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BIFL Companies — The Brand Ledger (ledger.worseonpurpose.com)
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After stumbling across a blog post about how big brand kitchen products and appliances are mostly just hollow shells with little to no integrity, I found that same blogger/journalist has a robust list of brands that haven't gone the way of capital sell-outs that goes way beyond kitchen utensils.

It's worth taking a look at the list as well as the articles. The articles are conversational, but with lots of links to the source material.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Henkels and Wusthof definitely have shit, disposable sub designs for mass retail sale. Feels like you can't just blanket endorse brands playing that game, even if their higher end line lives up to the challenge. Need to make that clear distinction.

[–] fourish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely, all brands have their cheap lines. I mean they're fine but they're not quality. I have a reasonable Henkels knife which I use for everyday kitchen tasks but I also have my Japanese chefs knife which is razor sharp and is only used (by myself only) for fine cutting.