bruno

"mr storylets"

writer (derogatory). lead designer on Fallen London.

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bruno
@bruno

I really need kitchenware brands to stop making perfectly good, sometimes even fairly premium tools out of steel and then wrapping them in a terrible soft-touch plastic that, after eighteen months of sitting in a hot humid kitchen, is going to depolymerize and become incredibly gross, thus rendering the entire product useless


bruno
@bruno

Like, I get it, you want to make it cheap, you don't want to make a full steel handle for it and just want to have a little tang pressed into the plastic. Sure. We have a material for that, it's called polypropylene, it costs basically nothing and it's basically indestructible. You may know of it from cutting boards and cheap food-service knife handles. But no, you gotta have the fake rubber overmold plastic that is more expensive yet will disintegrate after a year.


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soft touch plastic has existed for long enough that id figure that everybody in the world should've collectively realized it shouldnt be used and stopped using it, like.. i don't know, decades ago now?

so hard to get good kitchenware these days
half of it can't even survive regular trips through the dishwasher which renders it not fit for purpose

meanwhile we have some pots in the house with bakelite handles that are older than i am and go through the dishwasher multiple times a week and are perfectly intact

bakelite my beloved

It's more expensive, but if it disintegrates after a year then you have to buy a new one. If they use polypropylene then they only get to sell to you the one time.