My uncle bought a $180 brass hose nozzle from some garden shop in Vermont back in 2019. Thing weighed like two pounds and had a little leather tag on it. He used it twice, left it on the spigot over winter, and the thing cracked wide open. Meanwhile the $12 plastic one from the hardware store down the street has been going strong for probably 15 years now. He still brings it up every time we have a cookout. Sometimes fancy just means fancy packaging.

Cheap thermometer saving your butt is peak restaurant irony.

Man, that is rough. Three hours of blaming yourselves when it was a busted piece the whole time has to sting. Sucks when a tiny flaw hides in plain sight like that, hope your next game actually plays fair.