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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 27, 2023

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I always tell people who want to get into cooking (as the food guy in the social networok): get a Kirkland french oven (if you can find it), a tramotina non stick skillet, a madin carbon steel 10", and a Victorinox chefs knife and you are fucking set for life.

You can pay more money for all those things, but you are seeing fractional improvements for geometric price increases; and if you pay less you are actually seeing a serious difference in performance.

(The madein pan is a bit of luxury; you can get a cheap cast iron and get the same or better performance but cast iron is a big hassle.)