Boiling a kettle - OP error!

166million

My partner always fills the kettle to the top, even for one cuppa.

happybiker

166million wrote: »

My partner always fills the kettle to the top, even for one cuppa.

:rotfl:Same here, So I bought a Breville 'Hot Cup' . No matter how much you fill it, only 1 cup is boiled at a time. With the number of brews made in our house I reckon it's paid for itself in 6 months.

Cardew

happybiker wrote: »

:rotfl:Same here, So I bought a Breville 'Hot Cup' . No matter how much you fill it, only 1 cup is boiled at a time. With the number of brews made in our house I reckon it's paid for itself in 6 months.

Well a Breville Hot cup costs £69.99 rrp but you can get them for £36.

If someone is really stupid with with the kettle you might save 0.5p a time.

So using a figure of £36 you would need to use it 7,200 times.

In 6 months you would need to boil a normal kettle 40 times a day.

However boiling it that often wouldn't the water in the kettle be permanantly warm? You wouldn't need to heat your kitchen!

Also do you always only make one cup of tea?

happybiker

LOL.... It boils about 35 cups a day at a volume of 250cc each. The kettle used before that held 1-1/2 litres and was quite often filled quite full for just 1 cup. Making any number of cups in sequence is as fast as boiling all the water in a normal kettle. My Breville was on offer at Argos and cost £28.00. It only boils enough for 1 cup at a time and the resevoir doesn't get hot, so, no, I'm not heating the kitchen with it. It was my son who did the maths and bought the Breville for me.