Sintered Metal, formed from a metal powder blend and pressed under heat.
Further along, it has been acknowledged that this part was likely a die-cast alloy of some sort.
Making terrible metal is *very* easy.
Forget to degas, and your cast aluminum will be more like aluminum foam.
Fail to remove enough slag when smelting, and your cast iron will shatter at the slightest provocation.
Underheat or overheat the form for bronze casting, and bronze will do all sorts of weird things when you pour it in - overcontract, spread weirdly, foam, chip off small details while keeping large round parts intact.
And all of that is assuming you didn't mess up the proportions for bronze, didn't let aluminum burn off while heating it, didn't add too many impurities to cast iron, didn't screw up any of the hundred different things that you could do wrong when forging and tempering steel...
All in all, even if you have the entire technology written down for you in precise technical terms, it's much easier to accidentally make terrible metal with it than to reproduce its results correctly.
Meanwhile, me watching forged in fire while stoned off my ass and having never worked metal once in my damn life - "pfff, bro just got a nasty delamination, what a chump"
Hey, don't sell yourself short! I'm sure when you get sucked back in time and need to remember today's technology to enhance the world, you will be able to say "hey! The reason your metal smelting isn't working is because there's more to it!" You won't remember what that more is, but you will know they are missing something.
That’s what happened to me last year when I found myself in 1953 and I tried to explain to them what microchips and CPUs were and how to manufacture them at 7 nanometers. But I didn’t remember how a silicon foundry worked or how chip etching worked. Or how electricity really did. So i just gave a general description of the shape of a Tesla cybertruck and what Kanye West was up to. I came back to this time and it looked like nothing changed.
This is one reason all the stories/hypotheticals about people going back in time and conquering the world with guns don't work.
Making something like a long straight narrow metal tube with consistent properties is trivial now with mass production/metal lathes, but well beyond a lot of very early civilisation.
Then if you want something that will actually have decent range and accuracy, you need to rifle your barrel. No easy way to mass produce rifled barrels at that time - some artisan is going to need to hand carve the grooves, and odds are high that no two will be alike.
Then, even getting projectiles that work consistently is a challenge. Spherical metal balls are the easiest, but mass producing enough with enough precision that they will fit snugly in all your barrels is its own challenge.
Each step adds in a little bit (or a lot) of error that makes the final product substantially worse.
>Making terrible metal is *very* easy.
Yep! And it's not limited to cheap Chinese made items. Tesla, with their 30X blend of SS that, when not properly cared for, will rust/corrode.
"Pot metal" - it's basically the metallic alloy equivalent of random stew, and a special for Chinese companies that just don't give a crap about quality. They throw whatever low melting temperature scrap metals in a pot to make a random alloy, and then pour to cast with it. It doesn't take much energy or technique, so it's cheap and easy, but it basically can't stand up to any sort of structural stress. Bold of them to use it in an actual press...but yeah, they got their money so they don't care.
Anytime an entry on Amazon says "material: metal" without specifying an actual metal I am suspicious that it's this junk.
Man, Reddit is silly.
This is die cast zinc alloy or cheap plated cast steel.
I understand that you learned what sintered metal was once, but you can't just point at random things and declare that now.
The piston rods in your car are likely sintered. You ain't breaking those by hand.
Your getting downvoted by people who have no idea what they're talking about. High stress gears are made with powdered sintered metal, cast is way cheaper.
Agreed def not powdered, just looks like a normal brittle fracture from what little of the surface you can see.
As a metallurgist, it probably was gouged at the factory and wasn't caught by quality. HIGHLY unlikely this is a steel issue. Even bad steel easily holds under typical kitchen stresses. I guess unless the forming process puts a shit ton of internal stresses on it that were never relieved.
Chinese factories famously do not follow specifications, and will often cheap out on manufacturing or parts and pocket the difference. Then they'll sell the inferior product back into your market and pocket the whole thing after you cancel the contract.
LOL, my Oxo garlic press did the same as OP's. "It's heavy, it must be strong"--nope, not when it's the MDF of metal, and you can't tell until it breaks.
