7 hours ago, tonray said:

This may help:

 

https://support.circulon.com/support/solutions/articles/65000167023-do-stainless-steel-handles-get-hot-

 

Do stainless steel handles get hot?

William Mercado

Modified on: Fri, 7 Aug, 2020 at 8:33 PM

Do stainless steel handles get hot?

 

 

Generally, stainless steel is a poor heat conductor which is why it makes for good, sturdy handles.

 

There are several types of stainless steel handles.   

 

Stainless steel tubular handles are sturdy and oven safe. The stainless steel is formed into a tubular shape, creating an inside air flow up the shank of the handle. This slows the buildup of heat from the hot pan to the handle.  Most of our newer product lines with tubular handles also contain a baffle where the handle meets the pan, allowing the handle to stay cooler for a longer period of time.

 

Cast stainless steel handles are molded into sturdy, beautiful handles that come in various shapes for grip comfort while remaining oven safe and durable.

 

Hollow-core cast stainless steel handles stay cooler longer than solid cast stainless steel handles and are oven safe to 500 degrees F. The air in the core of the handle insulates against heat during stovetop cooking.

 

For all types of stainless steel handles, the heat setting and length of the handle determine how long the handle will stay cool to the touch. Long stick handles will usually stay cooler than shorter side handles. However, if the stick handle is on a small skillet, the handle is much closer to the heat source, and consequently will tend to heat up much faster than a stick handle on a wide saute pan or tall saucepan.

 

Be sure to follow these basic guidelines when using product with stainless steel handles.

 

• Use the burner size that most closely matches the size of your product.
• Center your product on the burner.
• Use low to medium heat.
• Always use pot holders when removing product from the stovetop.

 

Note: You may want to consider using handle sleeves. They are a popular tool and are usually available from online retailers and most larger department stores.

Worked as a chef for many years and one problem with some pots and pans that has tubular handles ,

is that as time passes the welding's are broken and it will let in water after cleaning them

and the handle get even hotter since the water starts to boil in the handle.

Especially if you cook on gas, where the excess heat goes out and up to the handle.

Normally that's not an issue in a restaurant kitchen since we know stuff are hot ???? 

My favorite pans are good old fashioned iron pans due to their excellent heat distribution capabilities

and if you handle them well and treat them correctly, they last forever.

They works tons better than all sorts of popular non stick super high tech space age engineered pans, 

and preparing your food on iron pans actually adds iron to your food.

So if you need iron in your dietary , an iron pan can supplement your daily intake..

Some of my favorite pans are from a French manufacturer De buyer, but the price is off course more expensive.

43 minutes ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

Hello ,

 

Maybe Aunutin should go back to basic math school  ???? Very easy to make a boobish statement like this when your total population is over 71 Million and you’ve only tested just over 246,000 citizens !!

CONSIDER THE SOURCE PEOPLE !! ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS !! 

It's 246,459 per million which makes is approx 16,5 million tests in total.

That's still a very low number for such a huge population if you compare them to the country that test most in the world.

Denmark test roughly 80 x more than Thailand.

Some truths can be found in between the lines if you look at Active cases/critical, serious cases.

Denmark has 521.237 cases but only 33 serious cases!

Thailand has 83.936 cases but a staggering 588 serious cases which tells me their active cases are way way higher than the daily numbers report.

I think we're looking at several hundred thousands positive cases per day in Thailand and not  8000 as they publish.

But not all bad for Thailand.

When we look at deaths pr million Thailand ranks 91th in the world

Denmark is 116th so Thailand did better on deaths, which is a good thing.

Hopefully the authorities are not arguing which branch are responsible, just like on Samui 7 or so years ago,

that seem to delay the whole process.

It was nasty to walk on Chaweng and Lamai.

Oil stains all over the feet, which were quite hard to wash off.

6 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

It's easy to see from that graph which country is the least vaccinated per capita.

Yeah and their boosters are not that impressive.

Neither is Japans, but i assume that's because they had less infections so boosters started later?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-booster-doses-per-capita?country=DNK~GBR~USA~IRL~NLD~JPN

18 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Australia never had full lock downs either. Japan and Korea appear to have had very similar style lock downs that Australia had. While Japan never had official lock downs they did in fact lock down voluntarily which had the same effect as any other lock down.

 

(1) the effect that citizens refrained from going out in line with the government’s request, and (2) the effect that government announcements reinforced awareness with regard to the seriousness of the pandemic and people voluntarily refrained from going out.

