 1989 .

I recently saw a Tweet that was an advert for fridge, and the design was excellent, and of course the build quality was excellent.

I don't know why they can't bring back features like that.

I'll try that, thank you 😊.

I've got a 60s stand mixer inherited from DH's grandma which still gets a lot of use!

Knife I bought at university around 1980. We have a working fridge freezer in the utility room from about 1980s we have had since new. I have the food mixer for baking I got in the 1980s still going strong and the electric carving knife.

When one of my sons at university stage bought a dinner jacket etc (in my day students were really scruffy but it was rather nice my twins went to back tie dinners etc so I was all for encouraging it) and was ironing a lot (I just about never iron ever) I did replace the 1980s ironing board. When I took it to the council tip I had to take it to a special place for asbestos as it did indeed have that in it. (The new one doesn't of course....)

My Grandma’s needle case and millions of buttons in an old SMA formula tin from the 1900’s to date. I never buy buttons!

Also, I bought our condenser tumble dryer second hand off a friend 13 years ago when DS1 was born and that's still going strong too. It's probably pretty poor on energy efficiency compared to what's available on the market today, but I only use it once a week so I figure it's greener to keep it going and use it seldom, rather than junk it and buy a more efficient one.

We've been through 3 washing machines in the time we've had the tumble dryer!

I have a sandwich toaster that I won in a raffle 40 years ago. Still works perfectly (although it is a reminder of how food potions have increased over the years - todays sliced bread is about 1/3 bigger than that of the 1980s!).

My biggest pot is a huge mustard yellow Club Aluminum dutch oven. It was my great-grandmother's and I think she bought it at a cookware party in the early 1950s. It's been through multiple family members, moved continents about 8 times and will outlast us all.

A 1920s vaccuum cleaner would probably be a death trap. Electrical product safety was virtually non existent then.

It would be interesting to see if the insurers would pay out if such a thing caught fire and burnt a house down.

Pifco slow cooker 44 years and works perfectly.

Could you smooth out the scratches with some very fine wire wool? Or very fine sandpaper works too.

My second hand Kenwood mixer that I got when my son was born in 1977 died in a cloud of smoke last year. I haven’t had the heart to bin it yet.

My first ever brand new vacuum cleaner, Miele, that I got in 2002 is still going strong.