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Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Aldi is releasing a £20 Le Creuset dupe in DAYS – and it's a fraction of the price of branded version
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ALDI shoppers can now level up their kitchenware with an item that looks much more expensive than it is. Dupes of the iconic Le Creuset pans will hit the Specialbuy section this week. 2 Aldi shoppers can pick up a £20 Le Creuset dupe from the middle aisle in a matter of days Credit: Aldi Whether you're a regular Gordan Ramsay in the kitchen or can just about fry a sausage, you can't go wrong with this budget buy. The Crofton Everyways Pan will be available for just £19.99 in Aldi's middle aisle from Thursday, July 31. Product details Available in blue, cyan, grey, and red, the pan comes with a steamer for draining and cooking. It is suitable for all stove tops, including induction, and is oven safe up to 200-degrees Celsius. Measuring 28 centimetres in diameter, this cookware item is also dishwasher safe. According to the product description, this pan can "revamp your kitchen tools and cook up those new recipe"s. "You can host those dinner parties whilst keeping a lip on prices," manufacturers said. High-end version But while this budget buy may resemble the pricier Cast Iron Round Skillet from Le Creuset, which starts at £99, there are significant differences between the products. While the high-end version is created with cast iron, the Aldi buy is made from recycled aluminium material, with ceramic coating. Wake up to a weed-free lawn for months thanks to Aldi's £10 gadget that pulls them out without bending or kneeling down The Le Creuset item has additional features which also justify the significantly higher price point. These include spouted sides for simple pouring and an enamel interior, which develops a natural patina that will behave like a non-stick surface. "Its finish also has great food release properties with less seasoning required," say manufacturers. Shoppers can also pick up a George Home Black Barbican Saute Pan from Asda for just £20. Meanwhile, Tesco is selling the Go Cook Aluminium Marble Frying Pan for £15 and Lidl has the HexGuard Frying Pan available for £16.99. How to compare prices to get the best deal JUST because something is on offer, or is part of a sale, it doesn't mean it's always a good deal. There are plenty of comparison websites out there that'll check prices for you - so don't be left paying more than you have to. Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers. Here are some that we recommend: Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results. Price Spy logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets. Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock. Idealo is another website that lets you compare prices between retailers. All shoppers need to do is search for the item they need and the website will rank them from the cheapest to the most expensive one. CamelCamelCamel only works on goods being sold on Amazon. To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of. More on Aldi buys The retailer previously stocked another Le Creuset-inspired casserole dish. A complete Le Creuset dupe range was also available from the Specialbuy section. Aldi is also selling a handy dupe that's "just like" a Gordon Ramsay favourite for £85 less. And you can pick up a £15 NutriBullet dupe from the Specialbuy section. Plus, all the other products hitting the Aldi middle aisle this week.
New Straits Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
China's Pan puzzled after shock 200m free exit at swimming worlds
SINGAPORE: China's Pan Zhanle said he was "not sure what happened" after crashing out in the heats of the 200m freestyle at swimming's world championships in Singapore on Monday. Pan, the 100m freestyle Olympic champion and world record holder, finished only 22nd fastest in 1min 47.46sec to miss out on the top 16 who qualify for the semi-finals. "I felt OK yesterday but today's swim felt completely different," said Pan, whose time was way outside his 200m best of 1:44.65. "I'll have to keep working hard and make adjustments, I'm not sure what happened and I'm not happy with this time." Romania's David Popovici, the 200m Olympic champion, cruised through fastest in 1:45.43 ahead of American Luke Hobson (1:45.61) and Britain's Matthew Richards (1:45.66). Pan said it would not knock his confidence for the 100m. "The 200m and 100m are two different events," he said. American legend Katie Ledecky breezed through fastest in the 1500m freestyle, an event where she holds the best 23 times in history. A day after taking bronze behind Canada's Summer McIntosh in the 400m freestyle, Ledecky touched in 15:36.68, more than 10 seconds quicker than Australia's Lani Pallister and Italy's Simona Quadarella who were second and third. Australian backstroke great Kaylee McKeown eased through the 100m heats third fastest in 58.27sec. She said she was determined to enjoy herself after getting "way too caught up" in the occasion at last year's Paris Games. The four-time world champion McKeown swept the women's backstroke events at the last two Olympics and, now 24, vowed to do things on her own terms. "I'm the happiest I've ever been and coming into this championships I just want to enjoy myself," she said. "I got way too caught up in Paris with the pressure and the nerves, and sort of let that overtake the enjoyment that comes with swimming. "This year I'm just