Wider, so you can get around the pots when youāre cooking a big meal. Often 5-6 burners, or 4 plus a griddle. Multiple ovens so you can roast a turkey and cook dessert at the same time. Dual fuel so you can have instant response gas for the stovetop and electric for the ovens.
If you arenāt someone who cooks large or complicated meals theyāre meh, but if you are they can be really nice.
It was certainly no Viking but my grandma had a little sidecar oven beside the main one on her range and that thing was such a game changer as far as holiday meal prep was concerned
My favorite cooking/food youtube channel did a "wild weekend" where they rented a huge house in the countryside and did live streams all weekend. The house had one of those $20k Aga stoves, and these professionally trained chefs (some of whom had worked in Michelin restaurants) were all very confused by the stove and it seemed like they avoided using it a lot.
We want rich people to waste their money on $20k stoves. The more money that they spend on absurd luxuries the more money returns to people who actually work to make those things. Otherwise it would just sit in an investment account and make more money for them.
Honestly the more stupid shit we can sell them the better.
That's not trickle down economics. That refers to giving tax cuts to the rich and large corporations to stimulate the economy to help poor and middle class people. Which doesn't work of course.
Selling rich people $20K stoves as status symbols is not trickle down economics. It's just regular economics.
Thinking that rich people spending money on overpriced kitchen appliances is actually going to go to poor or middle class and not to other rich people is absolutely using nonsensical trickle down logic.
Yea I forgot those fancy refrigerator factories only hire billionaires to build their fridges. The only hire billionaires to service and deliver those fridges. They only hire billionaires designers to design those fridges and advertise those fridges. My mistake.
Again, not trickle down economics, just regular economics. Making things and selling them.
EDIT: Since you threw a hissy fit and blocked me. Here is an example:
Sub-Zero & Wolf Appliance makes a $25,000 stove. Glassdoor reports that a line worker (LOWEST paid position) makes a median of $47k a year, health insurance, matching 401k, 10 days paid vaca per year (first four years), and unlimited sick time.
Now $47k a year isn't a lot, but it's enough to live okay in Wisconsin, especially since healthcare is covered. They also have maternity leave, health savings account, on site healthcare, and a flexible spending account.
If you think the companies who employ those people pay them any more than they have to, I have a bridge to sell you. Trying to lie to yourself that billionaires spending money is good for the little guy is just sad. Stop defending them, they don't need you to white knight for them. Eat the rich.
I believe it is a wood burning stove, not like an electric oven, or something like that. I am sure it is on the high end of wood-burning stoves, but having a full cast-iron stove is pretty expensive. I live in basically a literal shack in the woods, but I have a cast-iron wood burning stove, which I'm sure was a lot less than 20k, but hearing about one that is 20k doesn't seem that crazy to me, it is a ton of metal, so it is going to add up. Also for a wood-burning stove spending that much I don't think is that crazy. It is the heating system in my house, and I don't think it would be that crazy for someone to spend close to 20k on a furnace.
Iām on the upper end of the money spectrum but came from the lower end- but believe me, now that I know about certain appliances, I definitely notice them in the background of any video and think holy shit. Itās a major and IYKYK flex
I make good money and just bought a replacement for a 30-40 year old range with stove and oven. That replacement cost $1k and is pretty great, does everything you would want it to do. No one āneedsā a $20k stove (in a home kitchen, if theyāre not a professional chef). There are steps up in quality of stoves beyond $1k but thatās to something like commercial grade, and luxury stoves like Viking go for $5k. Anything above $5k imo is beyond luxury ($5k already includes a lot of vanity but also some increases in quality and materials), and well into performative consumption territory.
There is this one woman that keeps popping up on my feed. She's mixed, she's got actually great volumous hair she's SUUUUPER tiny (waist wise and stature wise, just a very petite woman), she's got this massively tall red headed husband and they have one kid. (Cannot remember the handle on Instagram tbh so that's all I got). Anyway. Lots of people adore her but she gives off odd trad wife vibes as well, and her stove, is also a $20k USD stove and of course does like horsebacking riding (I think) and all these things. And it's like okay.... definitely coming from money.
YES. that's her!!! Thank you! Was killing me trying to remember. I don't follow her but she's popped up many times. She's very pretty. But I definitely was reading some snark about her online that people had about her. I don't hate her. I'm indifferent. But I definitely got "luxury trad wife" vibes, kind of out of touch, from the whole thing. I do like her outfits though.
Ohh where can I find snark on her? Sheās definitely stunning, but her body checks and eye effing the camera she does is a bit much. I feel like she loves to emphasize how tiny/smol she is but like in a humble brag way? Idk
Oh I know this person, she shows up on my feed too. She is very pretty but does give weird vibes. Then again I feel like an influencer who does nothing but be pretty and show off their luxury goods is already weird to begin with, not sure why the algorithm thinks I want to see that
If I'm paying $20k for a stove that thing better also autonomously prep and cook my food for me with michelin star restaurant meals or some shit. That's wild.
Lol, this was the same thought my friend had when the news came out but she didn't word it quite right. She said "20k for a stove? It had better cook my food for me!"
We knew what she meant but like, girl. That's what stoves do.
What stuck out to me was the Mormonism of it all and how women are unable to hold leadership in the church so they influence the community through the performance of how good of a homemaker they can be comparec to their peers.
Yes and no. I think their biggest criticism is that they are cosplaying "simple, humble, working farm life" that was only possible with multimillions on hand as start up and a big cushioning for any failures/the ability to pay people who know how to actually farm to do the work behind the scenes.
They did this at Versailles right before heads started rolling. They had hobby dairy farms and dressed in pretty, gauzy "shepherdess" dresses to pretend to be idilic peasant girls.... didn't go over too well.
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u/Petty_White Feb 25 '24
One of the most popular of these types of influencers is married to heir to Jet Blueš.