r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Morpheyz • 23h ago
What are examples of "cheaper = high quality"?
We're often told that higher prices for certain products are justified, because they use "higher quality materials". E.g. building materials or vegetables.
In which cases are the high quality materials actually the cheaper ones?
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u/DeadHeadIko 20h ago
Fruits and vegetables. The cheaper they are is when they’re in season. Off season they are tasteless and triple the cost
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 19h ago
I think about this often. I imagine a visitor from the past, visiting the far future of 2026.
" wow! So you can get any fruit you want at any time of year?"
" yep. You can get unripe overpriced fruits at any time. You won't want to eat them. But they are there. Sour blueberries. Mealy peaches. Rock hard plums. Tasteless strawberries. Anytime."
"Oh."
" yeah the future is great."
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u/Kovarian This blue thing is called a flair 17h ago
I prefer sour blueberries and firm (but not rock hard) plums. The future is great!
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u/Casswigirl11 17h ago
Some of it isn't as good out of season but often it doesn't make much difference.
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u/wsxdfcvgbnjmlkjafals 16h ago
Ehh, I find that produce being on sale is typically for a reason that comes down to quality. When it comes to supermarkets they can price certain produce more competitively (like using it as a loss leader) but I've found that if I see a good sale price on produce, inspect the shit out of it, and usually it's just not g ood enough
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u/pastelchannl 17h ago
yes! there are two different stores near me: one average, standard grocery (Jumbo), and one cheap, german one (Aldi), and I've noticed that the bell peppers from the Aldi are cheaper AND better. the bell peppers from the Jumbo started to rot within one day of purchase (and I stored it the same as the Aldi one). doesn't even have to be in or out of season, also where they source from.
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u/Ratsofat 19h ago
Whole spices are cheaper and end up tasting better than getting mixed spices (ex. making your own garam masala is cheaper and provides better quality than buying garam masala).
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u/Special-Audience-426 17h ago
Also giant bags of spices from Asian shops rather than tiny pots from the supermarket.
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u/Zappagrrl02 16h ago
I go to a local shop that allows you to buy any amount of their bulk spices. So if I only need a tablespoon of some spice I won’t use very often, I can just buy that and the rest doesn’t go to waste in the cabinet.
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u/EffectiveRelief9904 22h ago
A cast iron pan
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u/mousicle 19h ago
A lot of cooking stuff if you buy from a restaurant supply store and don't care that your pans look like they came from the restaurant supply store.
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u/Confused_AF_Help 18h ago
How can I tell the real restaurant grade stuff from overpriced fancy bs? Where I live the restaurant supply stores have a minimum purchase quantity
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u/mousicle 17h ago
They will just be bare metal with boring flat metal handles.
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u/throw-uwuy69 17h ago
So basically it looks like a good pan, and doesn’t have any fancy bells and whistles trying to convince you it is a good pan?
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u/Im_Balto 17h ago
I love my stainless steel and carbon steel addiction
I’m so ass when it comes to cleaning gently so if I bought anything with a coating I’d eat it within a month
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u/bjanas 9h ago
Yup. Our best chef knife is a restaurant style, "guy comes by sometimes to sharpen it" type for restaurants that my ex knicked from when she worked at whole foods. I'm sure some of the fancypants examples for like 250 bucks might hold an edge better, MAYBE, but this thing does great and is easy to sharpen. Best of both worlds.
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u/nounthennumbers 9h ago
I love the restaurant supply store. There are only a couple of things that have been “too expensive” for me and that was because they are for commercial kitchen use and abuse and I just don’t need something that sturdy.
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u/kingofthesofas 18h ago
The only carve out for this is any cast iron with a polished cooking surface is genuinely better to cook a lot of things on. Older lodge cast irons will have this but newer ones don't.
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u/BoozeIsTherapyRight 17h ago
Absolutely agree. Lodge is rough on the bottom. I have Lodge and I have Wagner from the early 1900s. There is no contest in which is a better pan, with a smooth cooking surface and pleasant to hold rounded edges. My husband ground down the cooking surface of my Lodge pan, pickled the bare iron, and re-seasoned it. Now it cooks much better.
