Water for tea

[jacey]

The Tefal one cup water boiler thingy arrived today. (Full marks to Amazon for speedy service, no marks to me for forgetting to tick the free delivery box and ending up paying an extra five quid for next day delivery which I did not need.)

It uses about as much power as a kettle but boils a cup of water in about 25 seconds. You have to stand with your finger on the button while water spurts through the spout a dribble at a time. It starts coming through virtually immediately but it takes a while to fill your cup. Boiling water for one cup in the kettle takes one minute forty seconds. (Okay that's not strictly speaking just one cup of water in the kettle because you have to have a minimum amount in there.)

Verdict. You get a cup of tea for a quarter of the power usage. The water is not quite boiling but it's hot enough to satisfy Best Beloved. If you wanted enough water for a pot of tea you might get fed up of standing there with your finger on the button, but since most of our tea-drinking is individual cups I think I can live with that.

I'm hoping this will make a real difference to our power usage. I don't think best beloved realises how much power his constantly boiling electric kettle has been using. Time (and the next leccy bill) will tell.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I boil the kettle, make a pot of tea, and take that upstairs. But before I do that, I use the boiled water to clean a few dishes, as my hot water boiler is not overly efficient. On a cold day, I need to run the hot tap forever - for several minutes - before warm water comes out of the tap, so a lot of my dishwashing is done in spurts with spare tea water.

Your gadget sounds interesting - link?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Its name is Tefal Quick Cup.
http://www.quickcup.co.uk/