Probably cheaper than solid steel, enshittification strikes again

Yeah, thry switched profuction methods in the 90s to save on manufacturing costs.

Back in the 70s they were made from solid steel

Deceptive marketing. The 80 lb model is the budget model, but the picture shows the much fancier 450 lb model.

Solid stainless steel at that weight would be roughly 17 cm per side (assuming a cube), depending on the exact alloy.

There’s no perfect reference scale, but the diagonal width of the cube is 60% the width of the drawer (by pixels). My kitchen drawer measures 40.5 cm, so the cube is some 24.5 cm across diagonally. A 17 cm cube would be just over 24 cm. I did a lot of rounding at every step, but it seems to check out pretty darn well.

Ever seen the inside of an Aero bar?

Thanks, now could you convert that to American Standard lbs? /s

What is that? Like 100 Budweiser’s?

I guess it’s partially hollow

What about stones?

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Eventually, they end up at a thrift store, methinks.

The old version didn’t and some retailers still sell that.
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too bad. Mandatory Internet connection to enable the ai enhancement features, and as a bonus uses built in Infrared sensors to upload your walking habits straight to Palantir. Updates are 2gb each because what the hell are patches or deltas. Uses 24w on idle for some reason. Includes agentic ai!

We often do have really big kitchens, but it’s more about us being sold the idea of having whatever we want, whenever we want it, and there’s a gadget for that.

Although, I will say, in most American kitchens I’ve seen have, at least, a toaster oven. Possibly an air fryer. Those both are pretty common here.

The volume and depth of modern Japanese kitchen gadgetry puts America to shame.

Japan records centuries of history with specialized tools for making ceremonial beverages and foods.

So to your point: I think kitchen gadgets speak to highly consumerist cultures.

As an American, I completely agree. It’s gotten so bad that this attitude has leached from the suburbs where larger homes and kitchens exist into the city where there just isn’t enough space. My friends think I’m being silly for not wanting an air fryer when I already have a convection oven or an instant pot when I already have a slow cooker and pressure canner. I’m very anti single use equipment or duplicate equip for the very reason that I don’t have space and it’s often a waste of money. But it seems like everyone around me just buys whatever and doesn’t think too much about where it’s going to go or how much they will use it and I just don’t understand it :/

I’ve never seen any of those with permanent counter space in any American kitchen.

Huh, I’m surprised that other countries aren’t big on kitchen gadgets. I’m American and I try to avoid any of those specialty gadgets. I’ve received several as gifts over the years, though I always end up selling or donating them

And then people in the US “need” to buy a $750K house with a walk-in butler pantry because the $350K houses don’t have enough counter and cabinet space to store their single-use bullshit applicances. I wish I was kidding.

Also the same lady who “needs” the strawberry shaver for “cooking”, actually only uses it twice per year, goes out to eat 3 times per week, and gets DoorDash meals 3 additional times per week.

Isn’t a “smoothie maker” just a blender? I dunno if I would consider it one-use. More uses than a rice cooker or electric kettle

Here (UK) a friend has wasted over a grand on some AI food prep nonsense thing.

In our culture this is understood to be a sign of deep seated emotional distress. And in accordance with our culture we ignore their distress and bring up the weather, as is tradition.

I can smell planned obsolescence from here. Do they make a premium version?

It’s up there with top gaming laptops these days, but unfortunately the IO options are limited.

With a weight constraint of 80lb, a stainless steel block wouldn’t do a very good job of taking up space (the express purpose of the item) because it would only be 6.5 inches (16.5mm) to a side

Tungsten would do an even worse job! The sides would only be 4 inches (10cm)!