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.

The current one is 20yrs old +/- 4 years. Still going strong, but I covet the grater of my childhood, which is still razor sharp in comparison to mine.
I suspect it may have been a wedding present for DM&DF (1964).

@DontMowMyMeadow will you be putting a small red sticker on it to call dibs? 😆

I have a Kenwood Chefette hand held electric mixer that I saved up to buy for my Mum for mothers day from my Saturday job in about 1975 (so around 50
years old) it still works perfectly. I also have a pepper grinder that's about 40 years old.

I did have one of those traditional Mason Cash stoneware mixing bowls that was also my mum's but I dropped it and it smashed. I was so upset.

Also I really wish you could still get the rotary Mouli Graters with the three different barrels. They were amazing.

At least 28 years old

I replaced my ancient Kenwood chef with a gorgeous kitchen aid. I don’t use it often as it is so heavy, but I reckon DS1 will inherit it one day.

I had a collection of mason and cash, ex has or had them, I do wonder if he and his kids make kids in my family’s bowls. I don’t wonder enough to reach out and ask though 😆

My grater is probably 10 years old, lethal thing, which replaced an ancient old rusty antique belonging to DH's Granny.

Most of out stuff is around 26 years old as I moved into DH's house (wife #2) and had a secret mission to replace anything from his time with the psycho wife #1. Cheese grater lasted the initial cull for sentimental reasons!

I moved in to now DHs house, he had lived with an ex but was living in his own place with a friend / lodger. I took him to John Lewis and we bought towels (he had the ones he moved out with and had used since childhood) and kitchen things as he randomly had very little to cook with.

Well I'm 39 and my parent's had it as long as I can remember. It's one of those rotary graters, I love it.

It's not as old as my potato masher that was made by my great grandad though.

About 15yrs old.
I'm still using my mums old rolling pin, it's about 40yrs old. Got some cutlery and mugs the same age.
Sitting on a second hand sofa and 40yr old hand me down re-upholstered chairs.

Ours is most likely about 28 years old... it predates mine and DH's relationship anyway.

The oldest kitchenware is probably a couple of plates and bowls from the mid-80s that went to uni with me. I like the modest proportions for portion control. No ancient hand-me-downs. Great Grandma was no cook and the other generations are still using their kitchenware.

I did say "ahhh" when I saw "my" old Kenwood food processor at the science museum. I bought one as a student around 2000, but mine died a few years back.

@BoarBrush made?! What’s it made from? That’s very impressive. Our fruit bowl was made by DHs father, we also have one of those tiny stools with the woven top that his father made at school!

I bought my cheese grater in Woolworths as a student in 1996. DD has just taken it to university with her.

Our cheesegrater is 30 years old and like a PPs, the handle has snapped off but we still use it several times a week.

We also have some of my parents Pyrex jugs and baking trays, which are likely over 50.

I still use my school calculator which is close to 40 and I have one at work that is probably even older.

At work I also have a hole punch and stapler which were old when I inherited them from a colleague who had retired so they're also likely well over 40.

About 26 years old, bought when dh and I first moved in together, as was our colander which still looks new, good old IKEA. The oldest items in my kitchen though came from my grandmother, a Pyrex mixing bowl, marble rolling pin and a Krups 3000 mixer all from the late 1950s and all still going strong

Think mine is about 21 years old. Bought it when with my ex.

My parents’ is about 30 odd years old. Remember the handle breaking off

There is the same model of our first tumble dryer, which lasted 25 years and is much better than the one that replaced it, in a local industrial museum, because they are still made in Halifax.

We’ve got two -

1 - old relic, from DH’s first place, circa 1997. The plastic has turned slightly yellow

2 - “posh” Joseph Joseph one that grates over a tub and comes with a lid. So very handy. I reckon we bought it around 2017/18

Grater is 23 years old (bought when I moved in with dh and he didn't have one)

Rolling pin, at least g grandma's (b 1891) but it could be much older.

Known oldest is ggg grandpa's bone handled butcher's knife. He was born in 1831 and started working as a butcher in about 1850

No cheese grater. I buy shredded or finely chop ( Parmesian blocks).

Oldest thing in my kitchen .. probably some mugs my mom made in about 1994.

@BobBobBobbing I have such envy for those things! They could never have imagined those items still being in the family after all this time.

We have a Pyrex casserole dish that was a wedding present for Mum and Dad in 1952 the grater probably dates from at least that could be other things as well. Mum is 100 now and has been in the same house since 1953 and has never got rid of much. The loft is stuffed full of stuff you don’t get rid just stuff it in the loft!

Mine’s quite new. I bought it in 2007.

My family never throw anything out. if it works, it's used. It is a lovely connection to think of all those generations using the same things.

Um, I have four!
2 big - one was my mums and is all metal and the other is a fancier hexaganol one from Ikea I think with a rubberised handle. Then I have 2 small ones - again one metal handle and one not, that I use if just doing 1 'topping's worth' of cheese or grating chocolate or something.

2002 or 2003 I think..IKEA. they sit on funny oval tubs that I dislike but my son likes.