POLL: ILX Puts the Kettle On

I suppose I could have managed that BBcode a bit better.

I didn't think Americans had kettles.

So, it's the sixth option for you, then?

I mix up the tap from day to day, not out of ambivalence but in the name of science. I meticulously record the tap that I use and the events of the rest of the day, both in my personal life and the broader life, and attempt to find connections between them. So far, I have p-value confirmation that when I use cold water I am more likely to get a haircut later that day, while hot water makes it less likely that a nyt article about space is published on the front page.

No, I'm not a disgusting savage is my option, but when I've visited in-laws they don't have kettles and I was told that wasn't a thing that exists in the US, if you want to boil water you put a cup in the microwave or boil it in a saucepan on the stove?! Perhaps I was misled, or they are just weirdos. Which might explain a few things I suppose.

<3 Karl

All depends on how fast I want the brew. Usually though I want it asap and will indeed fill it with hot water from the tap, as the disgusting savage I am.

Cold water tap or death.

Cold tap bc the hot water tap is slow and it comes out cold for the first 20 seconds anyway

i grew up with the understanding that water from the hot tap was not for consumption. maybe with modern boilers it is not such a thing, idk, but i have yet to be inconvenienced by boiling cold water so i am ok sticking with how i was brung up

filtered water meets kettle in an orgy of sound

great poll

my answer is "either I guess but actually no the answer is cold cmon"

Hot water from the tap should never be used for cooking or drinking.

Cold water tap

cold

no option for "there is no temperature control on the reverse osmosis drinking water tap"

no option for "so jealous of people that live in places with drinkable tap water"

does the reverse osmosis drinking water tap draw water from the hot water pipes or the cold? there's your answer!

oh cold pipes i guess

I fill the kettle from the filter jug which in turn is filled from the cold tap. Our water is well hard.

cold, because our mother drummed into us many fictions about mice sneaking into things and then dying and the hot water cylinder was known to be one of their most popular graveyards.

wow if my mom told me that i would have showered cold too

all the stories have giant loopholes, showering and dishwashing were never a concern. the last time i was there i was warned that rats are well-known for climbing into a house through the toilet plumbing.

I use cold water because I was always told that hot water should never be used for cooking/drinking, but always wonder if I'm wasting valuable life time for no good reason

It goes from the cold water tap into the brita filter bottle and thence to the fridge door (bottom right). It is from that container that the kettle is refilled when needed.

What Tom said, but with the addendum that my kettle is electrical and often ends up boiling/reboiling the water 3-5 times between fillings.

noooo don't reboil water

Why not?

because chemistry

bad for the taste of what you're brewing, bad for your kettle, bad for your health

the last time i was there i was warned that rats are well-known for climbing into a house through the toilet plumbing.

To derail my own thread, this happened to me when I was house-sitting in a fairly nice neighborhood of Portland. The rat emerged into the toilet bowl, scrambled out, then proceeded to leave a wet trail all over the kitchen floor until I could persuade it out the back door with a broom.

"Because chemistry". Ok...

What changes in water after cooking it that makes it different than the initial water you cooked?

concentration of dissolved species

increases

I don't even know what dissolved species are. Just googled 'cook water again' in my language and everything that comes up is that it's a hoax (over here), snopes like sites etc. I'm aware I'm fortunate to live somewhere where tap water is completely ok though, don't know if that a makes a difference or not.

you're basically distilling it into mineral water
not good mineral water

*a hoax that it wouldn't be ok, I meant xp

yes it makes a difference if the water is good or bad to start. if it was distilled water it would make no difference (unless stuff from the kettle was leaching into the water but that's a different issue)

feel free to ignore my advice, it's just that my tap water is really shitty so i'm fussy about the kettle

the last time i was there i was warned that rats are well-known for climbing into a house through the toilet plumbing.

My dad is one of these doomsayers too. According to him, you should never drink straight out of a can, because rats climb around on them in the store rooms of shops and pubs. And you should never eat berries straight off the bush either, because also rats.

cold water tap mostly but hot if i need boiling water STAT

In America kettles take forever to boil btw
If you are in the UK I can recommend Russell Hobbs Buckingham for a quiet but speedy boil
Tea made from urns that reboil water a million times a day i.e. what all offices used to have = DUD

While I'm here can any UKer recommend a decaff builders' tea that isn't minging? Have tried Clipper and it's not very nice.

I buy 5-gallon jugs of water. They're pretty much room temp. Fill up my pyrex measuring cup from those, then stick it in the microwave for a few.

