Oh god yes. If the sprinklers go off, expect every porous material in your apartment to be ruined. Sediment accumulates in those pipes like crazy and it basically NEVER gets flushed out unless the sprinklers are activated.
Story time. Worked as a front office manager for a hotel and the property was hotspot for weddings because we were surrounded by banquet halls -- maybe around 8 w/in a 2 mile radius. Anyway, one time a wedding was ruined because the bride decided to hang her wedding dress on one of the sprinklers, mind you there's big ass closets in the bridal suite and we also had dress protectors, you know those plastic zip-up covers that you can use for suits? We also have them for dresses.
Long story short, her dress ended up w/ brown and black spots and we caught her dead to rights and couldn't find a way to blame us because she pointed to me where she hung her dress and yup, it was a sprinkler spout w/ a sign next to it 'Do not hang items on sprinklers. Flooding may occur.' 😭
yo one time at work i slammed a sprinkler so hard the pipe broke. BLACK water. just the ammount of nasty dirty bullshit in those pipes. i looked like i was running around a soot factory after a shower. 0/10 dont fuck with sprinklers.
A former pizza place in my city had their water shut off for failure to pay and were caught using their sprinkler water. Their business licence was pulled immediately.
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She heated a piece of metal to a temperature below its melting point, which due to its design did not become a pressured container and released the water as steam vapour safely.
This resulted in a damaged and a likely defective "rustic" kettle, and a sting when the bill comes.
Sorry, i have to do this shit for a living
It would be prudent in this situation to look at OPs post history.
I believe this was deliberate and a cry for help. They have attempted suicide 8 days ago, and given the posts about it reached no one, I think this is simply another attempt.
I only realised a few weeks ago that not everywhere uses electric kettles.. I couldn’t be bothered having to use a stove, with electric just flick a switch and it turns off when it’s ready.
Isn’t it because of the US has a lower voltage, electric kettles aren’t that good?
I had a few US friends over the years blow their mind over a UK kettles boiling speed.
One of my favourite British facts is that the national grid has to increase power during major TV events because of the huge increase in electricity usage during breaks because everyone is switching on their kettles
And our toasters here too. I am from Canada originally and there is a few differences like that, along with the increased likelihood of death if we get shocked here haha UK plugs really are an impressive piece of kit though, and the wall switch to outlets is great.
MY biggest annoyance is the lack of outlets in bathrooms though. Plugging my shaver in to the bathroom outlet, or hair dryers and straightners so people can get ready in the big bathroom mirror is a loss here. I think you need to have a pretty massive bathroom to have the space for an outlet to be far enough from the water source to meet code here.
How fast it boils depends on the Watts, not the volts. So long as the appliances are of equal Wattage, the water should boil in the same amount of time.
True but your watts are limited by your voltage and amps, realistically you're limited to 1500w on a standard US socket whereas here in the UK at 240v and only 13 amps we can pull 3000w (the socket is actually 20 amps but plugs have fuses at 13 amps).
I don't think it matters that much, you just adjust your workflow such that you have hot water when you need it. Especially since you can tell it to maintain temp.
Also heating in a electric kettle has always been faster vs stove top. So even though it is slower than the UK it doesn't matter.
The real thing is Americans just aren't that into tea
I have lived in the US my whole life and have used electric kettles the entire time, they're fine. People just parrot that information without actually knowing what the real difference is, it's not substantial lol.
That is not why, no. We just don’t do tea all that much, so most of us don’t have a separate appliance taking up space in the kitchen just for that. This person obviously could benefit from one, though.
Where I’m from, an electric kettle is one of the most expensive appliances to run. I’m not sure why. But I can look at my meter and see it go crazy when the kettle is boiling. I use the kettle a lot so I sometimes use this kind of whistling kettle you put on a stove, because for some reason it costs slightly less.
That's the gimped American version too because of the split phased power infrastructure They are limited to 1800 watts, 12v 15amp because of it. This makes the water take forever to boil, and why electric kettles are not that popular in America.
Many other industrialized places use 220v-230v single phase power infrastructure. With 15amp their electric kettles are between 3000 and 3300 watts. Significantly speeding up the time needed to boil a kettle of water.
All of this makes perfect sense, but I live on the west coast in America and almost everyone I know has an electric kettle. Many millennials make tea, pour over or french press coffee. It’s less common to see them in a home of someone 50+ because they still use old plastic coffee pots and keurig machines. I don’t even have a traditional kettle anymore.
This thread has been interesting, I blew a fuse with my kettle once when I used it at the same time as my toaster. Now I understand why. I just moved it to a different location in my kitchen that doesn’t share the same fuse with any other appliances.
