SmitheyReviews 1

The company describes their cookware as being hand-forged which is untrue. Hand-forging is neither practical nor effective. To better understand hand-forging, imagine the old village blacksmith standing "under a spreading chestnut tree" making the curves of the pan hammering on a flat piece of red hot iron. This is a labor intensive method that would would make the pan unaffordable for most people. Also, cookware works best when the bottom of the pan is a uniform thickness. To do that by hand-forging is virtually impossible. Im not sure what is hand-forged but it certainly isn't the pan. They also show photographs of some of their pots having hammer marks; I'm almost certain they are too uniform to have been done by hand. If the company is willing to mislead the potential buyer about this, it makes one wonder what other information they provide is misleading. FYI The "smithey" in their company name is a misspelling for "smithy", a name for the person doing the work or the place where the work is one.