A Not So Friendly Kettle

Consumer costs for electricity usage are disturbingly high but, is your kettle doing you any favors there, how much does it really cost to make your morning cuppa?

The photo is courtesy of the author.

‘A watched pot never boils.’

Phrase Finder.

Heard of this phrase before?

If you haven’t, this simply means that ‘waiting for something to happen, obsessively checking it, does not make it happen faster.’ A variation on the more common phrase of, ‘… watched pot never boils.’

Frustrating, isn’t it?

Very sadly, I tried this today and measured the exact point from the kettle boiling to the equipment automatically switching itself off.

I can hear you all laughing away to yourselves now, saying ‘oh my god you seriously need to get a life if you are doing that!’

Maybe so.

Of course, other appliances may take shorter times but, I’m sure you see the point. This will save on electricity either way, as the principle remains the same.

But I discovered that when the kettle boiled, it then took 1️⃣2️⃣ whole seconds before it actually…