i just bought the blanco silgranit and love it!!! you can't go wrong with either of these brands so just choose the one that most appeals to you--btw--blanco sinks are the least expensive (and believe me i searched!!)at qualitybath.com, i had a great experience ordering thru them--but the blanco prices are going up on April 1st per their website. good luck!

Hi Breezy -- FWIW it may be worth asking around a little more about this. It may be so, but I'm worried this may be a little embellishment on a past, finite problem. I think -- at least so I've gathered from a few unrelated sources - that at first both silgranite and e-granite had trouble cracking during shipping. I gather both are better now than formerly, but silgranite got better before e-granite. I don't know if that's just familiarity with shipping-type problems that they've been able to mitigate now that things are better understood, or whether they've actually literally reformulated. I guess I've been led to believe the latter, that things are now literally different from how they were a couple years ago. Someone I spoke with today said that until a year ago or so e-granite still had some trouble, sometimes, shipping; silgranite until a couple years ago. But now both companies -- he claimed -- are comparable. Again, the recommendation to inspect with a flashlight before installation for cracks. Again I heard that once installed, the sinks are utterly durable. I heard claimed this was so for both brands. Whether there's more involved in the long term that distinguishes the brands, or whether the distinction is due to a now largely-irrelevent shipping issue (due to material improvement first by Blanco, then Elkay), I can't say. But it's possible you can have both sinks with impunity. That's one problem with judging solely from reports of problems -- there can be a cohort of products susceptible to problems, that later (or earlier) cohorts didn't exhibit. It's tricky to pick away the time-component.

Thanks for your comments. I think my garburator routine is a habit with no reasoning. I leave orange peels in the sink in the morning, and then I make dinner and flush the orange peels with the dinner food remains after I do the dishes. I will start putting down the orange peels right away. Does anyone use Method all purpose for the quartz? Thanks.

I've had a Blanco Performa Cascade super single Silgranite anthracite sink for 12 years and it looks like new. The only time I've had an issue was when I set a glass measuring cup covered in olive oil down in the sink and it left a grease ring, which I couldn't remove but disappeared on its own within a few weeks. Boiling water hasn't been an issue. It's a breeze to clean up and I would never go back to stainless. Stick to your guns and have it undermounted.