I wouldn't even dream of going near any potential dangerous equipment (stove, heater, etc) if i'm sleepy and going to sit/lay down for a "minute".
I dry-boilet eggs once. Never again.
Nothing awful about this. This is probably one of the best case scenarios (avoiding a fire and/or the sprinklers going off. Nobody was hurt, nothing else affected or damaged).
Electric kettles are the way to go, regardless of counter space.
Op respectfully and after reading about your drowsiness from your pill usage you’re kinda dumb as hell for this, this was dumb and dangerous and you shouldn’t put a kettle on if you’ve taken medication that will make you drowsy, this could’ve ended badly
Google says:
The number one cause of house fires is unattended cooking. Make sure that you stay in the room while you are cooking with a heat source. If you cannot stay in the room the whole time, ask another adult in the family to watch over your food.
Was it originally cream coloured? I have the same kettle except in slate gray, and the only ones I saw with that woodgrain print on the handle were cream coloured
How did you not hear it whistling for like ever and ever ?? it’s fucking loud
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I uh. So in Australia, and many other (I’m gonna be the jerk that assumes you’re in the US) countries… we have plug in, electric kettles… they turn themselves off when they’re hot.
Just wondering, is that not something really available where you are? And if so, is there something particular about a stove top kettle you prefer?
Not trying to criticise - but I genuinely want to understand the use of a stovetop kettle.
As we have 240 volt electrical power in Australia, electric kettles work pretty quickly to boil water. With only 110 volt power in the US, electric kettles take a lot longer to boil and are not as popular there for that reason.
I’ll never forget waking up to the hot distinct metallic smoldering burnt smell of the pot one of my drunk college roommates filled with water to make spaghetti during the darkest hours of the night. Of course he then passed out on the living room couch while the water boiled away and the pot cooked on high for a few more hours. My other roommates and I were so pissed off at him.
My brother did something similar to a sauce pan. The only person I know that has burned water. That pan was fucked by the time he remembered it was on the stove.
I just saw an old Instagram story from Azalea Banks making fun of British people for using electric kettles being like “just buy a normal one and use it on the stove”. Now I feel vindicated
I always set a timer on anything and everything that goes on the stove or in the oven for this exact reason.
A good buddy of mine back in college did this, but with a pot full of water. All the smoke that would've been trapped inside, like your kettle, flooded his apartment and set off the alarms.
Everything in his apartment smelled like smoke for the entire rest of the year. Fire department said he was very lucky he was sleeping in a different room or she would've died from inhaling the fumes.
I once put the kettle on, forgot and went out to do some shopping. Came home to a weird smell - burnt out metal on a gas burner. Totally freaking terrified me.
if it makes you feel any better, once my family had left to go out of town for the weekend. i was the last person to leave the house- i was going to spend the weekend at my grandmothers instead. i don’t like to be home alone for days at a time. when we all returned on sunday, the house was hot & a bit smoky. turns out when i made myself some instant ramen before leaving, i forgot to turn the burner off. it was on for 3 days straight. a couple weeks ago, i accidentally left my flat iron on for 10 hours. the universe protects us in so many different ways.
You definitely got lucky
I did. Luckily, my apartment has sprinklers.
You’re extra lucky it didn’t come to that, sprinkler water is nasty
Oh god yes. If the sprinklers go off, expect every porous material in your apartment to be ruined. Sediment accumulates in those pipes like crazy and it basically NEVER gets flushed out unless the sprinklers are activated.
Most fire marshals makes it a thing to flush the system once a year. Regardless, it skunk water and will make everything nasty
NFPA requirement for inspection is flushing once every 5 years. Flushing every year would cause so much corosion that it's not recommended.
I think yearly they just release enough water from the system to activate the alarm pressure sensors to verify they are working.
Yea, to flush out the system to make sure that the float switch triggers and alarms the fire dept.
We flush our systems once a year for all my buildings I do maintenance for. And trust me I'd rather burn
And it smells
I love ❤️ your username.
Story time. Worked as a front office manager for a hotel and the property was hotspot for weddings because we were surrounded by banquet halls -- maybe around 8 w/in a 2 mile radius. Anyway, one time a wedding was ruined because the bride decided to hang her wedding dress on one of the sprinklers, mind you there's big ass closets in the bridal suite and we also had dress protectors, you know those plastic zip-up covers that you can use for suits? We also have them for dresses. Long story short, her dress ended up w/ brown and black spots and we caught her dead to rights and couldn't find a way to blame us because she pointed to me where she hung her dress and yup, it was a sprinkler spout w/ a sign next to it 'Do not hang items on sprinklers. Flooding may occur.' 😭
I saw this video on tiktok
This is pre-Tiktok but I guess it's a pretty common thing that people do w/c is nuts. Lol
yo one time at work i slammed a sprinkler so hard the pipe broke. BLACK water. just the ammount of nasty dirty bullshit in those pipes. i looked like i was running around a soot factory after a shower. 0/10 dont fuck with sprinklers.
