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Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show. I'm Kyra Blackwell. I'm Christine Sirclicette.

And I'm Rosie Garan, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.

Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review

everyday products that will make your life better. This episode of The Wire Cutter Show is called

Kitchen Gear that lasts a lifetime or extremely close.

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Hey.

Today I want to talk to you about buying things for the long haul, things that you might be able to, let's say, invest in on the front end, but they're going to really last.

For instance, I have this glass juicer that I got from my gram. And I know, it's really sweet. And actually, I think she got it from her best friend, Ruthie. And every time I'm juicing a lemon, I'm thinking of them. And this thing is from, it's got to be from the 40s. And it's been around. It was my mom's and now it's mine. That's so sweet. I love that. I actually have some things in my kitchen that my parents have

passed down to me. I have a skillet and I have a sauce pan that like I used as a kid and now they're in my kitchen.

And I could probably pass them on to my kids, honestly.

Man, I have like one nice set that my dad gave me for graduation, but I think that might be all I'm

working with. I feel like honestly today there's all of this pressure to buy, to buy, to buy, to

buy and things feel or are more disposable. But I personally want to get better at investing in things

that maybe they're not the coolest,

maybe they're not the sexiest, but they're going to last me.

Yeah, I mean, you know, the funny thing is working at Wirecutter, you'd think that all the

folks that we work with are kind of obsessed with buying like the newest, coolest thing out there,

but I mean, so many people that we work with really don't

buy a lot. And I've noticed that the longer you work here, the more people tend to try to just

like kind of save up for really nice things that they'll use for a long time. I think there's like

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