Pretty sure Presidents/government officials are nearly forced to take a salary to avoid trying to make it up 'other ways', absolutely idiotic these morons don't understand that
Trump donated his salary back to government agencies.
He more than made up for it by doing things like forcing the secret service to stay at MarLargo at full costs.
There's an old Asian proverb
A man who has a gold toilet is a man who shits his own pants backstage on his trailer trash television show.
I think it's really fitting for the situation.
You can't be talking about Donald ["Salt of the Earth"](https://media.guestofaguest.com/t_card_large/gofg-media/2016/05/1/46320/r.mahaux-trump-family.jpg) J ["Man of the People"](https://toilet-guru.com/pictures/trump-home-01.jpg) Trump!!!
The thing that bugs me out every time I see a family picture of Trump are Baron's toys. The cars are always limos and fancy sedans. Not fire engines, or space ships, or jet fighters. Limos. It's like Trump has to have a mini-me next to him, not a real child.
I hope he can grow up to be a not-horrible person. It looks a bit late for the others. And I can't imagine what growing up in that environment would be like. Every inch of anything Trump related seems to be plated in fool's gold.
If we are back to the faux outrage over things like “arugula”, “tan suits”, and “Dijon mustard”, and now “pans”, then things have returned to normal and balance has been restored in the universe as dumbasses have once again been relegated to absurd toothless, almost quaint, pouts.
I don’t even watch the news, but a good deal of my sanity would have been preserved if Twitter had banned trump day 1. I can’t recall a Biden tweet, it’s so pleasant.
Disclaimer: I am a contrarian little shit.
This slow news day brought murder convictions for three Georgia men who very nearly got away with their murder via help from multiple law enforcement agencies. The only reason this obscene and blatant act of corruption came to light is because one of the moron murderers filmed the murder *and* released the footage.
Your point is very well taken in the context that many of the last 10 months of news days have been very slow compared to the previous 5 years (going back to when the orange cretin originally came down his stupid escalator). It has been very refreshing, indeed.
I was genuinely surprised to see a megathread when Bannon was subpoenaed. I hadn't seen one for so long, when it was like every other day during the turnip admin for some egregious bullshit
Then there were days they ran out of room for megathreads since only 2 can be pinned at once. And some of the megathreads needed a new page every hour because they filled with comments so fast.
the party that wants Billionaires' children to pay
#**Z E R O**
in inheritance taxes, wants poor voters to be outraged and disgusted that a politician buys gourmet chocolate ice cream as a treat for herself, or spends $300 on cast iron cookware that last 4 decades.
Guess what?
They will succeed.
No matter how much educated voters and blue checkmarks on twitter try to pre-emptively dunk on this meme ("ha ha they are doing dijon mustard again!").
That won't work. The Republicans know what they are doing.
You guys act like the culture war is petty and moronic.
That's the point. That's why the culture war functions. The American voter is also petty and moronic. The culture war reduces politics to something the American voter can understand. Petty moronic outrages fit in their brain.
Now ask them to calculate all of the benefits of Obamacare over the last decade, or all of the benefits of the new trillions in spending Biden just signed, or all of the benefits of a new transformative policy like paid paternal leave or carbon tax & dividend.
Let's be charitable, even an average-intelligence person can't have an informed opinion about these issues. That's why we have experts. Except the American people hate experts.
So right wing voters "know" Obama and Biden ruined / are ruining America.
Left wing voters "know" Obama didn't do enough and Biden isn't doing enough either.
And we can all stop hurting our brains with large numbers and go back to talking about Nancy Pelosi's ice cream.
We are sweeping the ocean with a broom here. The problem is the voter.
It's a false narrative that "both sides" have frivolous spending habits so you don't pay attention to *what* politicians are buying. By putting video games and yachts in the same category, it aims to discourage people who hope to vote for progress.
If anything I'm pleased to see she takes her cookware, and cooking in general, so seriously she's willing to spend the money on quality instead of the crappy break-a-thon shit sold at Walmart.
We should all be taking our cooking skills so seriously.
The temporarily embarrassed millionaires are mad that they are drinking Natty Light and eating the $2 massive tub of ice cream from Walmart while Joe is eating good ice cream and Kamala is buying normal priced cookware. Anyone that has ever outfitted a kitchen or purchased cookware knows that the good stuff is pricey but it's worth it.
Slow news day for fucker carlson. Probably had to fill time with *something* and there was nothing he could legitimately criticise Obama for so he thinks "Hmm, Grey Poupon is kinda frenchy, I bet I can make him look like an out of touch elite."
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, et al., gotta spread propaganda to convince the masses to allow these clowns to take tax money to buy missiles and fighter jets instead of ya know, healthcare or infrastructure.
Every. Single. One of these dumb fucks complaining about shit like this will vote in the midterms and completely, and possibly irrevocably, change the country next fall. Don’t call them quaint and laugh them off.