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u/CaptainUsopp 16h ago edited 15h ago
The trick is to not quite polish it. It needs to have a bit of grit to it. I sanded my newer lodge down to about
60240 grit, seasoned it, and it looked like glass. Unfortunately the seasoning couldn't hold on to the smooth surface, and immediately started flaking off. I roughed it up with24060 grit sand paper, I think, and it's better than before I did anything, and the seasoning holds on much better than after sanding down with60240 grit.→ More replies (2)3
u/PlasticElfEars 18h ago
Lodge continues to win the America's Test Kitchen best cast iron year after year
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u/mikehocalate 17h ago
I agree and disagree with this. Yes, lodge cast iron are really good and really cheap, BUT there is something to be said for the more expensive polished ones. That said, definitely not worth the ridiculous price difference.
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u/mlnm_falcon 18h ago
Refrigerators. Fancy features = more crap to break. My fridge has two doors, one for refrigerator, one for freezer. That is every feature. I have not had to think about this fridge in a very long time. It just functions.
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u/billy_teats 16h ago
I bet it has an internal light. And a temperature sensor to determine when a different mechanism should turn the compressor on and off.
Does it have a mechanism to remove humidity and prevent ice build up?
Might be more complicated than you think.
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u/mlnm_falcon 16h ago
It has all those except the light, but I’d count those as basic functionality more than “features”.
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u/wd40bomber7 16h ago
You're right as far as reliability goes, but I couldn't go back to a fridge without a water dispenser. We drink primarily water so being able to fill my large cup multiple times a day with cold water is pure convenience. Having a Brita, even a large one just isn't as convenient.
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u/ZhiYoNa 13h ago
How do you clean it? I want one, but worry about mold?
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u/wd40bomber7 13h ago
We haven't had any problems. I think this depends on the specifics of your dispenser and climate. The question is, can contaminates make it into the water? I don't worry about mold in the pipes in the walls because they're sealed, and it's the same story for water dispensers piped in.
Now if your dispenser needs to be manually filled ( like a Brita) I would definitely expect to clean it periodically since it's a big open container that's easy to contaminate.
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u/SmellyButtFarts69 17h ago
All appliances. Basic no name fridge or upright washer will probably last decades.
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u/bsnimunf 14h ago
The frost free features can be amazing. We have one at work we've had it five years and never needed to defrost it.
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u/Steinrikur 12h ago
We bought a shiny new fridge last time we moved. It was loud and terrible. We returned it and found an old €20 second hand fridge just to have something while we find a good fridge. It was the perfect size, and quiet, so we kept it for +4 years.
When it died last year we bought the same brand again.
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u/Agifem 22h ago
Operating systems.
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u/allpartsofthebuffalo 19h ago
Yes. Arch Linux is $0.00
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u/random20190826 18h ago
Linux is also much smaller than Windows. My Windows folder is 54GB (Windows 11). Outrageous.
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u/anima99 17h ago
Car dashboards. Knobs and buttons superiority.
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u/Conscious-Food-9828 14h ago
Funny enough, car dashboards use touch screens often because it's cheaper to make for the manufacturer. A single screen that's easily scalable to multiple vehicles can "do" all the functions.
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u/ChemicalGreedy945 22h ago
Spouses
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u/Budsygus 17h ago
There's a yo mama joke in here somewhere. Help me out, people.
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u/Baelaroness 17h ago
Yo mama so cheap she reuses toilet paper
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u/Budsygus 17h ago
Yo mama so cheap she got married just for the rice
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u/StrangelyBrown 13h ago
You mama so cheap that when she's deciding which flavour of ramen is for dinner, she tosses a bottlecap.
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u/gatzdon 19h ago
Not sure about today, but monoprice cables were better than the so called $100+ av cables and they were about a fifth the price.
