Obvioiously not all have been brought up on a b**t

[sailorman]

Overfilling kettles wastes £68m a year, says report
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Some 40% of people boiled water five times a day or more, the study found

Three-quarters of British households overfill their kettles, wasting a total of £68m each year, an Energy Saving Trust (EST) report has suggested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23175220

 

[DJE]

Yes but who likes limescale in their tea?

 

[ProDave]

Which is not 100% true.

In the winter, when you have the heating on, all that "wasted" heat due to boiling too much water, goes to heating the kitchen and so slightly reduces your heating cost.

It would only be "wasted" if you poured the spare boiling water down the drain.

I only boil what I need though, simply because I hate waiting for a whole kettle to boil.

 

[macd]

My biggest...OK, I admit it, neurosis...with visitors. When told, half of them think my concern is about wasting water...

 

[Zagato]

This will cheer you up then. I have one client who in the summer leaves a hosepipe on permanently to stop his pond from drying out and another client who leaves a mains water pipe flowing full blast since it split in the frost 3 years ago. It's an old type black pipe which I cannot get fittings for anymore. She has had a plumber in who also cannot stop the flow, no one knows where the source can be turned off and she won't call the water board! .

 

[[70521]]

I NEVER spent that much on electricity, even at the prices they charge today.

 

[Kelpie]

Which is not 100% true.

In the winter, when you have the heating on, all that "wasted" heat due to boiling too much water, goes to heating the kitchen and so slightly reduces your heating cost.

It would only be "wasted" if you poured the spare boiling water down the drain.

I only boil what I need though, simply because I hate waiting for a whole kettle to boil.

According to my limited understanding, boiling a kettle is a horribly inefficient way of heating your kitchen!

 

[nimbusgb]

This will cheer you up then. I have one client who in the summer leaves a hosepipe on permanently to stop his pond from drying out and another client who leaves a mains water pipe flowing full blast since it split in the frost 3 years ago. It's an old type black pipe which I cannot get fittings for anymore. She has had a plumber in who also cannot stop the flow, no one knows where the source can be turned off and she won't call the water board! .

The sooner we legislate for compulsory meters the better!

 

[UncleAlbert]

Surely the water is never wasted its just repositioned.
There is not a water shortage it's just, at times, in the wrong place!!!

Agree with Prodave that waiting for the kettle is a 'driver' to minimally filling it, so as to get to the tea quicker.

 

[Vega1447]

According to my limited understanding, boiling a kettle is a horribly inefficient way of heating your kitchen!

Nope. It's 100% efficient (once you accept the cost of the AmpMinutes consumed).

*All* of the leccy has been turned into heat.

 

[SeamanStaines]

Overfilling kettles wastes £68m a year, says report

Not on my boat they don't after they have experienced the cost and pantomime of getting gas!

 

[sailorman]

Nope. It's 100% efficient (once you accept the cost of the AmpMinutes consumed).

*All* of the leccy has been turned into heat.

I was brought up on a swinging mooring, the only "facility" ashore was a tap in the wall & my gas bottle. one soon learnt x pumps per cup

 

[Kelpie]

Nope. It's 100% efficient (once you accept the cost of the AmpMinutes consumed).

*All* of the leccy has been turned into heat.

I don't disagree with that. However, I'm led to believe that you lose efficiency as you raise the temperature of the heating element. This is why underfloor heating is more efficient than conventional methods- the heat source is only a few degrees above ambient, but it is large enough to make up for that.

 

[nigelmercier]

Two seconds per cup. But then I add more and boil it again or I get a whining noise from the kitchen.