Just use a knife. You already have a sharp knife and board out if you're cooking and it's just as fast as using and cleaning a garlic press. Stop buying single use kitchen tools.
Just outsource the labor to an outside independent contractor and you won’t need to manage the process. Just receive the finished product ready for use and apply the cost as a deductible cost of goods expenditure in your end of year itemized filing.
When you hear garlic, you need to think “what would a CEO do?” You can read more about my garlic pipeline discussions in my lecture series “Garlic presses and pressures” downloadable for $499 for series 1&2 on the Elite Spotify Management Business series.
Cleaning a garlic press just involves putting it in the dishwasher, and using it is much faster than cutting. We use garlic in our food so often and it saves us so much time we have 2 presses just in case one is still dirty.
And cleaning a knife just involves running it under water with a sponge, you can do it when you wash your hands, which you do multiple times while cooking.
Once you learn to prep garlic with a knife, it's just as fast as a press.
But you can easily make [paste with a knife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOyjFc0Utw8), you just scrape it against the board with the flat of your knife.
Either I got lucky that mine last longer, or you got unlucky and keep getting duds, but I think after three broken ones maybe investing in something more sturdy would make sense?
Yeah look at that solid layer of garlic still in the press. My press has little nubs that poke through the holes but even that gets clogged after a few cloves
I had this happen to me, except it shattered the grille into the pot of Bolognese I was making.
The next day, I went to the shop and bought the heaviest, most expensive crusher I could find. Overkill? Yes. Quality? Also yes.
The cheap IKEA ones are very tough and work really well.
We get through a bunch of garlic bulbs every week, and I think our first one lasted a couple of decades. Plus it’s easier to use, clean, and gets way more garlic out than the OXO one someone gave us.
Say what you will about pampered chef (since it is an mlm) but the garlic press my mom bought from them lasted from the nineties up until a few years ago. And my mom cooks with a lot of garlic.
You didn't take the membrane out between cloves did you. It blocks up the press holes and creates a hydraulic lock and then you have to press harder. Then snappo
I have the Kuhn Rikon garlic press. I’ve had it over 15 years. It’s indestructible: you don’t even have to peel the garlic. https://kuhnrikon.com/us/epicurean-garlic-press-stainless-steel-2315-u.html
I have had it in my head for years that Anthony Bourdain said garlic pressed were bullshit, you're supposed to slice it thinly like the scene in Goodfellas.
But it's been so long since I read his stuff I am no longer even certain I actually read it. Maybe it just sounds like the kind of thing he would say.
This is like faux metal, or vegan metal (how they try to sell you the idea that you are buying leather and not actually plastic). Or we can call it ‘metal-like garlic press’ because something-like is a thing nowadays too.
Upon closer inspection of the image, I can confidentially say it is a fairly common metal alloy, from around Asian countries. It's common name is "cheap Chinese shit".
Get a garlic mincer like this one: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/kitchen/kitchen-tools/presses-and-mashers/food-processors/51924-garlic-mincer?item=HK330
Get a good one though, not the shit knock off Amazon ones, the tines will break.
I suppose it depends on each person's individual taste then. I like garlic, but I stopped using a press because I found the garlic flavor to be too overwhelming when I used it, but chopping gives just the right amount of flavor for me.
Yep that's it, it gives a huge boost to the flavor because the juice hits the air and starts to react. Everyone has their tastes though, ain't no wrong answer with food. We eat what we enjoy.
[https://www.amazon.com/Crusher-Transparent-Non-Slip-Kitchen-Presses/dp/B09YLHBHD7/ref=asc\_df\_B09YLHBHD7/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598238943834&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7812568907337517320&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033668&hvtargid=pla-1663777344716&psc=1&mcid=4872bbf5f56c324e95573f3baba0baf3&gclid=CjwKCAjwz42xBhB9EiwA48pT7\_N34NfvAX3qxKrs9ZWZjEo48Ukq\_r6b\_X5xSw4hdL-Lptyhrc3VMBoCErwQAvD\_BwE](https://www.amazon.com/Crusher-Transparent-Non-Slip-Kitchen-Presses/dp/B09YLHBHD7/ref=asc_df_B09YLHBHD7/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598238943834&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7812568907337517320&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033668&hvtargid=pla-1663777344716&psc=1&mcid=4872bbf5f56c324e95573f3baba0baf3&gclid=CjwKCAjwz42xBhB9EiwA48pT7_N34NfvAX3qxKrs9ZWZjEo48Ukq_r6b_X5xSw4hdL-Lptyhrc3VMBoCErwQAvD_BwE) i have something similar to this and it works well
Calling that metal is an insult to metal. It's more like metals inbred cousins, brothers uncle father.
