Aug
How much water do you put in a kettle?
I guess she would be my ‘coworker’ - a Latina lady who comes and cleans the house once in a while. She and I stood around the kitchen while the little boy slept. A few days back, I lent her my kimono which she wore for Cultural Day. I had explained to her how to wear it, which had proved to be an arduous task without actually showing her what was what. I think “good luck” was as much as she could get out of the jumble of instructions I dropped at her feet.
Putting on her glasses, she held her phone far away from her face and found a photo of her in the kimono.
“My daughter helped me wear it, she looked at a picture. How is it?” she asked.
I laughed. “It’s inside out” I said. “You’re wearing the undergarment on top of the actual kimono”.
So we had a blast.
The kettle whistled without much adieu, and we made our cups of tea.
“Some people fill the kettle all the way, just to make one cup of tea” I commented.
“I know!” she exclaimed. “I don’t understand! It takes longer to boil, you know? And waste of hot water and gas. It makes no sense”.
Thus for the rest of the day, we went about our chores wondering why some people fill the kettle all the way, just to make one cup of tea.
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August 7th, 2010 at 10:12 amIf you make another cuppa shortly afterwards, the water still in the kettle is already hot and reboils pretty quickly. You’re also less likely to end up drinking whatever gunk has settled in the bottom of the kettle over time compared to if you only just barely have enough for your one or two cups. Plus! If visitors pop by suddenly while you’re making a cuppa, you don’t have to reboil the kettle to make one for them too.
That said I wouldn’t fill the kettle *all* the way, either. I usually put in enough water for 3-4 cups, and then don’t refill until there’s only about a cup left. (I suppose periodically I should boil up and discard the last cup to clean out any accumulated gunk.)
What I don’t understand is people who fill the kettle from the hot tap.
August 7th, 2010 at 9:23 pmmml! I pour hot tap water in the kettle! It takes shorter time to boil!
August 8th, 2010 at 2:03 amBut then you’re heating the water twice, cause it’s probably cold from being in the pipes anyway… unless you let the tap run until it’s hot and *then* fill the kettle?!
August 9th, 2010 at 2:12 am