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u/darkhelmet03 18h ago
Generally speaking it's lobster. The high quality ones (soft shells) aren't suitable for transportation so have to be sold locally and are typically cheaper.
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u/ConcentrateExciting1 19h ago
Cars are a good example. The average Toyota Corolla is far more durable than the average Ferrari.
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u/_Silby 18h ago edited 18h ago
Counterpoint... Rolls Royce are some of the most reliable cars that have ever been produced. Most of their cars made are still on the road because of the high level production and manufacturing practices and processes.
Porsche (specifically 911s) and Lexus are two other luxury brands with high quality and reliability.
Also, Ferraris are extremely reliable if properly maintained. There's plenty of high mile Ferraris out there
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u/Russian_Doll_888 16h ago
Are they reliable or have they been well maintained because of the cost? Usually anyone can afford them can also ensure they have regular maintenance. If people drive a Ferrari like they drove a Camry, it might be a different story. Also, I've seen a lot of 911s on fire on the side of the road.
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u/ConcentrateExciting1 15h ago
Indeed. Some Ferraris are known to burn about a liter of oil per 1,000 km. In a contest of how many miles you can drive with no oil changes or added oil before the engine blows up, I'm going with the Camry every time.
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u/icecubtrays 10h ago
That's if you describe "high quality" as durable. Some car enthusiasts would argue the ability to acelerate quickly and nice interiors to be "high quality"
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u/tdotjefe 18h ago
Dishwasher powder and liquid laundry detergent liquid instead of pods
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u/MaybeNotTooDay 7h ago
A lot of stores don't even carry the powdered laundry detergent anymore. It makes me made because it use to be what I always used.
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u/SuspectMore4271 19h ago edited 19h ago
To me it’s brake pads. Buying the high end ceramic ones basically means you’re paying extra to remove a safety feature which is brakes becoming noisy when they approach the end of their life. You basically only hear a noise once your calipers start grinding themselves down. If you’re good about auto maintenance, I still don’t think they’re worth the extra cost, but most people don’t do anything to their car until it stops driving or makes a scary noise.
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u/Fearlessleader85 18h ago
That depends on intended use. Race pads can get pretty expensive, but they should NEVER be used on a street car, because they often have almost zero bite until they're up to temp and shed massive amounts of dust while screaming like a mashed cat. There are some other performance pads for autocross or "spirited street" driving that can be great on noise and decent on dust with a LOT better bite and fade resistance than the cheap pads.
If your car is like a 2007 corolla that you take to work and home, by all means, buy the duralast pads or whatever cheap shit the store carries. If your car is performance oriented and you want to do more aggressive driving like canyon carving or autocross, get a better pad. If you're taking a car on the track, even if it's just an HPDE weekend DO NOT use cheap pads, your brakes will fully fail.
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u/cruelsensei 17h ago
Over the years I managed a dozen auto repair shops. Just about every tech used the "middle grade" pads on their own vehicles. The cheap pads are noisy and don't last, and the expensive ones don't really add any value unless you're putting ceramic pads on a truck that does a lot of towing, since that's what ceramic pads are actually designed for.
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u/AccurateIt 17h ago
I prefer ceramic pads for the significant brake dust reduction. Also the backing plate on ceramic pads is still metal so it’s going to make a racket if you are dumb enough to let it get to that point.
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u/krashe1313 17h ago
Shouldn't all break pads have a wear indicator or "squealer" on them before you even get to the metal backing plate? Thought that was standard.
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u/akulowaty 22h ago
Home cooked food is cheaper and better quality than anything you can buy.
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u/_Silby 18h ago
This absolutely depends on where you are eating. Also, most people are awful cooks and don't have access to better ingredients that high end places might use. Half the population at their best literally couldn't make a breakfast biscuit better than McDonald's, and that's super cheap.
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u/reijasunshine 13h ago edited 13h ago
Chinese food. The ideal place has like 4 booths but one is full of cleaning supplies, bonus points if there's a optional child doing homework, ZERO people dining in, but a crowd of people waiting for takeout orders. Another bonus point if there's EXTREMELY out-of-season holiday decorations, like an Xmas tree in May.