taking a step back and doing what I want to do for once and not doing what everyone else wants me to do." Regan Smith was the fastest qualifier in 58.20 to be quickest, followed by American team-mate Katharine Berkoff in 58.55. McKeown said she was mindful of her physical condition after injuring a shoulder before a recent training camp as she looks towards competing at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. "I have a few little injuries as well so I've just got to really manage myself so I can make it to LA," she said. France's Yohann Ndoye-Brouard was fastest in the men's 100m backstroke in 52.30, followed by Russian Kliment Kolesnikov (52.27) and Hungary's Hubert Kos (52.60). Ireland's Mona McSharry topped the timesheets in the women's 100m breaststroke in 1:05.99, just 0.02 ahead of Germany's Anna Elendt with Japan's Satomi Suzuki a further 0.12 back. - AFP
France 24
2 days ago
- Sport
- France 24
China's Pan puzzled after shock 200m free exit at swimming worlds
Pan, the 100m freestyle Olympic champion and world record holder, finished only 22nd fastest in 1min 47.46sec to miss out on the top 16 who qualify for the semi-finals. "I felt OK yesterday but today's swim felt completely different," said Pan, whose time was way outside his 200m best of 1:44.65. "I'll have to keep working hard and make adjustments, I'm not sure what happened and I'm not happy with this time." Romania's David Popovici, the 200m Olympic champion, cruised through fastest in 1:45.43 ahead of American Luke Hobson (1:45.61) and Britain's Matthew Richards (1:45.66). Pan said it would not knock his confidence for the 100m. "The 200m and 100m are two different events," he said. American legend Katie Ledecky breezed through fastest in the 1500m freestyle, an event where she holds the best 23 times in history. A day after taking bronze behind Canada's Summer McIntosh in the 400m freestyle, Ledecky touched in 15:36.68, more than 10 seconds quicker than Australia's Lani Pallister and Italy's Simona Quadarella who were second and third. Australian backstroke great Kaylee McKeown eased through the 100m heats third fastest in 58.27sec. She said she was determined to enjoy herself after getting "way too caught up" in the occasion at last year's Paris Games. The four-time world champion McKeown swept the women's backstroke events at the last two Olympics and, now 24, vowed to do things on her own terms. "I'm the happiest I've ever been and coming into this championships I just want to enjoy myself," she said. "I got way too caught up in Paris with the pressure and the nerves, and sort of let that overtake the enjoyment that comes with swimming. "This year I'm just taking a step back and doing what I want to do for once and not doing what everyone else wants me to do." Regan Smith was the fastest qualifier in 58.20 to be quickest, followed by American team-mate Katharine Berkoff in 58.55. McKeown said she was mindful of her physical condition after injuring a shoulder before a recent training camp as she looks towards competing at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. "I have a few little injuries as well so I've just got to really manage myself so I can make it to LA," she said. France's Yohann Ndoye-Brouard was fastest in the men's 100m backstroke in 52.30, followed by Russian Kliment Kolesnikov (52.27) and Hungary's Hubert Kos (52.60). Ireland's Mona McSharry topped the timesheets in the women's 100m breaststroke in 1:05.99, just 0.02 ahead of Germany's Anna Elendt with Japan's Satomi Suzuki a further 0.12 back.
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
‘Pan' is funny, insightful and a little unhinged
On the face of it, Michael Clune's 'Pan' appears to traverse rather straightforward territory. At the dawn of the 1990s, a teenage boy in a Midwestern suburb is sent to live with his father after his parents' divorce. He begins to suffer panic attacks. He meets new friends, starts experimenting with drugs in a secluded hayloft he and those friends refer to as 'the barn,' and … well, to describe it any further in those terms would be a complete violation of what 'Pan' is actually about. Clune's vision here is essentially religious, and I don't mean religious in the way that Flannery O'Connor was a Catholic writer or Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Jewish one. I mean, rather, that 'Pan' is saturated with a grand, psychedelic spirit, the sort of holy mania one finds in writers like William Blake or Christopher Smart. The effect, to the extent one can refer to it as merely an 'effect,' is dazzling. Clune, a celebrated memoirist, delivers with 'Pan' a debut novel that is at once startlingly funny and radiantly — if here and there a little perplexingly — strange. The prose is colloquial and direct — Clune's narrator, Nick, is 15 and speaks the argot of an ordinary teenager — and yet somehow everywhere Nick's eye alights the world feels like it's being flayed bare. In a classroom, he notes: 'Winter in Illinois, the flesh comes off the bones, what did we need geometry for? We could look at the naked angles of the trees, the circles in the sky at night. At noon we could look at our own faces. All the basic shapes were there, in bone.' It's a mood, and a style, that could easily become exhausting if it were not so perfectly matched not just to Nick's panic attacks but to the mock-heroic register of adolescence in general. Because it is, Nick's encounters with teenage effluvia take on a revelatory intensity: Boston's 'More Than a Feeling' is 'just a quiet glitter