Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:07:14 GMT, BigWallop wrote:

That's the reason we keep our Blender in the top cupboard. We hate it
when the hippos' get in there at night. Makes a real mess of the
blender come morning.

You ought to see what elephants leave in the breadmaker. B-)

Our current rapid boil cordless kettle is about 3 or 4 years old. Still
fine, the previous one didn't last all that long but we have had a change
of water supply over that period. From hard requiring a descale every
month or so to soft with only minimal scale over seval years.

So I suspect the descaling and/or the cavitation, that is much more
pronounced in a hardwater area, has a bearing on the life of kettles.
Especially modern moulded plastic ones with seals in the base, sight tubes
and/or transparent panels.

Actually it's squirrels in the plantpots at the moment. Wish they'd eff
off. :-)

Well, a while ago I posted about a problem my mother was having with
filter flies! And they got into her kettle - so she always draped a
teatowel over it. Not very satisfactory.

The little slider across the kettle spout seems also to reduce the
amount of steam/clouds of condensed steam that appear above the spout
(as against our previous 'open' kettle). A plus for that reason even if
you don't have any flying creatures, breadcrumbs, bits of tea leaf or
anything else to keep out of your kettles!

--
Rod

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