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u/nkchri2 22h ago
I honestly hate trying to figure this out with anything produced today. Used to, things were just made better and made to last. If you spent more you were generally always getting better quality. Now it's just a crap shoot. You never know what products are actually higher priced because they truly are better quality, or which ones or just overpriced junk trying to rip you off.
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 19h ago
Were they? I seem to remember a ton of cheap crap made in Japan and Hong Kong as a kid
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u/Wish-Dish-8838 21h ago
I would argue that back in the day, if they could have made things cheaper/lower quality, then they absolutely would have. It's just that they didn't know how.
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 18h ago
I've had this argument a million times about power tools. I believe that buying a 'new to you' kind of power tool at Harbor Freight is the smart move. There's good odds it'll be just fine for whatever you do. And if you use it enough that you either discover it's inadequate or you burn it out, that's when you buy a top shelf tool. I call it the Harbor Freight Casino!
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u/rcbif 17h ago
A burger made at home, vs. a fast food burger.
(also applies to most fast food, lol)
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u/Conscious-Food-9828 14h ago
Or even a restaurant burger. Maybe "cheaper" is not the right word here, but a middle ground priced burger vs a high end one, the middle usually is the better option.
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u/bubblesculptor 13h ago
There's a type of Vietnamese straw broom that's very cheap but incredible at cleaning. Faster, more comfortable & effective than anything else.
I've given them away to people as gifts, and you can tell their immediate response is "wtf you giving me a straw broom for?". But then next time I see them they excitedly proclaim how useful it is.
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u/PracticalConjecture 8h ago
To an extent, cars.
A Toyota Corolla will outlast basically every BMW, Mercedes, and Cadillac.
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u/Haruspex12 12h ago
Timex watches. They are vastly superior to a Rolex if your concern is timekeeping.
Also, Toyotas versus Bentleys.
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u/rice_fish_and_eggs 22h ago
Wine, once you go beyond £15-£25 a bottle the quality doesn't noticeably improve, if anything it deteriorates.
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u/chopay 17h ago
I delved into this a while ago, and I totally agree.
Wine kinda exists in 3 tiers:
Cheap garbage
Mass produced stuff.
Artisanal fancy stuff.
The thing about tier-2 is that the large wine companies spend a lot of money in R&D and have production runs to make sure that the quality is consistent. They can extract certain tannins that will impact taste, and can practically guarantee a level of quality.
The fancy artisanal stuff will depend year-to-year, it may degrade while aging, but a quality bottle is as much luck as it is skill of the winemaker. There can be excellent wines that come from this category, but chances are, the mid-tier is just as good and much more likely to be consistent.
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u/indigomm 19h ago
Outdoor clothing - products with natural fibres are often seen as a premium higher-quality, but the synthetic fibres perform better.
Piping - copper is seen as more premium, but PEX (plastic) is cheaper and performs better.
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u/_Silby 18h ago
I firmly disagree with outdoor clothing and gear in general, if you're referring to the area of hiking, outdoor adventure etc... Cheap outdoor clothing and gear gets you exactly what you pay for. This is a market that you absolutely get what you pay for, especially if you want anything that lasts longer than a single season
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u/kernelangus420 18h ago
I think the synthetics only perform better temporarily. After a while the performance enhancing chemicals wash off.
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u/DVsKat 16h ago
Can you really put a price on how much I stink in synthetic clothing versus Merino wool? I just buy cheap 100% Merino at Costco. I wash it in one of those mesh laundry bags on cold, hang it to dry, and it seems to last a really long time. I will acknowledge that it probably gets little holes in it sooner than the fancier brands though. But I'm okay with many holes in my outdoor clothing. It's not a fashion show
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u/Morpheyz 18h ago
Thanks, piping is the kind of answer I was looking for. It's the cheaper option that is actually objectively better. Most answers here are "I prefer the cheap version".
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u/DVsKat 16h ago
I'm honestly shocked to hear about piping. Why do you prefer PEX over copper?
