A Sad Coda to "Kitchen Happiness", brought to you by Anchor Hocking

[harimad]

Longtime readers may remember how happy I was to finally find a set of nesting glass bowls with lids, by Anchor HockingIt has been a sad week for my experience with this company.  The lids - despite being warrantied for 5 years as microwave safe - warped and cracked.  I wrote the company, who told me the lids were not made by Anchor Hocking, were

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[metaphortunate]

ARGH!

I have started to hate spending money on supposedly high quality housewares because they seem to get screwed up just as often as the cheap stuff and then I feel like an idiot for spending money on them.

[harimad]

Overall I find the good quality stuff pays off. Even with doing the research, etc., one can get a dud but the net benefit of money spent on quality has been positive. Frex, my oft-used KitchenAid standing mixer is over 20 years old, still going strong, and has never needed repair.

Since Anchor Hocking's PR dept hasn't picked up on this post *and* hasn't asnwered my email, I will be calling them soon. Expect a report thereafter.

[harimad]

A-H sent me an email in which they said that while their warranty still doesn't cover the lids (cough*bullshit*cough) they'd send me them for free anyway. A good sign but I'll only declare success when I have all four sets of lids in my hands. Since I have the receipt[1] to prove I did, indeed, buy 4 sets of bowls, I hope I get all 4 sets of lids.

[1] I staple receipts to the warranty & care instructions the file the whole kit-and-kaboodle, although what possessed me to save it for something this small I don't know.

[metaphortunate]

Huh, good luck! Something to be said for saving receipts...

Dinner Tomorrow

[ndrosen]

Dear Harimad,

We're going out to dinner Monday at Woodlands restaurant in Hyattsville, 8046 New Hampshire Avenue, at 6:30. Can I expect to see you there? (It's an Indian vegetarian restaurant, BTW.)

Best Regards,
Nicholas Rosen, one of your imaginary friends