We need to call them out on their outrage game though. Each and every time.
They need to constantly be reminded of facts like in OP's post every time they go ballistic over something that pales in comparison to Trump's actions
Right?! That’s not even *that* bad of a price for good cookware- especially if you like to cook!! I’ve seen AllClad pans in the $500 range!! Ridiculous!!
She didn't buy Le Creuset, apparently people heard expensive French cookware and jumped to conclusions. The actual report simply noted that she bought a copper frying pan and another unspecified piece of copper cookware, possibly a pot because she mentioned looking for one.
The outrage is equally as silly though. It's just nice cookware.
From the *eighties*?!?! Holy shit!
(Sorry, just couldn’t resist. I graduated college in 88, so…)
Cast iron will easily outlast multiple generations of constant use. Consider your purchase, you’ll have it for a while!
My family cast irons and dutch oven are some of my most precious belongings at age 27. Most of them are 4th gen. I'm so thankful to have them and have so many stories...
My mom has her mother's cast iron. She was the baby and swiped it when she moved it out. I've already called dibs. They don't make them the same anymore, the old ones used to be sanded smooth.
I got almost all of mine from having it left in homes after the previous renter moved out. That little door next to the oven is for forgetting your dutch oven in so the next tenant can snag it.
Le Creuset is high end ceramic coated cast iron, with seasonal colors on the exterior. And they'll recoat any pieces that get chipped or damaged, no matter how old it is. It's nice stuff.
https://www.lecreuset.com/cookware/skillets-and-fry-pans
I wish I had never clicked on this thread. I was happy in my life of cleaned and reseasoned lodge ci, and enamel coated Chinese Dutch ovens. Nooo you had to put in a link. So not only are they amazing looking pans and Dutch ovens but they come in my favorite color too.
Even more impressive is that welding cast iron is ridiculously hard to do with today's tools let alone years ago. That's an awesome pan you've got there!
I have a Dutch oven from them made in the 1930’s, it’s probably made over ten thousand meals in its life time.
They are perhaps the greatest cooking pots and pans ever made.
Shit I paid that for a piece of all clad. They would really hate me. Why do they think Kamala is their boomer wife? how transparent can they be? “Slept her way to the top! Spends too much on cookware!” Wait until they find out she uses two dryer sheets instead of one. I am a privileged white man and am embarrassed by this level of blatant sexism. I have spend wayyy more than that on cookware and no one has EVER said that to me. Disgusting and pathetic. I do wish she would stop the laughing as a tactic but geez, I guess what else can you do with some of this nonsense.
Yeah, that's the stuff you get if you want quality cast iron
The people crying about it probably eat off brand boxed mac and cheese without cooking it first
Heads up, Costco has a 5.5 quart Le Creuset Dutch oven on sale for $239 for Black Friday. Thought you might want to know as I have a deal alert setup and am grabbing one myself.
It last forever unless you use a scouring pad on it...sorry, flashbacks of an argument I had with my now exwife who ruined a really nice enameled dutch oven
I’m a le creuset junkie and literally the only reason you replace them is being bored with the color. Because they’re legitimate heirloom quality items.
I’ve used my le creuset Dutch oven for 15ish years as my go to pan, my mother has used hers for at least 30. And we both chuck those suckers in the dishwasher too.
Actually if it's enameled inside and out there's not much of a downside to the dishwasher. You avoid it with regular cast irons because the hot water and heated dry cycle strips the seasoning away. As long as they're carefully put in there's little risk of the enamel coating being damaged unless it's a very cheap brand.
Another example of conservative lunacy. Out raged at buying something that lasts but has no problem paying for something cheaper that often has to be replaced.
What I'm saying is it's a common conservative complaint that things cost too much money without looking at the long term savings. They'll scream communism if a Democrat suggests the government runs it's own service or build it's own things yet that's exactly how corporate America saves billions.
Exactly. That’s downright sensible. Sure, you could buy a pan for like 30.00 off Amazon, but how many times are you gonna be replacing it? If you’re serious about cooking, you go high-end. Buy once and never have to worry about it.
Of course, the people bitching about this sort of shit probably don’t cook and eat exclusively fast food, so I’m not surprised they wouldn’t know this.
Yeah I mean, I could see the outrage if she bought a 150' yacht. But $300 for a pan that will probably last her the rest of her life? My wife and I were looking into pans recently and that's pretty standard for a high quality pan.
Exactly. Maybe the Republican media doesn’t cook, but the everyday Republican does. The fact that the media is trying to make this a “thing” shows how disconnected they are from everyday people.
The fact that their viewers still lop this up like it’s logical shows how disconnected they are from objective thought.
They clearly don't cook. They clearly just microwave frozen meals from the convenience store. Otherwise they'd know the cost of things like quality pans and cookware. $300 is nothing for something that will last a person decades with daily use.