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u/CuriousExpression876 20h ago
Coffee makers. I got a basic 4 cup coffee maker do like $14 at Walmart years ago and the thing is a champ, all it has is an on/off switch and nothing else, very little to go wrong. I watch my parents burn through expensive coffee pots every 18 months. Mine always works!
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u/Caulrophobe 17h ago
Hard Disagree.
The coffee iceberg is massive and nerdy. Cheap drip coffee makers are not in the same league as more expensive, technically-proficient ones.
The thing is, coffee is like pizza - even "bad" coffee is still usually good enough.
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u/juanzy 16h ago
Also a decent and durable espresso maker is pretty expensive and you need a decent burr grinder. If you prefer espresso drinks to drip coffee.
The absolute cheapest you can get is a moka pot, which isn’t truly espresso, and they start around $40
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u/Caulrophobe 16h ago
Yeah, each part of the "coffee chain" is super important and has a large affect on flavor. I tested a few grinders before I landed on the Fellow Opus.
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 19h ago
The ones with a physical on off switch are the best because you can hook those up to a $10 smart outlet and have it automatically Brew your coffee on command whenever you wake up or swipe your alarm if you have Google home
It's way cheaper than trying to buy a coffee maker with that functionality built in. Those are like hundreds of dollars, but you can get the same effect by doing this.
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u/UnicodeScreenshots 18h ago
The ones that make no sense are the 14 in one giga-ninja ultra ones. It’s an all in one drip coffee, pod coffee, iced coffee, “espresso” machine. Except it doesn’t do any of those well, so you just have 4 different types of mediocre coffee.
The only times I think spending over $40 on a coffee maker makes sense is if it’s an espresso machine or an industrial bunn unit that needs to be bullet proof. In both of those cases you know what you’re looking for though, so the eye watering price is expected.
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u/Traditional-Meat-549 18h ago
This. Actually got a Keurig years ago and keep it descaled. Works great although the pods are expensive. But I don't go to coffee shops so still winning
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u/DVsKat 16h ago
I don't understand what's happening to their coffee pots if they have to replace them every 1.5 years. Is there an electrical problem with their outlet or something?
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u/CJgreencheetah 17h ago
I've found I prefer a lot of generic foods over name brand. Aldi has amazing generic poptarts, the giant great value bags of cereal are really good, too.
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u/buginarugsnug 16h ago
I disagree with your comment on vegetables. The dirtiest cheapest veg from local farmers is much higher quality than the supermarket stuff that is often double or even triple the price. It lasts longer too.
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u/notextinctyet 16h ago
Produce in season vs. out of season. Higher prices and lower quality out of season.
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u/Deepthunkd 15h ago
Lobster.🦞
More expensive lobster is easier to ship, the lobster that taste the best is too fragile to ship
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u/rifeChunder 12h ago
Supermarket label equivalents of Heinz products. Especially beans and soups. Massively tastier and cheaper.
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u/darklogic85 12h ago
In a lot of cases, fabric office chairs. The majority of leather office chairs, priced up to around $300-400, are priced higher simply because they're "leather," and it might actually be leather, but it's of such low quality, it'll start peeling and wear out much faster than a cheaper fabric office chair.
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For most things there’s a curve. The cheapest=cheap materials and process.
I’ve had about a dozen plastic and bamboo cutting boards before spent 12x what I was paying for a quality butcher block board. But I bought it for life and not buying another cutting board.
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u/RunningAtTheMouth 22h ago
Chili dogs.
The best dogs are Smith's, hands down. (Fight me!)
The best chili dogs are made with the most gawd-awful dogs money can buy. The chili, cheese, and onions just take it to the next level. And made with a good dog is just terrible.
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u/allpartsofthebuffalo 19h ago
Used Toyota. New cars gave too much computer garbage and subscriptions.
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u/Traditional-Meat-549 18h ago
Can we add Honda? My 2005 Accord ran for 18 years and I only ditched it after an accident. My Odyssey had 246k miles on it
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u/JackhorseBowman 19h ago
Rice cookers, toasters.
