To fuck or to cook?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

You said she *wants* the Le Creuset, no? Just drop the extra $$ (although I like Staub better) and get what she wants.

Yeah, it's $200 more, but it will *never* need to be replaced and there won't be any "does the Le Creuset [whatever] better" questions.

Alright. You've convinced me.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Does anyone recommend one that they've had for a long time? A few weeks ago someone posted a link to the America's Test Kitchen review. But it turns out that the ones they liked most have been roundly trashed on Amazon -- basically, they work really well for a few months, then break. Usually, just after the warranty runs.

I have had my Rival Crock Pot for almost 10 years and I use it almost once a week.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Alright. You've convinced me.

Blow jobs on your birthday *and* Christmas!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

That said, who buys a BMW and puts it under the tree?

those commercials bug me endlessly. what sort of person would want a car their spouse picked out entirely on his own. I could see a card "You can pick out a car!" but the actual car?

[robustpuppy]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I think the list is not comparable because Le Creuset is known by real cooking enthusiasts to be superior to almost everything else. None of that is true with anything on Atticus' list (except for maybe the Iphone). Those things just have the perception of being better.

Do you have an outlet shopping center nearby with a Le Creuset outlet? You might be able to find a better price at one of those. I am usually anti-outlet because usually there are no true bargains to be had, but Le Creuset could be an exception. (The other one is Stride Rite.)

I am not gentle with my Martha Stewart dutch oven (note: i really want to change the phrasing here, but I fear it's too late), which I have used at least 2x a week for a year now, and I have had no chipping. I don't know how people are chipping them. Maybe they are using metal utensils and banging them against the side after stirring, or slamming the lid down on top or slamming them against their farmhouse sinks when they wash them.

As for the handle, it is is screwed on, so in theory it could come off, if you were to let it loosen and never tighten it with special tools called your fingers. Not perfect design, but not a dealbreaker by any means.

Then again, I bought mine for myself, not for a deserving spouse, so I was making my own concessions, not asking someone else to do so.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

those commercials bug me endlessly. what sort of person would want a car their spouse picked out entirely on his own. I could see a card "You can pick out a car!" but the actual car?

That is not the only reason those commercials bug me endlessly. The main reason is because they are played endlessly. In an ironic twist I saw a BMW ad with a big bow that blows off as they thrash the car on a glacier somewhere.

[robustpuppy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

those commercials bug me endlessly. what sort of person would want a car their spouse picked out entirely on his own. I could see a card "You can pick out a car!" but the actual car?

If you really loved me, you'd know exactly what kind of car I would pick out for myself and would save me the difficulty of dealing with those pushy people at the car dealership, because negotiating is so hard.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I think the list is not comparable because Le Creuset is known by real cooking enthusiasts to be superior to almost everything else. None of that is true with anything on Atticus' list (except for maybe the Iphone). Those things just have the perception of being better.

Indeed. Tiffany, Atticus? Really?

[1436]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

i have had my rival crock pot for almost 10 years and i use it almost once a week.

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[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Indeed. Tiffany, Atticus? Really?

I read the "you buy" as "suckas buy", but seems I'm outnumbered by those who read it as an earnest (anti-)endorsement by Atticus.

On the crockpot, we have a Rival, too, also ~10 years old, but do not use it nearly as much as others here.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Indeed. Tiffany, Atticus? Really?

I was trying to be agnostic about putative quality, and limiting the list to "no one ever got fired for buying _______." Personally I think Tiffany sux, but no one ever got fired when they were holding a blue box out. Your purchase was suboptimal, but these are safe harbor brands, culturally, because there's a chance you'll sound like an ass when you say "Actually, the Sennheiser headphones are reference quality" etc.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

On the crockpot, we have a Rival, too, also ~10 years old, but do not use it nearly as much as others here.

I tend to do my slow cooking in my le creuset dutch oven.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Adder

I tend to do my slow cooking in my le creuset dutch oven.

That would be why we don't use the crockpot much. Oven works better. And we have three different sizes of staub dutch oven.

[Replaced_Texan]

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[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

those commercials bug me endlessly. what sort of person would want a car their spouse picked out entirely on his own. I could see a card "You can pick out a car!" but the actual car?

Actually, I would, as I do not care about cars at all.

I did some car shopping this summer for myself, and ultimately passed on buying anything, as I was happier with what my SO had picked than anything I would have found on my own.

We may go through this again in March and my strong preference would be him simply handing me a set of keys. It's not that it's hard, it's that I don't care what I drive and he does.