 

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252468

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/10/seoul-heads-for-lockdown-as-infections-spiral-in-south-korea

 

Under the new rules, which will come into effect on Saturday, gatherings are limited to no more than four people, as long as they are fully vaccinated.

Unvaccinated people can only dine out alone, or use takeout or delivery services.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/16/s-korea-reimposes-covid-19-curbs-amid-mayhem-at-hospitals

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-set-extend-covid-19-state-emergency-lockdown-sept-12-2021-08-17/

 

 

Denmark, Holland, Ireland and UK are dropping most if not all restrictions and if we look at the admissions in ICU it makes perfect sense.

USA on the other hand looks like a country where lifting restrictions wouldn't be a good idea and finally it seems like Japan are having a curve that increases.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-icu-patients-per-million?time=2021-12-14..latest&country=DNK~GBR~IRL~NLD~USA~JPN

14 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I don't consider 56 to 60 to be "elderly" We don't even get the pension till 65.

Just saying it's not unusual to use young and healthy individuals in phase 1 and 2.

15 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Why stop at 55? That's not old in this age.

 

That alone makes me suspicious.

Maybe they are doing a phase 1 and 2 first, and then in phase 3 letting in some elderly?

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/older-adults-are-more-at-risk-for-covid-19-so-why-dont-vaccine-trials-include-them#The-state-of-COVID-19-vaccine-trials

9 hours ago, robblok said:

That is if it is a good translation, because this would mean that all unprocessed pot is now legal. Now I wont be getting stoned any time soon but its good news for those who like it. 

 

But the fact that the product is legal does that mean that if your pee tested your off the hook. Because this is about posession not use ?

 

Im just saying there are multiple ways to interpret this.  

One can claim you extract the flowers from the plant and that the drying is a process.

I wouldn't bet my money on legal cannabis as we know it just yet.

Not that i care, since i don't smoke cannabis,

but i know some others that wouldn't mind if it was legal to smoke it.

Can't see why people shouldn't be allowed to smoke their weed,

but it would be nice if they didn't make it legal to smoke in public places.

Can't stand the smell.

7 hours ago, TheScience said:

oMiCRoN is definitely not a problem here. I've never seen cases over 7-8k reported and deaths remain well under 40 per day as I recall.

 

Students returning to class.

 

UK removing many draconian mandates, some EU nations following. US is removing ridiculous mask mandates as the truth becomes more and more undeniable.

 

Looks like the charade is coming to a head.

No charade.

Just a new variant that cause less problems so we can treat it like an ordinary virus, that is not a critical threat to society.

No reason to say it's like the truth had been hidden or such.

It's a virus that caused a lot of problems and needed to be dealt with.

Now we're just lucky to have to the omicron variant that cause less problems.

As for the BA.2 mutation i wouldn't be too worried 

It's dominant in Denmark and we lift all restrictions next week if all goes well.

Even if we still have 40k positive per day.

It's not that messy.

I can still see the floor tiles ???? 

52 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

The Omicron variant appears to result in less severe COVID-19 than seen during previous periods of high coronavirus transmission including the Delta wave, with shorter hospital stays, less need for intensive care and fewer deaths, according to a new U.S. study.

However, the fast-spreading Omicron variant has led to record numbers of infections and hospitalizations, straining the U.S. healthcare system.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/covid-is-less-severe-with-omicron-than-delta-us-study-suggests-2022-01-25/

Yeah that's the biggest issue we have too.

Lack of people on the jobs since many are in isolation.

Many of them have no symptoms but have to stay home since they are positive.

Isolating rules are also being changed in many countries.

Shorter isolation periods are on the drawing board.

10 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

The health experts don't agree with you.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/5-reasons-you-should-not-deliberately-catch-omicron-to-get-it-over-with-1.5735182

 

 

I'm not talking about deliberately trying to get infected.

I also warned about that in other threads weeks ago.

I'm talking about it is time to move on now when we finally have a variant that cause less problems.

We have a chance of getting delta out of the way.

Get the vaccination and you are almost 100% sure not to die from omicron unless you are old or have other underlying conditions.

You might take a look at what many euro countries are doing at the moment.

They are lifting some restrictions in the middle of the omicron outbreak and not the other way around.

5 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Certainly before Omicron, preventing mass infection was both possible and smart.

 

But, now, what does Japan do in the future? Countries like America are going to throw their doors open after Omicron, but how does Japan open up without suffering mass Omicron infection? 

Countries that try to keep omicron away will just prolong the pandemic.

Might as well just get it over with and let omicron gain control worldwide, so Delta can become history.

WHO also today told about the BA.2 mutation spreading.

