They are and I'm too thrifty to buy one. But I always tell everyone not to get me any gifts. And when they protest, I pull out stuff that I normally wouldn't purchase for myself due to principle. Luckily, I now have a small one and a big one. The big one came the Christmas after I made my brother a ribeye and I had too many steaks to fit on the little one. I don't think I even mentioned it.