Kitchen appliances chat

They remove too much metal and in my experience are a decent way of messing up knives. I had a steel which I use most often just to keep a decent edge on the knives. Everyone tells me using whetstones is easy but always feels more faff than I want. So I also have a lansky knife sharpening system which is pretty fool proof. There is also the Horl system for sharpening which is more expensive but gets good reviews.
I have also taken to sending my knives off to get sharpened as it’s not that expensive if you get a few done and usually means I can keep the edge with the steel.

Just to add my two cents on Induction hobs: we went with an AEG induction hob, which has been working flawlessly for the past two years without any issues. However, during our renovation, we used an Ikea portable induction hob for six months, and my family also has one of Ikea’s larger, permanent hobs.

I was actually more impressed with the Ikea hob (which I’ve learned is manufactured by Whirlpool). It was easier to use, very responsive, and I never overboiled rice with it—a big plus for me! If I were doing it again, I’d probably opt for an Ikea induction hob with boost options.

We have the Horl. It’s not quite impossible to mess up, but with a bit of care and attention produces amazing results.

If you want something super sharp, get their finer additional stones and the strop.

Occasional strop and use of fine stone is good for weekly maintenance. You can deal with chips maybe every 3-4 months using the coarser stones, albeit still much more quickly than using whetstones.

Because I'm useless at getting around to sorting my house out, I've had two of those Ikea portable induction hobs in my kitchen for the last few years. They're great little things.

Fuck off to the knife thread you noob! This is for kitchen appliances.

Do you mean the Horl ones? If so they are excellent.

But the knock offs are not durable you have to get the real ones.

Thanks, and to you too @ak . This is the kind of information I was after.

Will get a Horl one after Christmas.

Does anyone have one of the cheap eufy robot vacuums?

The G50 is £150 which seems very good.

I'd probably leave it downstairs which is wood floor with a big rug in one room. We suffer from severe hair malting.

I don't have that one but I have a Eufy robovac - it's good. Though thresholds, rugs and wires etc can be an issue though once you have your boundaries etc sorted in the mapping, then generally it's fine

Cheers. Which one did you get and how often does it run? Wondering if not having a cleaning dock thing will get old.

We have an L60 ses because cat hair. This model as didn’t want wet clean.
It’s good, would be better if we had flatter thresholds. They are really high and I built ramps which looks bad and the thing makes a racket when going over them. Have to improve the map so it only goes over them once per room.
Ideally it would run two times a week.
Dog owning friend has the same model and no thresholds and said it is life changing.

Edit: if your rug has fringes it will get tangled up all the time.

I have a G30. Fine if you want to set it off and let it do its own thing but no clever mapping or geofencing unless you use a lump of magnetic tape.

I have a step out of the kitchen where the dock is so I wouldn't be setting it off round the house anyway. Used almost daily in the kitchen.

I previously had a fancy Roomba and although the features were better the cleaning was no different.

Depends exactly what you want to do as to whether spending more money is worth it. In my experience there was always enough stuff on the floor that setting off on a schedule wasn't feasible so fancy software wasn't needed.

Anyone tried any of the £120-175 range battery powered shark style vacuum and have an opinion. Seems like they get often gey better reviews than. Shark and you get better power/more battery life than the shark that is around £200.

It's to supplement a Henry so for cleaning single rooms, spills etc rather than the whole house in one go.

I have a Eufy and a Shark - both are good but at different ends of cot spectrum. We use the Shark for small spills etc and works great.

There is another brand called Hoto which do some nice designed stuff and think they have a handheld vaccum. We got their scrubbing brush and my wife likes it.

Out of date tthis point due to xms.

Electric goods will always be more liable to failure than what is essentially a brass valve on a gas hob.

Edit: had to replace an power amplifier board on my John Lewis/AEG/Electrolux over Xmas. Bought the board off eBay and saved £150!!

What's the best salad spinner? Just ger a other good grips one?

For the avoidance of doubt - I'm not the main user.

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No use to you, by my folks have an 80s Italian one with a gear system and a lever at the bottom. You need to get used to having it on the side of the counter though.

Otherwise I've always liked the OXO, so I'd just buy that again. It's quite easy to clean too.

It's quite easy to clean

seems that my partner doesn't concur with this but yeah, I think i'll just get another of these.

My mother-in-law got us the tupperware one, works great, salad goes in wet, comes out bone dry. No complaints.

Would be hard to break like that, it's a bouncier plastic.

i think Tupperware went bust.

couple on ebay, otherwise seems to be US only.

Yeah, I know they were going under didn't know if it'd happened yet. Thought there'd be plenty of stock about still?

Just been browsing vintage Tupperware and having a nostalgia trip.

Might get a findus crispy pancake out of the freezer…

Well it's all relative.

Apologies, it was an underhanded dig at my partner's washing up technique.

(The photo was after it had been "washed*)