AIBU or is three grand too much for pans?

[GeraldineAubergine]

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Can somebody PM me the name too please???

This is the best thread I've read in ages!
Am nearly crying with laughter.
Anyone want to pm me the brand name?

You'll be opening pan-dora's box next!

Quick update: arrived home to message from pan lady, I have lost the skillet but if I host 30 parties in 90 days I can have the exclusive knife/peeler set. I'm in a quandary now.

If the pan seller calls again say: "there is absolutely no way that I would spend £3000 on some pans, sorry, I don't know a sane person who would".

A party every three days for three months to win a peeler. How can you resist?
I thought the thread might have been left to trickle away, but no, there is more comedy gold still to come

I dont really have time for the thread now, I have three parties to prepare this week alone. Thats a lot of sweetcorn, boiled eggs and flavourless unseasoned chicken thighs with grated apple on to prep.

This defo must go in Classics.

I read this thread out to my dh last night (the tightest Yorkshire man you could meet) and what had me howling with laughter was him saying that he thought £38 was about right for 7 pans and then when I told him it was 3k what had me further weeping was the picture of his face - utter bafflement.

I couldn't stop laughing for hours at the thought of someone trying to sell my dh those pans.

I need to know the company - please pm me.

For £38 pounds he couldnt even see these pans. He could probably touch them for £40. Probably.

I'm pretty sure that either Geraldine or the pan lady are secretly in the pay of Le Creuset. After reading this thread 125 quid for their chavspirational lovely duck egg blue casseroles suddenly seems like an irresistible bargain.

Oh, fabulous! God, I was feeling fed up tonight but this has cheered me right up

I almost feel ready now to prepare some dinner using my motley selection of, yes all second hand pans, now that I come to think of it.

The nearest experience I have had to this was at a dreaded candle party I reluctantly dragged myself to in the spirit of 'neighbourliness'. It was a 3 hour ordeal of sniffing endless varieties of voitive candles, the very smallest and cheapest of which was £7.

It was a tea light! I believe mortgage arrangements were available for anything larger.

Now I love a smelly candle but I wasn't prepared to sell a kidney and quite possibly my first born child in order a purchase a few of them (silly me).

Loving this thread, mn's finest.

Whatever 'voitive' candles are

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Le creuset is chavspirational? Really? :o

Thank-you so much for pm'ing me Geraldine - it looks like a very weird cult

With all those ludicrous claims I'm surprised they don't claim that one of their titanium pans could be used to cryogenically freeze you forever

I have a Le Crueset duck egg blue dish - it's the most used piece of cookware.

YANBU. Considering how often I cremate stuff on to the bottom of my pans it would be mad to pay even £300, let alone £3000!

Chavspirational comes from a brilliantly ridiculous thread sometime ago in which all the upper middle class taste cliches (Le C, Farrow and Ball, Radley handbags, Pandora, Links) were firmly put in their place.

Specifically Le Creuset in any colour other than volcanic orange was condemned in the strongest possible terms

I just heated some supernoodles in one of my life draining, nutrient sapping poison coated asda pans and they tasted of broken dreams. Pan shaped ones. I think this party has affected me more than I first thought.

at 'broken dreams'

I am stunned. I thought I was being financially ridiculous when I spent £40 on my high walled cook-anythin-in-it pan...

Can I get a PM please? I need to google and appease my inner Scrooge.

So my granite Le Cpans, are the chavspirational then? :(

I only bought them because orange was a bit too racey for me

geraldine you are a hoot.
Now, what did you serve the supernoodles with?
SAuce of virgin's tears? Volcanically grown seaweed? Pear puree?

Perhaps you could print out pictures of the pans from the website and I could recreate them for you in papier mache or origami....art....nice

What an brilliant thread - cheered me right up on this drab Monday!

The description of LaurieFairyCake's yorkshire husbands face at the thought of paying three grand for saucepans pushed me over the edge into tears of laughter

OK, I'm itching to know what brand of Pan sells for 3k. Can you pm me .

I tried not to be drawn in, but I want to know what I'm missing each time I reach into my pan cupboard.

I served my super noodles with a bitter sauce of dashed hope norks, due to being too poor to be able to render bizarre foods totally inedible for vast swathes of cash. Paper mâché pans won't cut the mustard I'm afraid, it's titanium or nothing for me.