On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 1:17:48 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 3:30:29 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 7:55:33 PM UTC-10, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> > > In article >, Ed
> > > Pawlowski > wrote:
> > >
> > > > To raise the temperature of one litre of water from 15°C to boiling at
> > > > 100°C requires a little bit over 355 kilojoules of energy. An ³average²
> > > > kettle in the UK runs at about 2800 W and in the US at about 1500 W; if
> > > > we assume that both kettles are 100% efficientÝ than a UK kettle
> > > > supplying 2800 joules per second will take 127 seconds to boil and a US
> > > > kettle supplying 1500 J/s will take 237 seconds, more than a minute and
> > > > a half longer. This is such a problem that many households in the US
> > > > still use an old-fashioned stove-top kettle.
> > >
> > > <http://i66.tinypic.com/34g62p1.jpg>
> > >
> > > This is a coffeepot
> > > This is a Thermos
> > > When we brew coffee
> > > We do so in earnest
> > > Go fifties!
> > >
> > > leo
> >
> > Old school. I love the smell of perked coffee in the morning. If that won't get you up out of bed, you probably died in your sleep.
> >
> > They don't fit in with today's stoves though. The base is too small for the burners and I have to hang the handle off the side - very inefficient! OTOH, all that's moot since these things are mostly made of aluminum and won't work with induction burners.
>
> The one pictured looks to be enameled steel.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I already knew that - as far as I know, enameled aluminum percolators are rare as hen's teeth and zebracorns.