The Senior Observer

 Thoughts on Chinese Product Quality

The time to be especially concerned with Chinese quality of the product you are buying is - is there any way to tell where or when you bought it?  If that is the case then you want to be concerned with it's qhality because if there is't something to tell whom you bought it from or when  when gives the manufacturer the opportunity to cheapen it and you don't know whom to blame when it falls apart.  A couple examples.  Clothing at Walmart.  No label so it can fade and shrink so that later you have no way to tell where or when--from Costco. The quality of the plastic was unbelievable piir although there was no way to tell this when I bought it. Also if it was sold to me.  How the American Mfgr bought into this was also unbelievable.  But you would not know the plastic was so bad unless the grinder was used in a certain way.  I began to find coffee sprayed on the counter when I ground coffee.  It was hard for me to find where it was coming from because my eyes are so bad from cataracts. But a friend looked and found it coming from a crack in the basket that caught the grind.  As it comes out of the burr it shoots out and hits the back of the plaster catcher.  If I happened to grind a full basket of coffee beans they come out somewhat warm and hit the back.  As it hit the back the force of the coffee and the heat softened the plastic and it began to bulge leaving a crack for the grind to come out and spray over the counter.  How in the world Cusinart let the Chinese manufacturer get away with such a piece of crap is beyond me.  The plastic looked good, Very ordinary.  If you just grind a small amount it probably will not go  bad but if you grind larger amounts it will do what it did to me and you will start getting coffee all over the counter.  Just an example of how Chinese tries to get away with lousy quality. Of course Costco returned the grinder with no questions.  They are great about this. Out of sight out of mind.