How old is your cheese grater?

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Mine is 18 years old. I won’t replace it until I don’t know when, but it made me think about how old some of my kitchen stuff is. My knives are 25 years old, I had them as an 18th birthday present and I still use them daily.

I remember clearly being horrified at how old some of the things my mother had when I was growing up, and now I am that person!

My sieves are quite new, they seem to develop holes where they shouldn’t have holes. But my colander (oxo) is also well in to double digits.

Cheese grater is about 25. Fish slice and potato masher are about 60, older than me! Think my parents got them as a wedding present.

My bread knife in from the 1920s. My grandparents got it as a wedding present.

The cheese grater must be at least 35 years old. Bought when we moved in together afetr uni.

Snap.

I sometimes catch DH using it to scrape ice out of the freezer. 😡

I’ve had mine for at least 20 years and it was previously my mother’s - I took it rather than her throwing it out, so it must be at least 35 years plus.

I have a pasta bowl and mugs that are almost 30 years old - no idea how they’ve survived as they’re still used regularly.

Ive got Pyrex older than me thst was my husband’s grandparents

I bought my kitchen scales when I lived in halls at 18, which makes them 44 years old. They still work perfectly.

@AdaColeman I think you are currently our winner!

Pru Leith has a cookery show I’ve caught a few times and she has the most fabulous range of cookery / kitchen gadgets and a wonderful display.

i do have a moulix rotary grater also, that was my godmother’s which is I believe early 1960s from the box.

This is a lovely thread ☺️

Mine must be 20+ years. My hand held blender is 23 years 7 months, I know this because my MIL bought it for me to make purees when DS started on solids.

My mum's cheese grater may well be older than me, are much of her kitchen stuff is. I'll keep it, or my sisters will. My aunts use my grandmother's spoons and I'm sure my cousins will inherit them at some point.

None of this stuff is valuable in a monetary sense but it is all so firmly woven into our lives that I can't imagine not having them. I hope my son's want to keep my wooden spoons when I'm gone

Casserole is about 70. Cheese grater a mere youth at 25 ish

Just remembered that I still have one cheese grater at the back of a cupboard that I bought as a student so probably dates from 1985 or so. Current one was a Mother's Day present from the DC about 15 years ago... last of the big spenders 😂

Still have one 'large grate' blade from the original box grater, colour orange, de rigeur for a wedding present in 1975, We've just had our Golden Wedding Anniversary,
Apart from being a bit 'Trigg's broomish' it works well enough to give a good grating but not not so sharp as to have the skin off your knuckles.

@chuzzlewitthechipmunk that’s lovely, and Pyrex is so functional so will last. Well older Pyrex is, I’ve chipped two sodding jugs and two have lost their markings. I’ve just bought a plastic oxo one, but you can’t microwave certain things in it so I’m a bit peeved.

My pepper grinder, which I use pretty much every day, was a present from someone I knew when I was 22-23 – I'm 61 now so it’s done well.

I have some other kitchen implements of similar vintage (fish slice, potato masher) tho wooden spoons don't last. I also have my mum’s Kenwood (dates from the 60s) tho tbf I’ve not used it for ages.

Oh - also my Le Creuset crockpot thingy, used regularly (once a week) dates from about 1990. Not bad.

My nans bread knife and bottle opener....got to be 40 years old at a guess. I brought a electric tin opener 25 years ago 😂

Cheese grater - I have several, the oldest is 50
Knives - the oldest is 40
Kitchen Scissors - 60
Mixing bowls - 80
Dinner plates in everyday use - 100
Waffle iron - 50
Kitchen cutlery - up to 100

and then
Clothes pegs - oldest are 40
Drying rack - replaced the 40 year old with a 30 year old

Ain't broke, keep using

Mine was my mum's so probably from the late 70s. It's got Made in Denmark embossed on the steel. Can't imagine Denmark exports too many steel domestic items anymore?

Pyrex is definitely not what it used to be. I managed to break my ancient jug about 5 years ago and have had 3 replacements since - all have chipped or become pretty much unusable as measuring jugs when the writing comes off

@Algen it’s ridiculous isn’t it? The quality is so much worse than in yester years.

24. It was a wedding gift. I also have cutlery, plates and teasets which were my Mum and Granny's which will be between 62 and 88 years old.

We don't have a lot of aged kitchen stuff, DH lived abroad for years; all my kitchen equipment was kept by my ex bastard

I do own one of my grandmother's pans, I know it was her mum's so it's probably not far off 100 yrs old.

My cheese grater must be at least 15 years old. My saucepans are probably nearer 20. My food processor is 36 and I have a pressure cooker that's about 50! I remember DM using it regularly in the 70s but I just use it as a big saucepan for soups now. In fact DM still uses a lot of kitchen equipment/utensils that I remember her using when I was a child in the 70's.

Half of my kitchenware (including one of our cheese graters) is what I inherited from my grandma, it’s now well over 70 years old. Some of this stuff will probably last longer than me! It’s better quality than the kitchenware I’ve bought new in the last 10-20 years. I bought a box grater about 4 years ago and the handle’s already broken off it.

I replaced my 30 year old cheese grater with one from Amazon that didn't last a month. Now I have one from a charity shop. Decent steel.

My toaster is 28 years old. Small and only 2 slices. The cover over the “down “ lever is broken leaving a narrow metal arm. But I refuse to replace it. 🤣 It’s older than either husband relationship 🤣

I will definitely be going to the charity shop for replacement kitchen items, things just aren’t built to last.

DH and I were in the garden centre earlier, having a lovely mooch. They had some Jamie Oliver kitchen stuff, mass produced horrid mugs where you could see the edges of the mould and the thinnest, lightest casserole dishes. They looked liked a nice enamel casserole but were aluminium with some sort of non-stick looking inner. They were ridiculously expensive! My enamel casseroles are actually ancient Sainsbury and not le creuset, but they are doing ever so well.