I disagree with most of you. I started buying kitchen equipment about ten years ago and have spent an enormous amount of time researching my purchases, worked very hard to earn the money for them, and spent lots of money to get high-quality knives, pans, flatware, stemware, and appliances. Why should my things that I put so much effort and care into acquiring and keeping in excellent condition be public property? I very recently had to endure my roommate asking me whether I was aware that ceramics are 'baked' at a high temperature (and implying that I was being a cunt because I didn't want him warming up his food in the oven in my earthenware bowls). I almost dropped dead of a heart attack.
If you want to go shopping, the place to do it is at the market, not from amongst somebody else's food. I don't want other people wearing my shoes, 'borrowing' my tampons, or helping themselves to tablespoonfuls of the saffron my grandmother brought over from Iran to make saffron risotto which then turns out to be the color of cheetos and has to be discarded, because the individual in question has never used saffron before and doesn't know what a saffron 'thread' is.
If you do help yourselves to other people's things, at least have the courtesy to replace them with the same product and not a cheap substitute. A bag of generic rice from the supermarket is not the same as a box of Vialone Nano brought in from Italy by a visitor. Ditto for balsamic vinegar, single-malt scotch, dark chocolate, and crystal wineglasses.
It's not only about expensive items, either. If I bought a dozen eggs, it's because I need or want a dozen eggs. Not eight eggs, not ten eggs, a dozen. Why should I have to guess how many eggs you will eat and add that to the total when I'm shopping to ensure that I have a dozen?
And if I give you money for something, I expect my change back, too.
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