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?

I have an electric hand whisk given to me by a neighbour when I was 20. It wasn't new, she'd had it for several years and had been gifted a new one. 50 years later it's still in regular use.,

Moulieux shredder type thing from great grandmother

Stovetop sandwich maker. My mother used to make toasties on it for me from the age of 2, I'm 59 and still use it most days.

My husband, he is nearly 60 and is still very useful

I’ve been using a little berndes knife for chopping for 20 years plus, it’s never been sharpened and is sharp as the day it was born!
But please stop using your hot water bottle op, I speak from experience , not worth the scars!

I'm still using a hand mixer that I gave my Mum for Christmas the year I started work-in 1971.

I have my maternal grandparents' "nice" plates. It's a full set of Wedgewood dinner plates, and although the design is not really to my taste, is fine, and is nice to have that link to my grandparents, who both died when I was still a child. I think they're from the early 70s.

My iron dates back to the late 90s, and belonged to a woman my mum used to do some informal care work for in the early 00s.

I still use the TV I bought in 1996.

My kettle. Housewarming gift from 2001. Still going strong!

I have a bread knife I still use that my dad gave me when I left home (29 years ago). It was originally my nan's, she bought it in 1975! Still works very well.

@Parker231 look up the film “The Plates on Oma’s Wall” on YouTube.

We have a Kenwood Chef from the 1970s. And an iron with a fabric covered lead.

I'm still using a couple of wine glasses that were a wedding present 41 years ago. My late DM bought a fridge in 1955 and it kept going until 1997. She also had a Hoover washing machine that lasted 35 years.

I've got a food processor from 2000, make smoothies in that all the time, a stick blender from 1998, and some dinner plates that my Nana bought in the 1960s that are used at least once a week because I like them!!

My kettle is from the 1960s.

I’m still trying to convince my 80+ year old mother to stop using her 1970s Flatley clothes drier… it’s an awful fire risk, but she won’t listen.

A planc that was a wedding present to my grandmother. I still use it for my Welsh Cakes and think of her whenever I do.

I am still using a rolling pin that belonged to MIL's grandmother who was born in 1850.

Only last year my hand held electric whisk have up the ghost. I had been using it for 51 years.

I have a measuring jug that my mother used to mix formula milk for me when I was a baby over fifty years ago.
the measurement markings on the side are still clear as day

I've got a plastic colander that must be 35 years old.
My microwave is 20 years old and I have a hairdryer which also must be getting on for 35 years.

A Richardson steel chpooing knife I bought to go to uni in 1991 - still sharpens well and goes through the dishwasher regularly. Also a Miele hoover that was bought for me when my eldest was born 22 years ago. Works perfectly and has never needed to be fixed.

I have a 38 year old bread knife, it's as sharp as the day it was bought, and has never been sharpened!

A potato peeler that belonged to my grandma. She died in 1988 so it's at least 36 years old, and probably quite a bit older.

My Great Grandmother was a proffessional cook.

I have her mixing bowl which is well over 100 years old now. I keep it in bubble wrap on the bottom shelf of the cupboard but it comes out every year to make mince meat and Christmas pudding.

My Grandmother is 93 and has some very old things in her kitchen, many of which belonged to the same greatgrandmother above, and also my other great grandmother on her side, which are still in regular use.
She also has many wedding presents which will now be 72 years old.

Bread knife, rolling pin and tin opener. Mums wedding presents around 53yrs ago.

Not exactly an utensil, but my table mats are 60 years old, inherited from my grandmother, my linen napkins and some tablecloths are 90+