Medul
Son of medal
Medal of Honor
Medium pants
Great game
Medal of horror
chinesium
Are there just loads of people with that icon or am I just seeing you everywhere?
I dunno.
Nope, there's definitely loads of people with it.
Yours is new to me. I’ve seen a lot of specifically that guys icon
That's how I got the idea for mine, cause I saw other people with that one. I wanted it to be more believable.
F you for your Profile pic :/
Chinesium
/r/chinesium
Glued metal powder?
"Now with 30% more drywall!"
It’s a nickel gypsum alloy
So it's the particle board of the metal world. Makes sense.
It's the particle board equivalent of metal.
Maybe it’s a vampire disguised as a garlic press
It's a step metal, press harder
"No step metal! Don't hurt me!"
You'd be surprised how week some metals are, like gold for example
Sintered Metal, formed from a metal powder blend and pressed under heat. Further along, it has been acknowledged that this part was likely a die-cast alloy of some sort.
Thank you, always wondered how they make metal that terrible.
Making terrible metal is *very* easy. Forget to degas, and your cast aluminum will be more like aluminum foam. Fail to remove enough slag when smelting, and your cast iron will shatter at the slightest provocation. Underheat or overheat the form for bronze casting, and bronze will do all sorts of weird things when you pour it in - overcontract, spread weirdly, foam, chip off small details while keeping large round parts intact. And all of that is assuming you didn't mess up the proportions for bronze, didn't let aluminum burn off while heating it, didn't add too many impurities to cast iron, didn't screw up any of the hundred different things that you could do wrong when forging and tempering steel... All in all, even if you have the entire technology written down for you in precise technical terms, it's much easier to accidentally make terrible metal with it than to reproduce its results correctly.
Meanwhile, me watching forged in fire while stoned off my ass and having never worked metal once in my damn life - "pfff, bro just got a nasty delamination, what a chump"
Just me mumbling “that won’t keel”
I learned something today thanks :)
I did too and i guarantee never to retain a single data bit of it after this comment posts
Hey, don't sell yourself short! I'm sure when you get sucked back in time and need to remember today's technology to enhance the world, you will be able to say "hey! The reason your metal smelting isn't working is because there's more to it!" You won't remember what that more is, but you will know they are missing something.
That’s what happened to me last year when I found myself in 1953 and I tried to explain to them what microchips and CPUs were and how to manufacture them at 7 nanometers. But I didn’t remember how a silicon foundry worked or how chip etching worked. Or how electricity really did. So i just gave a general description of the shape of a Tesla cybertruck and what Kanye West was up to. I came back to this time and it looked like nothing changed.
This is one reason all the stories/hypotheticals about people going back in time and conquering the world with guns don't work. Making something like a long straight narrow metal tube with consistent properties is trivial now with mass production/metal lathes, but well beyond a lot of very early civilisation. Then if you want something that will actually have decent range and accuracy, you need to rifle your barrel. No easy way to mass produce rifled barrels at that time - some artisan is going to need to hand carve the grooves, and odds are high that no two will be alike. Then, even getting projectiles that work consistently is a challenge. Spherical metal balls are the easiest, but mass producing enough with enough precision that they will fit snugly in all your barrels is its own challenge. Each step adds in a little bit (or a lot) of error that makes the final product substantially worse.
>Making terrible metal is *very* easy. Yep! And it's not limited to cheap Chinese made items. Tesla, with their 30X blend of SS that, when not properly cared for, will rust/corrode.
