@Poe to Ask Lemmy • 1 year agoWhat item did you "buy for life?"message-square257arrow-up1271arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1263arrow-down1message-squareWhat item did you "buy for life?"@Poe to Ask Lemmy • 1 year agomessage-square257file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoGood cast iron is the true BIFL… It’ll last your life, then your kid’s, then their kid’s, then theirs and so on… It needs to be seriously mistreated and neglected for a very long time until it becomes unusable
minus-square@gruelinkEnglish1•edit-21 year ago It needs to be seriously mistreated and neglected for a very long time until it becomes unusable Short of it cracking in half, there’s basically nothing that can be done to cast iron that an angle grinder can’t fix. And if it does crack in half, well, that just means it’s time to break out the welder! 🤪
Good cast iron is the true BIFL… It’ll last your life, then your kid’s, then their kid’s, then theirs and so on… It needs to be seriously mistreated and neglected for a very long time until it becomes unusable
Short of it cracking in half, there’s basically nothing that can be done to cast iron that an angle grinder can’t fix.
And if it does crack in half, well, that just means it’s time to break out the welder! 🤪