Overfilling Kettles Wastes £68m a Year

Strider590

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

£68m. That is about £1.08 per year per person.

As I do not pay the lecky at work, it goes down.

Not all then bull coming from the BBC is true!

Yep ^^ that's another way that it fails, population of UK = 62.7 million.

lobbyludd

I only ever boil a full kettle (gasp!) and then the rest goes in a flask for the rest of the day (cooking, tea/coffee, hot water bottles etc). I immediately refill the kettle, to bring the water up to room temp (also absorbing the heat from the kettle) for the next round. This is way more efficient than boiling enough for a cup or two, and for those kettles where the boil indicator is steam activated (usually situated near the top of the kettle/ in the handle) it's very inefficient to heat excess water to build up enough steam pressure in a vessel with a large air void in order to activate that sensor, the less water you boil, the bigger the void to fill with steam. I often turn the kettle off if I can see it's ready and I'm near as there's a significant lag on mine.

Sue14

aliasojo wrote: »

Oh this bugs the heck out of me.

It really really annoys me when OH fills the kettle up full, just to make one cup of tea. I've mentioned more than once how daft it is to boil water you're not going to use and then leave it to just cool again.

He still does it. It's one of those *things* that you'd see on Mr & Mrs under the 'what annoys you most' heading.

I've taken to putting the right amount of water in the kettle whenever I pass it now in the hope he'll just switch it on instead of adding more.

I'm not really a grump. :rotfl:

My OH is exactly the same, drives me crazy, even having just enough water in the kettle wouldn't help, as he still has to put more in before boiling it!

lollipopsarah

Yep my hubby is the same it drives me nuts.
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Must be a 'man thing' I think :):)

Kaz2904

My DH is the same with kettle water. I've done the fill to cup level but he just adds more before he boils it. Also, if I've just boiled it to make a drink but not yet poured it, he'll recoil the darn thing!
BiL complains about SiL doing the same though, so it's not all men!