They are not trying to trick anymore. Kobe beef is in Japan. “Kobe-style” beef is merely an attempt made in the US to approximate the same flavor, texture, and marbling. In order to do this, Wagyu beef is crossbred with Angus cattle in the US. For most people, it would be very hard to tell the difference between Kobe beef and Kobe-style beef

Doubt you want to pay the price of Made in USA. All Clad except for certain large capacity items and roasting items are made in the US. Vitamix are made in the US and KitchenAid are assembled in US from parts made in China all have high costs because they are paying US workers.

I rarely buy from HSN. Their shipping and return prices and policies cost too much. I ordered something from them and it said that it did not go through. I ordered it again . By the time I realized that it was 2 separate orders one number apart it was too late to cancel. It was only a few hours. It took repeated phone calls and supervisor s to get permission to send the second one back and have both shipping to me and back refunded. QVC would have done it with the rep on the phone.

Pretty sure if you are unsatisfied with food you get a refund because it cannot be returned.

I have a feeling that Curtis like other small vineyards had his wine made. Stored, bottled, and shipped at VintageWine Estates who went bankrupt. This is similar to him having his ,meat and fish butchered, packaged, frozen and shipped at Rastelli facilities. Many small wineries were greatly impacted by Vintage Wine going out of business.

I have his pots and pans and bakeware. Only problem I have is largest flat pans do buckle at high temps. I mostly use my countertop oven and the pans he has for those are perfect. I almost never use a high temp for pots and pans except to boil water for pasta. I wait until they are cool to clean and I never use metal utensils unless they have a silicon edge. Also my color (grey) is still the same color as the day I bought them well over 8 years ago.

The reason these are added to most meats and seafood is to avoid shrinkage when frozen. All these proteins come frozen. Air chilled does not use solutions but it takes longer. That liquid comes out when you try to sear and prevents a nice browning .

Is California wrong to require warning labels. Apparently not. This was in the news yesterday FDA to Finally Outlaw Soda Ingredient Prohibited Around The World . By the way, this was already banned in one state- California..

In the most recent GDP numbers for 2022, California if it was a separate economy again would come in as 5th largest, behind Germany but still somewhat ahead of India.. Looks like a huge market to snub for not wanting to put a little label on it. However if you have friends or families that have suffered from unknown causes of cancer or birth defects, you understand the label.

It is a Prop 65 label. that apparently Curtis Stone refuses to put on his outside box. The label warns that the item may contain items that can possibly cause cancer and birth defects. It is a warning label like the hazardous to small children type that warns of suffocation etc. Crazy he is willing to lose all the California business. The other states have decided that the CA warning label should be on their items too. If it has plastic parts and is used in food prep, that might be the trigger to require the labeling,

Colorado has the same requirements and they won’t ship there either. Just put the label on it.

No because it is stored in a food safe recyclable plastic. It is not all plastics. I believe that the need for putting it in food prep items , especially ones that involve cutting and fixing is that small pieces might break off and be in your food. The type of plastic used in the chopper, 3 kinds, is so different from the ones that liquid is sold in is laughable to compare them. Did you know that thanks to California, the BPA plastic that used to coat the inside of most canned items has been eliminated. from many food items.. If you know someone who has been struggling with infertility, maybe a lifetime of drinking canned soda may be the answer. BPA is on the Proposition 65 list because it may harm the developing baby, and it may harm the female reproductive system, including the ovaries and eggs.

Maybe you forgot that Propositions are not from the legislature, but voted on by the people. Maybe you do not vote or could not vote when it passed. Proposition 65 became law in November 1986, when California voters approved it by a 63-37 percent margin. The official name of Proposition 65 is the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. The reason it probably requires a sticker is because it is used in food prep and made of 3 different plastics. Since cutting and preparing of food is how it is used, small pieces of plastic may wind up in your food. My guess is one or all of those plastics are not good to ingest.

It is not the product, it is the labeling. If Curtis Stone put the label on which says that the materials on the object may be linked to cancer and birth defects. If there was a label, it is good to sell. My thinking it is all made of 3 kinds of plastic. It is because it is used to prepare foods. That label is very small and is posted on many restaurants because of cleaning products or cooking products.

Again it can be sold but it requires a small warning label. Apparently they refuse to put the label on. The label can be put on the outside of the box it comes in. Same label appears. On the outside of brick and mortar stores. The label is not very big. Look up Prop 65 label.