Boiling up for tea/coffee? A money saving idea...

Luna69

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

This thread, for some reason, reminded me of when I used to live in Germany and people used this thing called a Taugsiegler. It was about as big as a biro but was spiral and it had a wire and plug on the end of it. You filled a mug with water, or soup or whatever and put the taugsiegler into it and it worked like an element and heated the liquid up. Apparantly it used very little electricity and until I was reading this thread I had forgotten all about them. Does anyone know if you can get such a thing here?

I'm sure my dad had one of these he could use from the car many years ago. Not sure if you can get them now?

Yvonne

tomstickland

Insulated kettle would be possibly the best way of saving here I reckon.

Stompa

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

It was about as big as a biro but was spiral and it had a wire and plug on the end of it. You filled a mug with water, or soup or whatever and put the taugsiegler into it and it worked like an element and heated the liquid up. Apparantly it used very little electricity and until I was reading this thread I had forgotten all about them. Does anyone know if you can get such a thing here?

I could have sworn that I'd read somewhere that these were no longer legal - presumably because of the danger of burning yourself.

However, a bit of Googling find this:

http://magellans.co.uk/store/Appliances___Food___BeverageEF226?Args=