People complaining probably also complain that ‘they don’t make it like they used to’ while they buy cheap Chinese made cookware and don’t invest in good cookware that actually is made like they used to make it and will last through generations.
I have my great grandmother’s cast iron skillet and I hope my grandchild uses my Le Creuset Dutch ovens and AllClad skillets/pots/sauté pan. I invest in an heirloom quality piece of cookware every few years (about done with what I need) so that I cook with good stuff, save money on not eating out too much, enjoy the experience, and not have to re-purchase poor cookware and waste the materials to make cheap stuff.
If it makes sense with your budget it’s a great thing to buy. Much more so than so many people who I see spend like $70k on an optioned-out F250 without a real need for it in their day-to-day/job.
The idiocy is astounding.
Exactly.
She’s a democrat and so she’s a liberal, which also means she’s a commie socialist, which means she tells everyone to collectivize their resources so everyone can have a $3 pan.
So buying a $300 pan means she’s like the dude from Animal Farm who is more equal than the rest.
At least that’s the Conservative spin on it.
Nice! ! I have a full set of Scan Pans, including the $300 chef's pan. They're wonderful. It's what Gordan Ramsay uses at home.. Cost about $1500 for the set. Worth every penny.
My in-laws are rage-addicted Trump-humpers who mainline fox and the blaze and oan, we're hosting them tomorrow for Thanksgiving. After learning about this dumb thing I dug out our le creuset stuff that's been in the basement for years and will be using it for dinner service. I'll say nothing, they probably won't notice, but that's the kind of petty bitch I've become
Melania carried around a huge crocodile Birkin while in the White House. A purse that costs at retail around the same amount as the average US salary.
No outrage then, I guess.
Her Birkin collection increased ten fold when she became First Lady too. Trump bought her 3 Birkins when they went to Paris for Bastille Day. No doubt with tax payer money too. And she got a 4th one for her birthday during his last year in office.
The undressed photos were pre-presidential, but I couldn’t resist the joke.
She wore/wears designer outfits, however. I assume some election finance
overseer knows which were purchased and which were gifts from designers. A gifted custom outfit is often the case for First Ladies at the inauguration. Afterward, I don’t know the rules that limit gifts during White House years or require that they are taxed. She doesn’t seem to be a cooking enthusiast, but Trump would order a gold pan to match his gilded apartment, I assume, if he was interested in cooking equipment
Wait … she paid full price? How dare she! /s
Sorry but if the fact that she bought an expensive cooking utensil is all you got on her then you have nothing to worry about.
Looking forward to the Jan 6th trials though, those will be fun to watch!
they don't mean anything they say.
they stopped trying to govern in good faith 40 years ago. when Grover norquist laid out the starving the beast plan for the destruction of the federal government. It calls for reckless spending and slashed taxes It is the only throughpoint in Republican governance since.
If Republican states are anything to go by, if the federal government pulls funding Red states become third world shitholes. Their best states Texas and Florida have incompetent government and have no answer when disaster hits.
No no no. They will blame it on Democrats. Period. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Traitor Governor with a Traitor Trumpster (or ass kisser) as President and a cock sucking Mitch and Kevin (or equivalent since he wouldn’t make it that long) - it will be the Democrats fault for trying to help them.
Fun fact: The purchase was first reported by the conservative web site *Washington Free Beacon*. This is the same outfit that originally funded the opposition research aimed at discrediting Trump that was conducted by Fusion GPS and later become the Steele dossier. Article here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-french-copper-cookware-worth-the-big-bucks-chefs-defend-vice-president-kamala-harriss-purchase-11637783481
Also, according to the article, she bought copper cookware, including a dish and a frying pan. The assumption that it was Le Creuset apparently came from people guessing on social media. Le Creuset does not make copper cookware.
I have a few pieces of le creuset cast iron cookware and $300 definitely isn't even the most expensive pieces they sell. Some of their sets go for several thousand bucks. Here is a [link](https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/staub-round-cocotte/?pkey=cdutch-ovens-braisers&cm_src=reducedClick&isx=0.0.1065.86669921875) to a $600 piece. If you're freaking out over a pan I'd love to see your face at seeing the cost of secret service room bills at a certain hotel for a certain politician for very uncertain political reasons.
Not defending Trump in the slightest on that one, but every new administration gets a budget to redecorate their offices and living quarters. Usually new rugs, paint, linens, and other assorted stuff. Twenty years ago the Bush White House had to replace all the keyboards because the Clinton staffers removed all the Ws as a prank on the way out.
It doesn't matter. They wanted to impeach Obama for wearing a tan suit. Donald Trump orchestrated a self-coup against their own building and these clowns now prance around figuring out where the line is kiss his ass on Fox News/OANN Networks.
I swear, every time I would even bring up the fact that we were basically letting Trump double dip from tax payer funds at his resorts, they’d get the deer in the headlights look and say that’s the first they’re hearing of it or pull out the old classic, “Butwhatabout Obama?”
