Three years ago I bought a five dollar Teflon pan from a discount store and still use the same scratched up metal spatula I got in a college starter kit. The pan is basically a scratching post at this point and my eggs still slide out perfectly with a little butter. You gotta preheat the pan on low and let it come up slow, that's the real secret not the tool. I've watched people spend forty bucks on silicone spatulas and still burn eggs because they crank the heat to high. Your nonstick coating was probably already on its way out if one scrape ruined it that fast. Metal spatulas have been around forever and they work fine, just take thirty seconds to learn how to use your pan right.

Wait, 40% drop from just stopping cold emails for 2 months? That's insane. Did your boss not look at the pipeline data before telling you to kill it? I feel like if your inbound was mostly garbage leads, anyone paying attention should have noticed.

@kaip11 wait isn't it a bad idea to freeze soup multiple times or am i making that up?

Yeah you're totally right about "less headache." I used to think people were just paying for the logo or whatever. Then I bought a cheap coffee maker that died after three months and replaced it with a mid range one that still works five years later. That's when it clicked for me too. What was the thing that finally pushed you over to name brands?

Yeah that actually makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. I used to be in the "fix everything" camp but you changed my mind on this one.