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No wonder Teh Donald & Co are in a hurry to push Ukraine into the "peace plan".
@Steve-Miller said in Happy Thanksgiving - What's your story?:
an Aldi stuffing mix, fortified with mirepoix and herbs
The brioche stuffing?
@Bernard said in Replacing the range:
@wtg Yes, I read the overview earlier this evening, but the ratings are all behind the paywall.
This link has their top three. I don't think there's a paywall.
https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/ranges/the-best-induction-ranges-a8524766309/
You can sign up for a month's worth of digital access to CR for $10 if you want access to all the ratings. I did that in the past when we were making some purchase that I thought was worth getting the CR perspective on.
Then I figured out I can access it for free via the library. 
And CR has an overview of induction cooktops and ranges.
I have had good luck with LG
An LG model is their top rated range unit.
I thought it was behind a paywall but it turns out the Consumer Reports article on adapters is available:
https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/cookware/best-induction-burner-adapters-a1907744659/
If there's something behind the paywall you would like to see, let me know. My library gives me free (well except for the taxes I pay) access to CR's website and I can see everything.
I second @steve-miller 's advice to find a counterop model and test it out. New they are less than a hundred bucks and you may be able to find a used one on craigslist. I paid something like $70 for the one I bought new and I sold it a couple of years later for $50 to some guy who wanted it for his garage or camping or some such. I had a Duxtop. I see NYT Wirecutter is still recommending that brand.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-portable-induction-cooktop/
Also Serious Eats:
https://www.seriouseats.com/best-portable-induction-cooktops-7377536
It's Black Friday. There may be some deals out there.
@Bernard said in Replacing the range:
After just having seen a La Cornue for $17K
Ha.
And there are even more expensive ones at that store:
@Bernard said in Replacing the range:
So why isn't someone making magnetized discs to place under regular cookware for use on an induction? Wouldn't this work, albeit with some loss of efficiency?
They do make adapters aka converter discs.
Great idea!
I used to drink a few mugs of coffee a day at work. I could drink half a dozen cups at dinner at a restaurant and fall asleep easily as soon as my head hit the pillow at home. Never had trouble sleeping eight hours, with or without coffee. Ever. Until....
When I hit my 40s (hello, perimenopause!) I found out that caffeine was affecting me in completely different ways than it did when I was younger. Couldn't fall asleep, got heart palpitations. I weaned myself off completely and didn't drink any coffee or tea for maybe 10 years. It helped some but I've never experienced the blissful uninterrupted sleep I did in my youth.
I started to have a cup for breakfast in the morning. No problems cropped up. A cup in the late afternoon or evening, OTOH, would keep me from falling asleep.
My digestion just isn't quite the same after my gallbladder came out and coffee is enough of an irritant to trigger stomach issues. Lately I've cut back to a cup in the morning maybe every 2 or 3 days. Looks like I can handle that.
Always good to test things out to see how what works best for you. Everybody's different and our bodies also evolve as we age.
Hope you enjoy your extra sleep. 
CME Futures Outage Disrupts Trading Across Global Markets
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cme-futures-trading-stopped-friday-041013534.html
The Bloomberg story made me break out in a sweat and took me back a few decades...I used to work for the CME, back in mainframe pre-internet days.
During one part of my career there I was in part responsible for clearing and settlement systems for the exchange. My development team installed some updates to the system and things crashed in the middle of the night. They worked frantically to find and fix the problem as the morning opening was moving closer and closer. It didn't help that the senior VP of our division (always a high energy person but that night even more so) was pacing frantically around the computer room. My boss asked me if there was anything he could do and I said "Please get Don out of here." 
All was well that ended well. The problem was found and fixed in time for the opening. We had 40 minutes to spare..
I used to joke that I came within a hair's breadth of being a headline in the WSJ...
