A Kettle and Flask

joanneHig67

So as we all know as a nation, tea is most of our go to. I watch my Smart metre go into the red when its on. So a wee saving is to boil a full kettle then pour into a thermo Flask, though it may be small saving. Its always a save

Benny2020

Can you describe how that saves money? Unless you boiled it using free solar power?

The_Fat_Controller

Just don't boil any more water than you intend to use immediately is the way to go, not boiling an excessive amount and then putting it in a flask to (slowly) lose temperature.

There is no saving doing that.

joanneHig67

On a yearly basis at least £10 as boiling kettle spikes me into the red so that's what I do

Benny2020

I think this is a joke post.

The_Fat_Controller

Tea needs BOILING water.

Water in a flask is not hot enough.

Sorry, your saving assumptions do not hold water !

wild666

I boil 1.3 litres of water and put it in a flask with two teabags and it lasts most of the day, it takes just over 3 minutes30 seconds to boil the water in my 3 kW kettle, the flask serves 4.5 cups of tea using the cup on the flask, if I have to boil the kettle again it's only to save water from using the hot water tap to fill the sink to wash up pots and pans. Any other drinks are usually cold drinks. 
 

Astria

joanneHig67 said:

On a yearly basis at least £10 as boiling kettle spikes me into the red so that's what I do

OK, how much does it cost to boil enough water for 1 cup?

How much does it cost to boil enough water for your flask ?

For me, it costs less than 1p for a cup of boiling water. Assuming 4 - 5 cups of tea per day, the saving is less than 1p, so it's more like £3/year at most.

joanneHig67

"A Virgin Media wifi router uses 13W of electricity when powered on - which is all the time, obviously.

At the new, higher rate of 28.34p, which we rounded down to 28p per unit, the cost to keep this running all the time would be £31.89 per year, or £2.60p per month. That's not huge, obviously, but changing the amount of time it's powered on to just 10 hours a day it would cost £13.29 a year, or £1.08p per month, a saving of more than half. It would pay back the cost of the £5 timer plug in four to five months, and then save you a further £13 per year after that - even more when electricity costs rise again in October". As stated by Martin himself. So this would still be a saving

Benny2020

If its anything like the BT router you can just go into the software by right clicking on the icon on your laptop and adjust the settings to dim the light, switch of wifi at certain times etc.

k_man

I don't think anyone should be boiling water using a Virgin Media router