Can't we all just get along?
Almost everybody has resource limitations, in time and money, that guide their purchase decisions. Heck, I was 38 years old before we first reached the end of the month before we reached the end of the money.
Everybody balances cost against utility (time and effectiveness), and they make their choices. Sometimes those choices work out well, sometimes not as much. Me, too.
I bought a Thermapen MkIV because I never read any review or reaction by someone who owned one that wasn't just glowing. Yet, it'll cost you nearly $100--is it worth it?
And can you buy less expensive thermometers that will also tell you the temperature within an acceptable margin of error? I have one like that. It's not as fast as the thermapen, not as easy to hold and read, not quite as accurate. Yet despite its faults I've made a lot of good beer using it.
In other words, you're not wrong to make a different choice than I.
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We see a lot of people on the internet trying to convince others of the value of their own choices--as if others choosing something else is somehow critical of their own choice. So they engage in a campaign to get others to buy their choice, as a way to validate their own decision.
It's hard sometimes to break out of that, to admit that a different choice is perhaps better than our own choice. Did we pay too much? Not get enough resolution? Choose something not as effective as some other choice?
What you choose to do, I have to assume, is the best fit between money and utility, given the information to which you have access. Sometimes we make a good choice, sometimes not so much, but in the end, it's our choice.
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