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Standard ovens you buy for the home are terrible for pizza making. If you want to make real pizza you need to get a Stefano Ferrara oven from Italy.

Have you seen those electric ones that get up to 1000 degrees? Just curious how those things rate. Of course, I would love to have a wood burning pizza oven. It would see a lot more things than just pizza.

Most gas ranges they sell at Home Depot or Lowes or Best Buy are kinda garbage. Not exactly the best. Hard to find quality when you are buying a gas range for $900. Most of the high end luxury appliance maker ranges are every bit as good as the commercial ones that restaurants buy- the drawback- they are expensive as hell.

Exactly. That's why this is for my dream kitchen... You know, when I can spend $5K+ on a range ;-) 
For now, if I *really* want to get a wok ripping hot, I can always use my propane turkey fryer burner on the back porch.

I think with most things there is a curve of diminishing returns in practical terms.  The low priced stuff is usually junk.  The mid priced stuff is OK.  The medium high priced stuff is good.

I think for a car a $30K Honda Accord is a really good car, and others like it.  You can spend $60 K on a Mercedes and there is a difference of course, but at twice the cost, versus a really good car.  We looked at a Miele induction that was $7700.  Nope.  This kitchen redo is already over $40 K as it is, for a small kitchen, the wife went a bit haywire on some redo stuff.

My buddy has that incredible stereo system, he's the one who spent well over $2 K on the speaker cables.  Mine is fine with me, and nothing beats live.  Camera gear?  I look at the lenses the pros are using these days and they are insanely expensive.  Mine are just bottom of the line Nikkor stuff, but I'm not a pro at all.  They can shoot better stuff with my gear than I can with theirs.

Baseball equipment?  Yikes, it gets pricey.  A standard MLB baseball these days is $35, each, retail.  It won't help me any.  Running shoes?  

Wine?  Oops.  I'm doing really well sticking to $20-30 aided greatly by the much lower wine prices here.  I picked up a case today of a wine that is half the price it would be in Ohio.  I have had some high end wine in my life and in general it is really really good, to me.  But I can't drink that once in a blue moon.

Beer?  We stopped off at a new bar during a walk and I had a glass (draft) of Two Hearted IPA, I really like that stuff.  With tip it came to $9 but I overtipped a bit.

That's a character flaw in almost all Horns - too golderned sensitive

you didn't hear this from me
I spell it, "sensative"

probably cheaper to fly to Paris and dine there than to invest the time and money to be able to prepare it yourself in your kitchen

Prices have gone up of late on direct flights.  I can mess around and get some cheaper by flying to Boston and then to Ireland.  We're going in May, I'll tough it out.  The wife is no longer Diamond Medallion, bummer.  I'm no longer anything.

Norwegian Air has ridiculously cheap direct flights to Paris from a lot of US cities. They have some fares for as low as $145 each way for basic economy. Direct. Non-stop. Their entire fleet is also brand new Boeings. Insane that they are able to sell some tickets that cheap.