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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:07PM (#31296442)
> Cooking equipment: essentially indestructible Cast Iron skillets transition into teflon pans. The newer pans perform worse, and must be replaced on a shockingly regular basis. They also seem to be poisonous.

No one should be surprised that people will pay more for the exact same thing over time. People want to get as much as they can as quick as they can. If you spend $100 for a cast iron pan now instead of $30 for a Teflon pan, then you have $70 less money to spend on other stuff. The average person doesn't care that over the long run they could spend $1000 on pans instead of a $100 pan that lasts a lifetime.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by omegaham on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:44PM (#31296776)
Unless you're getting Finex or bidding for sought-after collectors' cast iron on Ebay, you can get a plain cast-iron skillet from any big-box store for $20-$30.
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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by bobthepanda on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:18PM (#31296559)
A cast iron pan is $19.90 today on Amazon.
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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by adhesive_wombat on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:18PM (#31297076)
I got mine for £15 in TK Maxx (TJ in the States). It was a "Hairy Bikers" branded one, so presumably a white label manufacturer. That's not a one off either, there are always some in there at the price.

I did sand it a bit with a palm sander because the Internet told me to, but I'm pretty sure it would have been fine anyway.

It's been years, and I've deliberately seasoned it only once, and I don't think I actually really needed to. Sometimes when it's been used for tomatoes and looks thirsty, I'll put a wipe of oil in and heat it up for a bit.

I don't miss the very expensive Le Creuset wedding present non stick pan that turned out to be as bad as all the rest.

However, also in T[KJ] Maxx are 10 times more truly terrible Teflon pans.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:26PM (#31296634)
It's an example of how people spend money - not an actual analysis of the pan market.
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