In America kettles take forever to boil btw

Probably NSA-related. Internet of things. Watched pot and all that.

mr veg got me an electric kettle like a civilized tea drinker should have - hot water can still make it boil even more fast than the fast boil it diws
i dont fuck with bullshit slow stovetop kettles anymore

we cant drink the hot water tap, this has been covered in the thread where yanks brush their teeth in the shower

i stayed in a house last week with a boiling filtered tap. that were right good that

oh those are dope, my aunt had one

we cant drink the hot water tap,

― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, December 22, 2016 11:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I drank from the hot water tap. I drank from the hot water tap IN YOUR HOUSE iirc.

Idk this all seems p silly to me, never realised dece hot water is so hard to come by in ~the west~. All this mostly reminds me of my ex gf (UK, Yorkshire, bad plumbing) who believed shouting at water contaminated it or made it foul. Or made little water babby cry. Won't say it's the reason we broke up but hey ho.

you never did!

I did. Shower :-S

you should get that checked man no telling what the damage

Feeling lucky to be alive atm tbh. :)

Wait why were people shouting at the water? Are you a regular water shouter?

Not me! but my ex believed shouting at water or saying "bad things" or nasty words to it would "unsettle the water", thus render it foul. Search around, you will find loads of people actually believe this shit.

I just microwave a big plexiglass measuring cup

LBI, thank you for alerting me to this new form of batshittery. Apparently Gwyneth Paltrow believes in it too (of course she does).

Sub question

Did LBI/do you pee in the/dmacs shower

oh god

omg @ water shouting looool

Mother nature's disinfectant

this shouting business makes water sound like a bunch of drips.

rain on its parade imo

give it a spray

My dad is one of these doomsayers too. According to him, you should never drink straight out of a can, because rats climb around on them in the store rooms of shops and pubs. And you should never eat berries straight off the bush either, because also rats.

― trishyb, Friday, 23 December 2016 8:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol my mother is an espouser of the rats on cans theory as well. also my little sister came home and incredulously reported that her friend's fusspot mother insisted on washing bananas before peeling them, which created a vision of rats dancing and pooping on them down at the docks, so the banana washing commenced. not by anyone else in the family though.

LBI, thank you for alerting me to this new form of batshittery. Apparently Gwyneth Paltrow believes in it too (of course she does).

― emil.y, vrijdag 23 december 2016 2:07 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ohh yeah that seems made for her tbh.

Sub question

Did LBI/do you pee in the/dmacs shower

― F♯ A♯ (∞), vrijdag 23 december 2016 2:12 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god

― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), vrijdag 23 december 2016 2:31 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_;

LBI, thank you for alerting me to this new form of batshittery. Apparently Gwyneth Paltrow believes in it too (of course she does).

― emil.y, vrijdag 23 december 2016 2:07 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ohh yeah that seems made for her tbh.

must be hard for her to hear that song of her husband's, "it was all yell-eau"

buncha fancy water boilers itt

I'm unlucky enough to have to get the maid to fill the kettle with bottled Fiji water.

Any views on emptying out the remaining water left in the kettle, before filling the kettle with water to ensure a 'fresh brew'.

It must waste gallons?

bad tea is also wasted water

I dip the kettle in the toilet. I know it sounds gross but it saves SO much time, and I keep the bowl sparkling clean with Toilet Duck.

for my dad it was dead pigeons in the tank you had to worry about

I can remember a caretaker telling me there was a dead pigeon in the cylinder at a school I was working on once, he may have been right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam

wins!

Thread direction is reminding me of a scene from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher

I could never get used to that London hard water, especially on a hangover morning and needing immediate hydration. I think the water supply we have in Yorkshire is probably 2nd best to Manchester's which mostly comes from the Lake District and is probably better than some bottled water brands.

For a few months about 20 years ago I shared a grotty bedsit in Dublin which must've had a nest of house spiders in its hot water tank because every time I took a bath spider legs would come out of the hot tap and I'd have to spend a few minutes picking them out of the water or bathe in spider remains. Good thing it was autumn because I'd've been pretty smelly otherwise.

Thanks for the nightmare fuel!

Not me! but my ex believed shouting at water or saying "bad things" or nasty words to it would "unsettle the water", thus render it foul. Search around, you will find loads of people actually believe this shit.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, December 22, 2016 7:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

According to Jacques Benveniste, water possesses intelligence and memory.

According to the Annals of Improbable Research, Benveniste earned the inaugural Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1991) by his efforts to promote and disseminate this concept.

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