Why do electric kettles have a flat contact surface?
Doesn't seem efficient.
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Why do electric kettles have a flat contact surface? Doesn't seem efficient.
Why do electric kettles have a flat contact surface?
Doesn't seem efficient.
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yeah man let's just triple the price and make it a pain to clean by doing some finned design that increases the surface area 10x,
Anon the limiter is the power input. A more efficient radiator would take nearly the same amount of time.
>and make it a pain to clean
this is the actual reason
The cheapest kettles have a more efficient design where the entire heating element is submerged.
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I don't see what the point in being pre-emptively transphobic towards technology connections is. Other than his gay new hairstyle and his voice, which if you don't like now I doubt you ever liked.
He is a homosexual, not a troony.
>make it a pain to clean
You don't need to clean it because you should only be placing water in it.
You don't heat up beans in your kettle? Fricking animal.
Still thinking about them beans.
You do if you've got hard water at home.
>muh hard water
Hard water, moron.
I use vinegar to clean it (put vinegar + water, wait an hour, boil), works great but impossible to clean otherwise.
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Isn't it fast enough already, though? I'm no tea drinker, but the one thing I know about tea drinkers is they won't shut up about how great electric kettles are.
electric kettles aren't instant but they are sufficiently fast already.
litterally just press go and it will be ready by the time you grind your coffee beans
Why would you ever clean your kettle?
Just use filtered water so no scale builds up...
also, if you drink a lot of tea, mate, coffee, or whatever everyday then it's getting enough movement to not stagnate
The outside of the kettle, where it cotacts the heating element, not the inside, that contains the water.
Lol, you think the base is the bit that heats up
Dumb american't
Watashi wa baka des...
>electric kettles
NGMI
Ameripoor?
Americans are the ones who fall for gimmicky shit like this.
>gimmicky
I use mine every day to make coffee
>annak.jpg
gud taste
I love her. Beautiful and actually funny.
Yeah you're right bro. She'll never give me a chance after finding out I use an electric kettle.
virgincels
Americans can't use electric kettels because their puny 110V system don't have the amperage unless they turn off the rest of the house or something.
>t. moron who doesn't know anything about electrcity
Amerifrugal
Are these things safe to use on a wood desk? How hot to they get? I want to make tea in my office and they're cheaper than induction hotplates by a lot.
they might get warm but shouldn't get hot enough to damage a surface. If you get one that goes on a little stand like that then it will fine because the stand never gets hot.
yes, the bottom doesn't get hot at all on all kettles I've had, but the sides will
the base doesn't get that hot, so it's safe i guess
>t. puts his electric kettle on top of a clothed surface
Even the cheapest electric kettle is faster than boiling water on the stove. Yes, even in burgerland with its puny electrical supply
My Keurig produces a hot cup of tea in 30 seconds.
>Keurig
enjoy your botnet
Do Euros have coffee pots in their homes?
I'm a Brit and most coffee-drinkers I've seen here have french presses, a few have moka pots (pic related).
Haha. So you're saying they... boil coffee on a stove?
With a moka pot yes, everyone would use an electric kettle for french press though
They don't boil coffee on a stove, they boil the water on it.
Ausgay here, I've only ever seen them at a single bakery-cafe that also had espresso machines. I've never heard of anyone having one at home.
90% of people here drink instant coffee (boiled using an electric kettle obviously), and the rest drink coffee from french presses and pod machines.
That's in contrast to the fact that we're possibly the snobbiest nation in the world when it comes to espresso coffees from cafes, and most people here can talk at length about whether they prefer magics or piccolo lattes.
You mean a moka pot? I have one for special occasions, but these things are awfully small and you use a lot of ground coffee to get a very small amount of strong brew. Not ideal if you live in a 5 person household that consumes about 3-4 liters a day.
Can only speak for Germany; This is the de-facto standard here, although the result will be less than ideal.
It's different is pretty much every country in Europe.
Norway?
Stove pots are still common for cabins or lodges far into the wilderness, due tradition.
Workplaces have a Mocca setup or expresso machines.
Homes usually have a Moccamaster setup, or some significantly worse but cheaper alternative.
Vacuum kettle setups for Moccamasters still cost 8-15x what a Moccamaster costs. And its still the gold standard for a office, because it do not burn the coffee to heat it.