of melody, a whisper of rhythm. Like a glass man, striding alongside the car, bones tinkling'; at his after-school job at Ace Hardware, he looks to avoid 'the three stigmata of idleness … the hanging hands, the half-open mouth, the unfocused eyes.' It's tempting to say that nothing much happens in this novel, but for the fact that everything that does happen is charged with so much fearsome grandeur that even the book's micro-movements feel operatic. Whatever 'Pan' might lack in terms of old-fashioned narrative mechanics, it more than makes up for in humor, particularity and what I am forced to refer to simply as meaning. Nick comes to believe that his panic attacks are not merely medical events but rather instances when he is being possessed by the spirit of the Greek god Pan. This rather baroque conceit is not so much a matter of plot — whether he is or isn't ultimately seems beside the point — but it thoroughly destabilizes any attempt to read 'Pan' through a modish lens of mental health or disability. 'Because a panic attack doesn't feel like a panic attack,' Nick observes at one point. 'It feels like insight.' Insight, indeed, is what 'Pan' offers in spades, and part of what makes it so delicious is the way it mulches up both the familiar materials of millennial adolescence ('Gilligan's Island' reruns, crappy after-school jobs, the video game 'Ghosts 'n Goblins') and more esoteric ones ('Ivanhoe,' Giovanni Bellini's painting 'Drunkenness of Noah,' a fantasy novel called 'Nifft the Lean') into something that feels at once semi-typically earthy and decidedly cosmic, at times very nearly unhinged. This quality of insight is what art is for, but it is so rare at this point that 'Pan' feels almost like a work of outsider art. Ultimately, it's not, but the novel's brilliant intensity is such that it grows difficult to describe or boil down to its constituent parts. When Nick's friend Ian unpacks a theory of what he calls 'Solid Mind' ('when your thoughts flow in grooves, built deep into your brain. You don't even notice them') it feels both like the hilarious, weed-addled invention of almost any suburban teenager and like an intense theory of cognitive behavior that might belong to this book alone. It's a doubleness that makes Clune's novel approachable and inviting but also wild enough to seem practically avant-garde. Perhaps that's a quality not all readers will be inclined to prize — 'Pan' might be expressionist enough to disorient a traditional reader yet formalist enough to frustrate an avant-gardist. But for those who wonder if the American novel has anything new to offer (and perhaps for those who, rather tediously, have chosen lately to litigate the question of whether novels have abandoned male experience and male readers), 'Pan' is exhilarating, a pure joy — and a sheer, nerve-curdling terror — from end to end. Matthew Specktor is the author, most recently, of 'The Golden Hour.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Exclusive-China's Sciwind is in talks to license weight-loss drug in US, CEO says
By Andrew Silver HANGZHOU (Reuters) -China's Sciwind Biosciences is in talks with a U.S. company interested in licensing its experimental weight-loss drug for American patients, the drugmaker's chief executive told Reuters. Overweight patients treated with Sciwind's ecnoglutide drug lost an average of 10% to 15% of their body weight, roughly in line with results from Novo Nordisk's top-selling obesity treatment Wegovy, according to a late-stage study published in medical journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology in June. 'We also hope we are able to successfully license out, and they will apply for approval in the U.S.,' Sciwind Biosciences CEO Pan Hai said, declining to identify the firm or disclose financial terms under discussion. Reuters is the first to report on the potential U.S. licensing deal. Pan said its potential partner hoped to gain U.S. marketing approval to prescribe ecnoglutide for multiple medical conditions and would carry out further clinical development. The talks are not yet at the stage of discussing a detailed contract, he added. Sciwind is hoping the partner could use clinical data accumulated in China and Australia to accelerate the development. Pan expects it would take at least three years for a U.S. partner to bring Sciwind's drug to market in the United States, and said the FDA might require a bridging study to compare ecnoglutide's pharmacokinetics - how it moves through the body - among different patient populations. Ecnoglutide is administered as a once-weekly injection. It belongs to a class of drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists, which work by helping control blood sugar levels and triggering a feeling of fullness. Novo's Wegovy and Eli Lilly and Co's Zepbound lead the U.S. market for weight-loss drugs, but their relatively high prices leave room for new competitors to offer cheaper alternatives. Sciwind has applied to sell ecnoglutide in China for weight management and the treatment of type II diabetes. Other approved weight loss medicines in China also include drugs from Novo, Lilly and other drugmakers. Pan said he could not give an estimated time of approval. The company is also in talks to license the drug to partners for other markets, including in Latin America and the Middle East. Pricing in China would be in line with other approved competitors, Pan said, adding the company would not engage in a "price war" there. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