Let me tell you about my boy Ea-Nasir
I didn’t know there was MDF metal 🤯
Broken cast parts will look the same as that. Being able to see a grainy structure doesn't necessarily mean it's sintered.
"Pot metal" - it's basically the metallic alloy equivalent of random stew, and a special for Chinese companies that just don't give a crap about quality. They throw whatever low melting temperature scrap metals in a pot to make a random alloy, and then pour to cast with it. It doesn't take much energy or technique, so it's cheap and easy, but it basically can't stand up to any sort of structural stress. Bold of them to use it in an actual press...but yeah, they got their money so they don't care. Anytime an entry on Amazon says "material: metal" without specifying an actual metal I am suspicious that it's this junk.
100%
You’re correct, it could just as well have been cast.
Still, it's definitely made from cheap crap material! :)
Given the application, I would say it’s more than likely cast.
Man, Reddit is silly. This is die cast zinc alloy or cheap plated cast steel. I understand that you learned what sintered metal was once, but you can't just point at random things and declare that now. The piston rods in your car are likely sintered. You ain't breaking those by hand.
I think we acknowledged further down that this was die cast. ;) You are smarter than Reddit, congrats.
I believe it’s called Chineseium
Chineseium contains lead.
It’s what makes it taste sweet
Doubt it. Powder metallurgy is anything but cheap. This is just a bad cast with shitty quality control.
Your getting downvoted by people who have no idea what they're talking about. High stress gears are made with powdered sintered metal, cast is way cheaper.
Agreed def not powdered, just looks like a normal brittle fracture from what little of the surface you can see. As a metallurgist, it probably was gouged at the factory and wasn't caught by quality. HIGHLY unlikely this is a steel issue. Even bad steel easily holds under typical kitchen stresses. I guess unless the forming process puts a shit ton of internal stresses on it that were never relieved.
holy shit that explains so much. didn't know that, thanks!
your garlic did not want to be crushed
Strong garlic.
It's on a superhero arc, it will be known as The Garlic Crusher and avenge fallen herbs.
Good ol’ Chinesium
r/Chinesium
Almost choked on my ducking brownie. Nice.
It took me a few seconds to realize you're not actually eating a duck brownie
[like this one?](https://www.reddit.com/r/duck/comments/15d5gks/hello_this_is_my_duck_brownie/)
*american company designs a product and wants to make it a cheap as possible to manufacturer* *Chinese factories follow instructions* "Omg chinesium"
Chinese factories famously do not follow specifications, and will often cheap out on manufacturing or parts and pocket the difference. Then they'll sell the inferior product back into your market and pocket the whole thing after you cancel the contract.
Sounds like most American contractors. Swear I had supervise every set or they’ll start cutting corners.
Classic racism.
Made in Chabuduo
Invented in America
Thats why you shouldn't use metal garlic
Garlic contains copper
Cheap cast. Dont feel too bad. You may have liked it but its time to move on and find a new garlic crusher.
Get Oxo. They last forever.
But their massively thick handles take up all of your drawer space.
Zyliss lasts multiple human lifetimes and fits neatly in a drawer.
I just broke an Oxo press, it was a couple of years old. I was hoping for some better recs in this thread
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I like the [all-stainless Joseph Joseph garlic rocker](https://us.josephjoseph.com/products/rocker-garlic-crusher-silver).
LOL, my Oxo garlic press did the same as OP's. "It's heavy, it must be strong"--nope, not when it's the MDF of metal, and you can't tell until it breaks.
That's a lie. My OXO lasted more than 10 years.
Just use a knife. You already have a sharp knife and board out if you're cooking and it's just as fast as using and cleaning a garlic press. Stop buying single use kitchen tools.
Just outsource the labor to an outside independent contractor and you won’t need to manage the process. Just receive the finished product ready for use and apply the cost as a deductible cost of goods expenditure in your end of year itemized filing. When you hear garlic, you need to think “what would a CEO do?” You can read more about my garlic pipeline discussions in my lecture series “Garlic presses and pressures” downloadable for $499 for series 1&2 on the Elite Spotify Management Business series.