Not much to worry about as far as i can tell.

It's dominant in Denmark now and are not causing any more problems than BA.1 so far.

Reinfections could be the worst issue.

i think we have seen enough data to realize that omicron is so much "better" to have in circulation compared to delta, so i don't understand why countries still try to prevent the spread.

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Regardless of any health issue the single biggest factor determining probability of dying from COVID is vaccination status.

 

If you are 25 and fit, you are dramatically less likely to die from COVID if you are vaccinated v unvaccinated.

 

If you are 85 and living in a nursing home, you are dramatically less likely to die from COVID if you are vaccinated v unvaccinated.

 

 

Omicron also turned the tide.

Here in Denmark we still have more than 40,000 positive cases a day (46590 today) which is quite a lot in  5,8 mill country.

However the prime minister has planned a press meeting for tomorrow

and the press expect that she will lift most if not all restrictions from next week.

So seems like Omicron did what we all hoped it would do.

Mass infections, but nothing to serious and hospitals are not crashing,

so we can return to normal, even if we are not even close to seeing the numbers decreasing.

If we lift all restrictions i assume we will still see some high numbers for about 3-4 weeks before it start to drastically drop.

We'll see.

Denmark started to release data from the hospitals last month, so we weekly can se how many are admitted because of covid and how many are admitted with something else, but tested positive on/after arrival.

Some regions has almost 50/50 admitted, so the ones that are being admitted and needs treatment only because of Omicron, are actually a lot lower than the released numbers showed before.

Not saying that is perfect, because it's still a bad thing for those in ICU, but it's good news for the overall population.

So seems like we're in for a spring/summer/fall with 0 restrictions what so ever,

unless something goes terribly wrong or a new stupid mutation emerges.

If no other variants emerge, we should be able to go through next winter with 0 restrictions,

since Pfizer will have released their Omicron vaccine, so things are not looking to bad atm.

Personally i expect more variants, i just hope they can't beat Omicron.

Cheers for that.

Hopefully this will be the last year with massive restrictions worldwide.

We need to get back to living our normal lives.

We all deserve that after having struggled with this for 2 years.

When i look at the videos from Bangla road  Patong this weekend, it's seems like it's onny 50% or so that walk around with a mask.

I'm amazed to see how busy it actually is ????

24 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

China rocked right after the pandemic started.  The US rocked because of near zero interest rates.  And starting to tank now as they're projected to rise shortly.

 

From the economic analysis I've read, which is a few months old, lockdowns didn't really impact businesses badly.  Though many want you to think so.

51 minutes ago, cmarshall said:

China reported growth of 8.1% in 2021, although it had slowed down by the fourth quarter.  That seems reasonable in view of the fact that the reduction in consumer spending on services in the US and elsewhere was accompanied by an increase in spending on goods, to the benefit of both China and US retailers like Amazon.com, etc.  Also, China managed the epidemic very well without ever having a national lockdown.

 

 

China is a bit hard to compare when it comes to success in COVID control vs economics.

Their released numbers of positive COVID cases are a huge joke, so we have no idea how well they managed the pandemic.

3 minutes ago, Ryan754326 said:

Is it taboo to mention that Japan also has the lowest rate of obesity in the developed world? 

That's quite amazing since i know how good karaage don and gyoza taste.

Could eat that all day long, but it would not make me lose weight ????

5 hours ago, cmarshall said:

It's hard to miss the message that both rich and poor Asian countries as a group far outperformed Europe and the US in protecting their populations.

Could you compare economics as well?

I know we are better off than before covid 19 here in Denmark even if we had way higher deaths per million than Asia.

Our national debts to GDP has not been as low since 2009.

We are having lower unemployment rates compared to 2019. 2.8% now and 3.7% in 2019.

We had the biggest economical growth in 27 years which is now threatened by the lack of workforce.

I know Sweden and Norway did good economically and USA actually did quite good too.

How did Asia do financially?

Did their lower rates of deaths come with a financial consequence for the hundred of millions of people?

When it is a holiday here in DK we get fully paid for that day of work.

If we work on a holiday we get double or triple payment depending which company we work for.

Same in Thailand or is it a day off with no income?

9 hours ago, ozimoron said:

A fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given to people over 60 in Israel made them three times more resistant to serious illness than thrice-vaccinated people in the same age group, Israel's Health Ministry said on Sunday.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fourth-covid-vaccine-shot-sharply-raises-serious-illness-resistance-over-60s-2022-01-23/

Also important to note they haven't looged any deaths to Omicron so far.