MDF kitchen doors with a foil wrap - durability

[julianm]

I`ve looked at a lot of the kitchen threads on here. I understand there is a body of thought insisting real wood is good & powdery mashed up resin stuff is horrible. We`re after a sort of off-white or cream colour finish. I had a look in showrooms yesterday & despite peering closely & scratching away with my thumbnail at a number of different finishes came away pretty much unable to tell the difference between 5 panel ash/birch & the foiled MDF stuff. The pricing varies such that the `best` is aboout 2.5 times more expensive than the cheapest. All the carcases are the same.
We`re not going to be paying for a bespoke hand crafted kitchen in exposed polished hardwood so the question is - have you gone for the foil wrap & been happy with durability & function? The doors & carcases are given an extensive guarantee, but I wouldn`t want to be making a claim in a few years anyway.
I`d really appreciate opinions based on living with the product.
Many thanks.

[julianm]

Thanks a lot for the comments. Really useful tip Colin - that company will be very handy to remanufacture some copies of original `20`s doors in alcoves when we remove the golden pine `70`s louvres in place at the moment!