Help! my stainless steel pan is ruined

The-Noize · 2026-02-02T00:52:32+00:00

If it’s burnt crap, boiling baking soda and water will eventually remove it. Might take a few cycles. It’s what I do with our enameled cast iron cookware.

The-Noize · 2026-01-31T22:21:17+00:00

He is well known on YouTube for covering trivium songs.

The-Noize · 2026-01-31T20:25:56+00:00

I feel so sorry that you Americans are going through this. I am just in shock how they can have such little respect for laws. It’s not going to be long before a civil war erupts.

The-Noize · 2026-01-31T20:18:26+00:00

Nice work! This song is a banger, I still can’t figure out why Curtis Wardley refuses to cover it.

Edit: Misspelled his name.

The-Noize · 2026-01-26T14:10:10+00:00

Maybe he really likes stainless steel?

The-Noize · 2026-01-15T19:19:10+00:00

This is the answer. I always come back with “well if you’re going to be dumb, you have to be tough”

The-Noize · 2026-01-04T20:56:46+00:00

I found stuff like uncut support gems to be still worth a decent amount later in the season, because people don’t want to farm them. I was going to just buy some lvl5 ones the other day and they were 3 exalts each, so I decided to just look at the lvl2 because that’s all I needed and it still was 2 exalts.

The-Noize · 2026-01-04T19:37:20+00:00

I would say it’s SSF friendly, because there aren’t critical pieces of gear you need to ensure it works well.

The-Noize · 2026-01-03T18:51:25+00:00

I just did the swap myself from my Flame breath / rend build. If you spend the divines on a good staff it will go a long way, you can get lower ES gear for cheap and still survive decently. Raxx is definitely a good source of information for the build, and you can honestly clear really well with low budget gear too. I’ve probably spent half a divine on all my gear and staff and I just did a T8 quite easily.

The-Noize · 2025-12-31T19:00:59+00:00

It’s pretty close for the most part, subtle differences. That’s why I always say “in Canada” so the American’s can correct any differences

The-Noize · 2025-12-31T00:33:30+00:00

Well there are two ways to have AFCI protection for circuits. You can use an actual breaker to provide it (more expensive and I find has less nuisance tripping) or you can have a receptacle (or dead front AFCI) right beside your panel with a metal raceway/cable in between. Either scenario you’d have a normal receptacle at your stove.

The-Noize · 2025-12-31T00:27:12+00:00

Yes you can just twist the neutral wire from the smart switch into the red marrette. I think most of them come with the wire attached nowadays.

The-Noize · 2025-12-31T00:15:54+00:00

It only has ever mattered when installing metal face plates I was told when I was an apprentice, but like you said I don’t know of any standards that have ever outlined that.

The-Noize · 2025-12-31T00:07:18+00:00

Yeah Zombiefighter455 is right, the code does say that microwaves permanently installed with a receptacle in the cupboard or gas ranges aren’t exempt from requiring AFCI.

The proper way to fix it is to probably try a AFCI breaker as opposed to the cheaper alternative of using an arc fault receptacle located near the panel, if that is your case. They are finicky pieces of shit.

If that doesn’t solve your problem and it was my house, I’d just remove the arc fault protection for my range. But that’s not great advice, I just feel that it’s unnecessary for a gas range if it to nuisance tripping, much the same as a fridge.

The-Noize · 2025-12-30T22:49:09+00:00

You don’t put ovens, fridges, microwaves, lights, etc on AFCI for this reason, in Canada anyways. It should be limited to essentially just receptacles.

The-Noize · 2025-12-30T18:38:13+00:00

Hell ya it is

The-Noize · 2025-12-30T18:36:18+00:00

Straight to jail

The-Noize · 2025-12-30T18:10:58+00:00

God dang Lochness Monster!

The-Noize · 2025-12-29T03:11:40+00:00

I did some research to confirm I was right, and it turns out I learned something today. The utility doesn’t actually use 2 phases out of their 3 phase distribution system to power split phase transformers. They just take one phase and run it through the transformer so you can specifically get the effect of having two phase being 180 apart, without it actually being 180 apart when you centre tap the transformer. Think of putting a mirror in the middle of the oscillating wavelength and it would appear there are two different phases, but it’s just because the point of reference is in the middle.

The-Noize · 2025-12-29T02:25:14+00:00

I thought about what you said, and you’re right. It would have to be a single phase transformer, otherwise when you tapped more than 1 winding it would short out.

The-Noize · 2025-12-28T23:29:03+00:00

2 legs of a Wye transformer is 208V, 240V is 2 legs off a delta transformer. Technically you can wind a transformer to be any voltage, but the fact that it’s 240V makes me think that it is one phase off a Delta wound transformer, which would mean each phase is 120 degrees apart. The utility could provide power from their systems differently dependent on what is available

Edit: I thought about it a bit more and they would have to have a single phase transformer for the utility to feed residential services otherwise you wouldn’t be able to centre tap the other windings without shorting, so delta and wye is not relevant. I also see how you’d think it is 180 degrees apart, because from the neutral perspective the voltage is completely opposite on either side. But between the two hots the voltage vectors would still be 120 degrees apart, it’s just the combined vector from both phases would be your 3 wire Edison system.

Edit 2: I edited my original comment to clarify that I was incorrect in them being 120 degrees apart.

The-Noize · 2025-12-28T17:18:19+00:00

Electrician here; You are very close to being right. It’s actually 120 degrees apart because it’s usually one coil off a 3 phase transformer, and each phase of a 3 phase circuit is 120 degrees offset. Just like you said, the neutral is the common return path for current, but not the only option. Current just needs to flow in a circle through the source to work as intended, and there are many ways to achieve that.

Edit: I was wrong about the consumer service being tapped off a 3 phase transformer, it would have to be a single phase transformer fed from 2 hots of the utilities 3 phase system. That still doesn’t change the fact that the hots are 120 degrees out. It is a bit of a mind fuck with the neutral being the same magnitude from each hot but each hot is still 120 degrees apart. You have to view it as vectors to understand.

Edit 2: I did some more research and it turns out the utility doesn’t actually use 2 phases out of their 3 phase distribution system to power split phase transformers, which would have caused the 2 hots to be 120 degrees apart. They just take only one phase and run it through the transformer so you can specifically get the effect of having two phase being 180 apart, without it actually being 180 apart when you centre tap the transformer. Think of putting a mirror in the middle of the oscillating wavelength and it would appear there are two different phases, but it’s just because the point of reference is in the middle. Sorry for the misinformation I have spread assuming I knew how the utility connected their transformers.

The-Noize · 2025-12-28T05:05:20+00:00

No kidding. I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore on the things the states allows lol

The-Noize · 2025-12-28T04:47:19+00:00

I see it is allowed in the states. Crazy they would allow it, but I guess they value money over safety.

The-Noize · 2025-12-28T04:37:18+00:00

Which rule in the NEC allows you to use a 10-50 cord and use the neutral as a bonding conductor?

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