[cgearhart]

I have bought a lot of glassware over a couple decades. My usual trick is to look at restaurant supply shops, since they usually have a wide variety to select trade offs in style, price, quality, etc. Somehow I’d never come across Duralex until a few months ago when I was shopping to reorganize my own cupboards. The Duralex stuff I got has been the best glassware I’ve ever had, hands down. I’ll probably order more to put in storage just in case their ongoing struggles disrupt availability in the future.

I get it—they’re expensive and so on—but they really are a superior product.

[jay_kyburz]

I've never bought a glass in my life. We just use old Vegemite jars here in Australia.

[cgearhart]

Many years ago it was Hershey chocolate fudge jars that we’d put in the cupboard when they were empty. Then shrinkflation led to smaller jars and it lost some of the charm. I still have a few of the old ones.

[Cordiali]

Jam jars were way more common. As a kid, I might've seen one Vegemite jar for every twenty or so jam jars.

[bojan]

I still use Duralex glassware I bought 15 years ago. The plastic lids are not in the best shape anymore, but they are still closing just fine.

Maybe I'm not that great a customer for the company.

[gniv]

> I get it—they’re expensive and so on—but they really are a superior product.

Where are you? Here in France they are not expensive. I bought them at Carrefour when I moved here because I liked the Picardie shape and I thought they were just one of many companies that makes them. They were surprisingly cheap (a bit more than 1 euro per glass iirc).

[cgearhart]

I’m in the USA. I can drop into the local Target and pick up a set of 6 pint glasses for around $10. Meanwhile a set of 6 Picardie 500ml glasses is $48 at Williams-Sonoma. (A bit cheaper online.) Worth every penny so far.

[l5870uoo9y]

Bought one in Berlin and I would say they are 2-3 times the price of the cheapest competitor, but still worth it. I believe the US used to have their own more rectangular version of the glass.

[dyauspitr]

Totally superior but it’s the one type of glass my dishwasher just cannot seem to get clean. I wonder what the reason is.