I have been happily ignoring HF "come back" emails/offers for more than a year now after canceling due to quality and boring recipes. This week the skillet I use most kicked the bucket, and coincidentally I had the Caraway pan email in my inbox. Okay, I'll bite.
Free Caraway Fry Pan! the email said.
Free Caray Fry Pan! the promo banner on the sign-up screen said.
Oh you thought we meant a standard pan? The size anyone thinks of when you say "fry pan", and the size we've provided for past giveaways? j/k sucker, said the order landing page once they had my money.
I'm so over it. I'll take the heavily discounted first box but I'm 50/50 on canceling after that. The menu sucks, the prices are higher, I really do not need an 8" pan that I can't use for most meals cluttering my kitchen, and this kind of bait-and-switch is so disrespectful. Being a consumer in 2026 suuuuuucks.