what electronic home appliance have you had the longest? i realized today that i have had my zojirushi rice cooker for ~18 years and my cuisineart electric kettle for ~15. our food processor with the street legal motor was owned by alex's grandmother but also i dont touch it bc it scares me.
@harrisj @oddletters I believe I've had my Cuisinart food processor for 18 years
@darius @harrisj @oddletters I’ve had my kitchenaid for 20+ years and have gone through a few food processors in that time. I don’t know if I’d qualify either of those as “electronic”, though they do have logic boards that control the motor.
@darius @harrisj @oddletters I have had to open up the kitchenaid to replace parts a few times.
@fields I mean, using electrons to manage a control system is pretty much the definition of electronic as opposed to electric
@darius fair, I guess I usually associate electronics with things that have displays and digital controls.
@oddletters also a Zojirushi at 18 or 19… “neuro fuzzy” presumably involves serious compute
@gwbstr it's happily just neuro-ing along! only thinking about rice!
@oddletters Ooh. My rice cooker and immersion blender are both about 17 years old? And neither were very expensive, either. Both under $40 back then.
@oddletters only recently bought a rice cooker and a pressure cooker, but they're starting to revolutionise everyday cooking
i'm hoping they'll last that long
so probably some personal computer that's been going for 10-15 years or so that i'm still keeping alive
My parents still use the same washing machine they had when I was a kid -- it's more than 40 years old at this point.
@oddletters I don’t use it much, but I have a Sears Kenmore vacuum that my dad bought sometime around when he emigrated, 1980-ish I think. It still works. The reusable bag is intact, though the extra foam filter behind it is mostly gone. The power cable has been repaired (not replaced) once.
@oddletters kitchenaid stand mixer still going strong 21 years later