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You can certainly pay $250 for a toaster nowadays, but all you'll get for your additional money is a higher quality casing and maybe a microcontroller and LCD a
by ndiddy 3y ago
You can certainly pay $250 for a toaster nowadays, but all you'll get for your additional money is a higher quality casing and maybe a microcontroller and LCD all surrounding the same toaster guts. Similarly, you can pay $500 for a Kitchenaid mixer instead of $100 for a Walmart mixer, but both will have plastic gears that break in a few years.
The issue is that there's many categories of products where high-quality, long-lasting options simply no longer exist, and where the amount of money you pay has no impact on its quality or longevity. In fact, paying more gets you more bells and whistles that can fail.
- orwin 3y agoAll plastic part should be replaceable, and you should be able to either buy them from the constructor, or have the plans available once you can't. At least in Europe, probably before 2030. That was in the Boost4.0 consortium document I had to read around 2019. I don't know if the law is pending or in application yet, but EU manufacturing sector know it's coming.
- nunez 3y ago$500 will get you a Pro-line KitchenAid mixer. These are all stainless steel and can mix seriously thick dough. They'll also last a very long time.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago> but both will have plastic gears that break in a few years. Someone in another comment said that the KitchenAid comes with a plastic gear so that if the motor is overloaded, the gear breaks rather than letting the high-power and expensive motor burn out.