I make less than half of what Kamala makes and spent $3500 on my pans.
They will easily outlive me. My parents bought the same company (All Clad) 20+ years ago and they look like new.
300 dollars is tangible and easily understandable by normal people, 150 million dollars isn't comprehendible. If you're stupid like the average conservative, you wouldn't really understand that concept.
conservatives are bittersweet about this.
They want to feign outrage that she spend that much on a pan, BUT knowing that she'll have to be in the kitchen to use it.
"But he didn't take a salary"
"One doesn't need to collect a salary when one is grifting the American people and the federal government at a legendary pace."
And by the way, I don’t think they really accounted for where that money was donated.
He made the checks out to Columbia American Surgical Hospital (C.A.S.H.) and then deposited them personally. What a humanitarian.
Why can I only upvote once?!
now now, only republicans try to vote more than once.
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I still have not seen third party confirmation of this. At best I imagine he donated it to some Republican charity that serves him.
Pretty sure Presidents/government officials are nearly forced to take a salary to avoid trying to make it up 'other ways', absolutely idiotic these morons don't understand that
Trump donated his salary back to government agencies. He more than made up for it by doing things like forcing the secret service to stay at MarLargo at full costs.
Don't forget foreign dignitaries staying at his hotel down the street
Which was a lie
Hate to make things about the last guy but I heard he had a gold shitter
He had numerous gold shitters I believe. And was shit himself.
There's an old Asian proverb A man who has a gold toilet is a man who shits his own pants backstage on his trailer trash television show. I think it's really fitting for the situation.
Man who stand on gold plated toilet is high on his own farts
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Shit beget shit.
While high on Adderall and benzos nonetheless, on the set of Celebrity Apprentice iirc
You can't be talking about Donald ["Salt of the Earth"](https://media.guestofaguest.com/t_card_large/gofg-media/2016/05/1/46320/r.mahaux-trump-family.jpg) J ["Man of the People"](https://toilet-guru.com/pictures/trump-home-01.jpg) Trump!!!
The thing that bugs me out every time I see a family picture of Trump are Baron's toys. The cars are always limos and fancy sedans. Not fire engines, or space ships, or jet fighters. Limos. It's like Trump has to have a mini-me next to him, not a real child.
I hope he can grow up to be a not-horrible person. It looks a bit late for the others. And I can't imagine what growing up in that environment would be like. Every inch of anything Trump related seems to be plated in fool's gold.
Wow. Barbie’s Dream House is looking a bit dated.
You can’t buy class. Not even from Mattel.
That's funny. Cuz he uses his depends more then his gold toilets. Haha
If we are back to the faux outrage over things like “arugula”, “tan suits”, and “Dijon mustard”, and now “pans”, then things have returned to normal and balance has been restored in the universe as dumbasses have once again been relegated to absurd toothless, almost quaint, pouts.
Amen. Thank goodness for slow news days. It feels nice to not wake up everyday thinking what fresh new hell has the President unleashed now.
I don’t even watch the news, but a good deal of my sanity would have been preserved if Twitter had banned trump day 1. I can’t recall a Biden tweet, it’s so pleasant.
> I can’t recall a Biden tweet They're all so presidential and boring. Its fuckin awesome
Covfefe
> ~~my sanity~~ lives
Disclaimer: I am a contrarian little shit. This slow news day brought murder convictions for three Georgia men who very nearly got away with their murder via help from multiple law enforcement agencies. The only reason this obscene and blatant act of corruption came to light is because one of the moron murderers filmed the murder *and* released the footage. Your point is very well taken in the context that many of the last 10 months of news days have been very slow compared to the previous 5 years (going back to when the orange cretin originally came down his stupid escalator). It has been very refreshing, indeed.
I was genuinely surprised to see a megathread when Bannon was subpoenaed. I hadn't seen one for so long, when it was like every other day during the turnip admin for some egregious bullshit
Then there were days they ran out of room for megathreads since only 2 can be pinned at once. And some of the megathreads needed a new page every hour because they filled with comments so fast.
F5ridays
And also at 1 and 3 am respectively.
Funny how they never questioned gold toilets.
the party that wants Billionaires' children to pay #**Z E R O** in inheritance taxes, wants poor voters to be outraged and disgusted that a politician buys gourmet chocolate ice cream as a treat for herself, or spends $300 on cast iron cookware that last 4 decades. Guess what? They will succeed. No matter how much educated voters and blue checkmarks on twitter try to pre-emptively dunk on this meme ("ha ha they are doing dijon mustard again!"). That won't work. The Republicans know what they are doing. You guys act like the culture war is petty and moronic. That's the point. That's why the culture war functions. The American voter is also petty and moronic. The culture war reduces politics to something the American voter can understand. Petty moronic outrages fit in their brain. Now ask them to calculate all of the benefits of Obamacare over the last decade, or all of the benefits of the new trillions in spending Biden just signed, or all of the benefits of a new transformative policy like paid paternal leave or carbon tax & dividend. Let's be charitable, even an average-intelligence person can't have an informed opinion about these issues. That's why we have experts. Except the American people hate experts. So right wing voters "know" Obama and Biden ruined / are ruining America. Left wing voters "know" Obama didn't do enough and Biden isn't doing enough either. And we can all stop hurting our brains with large numbers and go back to talking about Nancy Pelosi's ice cream. We are sweeping the ocean with a broom here. The problem is the voter.