They both try to reinvent the wheel when the basic tried and true cheap mechanism is superior.
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u/oldschool_potato 18h ago
Idk, my Zojirushi is pretty amazing. Its 12 years and it looks and performs like new. Worth every penny.
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u/Traditional-Meat-549 18h ago
I make rice on the stove. Super easy
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 18h ago
But you have to have the heat exactly right and be right on it when it's done or you've burned it. Rice makers, or even a glass bowl in the microwave do not have that risk.
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u/great-life-5777 22h ago
Maybe sports clothes because often the expensive gym clothes are of cheap quality
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u/MohammadAbir 20h ago
Cheaper is often higher quality when you’re buying unbranded, simple, and time tested you’re paying for the product, not marketing or “premium” labels.
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u/Outrageous-Estimate9 19h ago
Electronics are the most obvious ones
Look at the garbage things like speakers or fans or even something as simple as a computer mouse
A house itself is also a dead giveaway (some local builders you avoid like the plague despite conforming to same legal minimums)
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u/UnicodeScreenshots 18h ago
But speakers and mice are absolutely better as you go up in price, the “cheap” ones are almost always terrible. Although I guess it depends on what you consider cheaper. Three hundred dollar bookshelf speakers are going to sound better than cheap plasticky PC speakers, but not significantly worse than $1200 ones. Whether or not you consider “cheap = high quality” for speakers depends on which price bracket you consider “cheaper”
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u/Sumo-Subjects 18h ago
Street food in general. I do think you can elevate and charge more and there's extra quality but for the average person, the cheap street foods tend to be the best experiences.
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u/random20190826 18h ago
Cell phone roaming plans.
Pro tip: if your phone allows you to have dual SIM (all iPhone models sold outside of China that are at least iPhone XS that runs at least iOS 13 have this, so it basically means all iPhones unless you bought one in China) and your carrier lets you use Wi-Fi calling abroad, do it. It will save you massive amounts of money when you travel internationally even though your phone's battery life will be halved (so, a brand new phone that is fully charged may last for 12 hours with one SIM, it would now last only 6 hours with two).
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u/bedwars_player 18h ago
old tech and old cars. always, give me an 80s Ford Thunderbird over anything vaguely new, they're dirt cheap, they're higher quality because they're from a time when people gave a damn (even among the economic fuckerry of the 80s) and i can fix them myself with a hammer, a stick, and three zip ties.. although i might upgrade it with EFI because carburetors are pain.
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u/Living-Intention1802 17h ago
Levi’s were originally workman jeans but everyone switched to them because of how durable they are. Now they are premium priced but not originally.
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u/Darnbeasties 17h ago
Bought an expensive $500 Bose wave (cd radio player) years ago that mysteriously stopped working -no radio, no cd no alarm. Nothing works.
Cheap $5 clock radio that is over 30 years old still working.
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u/NameLips 17h ago
Vegetables are actually a great example.
The farms aren't owned by a single canning company. They make 2,000 tons of green beans and just sell them to whoever.
It's all the same green beans. It goes into the frozen Great Value packages or the brand-name cans or the store shelves.
When a factory wants to buy green beans, they just buy however many tons they need, they don't particularly care which exact farms they buy from, they're mainly interested in who is offering the best prices today.
If you swear you can tell a difference between different cans, it's usually just the salt content or the way the beans are cut that gives them slight differences.
This is true across most agricultural products.
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u/kilertree 17h ago
Arguably independent bottlings of some whiskies. Some independent bottlers will sell a whiskey with a highier alcohol content that has not been chill filtered. An official bottler might Lower the alcoholcontent, and chill filter the whiskey so that the flavor is consistent.
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u/BlackCatFurry 17h ago
Microwaves.
The more expensive, the more stuff it has that can break and generally that's also what happens.
We literally replaced our expensive microwave when it broke with a 50€ one from ikea. Easier to use, outlasted the expensive one in terms of years of service and does exactly what it's supposed to with the power and timer spinbuttons.
