Top Tip .. Kettle and Shower

shiraz99

Alnat1 said:

Try using bar soap/shampoo, less lather so less suds to rinse away. Less plastic waste too, better for the planet.

I find it takes longer to wash and lather with a bar of soap than it does with one squeeze of shower gel.

getmore4less

With shower 
Get wet turn off water.
Soap and clean to your preferred standard
Top down with more time for the bits
Rince top down.

Products go a long way less suds left over.

Our one cup boiler and bean to cup not much you can do with those.

Old freezer still as good as the new ones.
 FF marginal savings.

Biggest savings go on holiday somewhere warm.

xpf

I drink a lot of coffee. I'm currently boiling a full kettle of water, making my cuppa then filling a flask up with the rest of the water. This keeps hot for several hours so no need to reboil kettle. 
Do you think that is likely to be cheaper or more expensive than the only boil 1 cupfull method? 

DullGreyGuy

ariarnia said:

DullGreyGuy said:

diddymonster said:

todays tip is to manually switch it off just as it starts boiling - “the rumble” if you like

Kettles are heated from the bottom, it will start to "rumble" well before the average temp of the water has risen  to 100C

Having done some experiments having gotten an induction hob a pan of water starts rumbling from about 75C. If you are happy with this sort of water temp to make your tea in then alternatively you could get a variable temp kettle which auto switches off at your preferred lower temp and not have to stand about waiting for the kettle to make noise to cut it off.

so what your saying is drink tea (ideal brewing temp for tea is between 75-90c) rather than coffee (which google says is 90-96c+) and save money

75C would be too cold for most teas and that was my point, that the OP's experiment is probably flawed as they were only using the rumbling noise as the mechanism to judge when the water was boiling so in reality were probably pulling it too soon.

In theory yes though, white and green teas should use cooler water compared to coffee and so save on the electricity... fairly sure the tea itself will cost more than Tesco Value coffee and so may lose any savings on electricity.

inkydolphin

xpf said:

I drink a lot of coffee. I'm currently boiling a full kettle of water, making my cuppa then filling a flask up with the rest of the water. This keeps hot for several hours so no need to reboil kettle. 
Do you think that is likely to be cheaper or more expensive than the only boil 1 cupfull method? 

My guess is it would cost about the same, but your cups of coffee will get less hot throughout the day.

Say you have 4 cups a day, I would have thought boiling 4 cups-worth of water at once would use about the same energy as boiling 1 cup-worth of water 4 times.

Skintoap

It’s probably worth boiling water and putting it in a flask if the water is boiled using cheap rate electricity, but if you’re not on a TOU tariff there is probably no saving to be made.