Can I boil water on my stove?

Popperwell

sophlowe45 wrote: »

thanks Wilkinson is a great store, found Stardrops there.

If you found Stardrops you've done very wellso many seem to have difficulty finding that product but many on MSE praise it highly. Wish our store was larger than it is...but it does quite well in saving me going out of town.

maman wrote: »

I used to have a solid fuel heater in a previous kitchen that I used in much the same way. To be honest, if you're talking about washing dishes then it's not really boiling you want. It's just 'free' hot water for any cleaning job.

That's true I guess...

lobbyludd

I boil my electric kettle once in the morning, full, and it costs just under 2p, put that in two flasks and use that for coffee and starting to cook veg etc.

If you are going to Buy a stove-top kettle you have to factor that price in and the flasks before working out any savings, so using a pan you already have will make it more cost effective, and better rival the electric kettle - also remember that you don't want boiling water to wash up in - so don't need to heat it up that much - you could probably get enough hot water from the electric kettle you already have to wash up in for 1p or less with no waiting around/storing in flasks and no extra purchases.

At that sort of price, it will be a long time before it becomes cost-effective over using the kettle you already have (unless you wash up a LOT - I don't )

eamon

Do it. If a suitable kettle is hard to source then use a large saucepan and a jug. It reminds me of growing up. We had a coal fired range followed by an oil fired version. During the winter months there was always a kettle either on the go or just simmering away and when really cold a large saucepan was used for the hot water bottles.

colinthecockrel

DH came home early from work and decided to light the wood stove. Having read this thread I decided to put a pan of water on the top ready to cook rice. Once it had boiled I put the rice in and let it cook away - I was ridiculously excited about this! DH laughed at me and asked why I was doing it - to save the gas cost I said - he approved! I shall do this more often now. I'm going to get our camping kettle out of the loft and have that handy for when we light the wood stove - which isn't every day just depending on what we're all doing. Thanks OK for starting asking this question - it certainly inspired me!

Oh dear, not very good at this edit thingy! I meant OP, sorry

Jolaaled

My woodstove earning it's keep:

SUESMITH_2

nothing nicer if you have the stove on than making a cup of tea. tbh I had a camping kettle originally but I lent it out and it came back minus its whistling thing so bought a nice kettle and as I will use it when we go camping it will earn its keep

art_for_arts_sake

Some, if not most, camping kettles have a seam on the bottom rim which stops the heat from conducting through the top of the stove to warm the water. I've got round this by putting a metal disc that fits just inside the rim on top of the stove first, being careful not to dislodge it when I took the kettle off. A copper bottomed pan will of course heat up much quicker.