Kitchen appliances chat

It’s a vacuum sealer in a drawer.
Better off with a separate vacuum chamber sealer if you can store it elsewhere when not needed.

Though if you sous vide all the things having one installed in the kitchen may seem more useful.

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Ironing sheets is either hired help business or Patrick Bateman business.

It’s a vacuum sealer in a drawer.

So tempted. I'm not sure if I could hide it as well as I hide the other totallynecessaryiswear kitchen gadgets though.

All the sheet non-ironers. You sicken me.

Patrick Bateman business.

He had all of his sheets dry cleaned. To remove the cranberry juice stains.

Cranapple

A bit unfair.

What about people with too much time on their hands?

There's a whole world of boring hobbies out there, but I suppose who am I to judge.
I have had a lot of practice at it though, and it's a lot of fun.

https://youtu.be/PXqkQY08-sc

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We're looking at 90cm range cookers with induction hobs and trying to decide between Delonghi DTR 916 IND2 or SMEG C92IMX9 - is there a forum preference for either brand?

We're keen to avoid touch controls on the hob so limited to a smaller number of options.

My experience of neff touch controls on an induction hob has been great. So much better than expected

And it makes for a nice flat surface and easy cleaning.

5 shirts and 2 pairs of trousers per week
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So that’s one with the base attachment thingy - the big boys? That’s what I was thinking but little experience of them. Will probably just plump for whatever comes top of which then. Thanks!

Tablecloth

Whut

Yeah - that’s what it’s called right?! 🫣

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If you're going for a stack, there's less need. People who go for side by side install with a compact and a single oven do it mainly to fill the gap so they make a nice even shape.

I don't think I can be convinced based on my experience of a Bosch one (made by the same people?)

I’ve ended up with two Larq water filters - if someone wants a £170 water filter for £60 then lmk 🥶

Is this the pitcher type one? White or blue. Always wondered what they were like, how have you found it?

Yeah pitcher and in white. So far found it good and build quality is suitably impressive. I cant speak to whether it is filtering everything out but water tastes good to me

Looking to upgrade our corded vacuum to a cordless one; have an Amazon voucher so will be using that to cover some of the cost. Looking at a few Shark models, anyone got one and can recommend/not recommend it?

I bought a Shark for my father-in-law's house. The batteries last a long time (and there are 2 of them), and it can get into all the spaces. Cleaning power seems very good, and the quality seems up to scratch.

I got a shark from Argos for £99 and it got headlights on the brush part! Clunky and works brilliantly. It's a corded version

endless appliance woes on the oven front for me.

£125 for an engineer to say our oven basiaclly isnt repairable.

£800 new oven that they wouldnt install because the old oven and hob were wired into the dedicated block

£90 to an electrician who has discovered that the 'oven' labelling on the consumer unit goes nowhere, only the hob labelled block is actually wired up through to the kitchen.

minimum £200+ quote to wire it up, plus decorating repair work. The CU is in the garage at the front, the kitchen is on the first floor at the back, so i imagine this is a significant problem.

The electrician said that the oven needs to be max 13amp to not required new wiring, my calculations suggest that the oven we had delivered requires 13.3.. how much of an issue is this really? is it feasible to make it work? the oven ordered has pyrolytic cleaning which is I guess why it consumes more power and could be a problem if the hob thats also wired to the same spur was running but we would never do this?

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how much of an issue is this really

not an issue. you'd only be touching the max if everything was on full blast all at once. I suspect it'll never happen. My oven is similarly rated and just running off a plug. Never had a problem, never tripped the fuse.

The "Required Fuse" entry on the datasheet is what you need to look at. That's saying 16 A, and so you will need that wired in directly. There are definitely ovens made that go into 13A sockets (they'll be sold with a plug on the flex, rather than a bare end) but you're right that they probably won't do pyrolytic cleaning.