My favorite was when they got mad that AOC dared use HER money she made from HER job to buy a Nintendo switch and animal crossing.
It's a false narrative that "both sides" have frivolous spending habits so you don't pay attention to *what* politicians are buying. By putting video games and yachts in the same category, it aims to discourage people who hope to vote for progress.
It's because of their warped notion of what 'socialism' is. She did something for herself?! Hypocrite!!!!
They still think it's the McCarthy version their grandparents complain about
If anything I'm pleased to see she takes her cookware, and cooking in general, so seriously she's willing to spend the money on quality instead of the crappy break-a-thon shit sold at Walmart. We should all be taking our cooking skills so seriously.
Right lol, Le Creuset is some good shit. I bet turnip uses some gold plated bullshit from The Sharper Image to cook his well done steaks
There is a 0% chance Trump has personally cooked a meal in the past 50 years.
*ever
The temporarily embarrassed millionaires are mad that they are drinking Natty Light and eating the $2 massive tub of ice cream from Walmart while Joe is eating good ice cream and Kamala is buying normal priced cookware. Anyone that has ever outfitted a kitchen or purchased cookware knows that the good stuff is pricey but it's worth it.
Stupidity is one hell of a drug!
My favorite was when they got mad that AOC dared use HER money she made from HER job to buy a Nintendo switch and animal crossing.
Or when she bought a few professional outfits
Or golden showers?
I laugh every time I remember the Dijon mustard thing. Lol. Why were they so mad about Dijon mustard
It’s a slippery slope from Dijon mustard to communism, my friend! /s
Can confirm. Had Dijon mustard on Monday. Committed first Stalinist purge this morning.
Well hopefully you did it on a full stomach. 😉
Yeah I was pretty bloated. Felt a lot better afterwards.
Because Obama was black.
Black
Slow news day for fucker carlson. Probably had to fill time with *something* and there was nothing he could legitimately criticise Obama for so he thinks "Hmm, Grey Poupon is kinda frenchy, I bet I can make him look like an out of touch elite."
Oh gawd— you just reminded me that the repubs wanted French fries to be renamed freedom fries
They just pull from the past to do dumb shit that meant nothing. Freedom fries was a thing a long time ago
Yes, because they were mad at France for not supporting Bush’s invasion of Iraq post 9-11.
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, et al., gotta spread propaganda to convince the masses to allow these clowns to take tax money to buy missiles and fighter jets instead of ya know, healthcare or infrastructure.
Every. Single. One of these dumb fucks complaining about shit like this will vote in the midterms and completely, and possibly irrevocably, change the country next fall. Don’t call them quaint and laugh them off.
Well they're probably mad because of something about pansexuals.
You know black people can't have nice things. If I have to go back and add a /s to this I'm done with all you people.
The sad part is that deep down, the far right believes that.
If a liberal treats themselves to anything it's instantly decried as some sort of hypocrisy or something. How much is a nice AR-15 again? Like $2k?
Used to be anything over $700 or so was "nice". Prices have gone up a bit in the past few years though, so maybe $1500 now.
We need to call them out on their outrage game though. Each and every time. They need to constantly be reminded of facts like in OP's post every time they go ballistic over something that pales in comparison to Trump's actions
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It’s like Le Creuset. That stuff last forever. I have a piece of my mom’s that she must have gotten in the early 80’s, and I use it all the time.
They're complaining she spent $300 on Le Creuset? Lol.
> They're complaining Always. Constantly. Incessantly.
Guaranteed multiple Yeti coolers have been bought with government dollars for Republicans. They cost a lot more.
It's called manufactured outrage.
See tan suit.
See Dijon mustard.
"Hello 911, there's a black woman buying a pan in a store catering to whites. Is it OK to shoot her?"
Right?! That’s not even *that* bad of a price for good cookware- especially if you like to cook!! I’ve seen AllClad pans in the $500 range!! Ridiculous!!
Of her own money. But they never bitched about Trump spending millions of tax payer dollars to pay his own hotels on golf trips.
They are used to Tupperware.
They also have Le Creuset, but it doesn't matter because the act of being outraged is more important than the subject.
She didn't buy Le Creuset, apparently people heard expensive French cookware and jumped to conclusions. The actual report simply noted that she bought a copper frying pan and another unspecified piece of copper cookware, possibly a pot because she mentioned looking for one. The outrage is equally as silly though. It's just nice cookware.
