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January 05, 2008
Instant tea
I got sick of waiting five whole minutes for my gas stove to boil a kettle in the morning. So I got the idea of hooking up one of those English electric kettles they all use. They take about 90 seconds to heat the water to boiling. The secret is in the voltage. English house current is 230 volts where American is 115, however, high voltage is available to Americans - for air conditioning, clothes dryers and electric stoves. All it took was changing the plug to fit the American 220v outlet and replacing the circuit breaker with a lower amperage.
Voila! "instant" tea!
Posted by nezbitthecat at January 5, 2008 07:13 AM
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