According to a study, the devices that Gen Z cannot live without are air fryers, coffee makers, and hair dryers.
A poll, of 2,000 adults, has demonstrated how much different generations value various appliances around the home – and what things they turn to first thing in the morning.
For coffee-mad Gen Z, less than half (41 percent) felt their machine was a luxury item, compared to 64 percent of both Boomers and Gen X.
The younger generation is also less likely to consider hair tongs (30 percent) and air fryers (33 percent) a luxury compared to boomers (55 percent for hair tongs and 47 percent for air fryers).
It’s also evident the country is a fan of hot drinks, as half of all adults named the kettle as the first appliance they use in the morning – well ahead of the fridge (11 percent).
But older generations are more likely than youngsters to go for a brew first thing in the morning, with seven in 10 Boomers turning to the kettle before anything else compared to only 21 percent of Gen Z.
The research was commissioned by the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA), to encourage people to sign up for their devices, as part of Register My Appliance Week.
Additionally, there is a quiz designed to test your understanding of the appliances that are valued by various generations.
CEO Paul Hide said: ‘We are clearly a nation of appliance lovers, who appreciate the transformative effect they’ve had on our lives and who are excited by the future of smart tech, especially the younger generations.
‘However, people are missing out on an important safety benefit – an estimated 40 million large appliances are unregistered, which means they are untraceable if a safety repair is needed.’
The washing machine was universally recognised by all ages as the appliance they can’t manage without (62 percent).
This was followed by the fridge (59 percent), oven (32 percent) and freezer (29 percent).
It also emerged that 80 percent of adults said energy efficiency was an important factor when it comes to buying a new appliance, with 65 percent checking its green credentials before parting with their cash.
Anyone born in this century, before all this new tech stuff, has no idea what it was like to live say in the 70s and before. They have no idea how easy their lives are now, yet they frequently whine anyway. Try living through the war, there were no gizmos back then, and most of them wouldn’t even know how to cook a meal from scratch.
In the 60s a washing machine consisted of a scrub board, typically at the side of your butler sink. In the 70s washing machines existed but generally for the more affluent clientele. I value specific things now but only because I’m more senior and disabled, but when I was more youthful and in my prime there was nothing wrong with a bit of spit and polish.
Jeez, if kids these days lose their wifi signal, they have a breakdown and tell everyone it’s caused them to have PTSD.
These kids need National Service, that might knock some sense into the woke loonies.
If my toaster broke, I definitely wouldn’t have a meltdown about it, I would do it the old-fashioned way and use the grill. Gen Z would have a blue fit if the toaster was broken and they take so many things for granted these days. Toasters are amazing but they are much more inferior to just putting your bread under the grill.
There have been numerous advancements over the last 60 years, things that we did not have back then and these are taken as a given these days, and we have become a dreadful society because of it, but you wouldn’t want to go back, would you? However, if there was a war, we might have to!
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