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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It isn't just the UK's membership of the EU that has come to an end, so, too, a once huge mobile device company's main product:
  2. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    That was more than twenty years ago - I'd hope that there was something more recent than that! I'd take it a lot more seriously if I were a chef of some sort using high power induction plates for hours every day. Most especially, if they needed continuous stirring, flipping, etc. And have you...
  3. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    Bread dough in banetton. Banetton upside down on peel. Banetton removed. On peel after bake. Next loaf on baking stone on oven. Close-up of slice.
  4. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    They do look nice.
  5. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    I have never tried to use a compass near - indeed, not sure I have one other than as part of my phone. Pacemakers are advised against. I think plates are less likely to be an issue - though I would check properly regarding anything in my hands or wrists.
  6. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    Afraid I simply cannot agree about gas hobs. With induction, you can heat at a lower setting than a gas hob even at its lowest setting. And, like gas, turn it up to full instantly. Only a very few things are really more difficult/impossible - like charring the skin of a pepper. My point about...
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Could someone, somewhere be trying to undermine Truss? Liz Truss asked for public money to cover £3,000 lunch Reports say Truss demanded booking at ‘obviously incredibly expensive’ club owned by Tory donor...
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I hate the Mail but sometimes it is a messenger: Boris Johnson enters the New Year 16 points behind Labour in Red Wall seats he needs to retain to win the next election, bombshell poll reveals Deltapoll survey puts Labour on 49 per cent and Conservatives on 33 per cent The poll also puts Sir...
  9. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    Eddy currents are induced in any conductor - even non-ferromagnetic ones like aluminium. One example is that a disc of aluminium is used as a brake in some large format printers. A coil near the disc induces currents, which induce magnetic fields, which react against the magnetic fields induced...
  10. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    I sincerely doubt that a radiant electric plate is more efficient. I'd accept that a well matched solid plate and induction will be closer than might initially appear. But the real world intervenes with pans which are not truly flat, or are not very close in size. In the way many people will...
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I have started a new post in order to divert all this food discussion from continuing on this thread. https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/flour-bread-and-cooking.42609/
  12. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    I wouldn't want a gas or halogen hob. (Though I often have to use a gas hob.) Gas tends to be uneven and cause hot pan handles. Plus, as it heats the sides of pans, foods "bake on" inside the pan. Halogen or other non-induction hob is more expensive to run, heats the kitchen, and is more...
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What is the cu Line, Neutral and Protective Earth, I do believe, in formal UK terminology.
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    New thread started: https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/flour-bread-and-cooking.42609/
  15. oyster

    Flour, Bread and Cooking

    Starting a new thread to collect posts currently ending up on other threads. @guerney @Nev
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'd never choose anything other than induction now! Cool handles. No burning of food on the hob. Even heating of the pan base. Fast start - indeed, pans starts heating immediately. Efficient - uses less electricity than any other type of hob. But changing a hob isn't always quite as simple as...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I mostly use induction! Which is pretty fast anyway but cannot use glass/ceramic pans.
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'd have thought next to nothing. After all, they use a lot of glass in laboratories in which very precise assays are performed.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes - but from frying? You can buy a Lucky Fish made of cast iron - intended to be put in the pan when cooking. There have been questions over purity of the iron and amount that becomes available - but possibly better than nothing.
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Two points there! :) How much iron comes off a thoroughly proved frying pan/skillet? I'd have thoguht little. And, not all of us need more iron! My ferritin is very high! (I know, it is an acute phase reactant, so have to be careful with interpretation.)