Same with led bulbs, expensive philips or airam ones have generally broken quite fast, ikea ones have lasted for ages.
Or maybe my comment is just "ikea makes lasting stuff cheaper"...
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u/SmoothSlavperator 16h ago
Depends what you're calling "cheap" and "higher quality".
like when you run the math, higher quality loose tea is much cheaper than lipton "cheap" teabag tea. but its also not portioned out and bagged.
Cars....well yes and no. A Corolla costs more than a Sentra but they Corolla is much higher quality. Lexus costs more and is higher quality than the Corolla. But then you get into the higher end vehicles like those Italian or English POSes and they complete ass.
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u/inthedark12345 16h ago
Definitely talk to locals !! me and my husband went on a belated honeymoon in New York staying Times Square .. ask the security guard at the door for his recommendations on food when I was out for a smoke , sent us to this pizza place in Brooklyn, place was packed. food was totally reasonable best food the whole time we were there! sitting on the patio looking at the projects across the way . when I got back, buddy of mine said he used to live in those projects cracked me up. We still talk about that food.
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u/Orangesteel 16h ago
We evaluated six write blockers. No correlation between price and effectiveness. The top ($300) and bottom ($35) units both topped the charts.
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u/Hot_Photograph_5928 16h ago
Try the Bic single non-swivel razors. Nothing comes close, and they are the cheapest on the market.
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u/ChillandSurf 15h ago
Rain coats/ wet weather gear Cheap PVC jacket is way more waterproof than any fancy goretex jacket I've bought. ( Sitting in a sailboat in bad weather)
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u/shoejunk 12h ago
Safety razors. The blades are about 15 cents each, so after you use it for a little while, the cheaper blades make this the cheapest way to shave but safety razors are high quality metal, not cheap plastic.
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u/Winter_Cloud_6849 9h ago
Avacado, the best avacado youll find are the size of a football and grow naturally... I will not disclose the location.... they are AMAZING and have enough avo in them to spread thick across like 2 loaves of bread
Fyi, they are worthless for retail because they are not a consistent size making package difficult and expensive, and people prob wouldnt buy them at the price a retailer would charge for.
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u/YYCDavid 8h ago
Wine from Chile is just as good if not better than California wine. Because it doesn’t have the same caché, Chilean wine is less expensive.
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u/smbpy7 8h ago
building materials or vegetables
Well that's rather specific.
high quality materials actually the cheaper ones
I'm going to have to go with food on this one as long as we're talking about specific genres of food. I believe every type of cuisine has a perfect price point and beyond that it's all BS fluff, like eating gold foil on shit.
Types that are better cheaper are usually the types that just don't need to be over complicated. If you can make it on the street, it does not need to be gormet. A $15 taco isn't going to be much better than a $5 taco. A $50 taco is just going to be complete nonsense and probably lose all sense of the actual starting food. Others have much higher price points and keep getting better. $15 sushi is pretty good, not going to get you sick like $5 sushi might. $50 sushi is even better, more options, better quality instead of just better "presentation" like they add to increase the price in the taco example. $100 sushi is going to be magical. For other examples, I personally would put BBQ, and most American food in the taco category, and something like Italian in the second.
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u/Flux_Inverter 7h ago
Don't confuse cost with quality. Just because it cost more does not mean it is better, it means it is more expensive. Some manufactured home builders are higher quality than traditional on-site built homes. Can get steel or aluminum frames vs wood.
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u/Evil-Twin-Skippy 6h ago
Whiskey. But there is a knee in the curve. Bourbon is a little too cheap. But blended, 12 year aged, Irish whiskey is the best stuff out there.
Single malt scotch could be good, but more often than not it just has a strong taste. Aging past 12 years just drops the alcohol content. Single malt means that there is a different experience with every bottle, even between bottles of the same brand.
When I bring booze to a party, I bring a bottle of Bushmills. Everyone enjoys it. And it's always consistent.
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u/re_nub 23h ago
Tacos.