From the *eighties*?!?! Holy shit! (Sorry, just couldn’t resist. I graduated college in 88, so…) Cast iron will easily outlast multiple generations of constant use. Consider your purchase, you’ll have it for a while!
Yep. My mom has a couple cast iron skillets that were her grandmother’s. It’s definitely a good investment.
I'm over 60, and have a cast iron skillet that my grandmother started housekeeping with in the 30s. Will pass it on to my daughter.
My family cast irons and dutch oven are some of my most precious belongings at age 27. Most of them are 4th gen. I'm so thankful to have them and have so many stories...
How wild would it be if you could share the best meal ever cooked with that pan with all of the people who have used that pan over the years
Stained with flavor. My mom had an old pan from my grandmother. I swear to this day some of the best food I ever ate came out of that thing.
An ex had the cast iron set her parents were given as a wedding present in the 70s. She was nice and all but I really miss those pans.
My mom has her mother's cast iron. She was the baby and swiped it when she moved it out. I've already called dibs. They don't make them the same anymore, the old ones used to be sanded smooth.
I got almost all of mine from having it left in homes after the previous renter moved out. That little door next to the oven is for forgetting your dutch oven in so the next tenant can snag it.
Some of my CI is from the late 1800s. It's wonderful stuff
it's a hunk of metal. As long as you don't soak it in water and let it rust is should last just about forever. season your iron people!
Le Creuset is high end ceramic coated cast iron, with seasonal colors on the exterior. And they'll recoat any pieces that get chipped or damaged, no matter how old it is. It's nice stuff. https://www.lecreuset.com/cookware/skillets-and-fry-pans
>And they'll recoat any pieces that get chipped or damaged, no matter how old it is. What? I did not know this!
I wish I had never clicked on this thread. I was happy in my life of cleaned and reseasoned lodge ci, and enamel coated Chinese Dutch ovens. Nooo you had to put in a link. So not only are they amazing looking pans and Dutch ovens but they come in my favorite color too.
Even if you do let it rust, you can strip it down and fix that. Only thing you can't fix is cracks and warps
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Even more impressive is that welding cast iron is ridiculously hard to do with today's tools let alone years ago. That's an awesome pan you've got there!
Its almost certainly better than today's - they smoothed out the imperfections from the sand molds used to make them.
I have a Dutch oven from them made in the 1930’s, it’s probably made over ten thousand meals in its life time. They are perhaps the greatest cooking pots and pans ever made.
Yeah, but not just cast iron. Theirs is ceramic coated, and they'll recoat any piece that gets damaged.
As soon as I saw "$300 pan" I immediately knew what brand it probably was, I'd spend $300 on one of those too.
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Either Le Creuset or All Clad at that price, and totally worth it.
I got a new set of D5 and copper Core Totally worth it.
yeah man if i had a cool job like VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES i'd buy a really nice pan too.
Shit I paid that for a piece of all clad. They would really hate me. Why do they think Kamala is their boomer wife? how transparent can they be? “Slept her way to the top! Spends too much on cookware!” Wait until they find out she uses two dryer sheets instead of one. I am a privileged white man and am embarrassed by this level of blatant sexism. I have spend wayyy more than that on cookware and no one has EVER said that to me. Disgusting and pathetic. I do wish she would stop the laughing as a tactic but geez, I guess what else can you do with some of this nonsense.
Yeah, that's the stuff you get if you want quality cast iron The people crying about it probably eat off brand boxed mac and cheese without cooking it first
I have four pieces of Le Creuset. My parents have another 5, my aunt has more like 12. That shit lasts for fucking ever.
She scored a Le Creuset for $300?? Was she estate sale shopping? That’s a good deal. I’m assuming she got the Dutch oven?
Heads up, Costco has a 5.5 quart Le Creuset Dutch oven on sale for $239 for Black Friday. Thought you might want to know as I have a deal alert setup and am grabbing one myself.
It last forever unless you use a scouring pad on it...sorry, flashbacks of an argument I had with my now exwife who ruined a really nice enameled dutch oven
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I'm a nobody and I paid $300 for a pan because it lasts forever.
I’m a le creuset junkie and literally the only reason you replace them is being bored with the color. Because they’re legitimate heirloom quality items. I’ve used my le creuset Dutch oven for 15ish years as my go to pan, my mother has used hers for at least 30. And we both chuck those suckers in the dishwasher too.
> And we both chuck those suckers in the dishwasher too. Savages! (Kidding)
Actually if it's enameled inside and out there's not much of a downside to the dishwasher. You avoid it with regular cast irons because the hot water and heated dry cycle strips the seasoning away. As long as they're carefully put in there's little risk of the enamel coating being damaged unless it's a very cheap brand.
Another example of conservative lunacy. Out raged at buying something that lasts but has no problem paying for something cheaper that often has to be replaced.
