Chopstick Challenge: Carbon fiber vs Louis Vuitton
Previous Chopstick Challenges on CNNGo have featured the likes of twice-cooked pork, mapo tofu, exotic mooncakes, and hokkien fried noodles. But this time around we thought we'd actually pit stick versus stick with some carbon fiber chopsticks squaring off against some ultra-lux Louis Vuitton variants.
Chops away:
Carbon fiber chopsticks
Wearing the black silk trunks, weighing in at US$149.95 and looking mighty shiny over in the 'completely unnecessary accessory' corner, Carbon Gear's carbon fiber chopsticks vitals read as follows:
- New product, currently available from company. (+1)
- Includes a pair of polished solid carbon fiber chopsticks and a solid polished carbon fiber rest. (-1, why not two pairs?)
- Cut from a solid block of rare and thick high-temp aerospace carbon fiber. (+1)
- Can be heated to over 400 degrees. (+1)
- Completely non-toxic, food-safe, and dishwasher-safe. (+1)
- Hand made in the USA. (-1, sorry, we're in Asia, this doesn't count for much here)
- Carbon fiber is 670 2x2 twill .3" and solid Vartm method. This carbon fiber has a tensile strength of 1.8 million PSI. Okay. Good. (+1)
Total points in favor: 3
Louis Vuitton chopsticks
Sporting the fashionable LV trunks and weighing in at over US$500 on eBay, the LV chopsticks show particular panache with:
- Two pairs of chopsticks and two rest stands (+1)
- Hand carved of Rosewood (+1)
- LV branding for the fashionably inclined (+1)
- Packaged in a Lucite LV box (+1)
- Out of production product (-1)
- Collectors item (+1)
Total points in favor: 4
Winner: Louis Vuitton
As cool as the carbon fiber chopsticks are, Louis Vuitton edges them out with points for being rare and collectible.
