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Nicola_Smith92

If you're anything like me you probably drink several hot drinks every day. Did you know it costs around 21p on average each time you boil your kettle? It's probably the most expensive to run home appliance!

When you make your first hot drink of the working day, fill your kettle and boil it - make your drink. Fill a thermos flask with the rest of the boiled water and use that for your next drinks. You could save up to £1 a day depending on how much water your thermos flask holds. That's £5 per week and up to £20 per month!! and it's greener.

Would be worth the investment of a decent thermos in the long term if you don't have one. Every little helps!

easy

Except that tea needs to be brewed with boiling water,  not just hot water.  

As a tea drinker if you try to do this,  you will just condemn yourself to drinking horrible tea.
I'll spend a few pence to actually enjoy the hot drinks I make.

Gerry1

Very unlikely.  Even at the April rates of around 28p/kWh, a 3kW electric kettle would have to be on for 15 minutes to clock up 21p.  It would have switched off long before then, even if full.

In any case why fill the kettle with more water than you need?  Most have a water level indicator measured in cups, so just don't overfill it and you won't have a problem !

Sailbad

No saving to be had there.
Put just enough water in the kettle each time. It will cost no more than 5p a cup to boil.

Nicola_Smith92

easy said:

Except that tea needs to be brewed with boiling water,  not just hot water.  

As a tea drinker if you try to do this,  you will just condemn yourself to drinking horrible tea.
I'll spend a few pence to actually enjoy the hot drinks I make.

switch to coffee

comeandgo

I think you should buy a new kettle if it is using that much electric.

Gerry1

Nicola_Smith92 said:

people are so unkind.  Ignore if you like but no need to be rude.  I’m out

Who was unkind or rude?  Unfortunately you were factually incorrect; why shouldn't this be noted?

Nicola_Smith92

I saw this statistic in a news article, I haven't just made it up. 
Just trying to help cut people's energy bills with some 'helpful' tips.  Not welcoming loads of challenge on my first ever post!
Descaling will help cut the cost too.

Mstty

Sorry your calculations are a little off. What make and model of kettle have you got?

Ours boils in about 2 mins for 2 cups.

So for the worse kettle 3Kw/h that's 3000 watts divided by 60 to give you the minute wattage which is 50watts then X2 as it's two minutes to boil so 100 watts usage.

Our current tariff is 20.84p per kWh so that's 2.08p for two cups of tea

Nicola_Smith92

Gerry1 said:

Nicola_Smith92 said:

people are so unkind.  Ignore if you like but no need to be rude.  I’m out

Who was unkind or rude?  Unfortunately you were factually incorrect; why shouldn't this be noted?

someone implying that the tea wouldn't taste nice, someone else implying my facts are wrong.  I will contact the Express newspaper now on behalf of everyone on this thread and get them to amend the article that I saw this on and I will never post again.

Ozzig

Nicola_Smith92 said:

Literally just joined this site today, wish I hadn’t bothered, people are so unkind.  Ignore if you like but no need to be rude.  I’m out

Too late to say "welcome"? 

Thanks for sharing your tip, you will find a lot of members on here are sticklers, they will correct any inaccuracies they see, that way we get to save more.

It's definitely worth sticking around.