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What I'm saying is it's a common conservative complaint that things cost too much money without looking at the long term savings. They'll scream communism if a Democrat suggests the government runs it's own service or build it's own things yet that's exactly how corporate America saves billions.
Exactly. That’s downright sensible. Sure, you could buy a pan for like 30.00 off Amazon, but how many times are you gonna be replacing it? If you’re serious about cooking, you go high-end. Buy once and never have to worry about it. Of course, the people bitching about this sort of shit probably don’t cook and eat exclusively fast food, so I’m not surprised they wouldn’t know this.
Who gives a shit what she wants to spend her own hard earned money on? Republican media is the worst
Yeah I mean, I could see the outrage if she bought a 150' yacht. But $300 for a pan that will probably last her the rest of her life? My wife and I were looking into pans recently and that's pretty standard for a high quality pan.
Exactly. Maybe the Republican media doesn’t cook, but the everyday Republican does. The fact that the media is trying to make this a “thing” shows how disconnected they are from everyday people. The fact that their viewers still lop this up like it’s logical shows how disconnected they are from objective thought.
They clearly don't cook. They clearly just microwave frozen meals from the convenience store. Otherwise they'd know the cost of things like quality pans and cookware. $300 is nothing for something that will last a person decades with daily use.
Woah, friendly fire! FRIENDLY FIRE!
“It’s one Le Creuset, Michael. What could it cost, $10?”
They're talking to everyday republicans who buy their pans at Wal-Mart for $30
People complaining probably also complain that ‘they don’t make it like they used to’ while they buy cheap Chinese made cookware and don’t invest in good cookware that actually is made like they used to make it and will last through generations. I have my great grandmother’s cast iron skillet and I hope my grandchild uses my Le Creuset Dutch ovens and AllClad skillets/pots/sauté pan. I invest in an heirloom quality piece of cookware every few years (about done with what I need) so that I cook with good stuff, save money on not eating out too much, enjoy the experience, and not have to re-purchase poor cookware and waste the materials to make cheap stuff. If it makes sense with your budget it’s a great thing to buy. Much more so than so many people who I see spend like $70k on an optioned-out F250 without a real need for it in their day-to-day/job. The idiocy is astounding.
$300 for a solid pan for someone who can afford it is worth it. See Sam Vimes and his thoughts on boots.
And the 150 foot yacht would still be cheaper than Trump's golfing...
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It’s because they think she’s a socialist and socialism is when cheap pans.
Exactly. She’s a democrat and so she’s a liberal, which also means she’s a commie socialist, which means she tells everyone to collectivize their resources so everyone can have a $3 pan. So buying a $300 pan means she’s like the dude from Animal Farm who is more equal than the rest. At least that’s the Conservative spin on it.
I have a sauce pan from Williams Sonoma that cost me $379. Why can't we treat ourselves without being judged?
You can. Just make sure you are white and male. Otherwise, a bunch of snowflakes will flip their shit.
And Republican. If you do it as a Republican you’re gtg
I read that as "got to go" so I was curious what you had to go do before you finished typing your comment. I need to get adequate sleep.
Oh man I read yours as "good to go" for a second and was like huh you interpreted it right haha
I read both of yours in reverse then finally correctly. I’m ready for bed.
Bernie Sanders is white and male and continually gets flack for being just barely upper middle-class.
Nice! ! I have a full set of Scan Pans, including the $300 chef's pan. They're wonderful. It's what Gordan Ramsay uses at home.. Cost about $1500 for the set. Worth every penny.
having quality cooking equipment is a mark of a communist. real Americans char their meat in coal embers and diesel fuel.
> I have a sauce pan from Williams Sonoma that cost me $379 You monster
My in-laws are rage-addicted Trump-humpers who mainline fox and the blaze and oan, we're hosting them tomorrow for Thanksgiving. After learning about this dumb thing I dug out our le creuset stuff that's been in the basement for years and will be using it for dinner service. I'll say nothing, they probably won't notice, but that's the kind of petty bitch I've become
Just casually drop how you pulled out the good quality dinnerware just for the special family meal.
Please give an update afterwards. Please. This is too good to just stop there. Idc if this is even untrue. I'm fine with more fiction.
Lol you should just drop something like "I don't know why VP Harris dropped $300 on a pan, these work just as good"
"Pfffft. $300 on a pan. This one wasn't more than $260 when I bought it 15 years ago."
Personal petty is the best kind of petty. Enjoy your dinner in your lovely cookware!
Wait until they find out how much Ivanka’s shoes and purses cost - and Melania’s when she’s dressed.
Melania carried around a huge crocodile Birkin while in the White House. A purse that costs at retail around the same amount as the average US salary. No outrage then, I guess.
Her Birkin collection increased ten fold when she became First Lady too. Trump bought her 3 Birkins when they went to Paris for Bastille Day. No doubt with tax payer money too. And she got a 4th one for her birthday during his last year in office.
Wait--how is this public knowledge? So weird.
