Thanks for that, good to hear the teflon stuff is gone, I wonder about the cheap pans you see in markets?
The use of this kind of Teflon in cookware items was outlawed in the UK in 2005. In 2008, it was outlawed across all of Europe. 2014 saw the United States follow.
As part of the Stockholm Convention, PFOA was outlawed internationally in 2019.
Not ‘low grade’, but stainless steel that has a low or zero percentage of nickel. It’s the nickel content that destroys magnetism in austenitic stainless steels.
Its actually the austenitic crystal structure but non magnetic elements as said before reduce its usefulness on a induction hob. Martenistic crystal structure SS are magnetic but I didnt want to over complicate. All sorts of alloys are propriety available lots of the ones we used were Skandanavian.
For pans that don’t work on induction one can pay daft money [in my opinion] for a steel plate. I’m for asking a garagiste for a couple of gash brake discs…
Time for a thread drift? I love the way that a need creates a breakthrough.
Yes the ostréiculteurs in Arcachon got hit with oysters infected with Noravirus just at Xmas time… Xmas and NYE being their busiest time of the year, they’ve lost millions as a result 
The ban was due to last 28 days so must still be in place
Not a fan of shellfish at all but the associated problem for us was that our fish lady who travels from the coast every Saturday and Thursday cancelled so we got non of our swimmy fish either for a couple of weeks. 
Friends in Paris had oysters over Christmas from La Rochelle - the whole family was ill afterwards.
It would not be for the 1st time I would question hygene in French kitchens.
Memo to self - where can I go on the internet to learn about different types of stainless steel crystal structures? I know - Survive France!! 
Buy online: they do deliver. The trick, if it so be called, is to order up to the limit of the delivery charge level.
I bought all my kitchen units and fittings from IKEA because they will deliver right into the house. As the default delivery van - the Luton, in UK van-speak - will not fit down my lane, the guys had to trundle all the boxes 200m down the hill on ‘diablos’, up 4m [vertically] of narrow stone steps, another 4m vertically round the house to the front door, which is round the back.
And then trudge back up the hill for the next load. A real schlep.
I bought my stuff in two lots, both just under a delivery charge limit to get max value from the delivery cost.
They must have been on a cruise… 
From a long time past in my metallurgy classes. Some stuff I remember other things just fade.
The shipwright at my boatyard decided to try the oysters in the Tamar.
Upstream at Morwellham was, in Victorian times, the largest copper mine in Europe. They also mined arsenic and silver.
300m downstream of the yard was an Victorian silver mine. There was a spoil heap 70m-80m from the waterline that was/is so toxic that nothing, not even brambles, grows on it.
Downstream, at Devonport, is the nuclear sub base.
I had a science team based on the yard. They came once a month to measure things, including the toxicity of the water. What they found was lots of toxic nasties.
My man had his oysters and was violently ill. He thought he might just have had a bad one so repeated the stunt when he’d recovered.
He was, once again, violently ill.
Fortunately, a whole salmon that I bought from the last remaining netsman on the Tamar had been in the briny, offshore , only hours before my mother cleaned it and cut it into steaks.
if you do 4 orders min 50 euros on separate days or can include in-store shops to make up the 4, within a 1 year period, signed into your Ikea Family card account they say they will give you 10 euros (presumably voucher)
These days, even in the absence of mining or nuclear subs there will be the delightful contributions of raw sewage from the UK’s almost unregulated water companies…
OFWAT regulate the water companies but from a customer centric financial stand point so what you say Chris is pretty much true. Flipping amazing but thats merry old England.
In theory they do, but in practice not so much. Their budget has been cut by the Government so they have insufficient inspectors to properly police water quality.
Also it’s been noticeable how poorly the infrastructure has been maintained, especially in my area (Surrey) by Thames Water. We used to be able to take a constant water supply for granted, but in the last year we have had water cut off for up to 3 days on several occasions, due to burst pipes or “problems at the distribution centre”. It’s got to the point where they pre-emptively send a van round distributing bottled water - that’s how you know your water is a bout to be cut off!
Just wow. It sometimes feels like the UK has forgotten how to lead.
Ofwat regulate the companies, it’s the Environment Agency that regulates water quality, and thier budget has been slashed as well.