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

Vibrant

A Morphy Richards toaster, given to me by Mum, when I left home thirty years ago. It has had a few new elements over the years and I only have a few spares left, so I doubt it will last much more than another ten years
Three slices of toast a day @ thirty years = 10950 slices.

M.E.

Mid-Victorian jam pan, from great-great-grandma.
Pressure cooker, late 50's

spike7451

I also still have & use the same steam iron that I took to RAF Swinderby when I did my basic training in Sept 1984...Cords a bit tatty but it still works a treat!Can't see the point of replacing it when it still works!

rachbc

today I made blinds out of some linen towels that are at least 100 years old. I serve my meals everyday with a silver tablespoon that is a similar age

GreyQueen

Grandma's breadboard, already ancient in the 1950s and still in daily use.

Grandma passed in 1970 and I also have her pickled onion pot which has been in yearly use for decades. Brown pottery, slightly urn-shaped, could probably pickle onions in bare water, it must be so impregnated with vinegar.

I also have one of three surviving handmade chairs from Grandma (am sitting on it right now).

A small pine table which my other gran bought second-hand during WW2 for 7 and 6 and I use it daily. It's probably late 19th century.

Mum has various hand-appliances from the 1960s when she married; handcranked egg whisk, wall-mounted tea-caddy etc etc.

I also have some of the Ancestral Pyrex, various basins etc which were Grandma's and are in daily use.

I love these homely old things, much nicer than antiques IMO.

Draagonfly

GQ oooh the old wall-mounted tea caddy...I'd forgotten all about those, my Gran used to have one. Pop the pot under it press the button & out drops a pre-measured quantity of tea leaves

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CCP

I've got a pottery baking / casserole dish which belonged to my grandmother: if I've correctly identified the maker's mark then it can't have been made any later than the 1920s as the maker went out of business in 1930. It will shortly be filled with plum and apple crumble. :drool:

I also have a brass cigarette lighter that belonged to my great-grandfather and has the logo of the regiment he belonged to in WW1: it doesn't work any more (not that I would risk it even if it did, for fear of damaging it) but it's a nice thing to have.

A while ago I had a minor fault with the electrics in my flat and the electrician mentioned that the wiring couldn't have been touched since the building was divided into flats in the late 1950s - I'm not sure whether he was joking or not! :shocked:

stiltwalker

I have my MIL's jam pan which was her mother's and she thinks her grandmother's before her, not sure how old but MIL was born in 1933. We also have an anglepoise lamp that was presented to OH's maternal grandfather by his parishioners to mark 50 years in the ministry in 1964 which has a built in cigarette lighter and ashtray! It will go in turn to our son as he is named for him.

FrugalWorker

I've my Granny's tea set, but it's not used much. Only for serving cake when visitors over. I still have a knife, chop sticks, bowls and some towels I got in Japan in '96 when I first moved out of home. I aim to only replace things when they are not longer fit for purpose. I've taken my grandfathers old silver cigarette case which he got for his 21'st. It hasn't been used to carry cigarettes in many decades. But it does carry my sewing kit. Fits in my handbag perfectly and I smile each time I use it. I've 2 tables in my spare room that are easily turn of the century if not older.