Just brew in the fricking cup you frick, thats literally the best way. And dont tell me you are a MUH MILK subhuman
i don't use this crap at all. i got one of these tefal things where hot water comes out instantly. no need to wait for any boiling, needs much less cleaning too.
>not using an old school kettle
ngmi
I switched to something like pic related a few years ago from an electric and this is so much better.
Until you realize instead of waiting 30 seconds for your water to boil, it now takes 5x as long.
this is not a problem for me.
In the United States (and Japan I guess) our electric kettles are slow anyway, because we have lower voltage outlets. I still use one for tea.
Even at 110V electric is still faster than gas.
(weaboo troon)
Gases are expensive
Stop being poor
Why a kettle, just use a pot
Kettles are quicker and more efficient. I live in 240V land, but should still be much faster then a pot in 110V country
Is it really more efficient?
http://insideenergy.org/2016/02/23/boiling-water-ieq/
I have an induction hob
faster != more efficient
he does mention near the end that induction could make eletric kettles useless
Yes, faster is more fundamentally more efficient you brainlet. You lose less energy from the heat bleeding out when your are trying to boil it.
horseshit
if you spend 3 times the power to get it done in half the time, you're less efficient
Where are the losses then, moron?
How can induction be more efficient than an electric kettle? The heating element itself in the kettle us pretty much 100% efficient. Sure, some of the heat gets lost to the surroundings, but thats it. Induction essentially turns the base of whatever vessel used into a heating element, so exactly the same model of energy loss applies, but there is also conversion ( from EM field to current) loss.
I dont know, seems strange. Kettle certainly loses electricity to the cables resistance, it loses heat to the container that leaks it to environment.
Induction then loses less energy to environment because of reasons? Does the cable from the wall lose less energy on the way to the stove? I think major reason might be that it takes less time to heat the water so it has less time to lose energy to air.
>How can induction be more efficient than an electric kettle
Because despite of how magnetic spin works, it doesn't just randomly bleed power.
As for the second reason? Electric kettles are not that well insulated, which do lead to a loss.
Stovetop isn't great either, but they picked the right surface material.
I don't understand, some country has discovered electric kettles this week?
Americans can't just go to the store and buy things, they have to wait until some troony youtuber makes some 40 minute long video going into excruciatingly irrelevant factoids about the thing for them to consoom
It’s probably because of this
So they are easy to clean and less likely to develop hardcore layers of scale inside.
So you can boil smaller amounts and have a setting that keeps the water hot after boiling.
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There are submerged filament designs that are lower wattage and just as fast. The problem is that those filaments tend to get coated and require cleaning more often due to limescale, which directly affects their efficiency.
So the difference is either you take a flat base and not deal with it becoming increasingly inefficient over a shorter time period or a submerged filament that works better for a shorter period before becoming less efficient if not properly maintained.
I had this (commieyuro) for years and it was absolute trash, enjoy hints of plastic and pieces of limescale in your tea
you realize the limescale is because you have shitty hard water right
I cant believe no one has mentioned this yet...
Theres a simple trick to boil your water faster...
Just use two+ heat sources at once.
Instructions to boil 1L
>put ~600ml in kettle
>turn kettle on
>put 200ml in pot on stove
>turn stove on
>put 200ml in microwave
>turn microwave on
Congrats youve just boiled 1L in under 3minutes, even in NA.
>inb4 just buy two kettles
Yea that works too
>inb4 just don't live in NA
Same principle still applies in Europe, you want your water boiled twice as fast... Use two kettles.
Themodynamics and it's consequences have been a disaster for kettle technology.
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According to topology there wouldn't e a difference
Well traditionally the cheapo models you get from a supermarket don't. They have a submerged filament a little above the plastic bottom
>not using a 3 phase, 400V, 9000W, anti-explosion immersion heater to make tea
NGMI
For less scaling. My 2.4kW flat bottom kettle is faster than your 1.5kW spiral kettle, don't worry.
This kettle is 16 years old by the way. I use filtered water and sometimes clean it with concentrated vinegar.
>not using one cup "instant" kettle thing
Do Americans really consider electric kettles to be some technological marvel?
I use a stovetop kettle because it's glass and fast. electric might be faster even in the US but gas is cheap and just works. don't need to worry about some other shit plugged in.
dumbfrick
It just convenient
Goddamn, you karens will complain with just about anything, don't you...
kettles and heat pumps and light bulbs oh my!