What’s not to love about a kitchen appliance that’s still going strong in its forties?

Meet my mum’s retrotastic Sanyo Slow Cooker. It’s got all the features I love most about appliances from that era. That orange heating unit, the brown enamelled cooking bowl, the fabric coats power cord, even the font on the heat dial. Mum’s slow cooker has survived three children and three house moves. Despite the signs of wear on the outside, the glassware is without a single crack or chip – which is more than I can say for my five year old model.

Mum unearthed the slow cooker this morning when we decided that it was perfect weather for chicken soup. As she got to work giving it a clean, I chopped the ingredients for our soup. It was just like the old days when I lived at home and would give mum a hand in the kitchen to prepare dinner after she’d come in from a long day at work.