This reminds me of this stove top tea kettle design, which is almost ubiquitous these days:
When you go to pour your boiling water into a tea cup or mug or whatever, the angle required to pour places the handle, and of course your hand, directly in the big column of steam coming from the recently-boiled water.
I used one of these type of kettles once.
And only once.
But it looks cool. What’s a little scalding compared to that?
And there’s the iconic whistle!
I hate teakettle whistles. I do not want my kettle screaming at me.
Even when it’s not sitting on the woodstove steaming all day.
I have never seen a teakettle that did not place your hand directly above the hot water spout as you are pouring. Nor a coffeepot.
Interesting. None of mine do. The coffeepot’s got the handle on the side opposite the spout. The teakettles have handles coming all the way across the top with a handgrip on the top portion and a longish curved spout on one side in line with the handle; when I hold them on the handgrip I don’t get my hand in the steam.
don’t get me started on that $hit!!!
when did it become fashionable to put “status LEDs” on a notebook into place that you can NOT see??? (e.g. the side-rim where the USB etc… plugs go)
I know that is a cost-saving measure (50 cents saved!) … but that is saving muscle and not saving fat!
Totally backwards!
I know this is an older post, but yeah: that sort is designed for use when camping etc. I’d never heard of them, but my husband used them when our son was in Boy Scouts.
As far as a SILICONE lid for a Dutch Oven… I’m assuming that @markn_1 was talking about one designed for home use, with a rounded lid. And WTF with making that out of silicone. I’ve never heard of that, and it’s pretty damn boneheaded.
My own contribution: Le Creuset is the high-end product in enameled cast iron dutch ovens. But their lids came with a PLASTIC knob. Fine for cooking on the stovetop - no hot pad needed to lift it. IF you wanted to put it in the oven, though: not recommended. They actually offered a separate metal replacement knob if you wanted.
Interestingly, they appear to have corrected this: I looked just now and the ones I saw now have metal knobs.
I use a similar tea kettle on almost a daily basis. After seeing this post I started paying attention to how I grab the handle, because that’s not a problem I have. I realized I’ve gotten into the habit of grabbing the back part of the handle, not the top. Grabbing the handle farther back keeps your hand out of the steam.
I like the whistle, because often when I’m working from home I’ll put on some water for tea and then go back to my desk while waiting for it to boil. And too often I would get distracted and forget about the water until it’s nearly boiled dry. The whistle solves that problem.
In the 1980s, my parents had acquired a Le Creuset dutch oven. It had a plastic knob “glove” that slid and locked into place on top of the metal knob; we were supposed to use the plastic attachment on the cooktop and remove it when intending to use the thing in the oven. I guess they gave up on that concept later on.
Those black “plastic” knobs are phenolic resin, like Bakelite, and oven-safe to 390°.
In other words, of restricted utility in the home kitchen. What were they thinking?
True - I think the description said “not for use above xx tempurature”, and a temp that we usually don’t exceed in typical oven usage for such a pot, but close enough that it would be relatively easy to mess up.
I never bought a Le Creuset anyway. Housemate bought a pair of pots from another brand, and their knobs are the same material as the rest of the pot, so it hasn’t been an issue.
There’s a factory outlet store that my gf went to years ago. She came home with many Le Creuset items, all marked down due to minor cosmetic blemishes, or just odd colors.
Spectrum Cable now includes Disney+ as a free option, so we’re using it. We’ve been used to Netflix, and Disney’s interface is lacking.
Most annoying is the fact that you are forced to read or zip through the credits. If you close Netflix once the credits roll, and come back to see the next episode of the show, it will show the next episode. Disney takes you back to the credits you skipped before. This is especially annoying with the Star Wars shows, which have five minutes or more of credits.
Also, you can’t find out how much time is left in the movie. Netflix and Tubi display it when you pause. Disney does not.
Also the list of shows you’re currently watching is not easy to find.
It’s clearly poorly designed.
Yeah, I’ve commented before that it would be nice if it were possible to watch every streaming channel with one’s own customized UI: rewind and fast forward at the speeds you prefer, no searching around for the captions button, etc., etc.
One of the things I hate about most streaming services is the info overlay they put up over the picture when you hit pause, especially if there’s no way to make it go away. We often pause to take a closer look at something in the picture, and the overlay often covers or partially obscures the thing we’re trying to see.
Speaking of streaming services, I always experience a significant delay when first loading the Max (HBO/Cinemax) app. It doesn’t matter on what device, it inevitably loads very slowly, and sometimes it times out, which necessitates starting all over. My son and daughter have the same experiences.
I rarely have issues loading Netflix, Prime, or Hulu.
My cable company remote control has a thirty-second skip forward button and another to go back fifteen seconds. Both are useful, especially the one to go back, which is useful if I miss a bit of dialogue or some action. And then I’m streaming something and hit those buttons, even though they’re not going to work.
Usually I can hit the “back” button once on the Roku to remove the overlay.