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Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - Buzz - 03-12-2012
Built-in Tappan oven w/ matching Tappan range next to it, and not quite matching Mercury vent hood above range, all in various tones of harvest gold and all from 1968. They all still function... almost well enough to say "work", but that ship sailed twenty or thirty years ago, and replacing them would pretty much require a complete kitchen remodel. Been through a few dishwashers and fridges, though, during the cooking appliances' tenure.
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Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - BernDog - 03-12-2012
General Motors wall oven and flip down electric stovetop/burners. Built into the kitchen in the 60s. Very futuristic :quotes:. Replacement will require entire kitchen remodel.
70s toaster from the Goodwill. Best damn toaster we've ever had.
50s or 60s stainless beehive Osterizer blender (original, not a reproduction). Same comment as the toaster.
My dad has a green enameled Hamilton Beach Mixmaster malt machine. It'll be mine someday. The plastic ones you can buy now don't even come close.
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - tronnei - 03-12-2012
Inherited from my grandparents:
Stainless steel electric frypan from the 1950s
Dehumidifier from the 1940s or 50s
Electrolux vacuum cleaner, late 1940s
All still in perfect working order
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - jdc - 03-12-2012
I was hoping that my $1300 GE fridge would last longer than 8... died at 8.25.
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - Lew Zealand - 03-12-2012
~60s era 36" gas Caloric range with top small oven and vertical cookie/muffin tray storage drawer. 5 pilot lights, unrestored, L. side burners don't auto-ignite even though the pilot is on. It'll be replaced if/when we re-do the kitchen though we'll certainly get a gas range/cooktop as a replacement.
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - hal - 03-12-2012
davester wrote:
We have one of these in our kitchen:
I bought it for next to nothing on craigslist and restored it about five years ago. 1950s technology! It's much nicer to cook on than the awful 1980s electric stove that was in there before.
Is that an O'Keefe? Looks like one I had at my old house - bullet proof - BOMB proof...
I bought a toaster at a garage sale in the early 90s - looks like a 60s-70s model. Still going strong... OLD toasters are the best...
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - JEBB - 03-12-2012
Me.
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - Racer X - 03-12-2012
Waffle iron, late 50s probably. Has cloth wrapped insulation on the cord.
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - particleman - 03-12-2012
$tevie wrote:
An Oriole stove from the 1920s. Still works.
Just how many Orioles have you cooked with it?
Re: What is your oldest household appliance? - RAMd®d - 03-13-2012
That would be my Litton microwave oven.
Huge, heavy, built to last. Not like a lot of microwaves ovens today- you close the door on them and they slide away from you.
I got it in 1977, and my folks had it for about 5yrs before that.