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GP clearly meant the gray colour common for stainless steel objects: https://im01.itaiwantrade.com/f741c34e-0130-464b-a4d0-1607a2c5ccc0/stainless_mirror_tubes.

• avar 4y ago
  Stainless steel as darker than that, and typically "brushed". That's chrome. In any case, many people might have a vague idea that stainless steel is more durable, but not be able to tell the difference between stainless steel, chrome painted hard plastic, or galvanized steel. I wonder if the study accounted for that.
  • pessimizer 4y ago
    Somebody actually flag-killed you for saying stainless steel wasn't a color. I think you're making a really good point. If there was an obvious durability difference between toasters (plastic vs. stainless steel), I'd take the steel one even if I liked the cherry red one better. If the red one I preferred were also steel, then that would be the question this experiment intends to examine (I'd be choosing on color.) Colorful shit is often cheap shit. edit: You can get plastic stuff "stainless steel color" by plating it with a thin foil, but then I'm definitely going for one of the colorful, dyed plastics, because that stuff is going to flake off.