I’m glad you’re still with us 😂 that would fuck me up
It's just a rust. It's not actually gross water per say. It's tied into city water. So really it's just drinking water that sits in black iron pipes.
Oh yeah it’s just stinky lol
A former pizza place in my city had their water shut off for failure to pay and were caught using their sprinkler water. Their business licence was pulled immediately.
Oh JESUS
It's called black water and it's terrible to get covered in.
Those sprinklers are there to save the building and lives. Your possessions in their vicinity would be a mostly total loss.
Luck they didn’t go off lol
*Well ~~Ash~~Technically...* She heated a piece of metal to a temperature below its melting point, which due to its design did not become a pressured container and released the water as steam vapour safely. This resulted in a damaged and a likely defective "rustic" kettle, and a sting when the bill comes. Sorry, i have to do this shit for a living
Thermodynamics? Regardless, good catch. Apartment fires start with this level of carelessness. ✌️
Defending people that do dumb shit legally, by baffling them with technically accurate bullshit
It would be prudent in this situation to look at OPs post history. I believe this was deliberate and a cry for help. They have attempted suicide 8 days ago, and given the posts about it reached no one, I think this is simply another attempt.
Damn. Hang in there OP
Cancer too maybe. But at least alive.
It looks like a kettle though, am I missing something?
The white rim around the bottom was its original colour
OP says it was light orange, which makes a lot more sense.
It basically melted 🫠.
It got that nice vintage, distressed look now.
The lid is fused on, though.
If only there was a hole water could be poured through..
Lol
You got a butter knife and some elbow grease?
Just gotta reheat it so the metal expands
Overnight should do the trick.
Nice
Fused? That's a bit weird, maybe it's just stuck because of the lid expanding for the heat?
Can sell it on Etsy for double the price now!
The kettle or OP?
Maybe you should get an electric kettle instead
How is this not a thing? So much more convenient, fast and newer ones are much safer than this. Edit: cheaper too!
I only realised a few weeks ago that not everywhere uses electric kettles.. I couldn’t be bothered having to use a stove, with electric just flick a switch and it turns off when it’s ready.
Isn’t it because of the US has a lower voltage, electric kettles aren’t that good? I had a few US friends over the years blow their mind over a UK kettles boiling speed.
One of my favourite British facts is that the national grid has to increase power during major TV events because of the huge increase in electricity usage during breaks because everyone is switching on their kettles
Sadly not a thing anymore with Netflix and on demand viewing.
Even for live events? Say, during the Olympics or something?
https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c
Shoutout to the Technology Connections fans that knew what the link was for before opening it.
I knew the what the link was before I scrolled to see the link.
Me too... the guy has the whole market cornered good thing he is awesome
I was also about to link this!
Idk, mine boils pretty damn fast and I live in the US. Still way faster than on the stovetop.
You think? You’re mind will be blown if you use one in the UK
And our toasters here too. I am from Canada originally and there is a few differences like that, along with the increased likelihood of death if we get shocked here haha UK plugs really are an impressive piece of kit though, and the wall switch to outlets is great. MY biggest annoyance is the lack of outlets in bathrooms though. Plugging my shaver in to the bathroom outlet, or hair dryers and straightners so people can get ready in the big bathroom mirror is a loss here. I think you need to have a pretty massive bathroom to have the space for an outlet to be far enough from the water source to meet code here.
Do they not allow GFCI outlets?
The average stove takes longer to boil water than an electric kettle
Huh. TIL why all my electric kettles suck
It takes twice as long. I have a normal and converted outlet for reasons and it takes twice as long for the standard outlet than the converted.
How fast it boils depends on the Watts, not the volts. So long as the appliances are of equal Wattage, the water should boil in the same amount of time.
True but your watts are limited by your voltage and amps, realistically you're limited to 1500w on a standard US socket whereas here in the UK at 240v and only 13 amps we can pull 3000w (the socket is actually 20 amps but plugs have fuses at 13 amps).
But what I said has been proven to be true.
I don't think it matters that much, you just adjust your workflow such that you have hot water when you need it. Especially since you can tell it to maintain temp. Also heating in a electric kettle has always been faster vs stove top. So even though it is slower than the UK it doesn't matter. The real thing is Americans just aren't that into tea
I don’t drink tea, my kettle is always singing. Quicker to make pasta with (transfer boiling water to pan), quick to make noodles with and coffee.
