What's the oldest thing in your kitchen/house that still gets used?

angeltreats

Hello lovely old stylers, hope you're all having a lovely weekend

I've just used my hand-cranked mincer to grind up some chicken thighs for chicken burgers. It was given to me by a lovely lady on Freecycle and she believes it's from the 1940s, and it's still in great shape and works perfectly. I love it.

Anyway while I was using it, I started wondering what the very oldest thing I have that I still use - not including things like vintage jewellery, but actual functional items - and I think the mincer probably wins. I do also have various vintage espresso cups and other crockery from between the 1950s and 1970s that get used every day, and a Moulinex food mill from the 70s that makes the best mashed potato ever. Oh and my sewing machine is a 1961 Bernina that is still like new and will sew through absolutely anything. But for the most part, most of my "useful" stuff, even if bought second hand, is relatively modern.

I wondered what old gadgets etc people have in their houses that they still use on a regular basis?

(Apologies if there's already a similar thread, I did a search but found nothing!)

Hobsons_Choice

My husband I s'pose.
Seriously....my fridge is about 30 years old and still going strong and my hi-fi is even older than that (plays 75rpm records).

rosalie-lavender

I still use an old fashioned stone hot water bottle that my Grandma gave me.

Linda32

We have a HiFi which plays records as well, although this was given to us, so I guess it dosn't count.

We've only had one cooker, so that would be about 15 years old now. So not really very old at all.

The combi video and DVD player is about 5 years old, possibly abit more. Mind you thats the longest we've had a video player for before its gone wrong one way or the other.

pollypenny

A Cornish ware vinegar bottle my aunt gave me in 1966. Various bits of cutlery from wedding presents, 1967.

sheilavw

2 Wedding gifts going strong (married in 84) beldray clothes airer and moulinex hand mixer. I also use an old fashioned tin opener, the ones you poke into the tin , dont know how old that it (probably 60s)

squeaky

That would be my bread knife 30+ years.

Until earlier this year a close second would have been my tumble drier... 22 years with me and it was at least five years old when bought second hand.

I'm sure we had a long thread discussing old things quite some time back - but I can't for the life of me find it. It was probably all in a thread that drifted into "who's got the oldest" sort of thing. If I do manage to track it down I'll post a link.

LameWolf

My DH has a lot of his Gran's old kitchen equipment. The Kenwood hand-held electric whisk is about 50 years old, and still going strong, and I believe the jam cauldron is even older!:o

Sunnyday

I have an old carving knife and steel and also a full canteen of cutlery.

It was handed down from my Mum who was handed it down by my Nan before her, i`m not sure exactly how old it is but i do know that the cutlery was made by my Nan many years ago.

SD

snozberry

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

I still use an old fashioned stone hot water bottle that my Grandma gave me.

So do I and it is the best thing ever. It makes me giggle when I see them in musuems though.

PixieDust

Hubby is 45........apart from him, and certain fabrics that I'm sure were my Mum's clothes at one point and are now part of a patchwork-type bag.....it's possible our saucepans which we had for a wedding present 15 years ago. Some of the hand tools in the shed belonged to my Dad until he died, and I think the dodgy ladder belonged to Hubby's Grandad, and all are still in use, but we have no dates for them