Kettle doesn't switch off

[Skogsgurra]

We have a kettle with a thermostat that switches off when water boils. At least we thought so.

But, today, it didn't. It went on boiling and boiling until I touched the lever and stopped it. Hmm, I thought. Are we at a high altitude? Looked out the window, but the usual forest was still there. Then I had a look at the old barometer, 738 mm Hg. That is low.

Would that explain it? Anyone seen this before?

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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[Skogsgurra]

Sunbeam.. Wasn't there a model called Sunbeam Rapier? A sleek, low car that everybody wanted. Fifties - sixties?

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.

 

[SomptingGuy]

Does all this talk of electric kettles mean that Americans have finally embraced the late 20'th century?

It took me ages to find an electric kettle when I lived in the USA. I ended up buying one from over the border.

- Steve

 

[BigInch]

You needed to buy a coffee perkolator and rip the guts out ... voila! .. tea kettle.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso

 

[TheBlacksmith]

I had an "electric kettle" when I went to college in 1971. It had a variable thermostat and teflon lining, so you could warm soup in it or boil water for coffee or tea. A life-saver for "all-nighters" or when the chow hall was serving mystery meat surprise and veg-all (a mixture of all vegetables boiled until all the nutrients and flavor are in the water, which is discarded). It wouldn't shut off though until it went dry and had no signal or whistle, but I bought one in NY state in 1971.

 

[SomptingGuy]

When I was on the lookout for a kettle, the only one I could find in USA would have set me back about $40, from some Irish gift "shoppe". My current kettle cost me £2.97 from Tesco and has done 4 years so far.

I had so many samey conversations with colleagues, who claimed to have kettles and told me where I could buy them. But they were all just saucepans with a whistle on top.

- Steve

 

[KENAT]

Sompting, it's got better but not the selection or availability of back in the UK.

Did finally find a regular jug kettle a couple of years back, I think it was in Bed Bath & Beyond.

Of course, we've had this conversation several times before.

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