1) buy cheap and keep a few around. Whenever you find it hard to find one, just buy another. I probably have a few around the house at this point. The only messed up one has a wired twist in it at the 1" mark so I can have it hold onto things when measuring. I blame this on CHINA. Cheap crap that is not properly tempered for its use. The answer is that the reason you can't find a good one is that you have ONE. Buy 4.
2) Bed sheets? I'm straight dude.
3) Silicon wisk .... you a dude? Ya, just buy two. When one fails, buy a second to give you two "good ones".
4) Drying rack. I have ht same complaints. But talking about bacteria again? Seriously? Not gay ... but mental problems? What specific strain of bacteria that may grow in a drain pain worries you and why?
Conclusion. Everything is shit made in China. It typically lasts half as long. Just buy what you need x2. I do this with EVERYTHING these days. You can dream of one good thing for $10 or just buy two pieces of shit for $5. Apparently the cheap shit route is the American dream.
You know, as much as I love when ATOT picks on Trident, and don't really care to stop it in this thread, I mean, can you be any more ignorant or bigoted?
Straight guys can: a) know how to cook and care about kitchen items; b) care about quality linen, which feels great right in all the right places; and c) well when it comes to drying racks, I'm not worried about bacteria, whatsoever, so... yeah, that's a Trident issue. If you clean your goddamn dishes, you won't have bacteria lingering all over your drying rack, at least not bacteria you need to worry about. Hint, there is bacteria freaking everywhere. Clean your dishes, and the only way you need to worry about bacteria is if this is your first time exiting that plastic bubble, or you have AIDS, in which case, precautions are always a good idea.
I love nice sheets, and if it's a useful kitchen or grill tool, I want two or three of them, and quality. Being able to use, say, two good whisks can really help minimize prep time on some foods instead of having to wash one before moving to another bowl.
Also, if you know how to search the webs, you can find the recommendations for every item type that actually lasts awhile. A good accurate and fast-read kitchen thermometer? You can pay about $100 and have one that is useful on a high-flame fire and doesn't require singing arm hairs, and have it be just as useful making any kind of candy or other high-temp sugar on the stove, and it'll be very quick, accurate, and last you probably a lifetime. Or you can pay $15 or less for something that may or may not be accurate, may take some time to read the temp, and will probably break in a few years at most.
Some times you have to have good money to spend in order to get things that meet picky and quality criteria. I can't get some of the things I want, not yet, so I try to get the second or third best that will last awhile but may skimp on some ability or I expect to not last nearly as long. I want a Blendtec or Vitamix, but as I cannot afford one (read: I'd rather put that kind of money elsewhere, as I don't have enough to go around
😉), I have a Ninja that does well enough for what I need at this point in time.
