Oldest kitchen appliance?

[Deleted]

Probably most or all of us have some kitchen appliances that we have been using for decades, maybe that were even handed down from preceding generations.

What are your oldest items still in regular use? My microwave oven is about 30 years old, and my food processor must be pushing 20. In those years, I have gone through several coffee makers, blenders, deep fryers and other items.

Meanwhile, I have a few pieces of kitchenware that go back to my grandmother, but the only old thing in "regular use" is a wooden spoon which must be just about petrified by now.

[joanne28]

I have a nutmeg grater which was my grandmother's and must at least 50 years old. But that's manual, not an appliance.

My blender was my mother-in-law's and must be 30 years old.

[onlymark]

I still have a flint knife handed down from a distant relative called "Ug".

[Don Cuevas]

Apart from a heritage plate or two, and a couple of glasses in which snuff tobacco was packaged, it could be that the oldest kitchen item we have is a Foley Food Mill. It may date back to before the 1950s. It still mills.

[bixaorellana]

May 9, 2011 5:18:06 GMT onlyMark said:

I still have a flint knife handed down from a distant relative called "Ug".

After whom you were named?

[onlymark]

Yeah.
And my last name is "ly".

[bixaorellana]

Not the lys of Lesser Bogshire, surely?! I am impressed.

[onlymark]

Used to be many generations back. But then we married into money and became 'hyphenated' though I don't like to bandy it about for fear of intimidating you plebs.

I am actually now a "ly-bastard".

[bixaorellana]

We may be related. Someone in my family also connected -- on the wrong side of the blanket -- to a ly. However, since there was real affection in that union, our surname is Lovely.

Do you know an actual ly?

OP - related:

Hm. I've moved so much & jettisoned things along the way, that I don't have many venerable electrical kitchen appliances. My food processor may be the oldest, at @20 years.

In other kitchen stuff, at least one of my iron skillets is older than I am. My sugar bowl was bought in 1968. I may think of some more later.

[Deleted]

Gosh,I have several kitchen items that are quite old,I'm trying to think of the oldest. Most probably a hand chopper with a wrought iron handle that was from my family farm. I use it quite often,as I'm not real big into electric food processing unless I'm having to chop massive quantities. This chopper being curved fits quite nicely into the wooden bowl. I keep the blade on it fairly sharp.

My gas stove is quite old as well,from the 1940's,it's a Chambers and I quite love it.

I also have an assortment of other old items passed down along.

I really should just go into the kitchen a snap some pics of the various things.

[mickthecactus]

A 1940's stove? That's impressive.

I have a carving set which must be the best part of 80+ years. Still use it.

[cheerypeabrain]

I have a huge enamel casserole/roasting pan that belonged to my Ma...I've had it for 34 years and it was old when she gave it to me... ;D I use it all the time...

I bought my hand whisk in 1976...it's the springy sort as I prefer it to my balloon whisk...

[mich64]

My Mixmaster hand mixer, I bought it in 1983, so that makes it 28 years old. Just used it the other day, love it when I make whipped cream and I get to lick both beaters!
Cheers,
Mich

[Deleted]

When I broke the last piece of my grandmother's big bowls, I thought I would be overcome with grief, but it was as though I could hear my grandmother's voice. "That old stuff? Good riddance! Go buy a new bowl." And that's what I did. My grandmother was a very practical person, and having lived through two world wars, she knew there was not much point in being overly attached to one's possessions -- especially ordinary kitchen stuff.

[Deleted]

There were a number of large mixing bowls at my mother's house when I was cleaning it out year. I toyed with the idea of taking away a few but,have plenty here of my own I left them behind for the tenants.

I did however,take away a small copper skillet that was her favorite and I wanted to have it.

Funny you should mention breaking old bowls. Last night my husband accidentally broke one of the last of my 'willoware' bowls that I ate yogurt from every morning. I do admit to being a little miffed but,got over it.

[auntieannie]

I have got old kitchen stuff, but not from family. From the "retro" shop. Love it!

[Deleted]

Ah, but that doesn't count the same way! ;D You have to have worn down the items yourself (or members of your family).

[auntieannie]

[Deleted]

Give them another ten or twenty years and you can call them your own!