| Expensive Pot |
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| Written by Vince |
| Saturday, 20 June 2009 06:09 |
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My wife and I were married in November of 2006 and like most newlyweds, we received numerous gifts and gift cards. The gifts were awesome and the gift cards... well... those were ok too I guess except for the fact that we had some difficulty spending them. One in particular from Williams and Sonoma had quite a bit of money on it and while that sounds great, when two grownups move in together, they will most likely end up with double of everything... including the kitchen. And let's not forget that we received kitchen "stuff" as gifts. In an attempt to get the card to a zero balance, we've been stopping into their store periodically over the last THREE YEARS and we'd occasionally purchase an item or two. Our last purchase, a set of wooden spoons, brought the balance down to around $200. You might think great, $200, you're almost there but we started at $500 which makes that $100 per year spent. [Hold that thought.]  The evolution of felog.net has been quite fascinating for me to watch because it started off as a way for me to log my workouts. Since then it has evolved into a way for me to blog my thoughts, a forum to communicate with my friends, a way for me to thank my sponsors, and also a way for me to share my recipes. The "What's for Dinner?" section of this website is very popular and if you follow it, you know I cook frequently and most of my meals are prepared in a set of stockpots. The stockpot, my best kitchen friend for many reasons but mainly because its high sides shield the house from my explosive cooking. Just ask my wife, she'll tell you that I make a huge mess in the kitchen. In fact, I bet she'd like it if the sink had high sides as well because I am notorious for getting water everywhere. Anyway, when we moved in together, I had a stockpot, she had a stockpot (I guess that would make it my step-stockpot) and I started using the two of them to prepare almost everything. My stockpot, which is kind of old, came from a set purchased from Costco for around $40 but has been dying a slow death. I've been thinking about replacing it with an All-Clad pot from Williams and Sonoma. We have already started our collection from the All-Clad line so I thought this would make a nice addition. On one of our recent trips to Williams and Sonoma, I found a very shiny All-Clad stockpot which looked perfect -- that is until I saw the price. They want $300 for a single stockpot and that's the least expensive version. They have a copper core version which was nearly $400. I could purchase nearly 8 sets of pot collections from Costco with that so I decided against it and stomped out of their store. I was disappointed. I thought I was going to kill two birds with one stone. I needed a stockpot and I wanted to use up the remaining money on the gift card. I had it all figured out except for the part where the pot costs $300.  Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, I'm preparing my meals and burning my hand on the old stockpot but I'm a bitter old man and I'm just going to keep the pot out of spite. But a few weeks pass and my wife needs to go to the mall for something and I decide to revisit the stockpot again. After we've finished looking for whatever it is that she needs, we walk over to Williams and Sonoma where I again gasp at the price but this time I decide to make the purchase. Arriving back at the house, I attempt to throw out the old pot but my wife suggests that I cook one last meal with it because I won't have to wash it and I can just throw it away when I'm done. That's my wife -- thinking ahead. In the future I will start all of my recipe directions with: "In an All-Clad stockpot..."
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