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Mines induction, so unless the cat has developed a penchant for dragging frying pans out of the drawer, all it would do is produce a magnetic field until it decided there's no pot to induce.

I think you also have to remember the price differential between say 1950s appliances and modern ones. The run of the mill washing machines sold in that era were seriously expensive relative to income. We often forget that when we talk about them. You could be comparing something like a middle...

They’ve always been required for fixed appliances here, going right back to the 1920s, similar to the U.K. regs in that regard. There’s a sleek looking double-pole switch on the wall, or in an accessible location within a couple of meters of any cooking appliance that cannot be easily...

This is why I like the big isolation switches we have on the wall. Nobody ever leaves a stove powered up and unattended.

That's terrible. Hope he's ok and recovers and hope she gets to go to university..

People aren’t very good at assessing risk. Nuclear isn’t perfect, not by a long shot, but I also think it’s been painted as much more of a monster than it really is, particularly because of the way people tend to associate it with nuclear weapons, but also because of outlier disasters like...

It's a mixed bag. Even in terms of radionuclides in the atmosphere, nuclear power is low down the scale. Most of the sources of that are still the aftermath of weapons tests in the 20th century and also the burning of coal. It flings about 100x more radioactive particles into the atmosphere per...

We've Amtico in a kitchen and it's genuinely a fantastic product. They are coated with a heavy polish layer which can be stripped using a proprietary product and a simple mop. You can then completely resurface the floor, with just a simple flat mop and another product. It’s not something you...

Europe is very mixed on nuclear. Some EU countries are pushing ahead with new nuclear plants, mostly replacing old ones, but others, notably Germany, are just closing all of their nuclear facilities. There’s a lot of nuclear in Europe, about 25% of overall electricity supply (France going as...

Remember it’s *relative humidity*. Colder air, at high humidity levels holds less water vapour. So somewhere tropical / semi tropical like Florida is both hot and steamy, so you’ll have way more moisture in the air than somewhere like here that’s temperate oceanic. It will also fall out as mist...

It’s a lot cooler. More like parts of the Pacific Northwest, only not continental and it’s kept milder by the Gulf Stream - so more temperate. A very hot day in summer is about 26°C (78°F) - typically about 21°C / 70°F. Absolutely record high is 33.3°C / 91°F … in winter you only very rarely...

In Hollywood movie Ireland - they’re everywhere.. In reality, very very few other than themed pubs and some rural heritage buildings. Thatch hasn’t been a feature of urban architecture (even small towns) since the 1600s. Dark grey or black slate roofs would be the most traditional finish. You...

We've a ban on oil-fired central heating (nationally, including in rural areas) in new build from 2022 and gas from 2025, most new build already doesn't have either of them as they would not meet Building Energy Regulation (BER) certification for "A rating" anyway. There's currently no plan to...

Turkey’s been the Xmas tradition here since Dickens and others established the fantasy of the Victorian festive feast. However, I have to say it’s my least favourite meat. I’ve just never been a fan. Always found it too gamey and it makes the cat pass wind. I’ve tended to shake things up a...

Haven’t had etched glasses in a very long time. Most detergents seem to have that solved these days. Joanna Lumley (during the first year of Ab Fab playing Patsy Stone) extolling the benefits of Fairy Dishwasher Powder with Glazeguard in 1993.

They must be different formulations. I've had phenomenal results with Fairy Platinum Plus for plastics. Even the dishwasher itself looks like new. Tannins can take a few cycles to completely disappear though. Tea and tomato stains in plastic aren't easy to remove in one cycle.

The Fairy / Dreft pods, which are the European exact equivalent of this product seem to be slightly less foamy now. I have tried them with excellent results in a Miele machine. The previous generations of them definitely caused far too much foam, as you could hear the dishwasher pump pulling...

The chlorine based gels are largely impossible to get here these days. I remember opening the dishwasher mid cycle as a kid and getting a large waft of steamy chlorine and also all the faded designs on plates and cups. I know there’s nostalgia about the old days but modern detergents and...

@Unimatic - I suppose times change. The technology's changing a lot, but I also think we're finally moving away from an interim stage of tech which was basically just a hack to reuse old copper networks and involved placing a lot of active equipment into cabinets located near to end users...

Well that’s the end of an era. I’ve just permanently hung up on the last vestige of the PSTN. I upgraded to fibre to home and they used the copper phone line as a draw wire to pull the fibre though the ducts under my lawn lol Seems the old policy was to leave them in place but they’re not...