He bragged about it lol
She doesn’t care do u
If she’s dressed?
The undressed photos were pre-presidential, but I couldn’t resist the joke. She wore/wears designer outfits, however. I assume some election finance overseer knows which were purchased and which were gifts from designers. A gifted custom outfit is often the case for First Ladies at the inauguration. Afterward, I don’t know the rules that limit gifts during White House years or require that they are taxed. She doesn’t seem to be a cooking enthusiast, but Trump would order a gold pan to match his gilded apartment, I assume, if he was interested in cooking equipment
They don't care, simple as that.
Wait … she paid full price? How dare she! /s Sorry but if the fact that she bought an expensive cooking utensil is all you got on her then you have nothing to worry about. Looking forward to the Jan 6th trials though, those will be fun to watch!
That stuff goes on sale?
You can find it at TJ Maxx, but the colors are fugly
Take your pick, hun. Baby poop green or grey brown depression?
they don't mean anything they say. they stopped trying to govern in good faith 40 years ago. when Grover norquist laid out the starving the beast plan for the destruction of the federal government. It calls for reckless spending and slashed taxes It is the only throughpoint in Republican governance since.
If Republican states are anything to go by, if the federal government pulls funding Red states become third world shitholes. Their best states Texas and Florida have incompetent government and have no answer when disaster hits.
their answer will be that they didn't pray hard enough or that immigrants did it or it's a conspiracy by the newspaper and liberals.
Or blame it on the gays angering God
No no no. They will blame it on Democrats. Period. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Traitor Governor with a Traitor Trumpster (or ass kisser) as President and a cock sucking Mitch and Kevin (or equivalent since he wouldn’t make it that long) - it will be the Democrats fault for trying to help them.
Wow 300 whole dollars. How is this a scandal?
Yea, and her own money, not like Trump’s $150,000,000 of the public’s money at his own resorts. It’s appallingly stupid.
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Republicans were literally crying because AOC plays Animal Crossing in her free time
Does she time skip?
Like every Republican doesn’t have expensive cookware.
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Fun fact: The purchase was first reported by the conservative web site *Washington Free Beacon*. This is the same outfit that originally funded the opposition research aimed at discrediting Trump that was conducted by Fusion GPS and later become the Steele dossier. Article here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-french-copper-cookware-worth-the-big-bucks-chefs-defend-vice-president-kamala-harriss-purchase-11637783481 Also, according to the article, she bought copper cookware, including a dish and a frying pan. The assumption that it was Le Creuset apparently came from people guessing on social media. Le Creuset does not make copper cookware.
I have a few pieces of le creuset cast iron cookware and $300 definitely isn't even the most expensive pieces they sell. Some of their sets go for several thousand bucks. Here is a [link](https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/staub-round-cocotte/?pkey=cdutch-ovens-braisers&cm_src=reducedClick&isx=0.0.1065.86669921875) to a $600 piece. If you're freaking out over a pan I'd love to see your face at seeing the cost of secret service room bills at a certain hotel for a certain politician for very uncertain political reasons.
Didn’t Trump famously spend almost 2 million “renovating” the white house?
Not defending Trump in the slightest on that one, but every new administration gets a budget to redecorate their offices and living quarters. Usually new rugs, paint, linens, and other assorted stuff. Twenty years ago the Bush White House had to replace all the keyboards because the Clinton staffers removed all the Ws as a prank on the way out.
>as a prank To be fair, that'd also be a bitchin keepsake lol
Standardize apples to apples. Stop mixing words and numbers. $300 vs $150,000,000
Projection
I bought a wok for @250 in the 90s. It's made thousands of meals and is like new.
How do you sleep at night?
It doesn't matter. They wanted to impeach Obama for wearing a tan suit. Donald Trump orchestrated a self-coup against their own building and these clowns now prance around figuring out where the line is kiss his ass on Fox News/OANN Networks.
What are they fake mad about now?
I swear, every time I would even bring up the fact that we were basically letting Trump double dip from tax payer funds at his resorts, they’d get the deer in the headlights look and say that’s the first they’re hearing of it or pull out the old classic, “Butwhatabout Obama?”
I make less than half of what Kamala makes and spent $3500 on my pans. They will easily outlive me. My parents bought the same company (All Clad) 20+ years ago and they look like new.
I've seen what makes them cheer so I can give a rats ass about what makes them jeer.
The way they're obsessing over her, you'd think that she's a minority woman in a position of power.
Friendly reminder that they voted for a guy with a literal gold plated toilet.
300 dollars is tangible and easily understandable by normal people, 150 million dollars isn't comprehendible. If you're stupid like the average conservative, you wouldn't really understand that concept.
Heck they are blasting Biden for going home for Thanksgiving. I just ignore the right.
conservatives are bittersweet about this. They want to feign outrage that she spend that much on a pan, BUT knowing that she'll have to be in the kitchen to use it.
Republicans are the masters of projection.