I want to preface this with saying I have not bought these yet, but I looked at them in the Ikea store at least 3 times and have found that no other utensils that I have compared them too have been as strong as these ones. I have looked at flatware sets at Walmart, Target and Costco and none of them pass the 'bending' test quite as well. When I tried to bend the fork tines on these at the store they held up way better than any other sets I have compared them too, even the other more expensive sets at Ikea! Also, I believe them to be quite durable because the cafeteria at our local Ikea actually uses the Dragon set as their flatware so you can pretty easily see how they hold up to ware and tare, which seems to be quite well! The new set is pretty shiny but the utensils in the cafeteria seem to have dulled a bit, although I am sure they go through some heavy washing pretty frequently. I would say the only thing I don't like about these is that the fork tines are not long enough to satisfy me, which is the only reason I haven't bought these yet despite my belief that they are of good quality. But that is just personal preference, so if you don't care about the length of the fork tines and just want durable flatware that will hold up well to bending or perhaps accidentally falling into the garbage disposal, then these seem to be pretty good for that.