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[wellinghall]

1. How do I get stainless steel pans really clean and free of grease?

2. Can I feed the sound from my TV through my stereo amp and speakers? What do I need to do this?

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[muuranker.livejournal.com]

1. acid. Vinegar I think ....

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

I have cleaned pans with petrol and also with bio washing liquid. If there's stuck on carbon, once it's degreased, you can use sandpaper to shift the residue.

As for the sound thing., look and see if there's a SCART socket on the TV. Dixons sell (or used to) a SCART adaptor kit that allowed the sound to be output onto standard phono plugs. It's what I use for getting the TV sound into the hifi.

#2

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Quite likely, presuming your TV isn't so old that it doesn't have some sort of audio out and your amp has a spare input.

First, look at your TV. It will probably have a headphone socket (3.5mm or ¼") on it. It may also have a line-level audio out connection - likely to be a red/white pair of phono jacks (aka RCA jacks). The latter is preferable; the former will do but requires you to be careful.

Then look at your amp. You're looking for a spare stereo input pair - this will probably be as a(nother) red/white pair of phono jacks. Confusingly, if there is a single input pair labelled "phono" you must not use it (it'll be for a record deck aka phonograph and will come through far too loud to be of use) - but more or less any other input will do the job. (Beware, there may be connectors on the amp which are output-only. Check the labelling!)

Then you need to source a cable to connect A to B. (I link here to an arbitrarily chosen web supplier; if you prefer to buy on the high street you can find them in Maplin and probably Comet, Currys, John Lewis, local purveyors of A/V kit..)

If both ends are phono, you need a standard twin phono (aka twin RCA) cable of suitable length. (You might choose to spend more on a high quality cable, but you're unlikely to notice the difference.) Plug it in, matching up the colour coding on the plugs to that on the sockets; fire up the amp, select the input you've connected the cable to, optionally turn down the TV volume and see how you go.

With plan B, headphone to phono, the cable depends on what side of headphone jack and will look like one of these:

• 3.5mm to 2x phono
• ¼" to 2x phono

Again, match up the colour coding on the phono sockets. Note in this case that the signal level is already amplified: you must always be careful to turn the TV volume right down before firing up the amp, and you will probably need very little volume to get an adequate signal into the amp. (Also, be aware that the act of plugging in a headphone jack usually mutes the TV speakers.)

If the connectors are anything else, can you post photos?

Re: #2

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Goodness! I was going to say much the same, except that my version would have run "what - if any - red and white sockets are there on the two bits of kit?" :)

[elegaer.livejournal.com]

washing soda for the first one??

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Yeah my Mum taught me to do that with really burnt on stuff - you slowly simmer it - you can use soda crystals I think but also washing powder, if you rinse very liberally! But as for grease dunno - maybe same as elegaer said or use one of the branded kitchen degreasers (and then rinse it really really thoroughly). Is your dishwasher not doing it right or do you not put them in ther? Or use lots of Fairy, soak in very hot water, and then scrub a lot ;)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

1. Ask Jeeves. The man, not the website.

Re. steel pans, on the inside I have had success with the simmer slowly method.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I use a wire pad and a little squirt of neat washing up liquid - it even removed the marks from the time I accidently let the pasta burn dry... I have no idea if this is a good/bad method, but it works for me.

(pretty sure this is a stainless steel pan)

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Dishwasher on hottest programme, then scour off anything left inside. It comes off much more easily.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

When you say "sound from my tv", what exactly is your tv source? Analogue roof aerial? Sky box? Cable? Freeview box? None of the above?

Assuming that your source is a digital one (i.e. not an old fashioned analogue roof aerial), then what you ideally want to do is take a digital signal from your digital source into a digital amp / receiver.

Say for example you have a fairly typical setup of some sort of digital TV source like a Sky box and a DVD player. You would want to take a digital video signal from both sources and a digital sound signal from both sources. If your amp is a modern AV one, your TV is modern, your TV source is modern and your DVD player is modern, you will probably be able to take both the video and audio signals from both sources through HDMI to the amp (technically an AV receiver) and then pass a single HDMI cable from the amp to the telly. That's what we have in the living room (although we also have an XBox360 connected via HDMI and a Nintendo Wii connected using analogue cables (no HDMI on the Wii).

If your amp is older (or is purely an audio amp - which nowadays means it's either old or aimed at hi-fi purists), it won't have the HDMI pass-through. That means you'll have to take a video signal from each source direct to the telly and an audio signal from each source to the amp. You'll still want to keep the signal digital if you can, so if you can, use HDMI cables to connect the sources to the tv and optical cables to take the audio signal to the amp.

Of course, one or more of your sources, amp or telly may not have any or enough of the right connections. It is therefore important for you to remember the hierarchy of quality of AV cables, which goes something like this (best first):

Video cables:
HDMI
Component
S-Video
RGB SCART
Composite SCART
Composite video
RF lead

Audio cables:
HDMI (HDMI cables can carry both audio and video signals at the same time)
Optical
Coaxial digital
Multichannel analogue
Two channel analogue (old-fashioned red and white plugs)

The hierarchy is very important (unless your eyesight isn't very good!), but don't get suckered into spending absurd amounts of money on particularly expensive cables within a category. In the old days, the golden rule of av and hi-fi was that you should always spend 10% of your total spend on cables. That made sense with analogue, much less so with digital connections. The tolerances for the HDMI standard are very narrow - so an expensive HDMI cable will not be noticeably better than an ordinary one, whereas the difference between a half-decent SCART and the one that came free with your VHS video recorder twenty years ago is very obvious on a decent telly.

If you want to see an HD picture on your HD telly (I seem to remember you buying a new telly recently, so I'm assuming it's HD), you will need an HD source and an HDMI cable. Sky HD probably offers the best range of HD channels, but is expensive. I don't know much about Freeview HD, but you would still need the appropriate set-top box and an HDMI cable.

One final obvious point - a stereo amp, will only output in stereo, so you'll miss out on 5.1 (front left, rear left, front right, rear right, centre, subwoofer) sound from your DVD and certain television sources. But obviously, you'd need more speakers for that.

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