On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:30:17 +0000, Andrew Hardy wrote:

All pros go to the local restaurant supply house and buy pots and
pans....NOT AllClad, etc.

Maybe for pots and pans, but even the pros will drool over a nice Hobart
mixer or Continental refrigerator. They just drool for different reasons.

It is all a status symbol...to say the least. Probably explains why
most "granite" kitchens are a room that no one would be allowed to mess
up....let alone do a stir fry that might spatter up the imported Italian
marble back splash and soil the grout.

No kidding - the kitchen in my house is a mess all the time, and the
granite island is never clean. I make it look nice when people are around,
but even by the time guests leave it's a sty again. I definitely would not
have made that design choice.

--
-Brian James Macke
"In order to get that which you wish for, you must first get that which
builds it." -- Unknown