We get it. Cast iron pans last forever. They should, they're giant slabs of metal. Short of letting it rust through, there's not a whole lot that you can reasonably do to damage it, and there's no huge difference between any two kinds of cast iron pan. The only real difference I've ever read about is that some older pans were cast in a way that produced a smoother surface, thus more anti-stick. Some microabrasives and elbow grease can polish any modern pan to the same standard.
A knife? I mean yeah I guess a knife can be reasonably worn down over a lifetime if it's not high quality... but unless you're a serious outdoorsman, your knife probably isn't subjected to enough use to worry about it not being BIFL. You've had the same kitchen knife since the 70s? So's everyone else. It's a knife. Unless it's super low quality and the handle falls apart, you drop it and break it, or you oversharpen the heck out of the blade and wear it away to nothing, normal usage in any situation other than prolonged wilderness survival stuff doesn't really do much damage to a knife. If you've bought a kitchen knife that didn't wind up being BIFL, you probably either messed up with the knife, or you bought a really, really bad knife.
You've got your great grandmother's silverware? Once again... it's solid pieces of metal. Nothing moves. I can't imagine what one would have to do to wear out a spoon.
For God's sake, there's currently a metal mixing bowl on the front page! It's a bowl. It's made of stainless steel. If you don't literally cut it in half, it's gonna last for centuries.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it should be posted here. No one benefits from knowing that you managed not to break or lose a large piece of metal.
/rant
Submitted May 24, 2018 at 09:38AM by DontTakeMyNoise https://ift.tt/2J1WW57