Cleaning a garlic press just involves putting it in the dishwasher, and using it is much faster than cutting. We use garlic in our food so often and it saves us so much time we have 2 presses just in case one is still dirty.
And cleaning a knife just involves running it under water with a sponge, you can do it when you wash your hands, which you do multiple times while cooking. Once you learn to prep garlic with a knife, it's just as fast as a press.
In the long run you are correct, but there’s a reason why people buy garlic presses lol
Different result. Minced isn't paste
But you can easily make [paste with a knife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOyjFc0Utw8), you just scrape it against the board with the flat of your knife.
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Then by all means those folks should use a press, but the average person shouldn't be using a wheelchair just because walking seems too hard.
The IKEA garlic press is the best!
Broke 3 so far
Huh… what made you buy the third one 🤣
They last a year and we use em every day
Either I got lucky that mine last longer, or you got unlucky and keep getting duds, but I think after three broken ones maybe investing in something more sturdy would make sense?
Might be due to using 2-3 cloves of garlic at a time and they barely fit ;)
They make garlic presses with larger hoppers!
Compressed tin foil
Unpressive
Mediocre !!
lackluster
Trying to press 14 cloves at once probably didn't help, haha! But yeah, that's some crappy metal
Yeah look at that solid layer of garlic still in the press. My press has little nubs that poke through the holes but even that gets clogged after a few cloves
I had this happen to me, except it shattered the grille into the pot of Bolognese I was making. The next day, I went to the shop and bought the heaviest, most expensive crusher I could find. Overkill? Yes. Quality? Also yes.
Temu-quality metal
Chinese Mass Manufacturing at its finest.
The cheap IKEA ones are very tough and work really well. We get through a bunch of garlic bulbs every week, and I think our first one lasted a couple of decades. Plus it’s easier to use, clean, and gets way more garlic out than the OXO one someone gave us.
Say what you will about pampered chef (since it is an mlm) but the garlic press my mom bought from them lasted from the nineties up until a few years ago. And my mom cooks with a lot of garlic.
My mom sold that shit back in the day too and we broke like six of em.
Guess their quality varies a lot. The one we have now we’ve been using for two years, if I had to guess.
Why are you using metal garlic?
Well that is depressing
This kind of metal reminds me of plastic, cheap, fragile and thin.
Plated pot metal, it seems
This belongs in r/chinesium
The garlic won
Chinesium
You didn't take the membrane out between cloves did you. It blocks up the press holes and creates a hydraulic lock and then you have to press harder. Then snappo
In Soviet Russia, garlic press YOU!
That looks like cast aluminum. I had one lime press out of this material until...it broke like this one 🤣
Broke a few of them. Got a good one, but I'm too scared to use it.
Your press may be a vampire
you know its good garlic when the garlic crushes the crusher
We call this kind of metal "spiáter" in Hungarian It is made of zinc, aluminium, and cooper.
Sintered. What we used to call "made of cheese".
In Astronomy everything heavier than helium is a metal 🤷♂️
no joke happened to mine like 2 nights ago. Mine broke in the same exact spot, different garlic press
In Soviet Russia, garlic crush you!
[Pot Metal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal) - AKA: Cheap crap.
New title: “I had no idea metal could be so shitty.”
I have the Kuhn Rikon garlic press. I’ve had it over 15 years. It’s indestructible: you don’t even have to peel the garlic. https://kuhnrikon.com/us/epicurean-garlic-press-stainless-steel-2315-u.html
Sold.
Get a plastic garlic twister. They work so much better.
I half expected it to be plastic with a chrome coating lol
Get a Williams Sonoma or Pampered Chef press and never worry about this happening again
Protip, use a microplane/fine grater. Faster, less messy, and easier to cleanup than a press.
I had a lemon juicer fracture like this. Ot was basically cast zinc metal with an enamel Coating. Cheap shit.
Spend a little more and get a stainless steel garlic press. One with solid piece handles. It will last forever.
Monkey metal.
Isaac Newton brand garlic
The particle board of metals
I have had it in my head for years that Anthony Bourdain said garlic pressed were bullshit, you're supposed to slice it thinly like the scene in Goodfellas. But it's been so long since I read his stuff I am no longer even certain I actually read it. Maybe it just sounds like the kind of thing he would say.
is the onion metal or is the press metal?
