Sunday, December 07, 2008

A Tale of Two Porcelain Ginger Grinding Plates

I've had a case of the dupes for quite some time.

I'm shipping one out to Russell. It's gonna make one strange Christmas present!

Can you guess which one i'm keeping?

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If you guessed the one on the right, you'd be muy correcto. For one thing, as i have just observed, the pattern of the spikes is a lot more haphazard. (I wish you could tell from this photo.) And the plane is leaner.

The one on the left has a textured finish within a parameter (i wish you could tell from this photo) and happens to be authentically Japanese.

But that's not why. None of it. The keeper is the one i have used and washed.

I have ethics.

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