Kitchen appliances chat

they are almost impossible to regulate.

That person has brain damage.

Cheers for the thoughts on air purifiers. I can see the Levoit and Philips ones have plenty of reduced prices in Amazon warehouse so tempting.

Still not quite sure whether they suit the case of sticking on the landing and purifying the house though. Although they make reference to stuff like 70m² they refer to it as purifying a 70m² room which suggests not.

Top rant Imo.

Not quite air purifiers but one thing I noticed from my CO₂ monitors is that the level in my spare bedroom (which I use as an office) remains high even if no-one is in the room but people are asleep in the flat (it's all on one level and no room is more than 2 doors away from every other room).

The levels drop from a high of ~700ppm near midnight (16th 23:59:59) down to ~500ppm whilst we are all asleep (although there's a recalibration at around 4am where it drops 60ppm or so).

But you can clearly see when we went out at about 10am on the 17th (so no-one was left in the flat) and it quickly drops down to the outside base level. Then we come back just before 3pm and it jumps back up again even though no-one was in the spare bedroom.

(The upper trace is an internal sensor, the lower trace is an external sensor.)

I'll see what the particulate sensors measured during the same time frame...

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This is PM1 (although PM2.5 and PM10 are the same) and there's no equivalent behaviour. It's pretty much correlated to whether someone is sat in the room at the time and drops whenever there isn't.

Based on the fact that it dropped down to near base levels even when there were two of us still in the flat I'd expect particulates are more localised and therefore you'd need to move any purifier around rather than just dumping it in one place.

But this is just based on CO2/PM1/PM2.5/PM10 results. Purifiers do other stuff too.

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Dehumidifiers - anyone have a particularly informed opinion on whether it's worth going for the brand I've heard of (Meaco) Vs the many brands that sound made up (humizap, Honeywell etc) which are currently being aggressively discounted via black Friday sales? Or, does anyone have Which? Subscription and fancy sending me the recommended buys?

Cheers

My Logik dehumidifier seems to work OK, a sample size of one might not be statistically significant though......

Or LG, as they license the inverter patent from Panasonic. Any other brand is a waste of money though.

We had a maeco one for a few years when we needed one. Really rated it.

Honeywell are a "proper" company.

I've got a meaco one. Mainly as it is wasn't much more expensive and it is quieter and more energy efficient (according to the specs at least).

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Honeywell are over one hundred years old and have almost one hundred thousand employees. Definitely a proper company.

Meaco here which has pretty much run 24/7 for 5 years so far. I’d definitely buy another.

Thanks for all the advice and the putting-straight on Honeywell. Interesting to find out they're a real company making white goods rather than a fictional catering company from the Shire.

Final question - is the only advantage of higher litreage less frequent emptying/greater ability to be left to run whilst you're away? Cheers

Edit: I see you got the Honeywell chat alr. I believe literage night also relate to how theoretically effective it is at pulling moisture

Honeywell are not made up, although they are mostly heating/thermostat related so not directly applicable to Dehumidifiers. We have a Meaco that seems fine?

One thing to consider is that a lot of the noise will depend on how well balanced the fan bearing is so might be a reason to spend with a reputable brand

Some will have drain outputs, so can bypass the internal tank and essentially run indefinitely.

We did a drying room and used the hose drain through the wall and to the outside. It’s only a little drip drip drip so doesn’t need to be connected to a drain and means there isn’t a tank to empty

We got a Meaco one.

When I looked at this recently I thought that the units with a higher "litres" rating still had the same tank volume. So, I figured the rating was about the rate of moisture extraction.

I also concluded meaco, specifically arete two. Haven't bought yet though.

12 litre Black and Decker dehumidifier £79 Lidl Middle isle this week. No idea who makes them.

Honeywell also have a huge defence arm, who also supply parts to the israeli military, if you care about that kind of thing.

Strong recommendation for the Ecoair DD1 Simple. Can fill its tank in a day or two (or much longer if less humidity) or be continuously drained into a sink etc. with the included hose. It warms the air as it works, so brilliant for laundry in a room with a closed door. Not too expensive to run.

Just ordered a kitchenaid mixer, really trying to complete middle class bingo. Has anyone got one and used the pasta maker attachments, or any of the attachments that use the front connector? Just wondered what are gimmicks and what are worth it?

Dehumidifiers: got an Ecoair DC12 4 years ago, works very well. Can certainly pull out 4 - 6l in 8 hours or so.

A month ago, I became convinced that it wasn’t working as well as it should, and got a Ebac 4250, at around twice what I paid for the Ecoair. I am coming to the conclusion that it is nowhere near as good and that there is bugger all wrong with the Ecoair. I’ve experimented with different locations and settings and have yet to get it to take out more than about 1 - 1.5l / per day. Ebac’s guff suggests not to fiddle with settings, just put it on “smart”, and let it do its thing whereby it supposedly learns about its environment.

The Ebac does use less power though. I am beginning to think this is purely because the fan is relatively feeble compared to the Ecoair.

top was glass

My "never buy glass-topped shit" rule would've saved you.

unless you're making a restaurants worth of pasta the pasta one is kinda pointless, a hand wound one is much cheaper and more than enough for any reasonable amount of home making

havent tried any of the others though