Two women shopping for skillets…
DB2
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20 times over
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The one in the white coat is swinging downward, indicating “traditional American values” parenting of beating her spawn into submission.
Steve
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I really don’t want any part of this frying pan/spousal abuse/American values subtext but I can’t let this go entirely. When I buy a frying pan I actually do that stress test on the handle’s structural integrity. Maybe not as vigorously as the lady in the video. You don’t want a nice pan with nice balance and a nice non-stick surface but with a crappy, weaky handle that’s going to fall off before you’ve worn out the rest of the pan.
Maybe she’s a psycho, maybe she’s prone to violence, maybe she has ulterior motives… or maybe she dumped last night’s dinner because the handle cracked off her old pan on the way to the table and she doesn’t want a repeat.
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- It’s a joke.
- Why American? This video is from somewhere in Asia.
I do the same. There’s so much junk cookware out there, it is worth checking them out before buying. I prefer fully riveted handles rather than screwed/welded handles. Of course, that adds a little effort cleaning well around the rivets, but so be it.
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I was about 90% thinking it was a joke but, hey this is the internet. The weirdness in everybody comes out at some point. My reply was a parody of a serious Edward R Murrow-sounding “social statement” kind of answer.
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A wife beating her husband, usually over the head, with a frying pan, or rolling pin, has been a staple of USian humor for decades.
As for hitting the spawn, actually my mom’s tool of choice was a flyswatter, one with a wire handle, and a plastic swatty thing on the end. The plastic swatty thing cracked somewhere along the line, so when she went at it, the swatty thing would soon fly off, so I was being hit with the bare wire handle. Those were the days of “traditional American values”. No “intrusive, big gummit” child welfare people back then. Spawn were property to be beaten into submission.
So that is the lens I saw that video, and the intended joke, in the OP, through.
Steve
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Go with All-Clad best mass-made pans on the market. You’d never need to check the handle.