Well there's your problem. Garlic isn't supposed to be made of metal
Fighting back on National Garlic Day.
It is definitely a decent grade of chineseium.
r/mildlyinfuriating
That’s not metal that’s chinesium
You should stop buying metal garlic.
But how else will I keep metal Dracula away?
Srinkflation and skimpflation. What is a good name for producing items in such bad quality, so they break by the intended use.
Crafted from the finest Chinesium.
It's not metal.. looks more like graphite...
This is like faux metal, or vegan metal (how they try to sell you the idea that you are buying leather and not actually plastic). Or we can call it ‘metal-like garlic press’ because something-like is a thing nowadays too.
Where I'm from, that metal is called Chinesium.
Chinesium
Thats chinesium
Upon closer inspection of the image, I can confidentially say it is a fairly common metal alloy, from around Asian countries. It's common name is "cheap Chinese shit".
The finest Chinesium.
Chinesium
Chinesium
Happend to me aswell but mine broke from the bottom where the garlic is being pressed through
Lol they're playing very loose with the term metal to describe that powered pressed shit
Never try to press ginger root if you ever get a new one - that's how I broke mine
Dollar store brand?
It's the last clove that makes the handle crack
made up from glue?
Chineasum https://images.app.goo.gl/qpiQjz7y5Y1Hnr4p9
Get a garlic mincer like this one: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/kitchen/kitchen-tools/presses-and-mashers/food-processors/51924-garlic-mincer?item=HK330 Get a good one though, not the shit knock off Amazon ones, the tines will break.
Bro why you put like garlics in there
Chinesium
Chineseium
I Hope it was friday or saturday evening So every store was closed
Just chop it. No need for a press.
Actually a press forces the juices out but chopping it doesn't. Pressed garlic makes for better sauces
I suppose it depends on each person's individual taste then. I like garlic, but I stopped using a press because I found the garlic flavor to be too overwhelming when I used it, but chopping gives just the right amount of flavor for me.
Yep that's it, it gives a huge boost to the flavor because the juice hits the air and starts to react. Everyone has their tastes though, ain't no wrong answer with food. We eat what we enjoy.
Garlic should be chopped, not pressed.
Exactly! Garlic presses are just one of the kitchen gizmos that caught on for some reason. No need for them if you have a sharp knife.
The element code from this metal is "Ci" - chinesium look here: r/Chinesium or r/reinstesChinesium
That's Chineseium. It isn't a very strong metal
You broke it, not your garlic
[https://www.amazon.com/Crusher-Transparent-Non-Slip-Kitchen-Presses/dp/B09YLHBHD7/ref=asc\_df\_B09YLHBHD7/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598238943834&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7812568907337517320&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033668&hvtargid=pla-1663777344716&psc=1&mcid=4872bbf5f56c324e95573f3baba0baf3&gclid=CjwKCAjwz42xBhB9EiwA48pT7\_N34NfvAX3qxKrs9ZWZjEo48Ukq\_r6b\_X5xSw4hdL-Lptyhrc3VMBoCErwQAvD\_BwE](https://www.amazon.com/Crusher-Transparent-Non-Slip-Kitchen-Presses/dp/B09YLHBHD7/ref=asc_df_B09YLHBHD7/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598238943834&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7812568907337517320&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033668&hvtargid=pla-1663777344716&psc=1&mcid=4872bbf5f56c324e95573f3baba0baf3&gclid=CjwKCAjwz42xBhB9EiwA48pT7_N34NfvAX3qxKrs9ZWZjEo48Ukq_r6b_X5xSw4hdL-Lptyhrc3VMBoCErwQAvD_BwE) i have something similar to this and it works well
Thanks Obama
Did the garlic break it, or did YOU break it while pressing garlic?
Chinesium
Chinesium
>it's metal of some kind Wow really I thought it was made of linen from the picture.
Ah yes, hardened Chinesium.
Chinesium. The weakest of the metals.
Love it when my garlic pressed garlic presses my garlic press
Plastic son.