Posts Tagged ‘electric kettles’
Kettles, Kettles, Everywhere, And Not a Drop of Tea!
It’s Foodie Friday and with the weather all crisp and cool, my mind is my favorite daily drink–Tea. Not the leaves themselves, though, but the vessel in which we boil the water to make this healing, warming beverage. What is the best balance of safety, beauty (tea is a pretty drink, after all), and maintenance ?
I was sad to part with my last kettle, this all-Glass Stove Top Piece from Adagio. Watching the water slowly perk up and get a’bubbling was a simple morning joy. It was dishwasher-safe, not at all risky in terms of chemicals from either metal or plastic leaching into the water, and an all-around winner. More »
Niche Producers Find Hot Prospects Inside The Machine
IN A cramped and anonymous workshop opposite a housing estate in the Isle of Man, a handful of people supervise Hi – tech pressing machines that stamp out minuscule metal parts that form the key components of control switches for electric kettles.
The parts are produced according to a secret formula and are the sensors that recognise when water has boiled in an electric kettle and switch the device off virtually instantly.
