LovelyDadBod t1_iucqxrh wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:07 AM

As a general rule, don’t buy anything “stainless steel” from China that doesn’t come with a mill cert, this includes almost all consumer products.

China generally uses inferior quality control in mill’s and will lead to flash rust of stainless components. This is typically because of carbon contamination as they’ll stamp stainless components on the same equipment as carbon steel ones.

FragrantButtSweat t1_iuczjt5 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:58 AM

That’s all well and good, but Liberty flatware is manufactured in the USA not China.

HumanKumquat OP t1_iue8f92 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:42 PM

LT is American, and they source their steel from American mills.

FlattenInnerTube t1_iujnj8g wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:52 PM

Then they need to have some stern discussions with their mill supplier. There was a rash of "316” stainless in the US food/bev process equipment industry about 10 years ago that had significant corrosion issues. Tubing, valves, heat exchangers. The ”316” that was coming from overseas was, in fact, 304 or even lower grades. Hard lessons were learned about testing materials and mill certs.