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« Reply #30 on: July 08, 2009, 06:24:43 AM »
I still use racks and lines, but I have used a tumble dryer before. There's no need to vent the dryer outside if you get yourself a condenser dryer. The moisture collects in a drawer that you pull out and empty after each load.

For example:

http://shopping.kelkoo.co.uk/ss-condenser-tumble-dryers-uk.html

Quote from: wegie on July 08, 2009, 05:58:46 AM
Quote from: qrypt on July 08, 2009, 03:08:50 AM
Especially the kind with the kettle that lifts off the base -- so that there's no need to remove the plug from the socket when taking the kettle to refill it. 

Genius. 

You mean you can actually still get the old style? It certainly didn't look that way the last time I was in John Lewis.

Anything here tickle your fancy? I've got the red one.
http://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/Kettles.aspx
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« Reply #31 on: July 08, 2009, 06:33:49 AM »
Quote from: puffin on July 08, 2009, 06:24:43 AM
Quote from: wegie on July 08, 2009, 05:58:46 AM
Quote from: qrypt on July 08, 2009, 03:08:50 AM
Especially the kind with the kettle that lifts off the base -- so that there's no need to remove the plug from the socket when taking the kettle to refill it. 

Genius. 

You mean you can actually still get the old style? It certainly didn't look that way the last time I was in John Lewis.

Anything here tickle your fancy? I've got the red one.
http://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/Kettles.aspx

Anything that's not the Dualit PoS that WH bought! We had a Filtermaster at my last place, and it was so much better than the Dualit, not to mention being a third of the price.
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« Reply #32 on: July 08, 2009, 06:35:57 AM »
Can't believe it. The electric kettle is the item non-Brits find to praise about life in the UK...

The cheapskate option chez bacardi
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4219402/Trail/searchtext%3EKETTLE.htm

Added feature: the stainless steel jug IS the element! So it's a billion degrees when you touch it accidentally (like, when pouring it for tea) and get 3rd degree burns.
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« Reply #33 on: July 08, 2009, 06:40:42 AM »
Quote from: bacardiandlime on July 08, 2009, 06:35:57 AM
Can't believe it. The electric kettle is the item non-Brits find to praise about life in the UK...

No! No! I adore electric kettles! I just loathe the one I have to work with . . . instead of pouring, it sort of belches, somewhat uncontrollably.

It may yet get "lost" during the move.
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« Reply #34 on: July 08, 2009, 06:46:59 AM »
Quote from: bacardiandlime on July 08, 2009, 06:35:57 AM
Can't believe it. The electric kettle is the item non-Brits find to praise about life in the UK...

Well, that and St Pancras...  :)
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« Reply #35 on: July 08, 2009, 07:19:56 AM »
Quote from: qrypt on July 08, 2009, 06:46:59 AM
Quote from: bacardiandlime on July 08, 2009, 06:35:57 AM
Can't believe it. The electric kettle is the item non-Brits find to praise about life in the UK...

Well, that and St Pancras...  :)

I can't stand St Pancras, either ;-)
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« Reply #36 on: July 08, 2009, 11:07:09 AM »
I knew about the electric kettle - mine heated many a ramen package in college - but I have one in the kitchen at work at some of my colleagues didn't know what it was.

When I was a child, my mother (who grew up in a former British colony and retained many Britishisms) had a device that fit about half a dozen eggs, and hard boiled them. It looked like a small Iron Maiden on the countertop. Is this also a UK thing?
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« Reply #37 on: July 08, 2009, 11:47:00 AM »
Quote from: onelime on July 08, 2009, 11:07:09 AM
When I was a child, my mother (who grew up in a former British colony and retained many Britishisms) had a device that fit about half a dozen eggs, and hard boiled them. It looked like a small Iron Maiden on the countertop. Is this also a UK thing?

Ah, an egg boiler. Yup, they're still around ;-)
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