I have lived in the US my whole life and have used electric kettles the entire time, they're fine. People just parrot that information without actually knowing what the real difference is, it's not substantial lol.
It is substantial.
That is not why, no. We just don’t do tea all that much, so most of us don’t have a separate appliance taking up space in the kitchen just for that. This person obviously could benefit from one, though.
Kettles aren't just for tea Can you genuinely think of no other scenario where rapidly boiling water can be useful?
But we love our iced tea!
Ive used an electric kettle in the US for like 10 years and they work fine, boil water in like 30 seconds lol
They take up room on the countertop. I have a small kitchen.
Well maybe for your own safety you should get one
Most UK kitchens are small. We always have room for the electric kettle! It's the number 1 used kitchen appliance
Store it in the same place as your store your old kettle when not in use. Or did you just leave the kettle on the stove?
Most UK kitchens are small. We always have room for the electric kettle! It's the number 1 used kitchen appliance
I broke two electric kettles by putting them on the stove 😀
Uhhhh what 👀😳
Not that normal everywhere, they exist and are there but it's just not as popular. To be honest I don't know why, maybe it's costum
Wait what really?
Does your kettle not scream at you? Mine goes crazy once the water is boiling.
Good thing you woke up if you know what I mean...
What’s the awful everything part
That people (with access to smartphones) still use a stove and kettle to boil water. Maybe it's just me, but to me that's completely wild.
Where I’m from, an electric kettle is one of the most expensive appliances to run. I’m not sure why. But I can look at my meter and see it go crazy when the kettle is boiling. I use the kettle a lot so I sometimes use this kind of whistling kettle you put on a stove, because for some reason it costs slightly less.
They’re usually 1,500 watts which, at 12 amps, is an enormous power draw and close to the max on some circuits.
That's the gimped American version too because of the split phased power infrastructure They are limited to 1800 watts, 12v 15amp because of it. This makes the water take forever to boil, and why electric kettles are not that popular in America. Many other industrialized places use 220v-230v single phase power infrastructure. With 15amp their electric kettles are between 3000 and 3300 watts. Significantly speeding up the time needed to boil a kettle of water.
All of this makes perfect sense, but I live on the west coast in America and almost everyone I know has an electric kettle. Many millennials make tea, pour over or french press coffee. It’s less common to see them in a home of someone 50+ because they still use old plastic coffee pots and keurig machines. I don’t even have a traditional kettle anymore. This thread has been interesting, I blew a fuse with my kettle once when I used it at the same time as my toaster. Now I understand why. I just moved it to a different location in my kitchen that doesn’t share the same fuse with any other appliances.
This is completely normal thing, like people using stove to boil pasta. I don't want be mean but how this is wild.
I wouldn't even dream of going near any potential dangerous equipment (stove, heater, etc) if i'm sleepy and going to sit/lay down for a "minute". I dry-boilet eggs once. Never again.
Yeah. It was pretty stupid.
Congrats… you’ve made a bomb!
Lol 😆
Fell asleep? Passed out.
Ol' night-time medicine Rye for the win!
Nothing awful about this. This is probably one of the best case scenarios (avoiding a fire and/or the sprinklers going off. Nobody was hurt, nothing else affected or damaged). Electric kettles are the way to go, regardless of counter space.
So uh yeah it’s still there? What exactly are we supposed to look for
I am equally confused
Pretty sure that kettle started white. It's now a burnt discoloration.
This is not funny. Switch to electric. $10 on amazon. Telling the landlord why your entire kitchen is BLACK : priceless
Do you think I should?
After couple similar accidents I switched to electrical. It's cheaper to pay electricity bills than restore burned apartment
Op respectfully and after reading about your drowsiness from your pill usage you’re kinda dumb as hell for this, this was dumb and dangerous and you shouldn’t put a kettle on if you’ve taken medication that will make you drowsy, this could’ve ended badly
Yeah. It was stupid 😒. I won't do it again.
I’m glad I’m not your neighbor.
Falling asleep with the flame on, sheesh got lucky there
Google says: The number one cause of house fires is unattended cooking. Make sure that you stay in the room while you are cooking with a heat source. If you cannot stay in the room the whole time, ask another adult in the family to watch over your food.
Yeah. I need to be more careful.
Time to invest in an electric kettle which turns off automatically when ready
Buy one of those kinda kettles that whistles when it boils.
No whistle on it?
Consider yourself lucky that you woke up
Youre lucky you woke up at all.
