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

I threw out my 20 year old water bottle after reading a burn thread ☹️.

My most regular item now is a 16 years old iron, which never had a scratch until my daughter started using it. I'll cry when it goes as it irons beautifully ☺️.

I also have a duvet that's the same age and an assortment of pots, pans and utensils that are much older.

My mum has a very old Foley cabbage chopper which works brilliantly and I would love one. It used to belong to my nanna who died in the late 90's.

I was devastated when my nanna's casserole dish cracked. It was the perfect size.

I regularly use my mum's old crock pot and an old griddle (way before George Foreman came into being).

Old electrical appliances CAN be good. As evidenced by all the 40+ yo Kenwood Chefs mentioned on this thread. Things were designed to last longer in the past, so may well be better quality than more modern equivalents.

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

Probably silver gravy boats at Christmas but nearly every day my Grandmother's wooden chopping board, she was born in 1899.

I have a kenwood food processor that is 35 years old plus plastic mixing bowls I bought in 1986. I also have MiL and Dmum's Pyrex dishes and grandma's ladle and cake slice which are all used regularly.

I still use my great-grandmother's wooden rolling-pin. It must be well over 100 years old.

My trusty old Kenwood Chef - a wedding present in 1974!

My most treasured cheese slice, from when my dad lived in Norway. It's from the 60's and is a thing of beauty. The wooden handle is molded to my hands and the slice is as sharp as ever.

I would have said my mum's kitchen knife that she must have bought in the early 90's and then have to me to take to university with a load of other oldish kitchen stuff. But that finally snapped in half a few months ago. I still have a Smarties mug from when they came with an Easter egg in the 80's. It's not my original one though, but it's probably about the same age.

This is a sensitive subject as I bought a vegetable peeler from a little shop in Umbria for one euro about 15 years ago and it just broke. It was the best peeler, years of heavy service.

Do sets of silver and china count? Mine are 80+. I think china, glassware, cooking utensils etc are disqualified by the stipulation Something that has truly outlived its life expectancy but is still going strong?.

I still use the heated food tray my mother gave me when I was 19. I’m now in my 70s. Until 5 years ago, DF was using a 1920s vacuum cleaner

Oh and my nan's Le Creuset casserole dish pot which is older than my mum.

My grandmother’s Magimix which is 45 years old and still going strong. My GHDs are 25 years old.

A mug and set of pans that I had at Uni in 2002. Both in mint condition (touch wood, before I break them today!!!)

I've got lots of my mum's kitchen utensils, which date back to the 1950s at least. Her potato masher is a particular favourite - I'd broken several crappy modern ones before I found hers in a box, and I fully expect it to still be going strong when it's eventually passed to my great-grandchildren!

In terms of things we've actually bought, our Dyson cylinder hoover is 20 years old and still as good as it was on the day we bought it.

I 'inherited' a clothes horse from my grandparents that is at least as old as me and I'm 45.

Sturdy as heck, used at least two-three times a week and will probably outlive me.

In a slightly different vein to many of these... I have a hand mixer that I bought in Sainsburys for about £5 20 years ago that is still going strong. It honestly amazes me that this ridiculous, super cheap, "throwaway" gadget is in such great shape still.

Old electrical appliances aren't good.

They will not have been built to the latest safety standards and will be worn out from years of use.

Imagine the 20 year old washing machine that has been through literally thousands of spin cycles, shaking and vibrating the electrical contacts inside...

My granny's best china dinner service - she was married in 1932 and received it for a wedding present - also my great granny's china vegetable and soup tureens - which she received as a wedding present she was married in 1914- we use them to serve Christmas dinner

I have some Mason Cash mixing bowls that belonged to my late husband's mother. And she died in 1970.

I'd love to see a picture. It sounds lovely.

I inherited a lot of kitchen stuff from my grandma including a moulinex stick blender from the late 80s. That's my oldest electrical.

I also have her old milk pan which I've kept as it's good and solid with an edge for pouring, and a little saucepan also with an edge for pouring which is the perfect size for heating portions of soup. I would guess 50s or earlier for the milk pan and 60s or 70s for the little sauce pan. I also inherited all of her lidded pyrex dishes and a big knock off le creuset casserole which is lovely and light- and is on permanent loan to my mum as it's kinder than her real le creuset on arthritic wrists.

I have a wooden rolling pin that Dad made for my Mum just before they got married in 1969. She passed it on to me because she inherited my GMs glass one that had been my GGM’s. It’s fab, it is hollow with a little bung in the end so you can fill it with ice to roll pastry. It must be 100+ years old. We keep our rolling pins a long time in our family!

A sainsburys basics knife I bought in 1997 when I moved in with my then boyfriend. The tip has come off and the plastic handle has partially melted but its a very reliable knife.

The true oldest item is a teaspoon in my desk drawer at work which is from a set we had growing up in the 70s. I also have xmas tree decs from this time as well but they were only given to me very recently.

I have a tiny plastic travel washing line that I got from an outdoor shop for a couple of pounds in the early 90s.

It has travelled the globe with me and I have taken it on every holiday since, it's been great for hand washing a few items and hanging them to dry at a campsite, hotel balcony, hotel bathroom etc over the decades.

Now we hang it between the 2 pop top handles of our micro caravan to hang our shower towels.

I've never been able to find anything quite like this one and had looked as I wanted another.