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

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Another thread got me thinking - what’s the oldest appliance or utensil you use regularly? Something that has truly outlived its life expectancy but is still going strong? I mean things you actually use for their tended purpose.

I have a hot water bottle inherited from my Gran who died 27 years ago, although judging by the thread I should probably give it up!

I also have a gravy boat that I still use that was my Great Grandmothers, and must be at least 90 years old. I also have her rolling pin, and still use it.

The boiler in our last house was newly installed in 1973 and still going strong when we moved in 2013.

Any others?

LOL, I have an identical one.

30yo food processor is, I think, older than undated washing machine for grandparents, but that is certainly over 25 years.

I have a couple of saucepans that were my nans and they’re about sixty years old now, I think they’re stainless steel or aluminium and still going strong

Tin opener. I have yet to find one made in the last 20 years that I can actually get to open a tin. I'm currently using my late grandmother's, circa 1970 or earlier, and it works a treat.

My hair dryer was a birthday gift in 1986.

Grandparents' canteen of cutlery, circa, 1934! Similarly grannie's enamel pie dishes.

Oh and a set of saucepans that were a wedding present in 1991.

Probably a spoon that my mother bought early in her married days, so sometime in the 1950s. I use it solely for serving my cat her Osmolax (liquid laxative) these days - she likes the stuff enough to drink it straight from the spoon.

The other thing would be a fork from the same cutlery set, the rest of which had disappeared before I was born. I don't use it for food, though (my cutlery and cutlery are the new sets Mum bought in the 1970s) but as a back scratcher. The tines are just blunt enough for it to be perfect.

I've got my parent's tumble dryer they purchased about 35 years ago.
Dries a load in about 40 minutes, so when I hear of new ones taking hours and hours I just stick with this one.

I have my MIL's Kenwood Chef. It is too heavy for her to lift and the button to open it requires quite a bit of finger strength. She got it when she married so it's about 55 years old. I could probably mix concrete in it.

My parents’ cutlery, they were married in 1934! What’s left of their wedding present dinner service is on my dresser. I threw out mum’s almost toothless bread knife just a couple of years ago. I still have the stainless steel teapot and a couple of casseroles we got as engagement and wedding gifts in the 60s.

I also have a hand held mixer that's nearly that old! It rattles a lot when I use it, and I keep thinking about writing to Phillips to complain (just for a laugh 😀)

Some Bisto gravy tins probably from the 1960s that belonged to my grandma.
I keep my flour in them

Braun Professional blender/chopper and soup wand (2004). I bought new blender jugs when the first ones cracked but am still using the same device, wand and blades. And I use it several times a week, it's not stuck away in a cupboard.

I also have a rotary whisk which is 60+ years old.

Clock radio. I've had it for 35 years

Braun hand blender which is older than me. It was a gift at my parents wedding...they divorced 35 years ago 😂

Our carving knife and fork was a wedding present, so 47 years old. I remember being very excited at getting a rather strange looking, expensive new vacuum cleaner, from a new company known for making wheelbarrows, called Dyson. Tge original DC1 cist a small fortune, but it is still going strong. It is relegated to the garage and DH uses it for cleaning the inside of the car, but it has better suction than the new rechargeable one I use. Just checked, they were launched in 1993 so that would make it 30 years old ish.

A utensil set that was bought for my parents’ “bottom drawer” before they got married in ?1967?

Like op we had an old hot water bottle from Dh's mum, but on mn suggestion we got a new one, that no one liked, it leaked, so we went back to the old one.

Our Kenwood chef is 50 years old. DH has just repaired it! We have some of my Grandma’s ‘best china’ which is older, but it isn’t used very often.

A ceramic condiment set that was my mum's. Dad brought it for her from somewhere on his travels (merchant navy) in the 50s. It's a bright yellow base with a palm tree rising from the middle & the salt, pepper shakers & mustard pot are shaped & painted like coconuts. It's so happy looking - reminds me of my mum, holidays & summer. I really should put it in a cabinet & just display it but I love using it. I've got her mint sauce jug too, it's mint green, ceramic & has textured mint leaves all over it with a matching saucer & tiny spoon. I think that was my granny's & likely been consistently used for approx 100 years now. Granny spent her youth 'in service' & had a few cast offs from 'the big house', this is one of them. Whenever she used to get the items out to show me, there'd always be a story. My favourite used to be about how long her hair was, but the gardener kept saying to her 'have it bobbed or shingled Annie', so she got a shingle for her first ever haircut.

Jamie Oliver grater and veg peeler- both mega sharp -28 yrs at least; braun hand blender - 30 ish; my 1977 Silver jubilee teaspoon!

A Braun coffee grinder I remember my parents using when we lived in Germany in the early 1970s. I use it every day and it’s still going strong.

Probably not the oldest, but I'm very fond of the small kitchen knife I have that I bought in a pound shop as a set of 10 about 35 years ago.

It had a sticker on it that said "similar to as seen on TV" and my boyfriend at the time correctly guessed that I only really bought them because the sticker made me laugh. 😂

But, 35 years later, one of my 10p knives has survived multiple moves, and is genuinely my favourite kitchen knife as it's just the right size for my hand.

I have a set of three Pyrex mixing bowls that my Gran bought in the early 70s. She gave them to me when I moved into a student house in 1985.

Still as good as new and in regular use.

The oldest appliance we use is our oven that was installed when we bought the house 24 years ago. The oldest utensil would be my grandmothers rolling pin which is older than I; so more than 57 years.