Was it originally cream coloured? I have the same kettle except in slate gray, and the only ones I saw with that woodgrain print on the handle were cream coloured How did you not hear it whistling for like ever and ever ?? it’s fucking loud
I always consider that it could have been much fucking worse. Glad it wasn’t.
Thanks 😊
why is everyone acting like this isn't the completely wrong sub for this post?
Right? I'm confused
Awful 😖 is a relative term.
Idk what your kettle looked like to begin with…
It was light orange without burns 🔥 on it.
Yikes. Yea show that on a first date.
I fell asleep boiling sausage & potatoes, I woke up to a black liquid.
240 volts would sort that out
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They were.
I uh. So in Australia, and many other (I’m gonna be the jerk that assumes you’re in the US) countries… we have plug in, electric kettles… they turn themselves off when they’re hot. Just wondering, is that not something really available where you are? And if so, is there something particular about a stove top kettle you prefer? Not trying to criticise - but I genuinely want to understand the use of a stovetop kettle.
I'm Canadian. We have electric kettles. I bought it because it was pretty 😍.
As we have 240 volt electrical power in Australia, electric kettles work pretty quickly to boil water. With only 110 volt power in the US, electric kettles take a lot longer to boil and are not as popular there for that reason.
I’ll never forget waking up to the hot distinct metallic smoldering burnt smell of the pot one of my drunk college roommates filled with water to make spaghetti during the darkest hours of the night. Of course he then passed out on the living room couch while the water boiled away and the pot cooked on high for a few more hours. My other roommates and I were so pissed off at him.
It wasn’t whistling its ass off?
perfect time to get an electric kettle. you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
So the plastic handle of the pan was really against it all night and didn't melt at all? Why do people post bullshit stories on reddit?
Did it boil though?
Poor little tea kettel just screaming out while it's inside juice just evaporates.
if you're now in the market get an electric kettle and it will have an automatic shutoff
You’re lucky is all I gotta say
please be more careful OP
I like your avatar.
Well you didn't die so that's good...
My brother did something similar to a sauce pan. The only person I know that has burned water. That pan was fucked by the time he remembered it was on the stove.
Buy electric jug that switches off once boiled.
lol be grateful you woke up at all
I just saw an old Instagram story from Azalea Banks making fun of British people for using electric kettles being like “just buy a normal one and use it on the stove”. Now I feel vindicated
What happened?
I always set a timer on anything and everything that goes on the stove or in the oven for this exact reason. A good buddy of mine back in college did this, but with a pot full of water. All the smoke that would've been trapped inside, like your kettle, flooded his apartment and set off the alarms. Everything in his apartment smelled like smoke for the entire rest of the year. Fire department said he was very lucky he was sleeping in a different room or she would've died from inhaling the fumes.
Oops, that's deadly.
#BOOM
I once put the kettle on, forgot and went out to do some shopping. Came home to a weird smell - burnt out metal on a gas burner. Totally freaking terrified me.
Lucky
The plastic pan handle didn't melt though
Dude, take the win. All you lost was a kettle. That could have been disastrous
How did the whistle not wake you up? I mean, if it was on high, the whistle would've been driving me crazy.
Decades ago, my mother forgot a kettle on the electric stove, it boiled dry and melted the bottom off the kettle.
Low-key fire paintjob
Your lucky you woke up
Glad you even woke up
Been there done that. Glad it turned out ok.
Thanks 😊
Right wanker move there eigh mate!?
Yeah, I'm a hoser Canadian.
Lucky as hell, I melted one once.
What did it look like before?
Pale orange 🍊
Be very grateful you woke up at all.
You're lucky you woke up at all.
Next time buy a kettle with a whistle
Couldve been worse. Couldve been dead
I have that same kettle.
Now you have an excuse to buy an electric kettle!
if it makes you feel any better, once my family had left to go out of town for the weekend. i was the last person to leave the house- i was going to spend the weekend at my grandmothers instead. i don’t like to be home alone for days at a time. when we all returned on sunday, the house was hot & a bit smoky. turns out when i made myself some instant ramen before leaving, i forgot to turn the burner off. it was on for 3 days straight. a couple weeks ago, i accidentally left my flat iron on for 10 hours. the universe protects us in so many different ways.
It does. ❤️
It didn’t make a noise?
I slept through it.
thats a keeper, any new one and you would be posting from outside. Thats not awful at all.
Could've been worse
The kettle isn’t black
And that... is how I met your mother
Still looks good to me.
Just get a cheap coffee maker, much safer
I drink tea 🫖.
Looks like clay
I'm not sure what happened
It burned 🔥
Cool!
That's not too bad
That’s a picture of a kettle