I made my car charger boil water real fast

I hope one day you can take a look into the "Carpenter Reuse scratch pad" on Amazon since Ive had the product for 5 year now. . And it looks just like sheet of abs plastic with 3m tape on it. The product is running out of stock and I'm afraid that the company is going out of business or Amazon wouldn't sell it anymore and it would be nice to have an alternative diy project for erasable surfaces with just a lick of your finger

Since have I one of those aforementioned proper 240V induction stoves (love it!), and a regular stovetop kettle, I was able to run the same test, using 1 litre of water starting at 61F (16C). Sure enough, it starts boiling right around 2 minutes, and whistling at 2m20s. Almost identical to the 240V British kettle.

Thanks for the next explanation about how stupid the British and Imperial units are :-P.

If you really want a rabbit hole to dive into, research the changing Saudi power grid where you can end up with both 120V and 230V on 60Hz in the same area

Next build: heat pump kettle

I was expecting to watch a 23 minute video of someone boiling water at a perfectly normal speed so it's good you ended up destroying some kettles at the end

Now all we need is for Alec to convince the fine folks at The Good Store to develop a 3kW kettle for sale in the US.

Much of Norway actually works just like your American 240V setup. Traditionally, we've used an "IT" (Isolé Terre) system here where normal appliances are connected between two phases. So this means that any appliance sold here needs to accept that both lines will be "hot". And our plugs are reversible as well, so they need this regardless :) All/most newer installations use the TN system, where normal appliances are between one phase and neutral. So we're slowly confirming to European standards.

16m20s The thermal fuse MIGHT be the bulge in the black heat shrink at ~2 O'clock?.

I have to know if that was a class C fire extinguisher.

The split phase should never be a problem for anything designed for the European market. European plugs are rotationally symmetric (type C and F at least; the most used ones). You can plug them in either way, so you can never know which pole becomes live, which forces appliance manufacturers to design them so that it doesn't matter. Note that this isn't true for UK plugs. But it will generally be the case that an appliance is designed to be universal to all of Europe, so the polarisation will still not matter. Of course for some devices the frequency of 60 Hz instead of 50 Hz _might_ be a problem.

Your kettle table wobbles. Completely unwatchable.

You absolute mad man! <3

Now here’s the question: can you find an old space heater with a kettle-shaped heating element? Save that for a month that allows effort.

I have a Ninja kettle. Totally over engineered to make a cup of breakfast tea, but actually quite neat that it has a temperature sensor and a digital display. When you set it to boil to 100C, it does so and stops as soon as it reaches that temperature. It makes hardly any steam as it avoiding the noisy bubbly steamy bit at the end as it is not relying on a bi-metallic strip (although there is probably one there as a safety cutoff). Also useful if you want to aim for a lower temperature for whatever reason.

I think having something in the kitchen that uses 3kW is only remarkable because kitchen appliances in the US are so feeble. Houses in many European countries are wired for three phase 230v and it's common to have three phase appliances in the kitchen (my induction hob is 3 phase 7.5kW). The Brits only get that kind of power delivery with massively thick cables because British homes only have single phase 230v.

Incredible, holy work … God bless you, sir.

I think this video is possibly one of the best I've watched in a long time! No effort November is certainly producing some great results! Oh and 4 minutes to make a Brew? Remind me not to 'pop round yours for a cuppa' anytime soon! 🤣 Tea is very important to us bits and any delay in getting said brew just isnt cricket!

I'm British and I've never heard of a "Breakfast Cup" before! I think Breville (who are Aussie) are just being weird for... reasons. The kettles I've used are also always in Litres. FUN FACT! 3kW kettles are "fast boil" kettles. The majority of cheaper kettles here in the UK are well below that. Cookworks will sell you one that is 2.2kW (which is marked in litres and uses the metric cup like in Canada, which is 250ml, FWIW), Tefal will sell you one that's only 1.5kW, my Aldi kettle, which is the same as the glass Cosori kettle in the US, is only 1.5kW as well, and my gooseneck kettle for hipster coffee reasons is only 800W. If you think 3000kW in a cheap plastic kettle is a lot, you should see our showers: 32A circuit fed directly into the bathroom! Yay! If you're rich and 32A isn't spicy enough for you, you can go as high as 60A! Because who DOESN'T want an 11kW shower in the morning?

Metal junction boxes for electricity will never not make me have the heebie-jeebies. Like why not use something that DOES NOT conduct electricity, just in case?

Man, I think that you should get another kettle to see how long it could last. I get a feeling that if you don't run it cycle after cycle and let it cool a bit between uses it would last quite a while.

This is the single most wonderful video I have ever seen.

See Alec murder some kettles! I'm hoping not to find anything overseas I really want for the next 3 years due to the imposed tariffs this country, in its infinite wisdom, is now charging its citizens. f**k!

This is the strangest adapter I have ever seen, and I have been in Laboratory IT for 30 years.

I am thankful for your content. You are great.

The worst "don't do it at home" water heater was used by a whole country. The "soy una novedad" (SUN) heater directly electrified the water to heat it up. It was the standard heater in Uruguay until 2010. https://amec.uy/blog/cultura/historias-de-aca-soy-una-novedad/

You are so weird. And awesome. I'm so happy to support you every month.

At 9:30 “…so if the maths work out…” Nice touch Alec!

Loved this one! Science-based experiments with home appliances? Can't miss! I've got a Walmart 120V kettle and it's fast enough for my morning water heating needs. After grinding the coffee beans, measuring only 350-400 ml of water, filling the pour-over rig and pouring the water, I've already invested enough time that a slower kettle boil time doesn't really matter. Besides, the long routine helps me to wake up. Nice way to handle the complaints about not including someone's preferred units of measure. Now I wonder if those English breakfast cups are for a regular breakfast or for a Full English Breakfast®️? Also, now I know how that tube inside the kettle triggers the shutoff mechanism. Say thanks to Steve next time you see him😉

so cursed, but thank you for explaining why doing this even in the least cursed way is still a horrible idea. we use our electric kettle at least twice a day – that could be two hours of time saved per month with a 240v kettle...! but definitely sketchy lol

Interestingly enough, if you're willing to put up with the extra counter space, you can just buy a commercial grade induction hot plate that natively runs on 240V such as this one off of Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/ChangBERT-Restaurant-Professional-Commercial-Countertop/dp/B07Y7WXQMQ?th=1

In honour of your new alliance with the UK, did you switch your B Roll camera to 50hz mode?

The units digression might be my favorite moment of Alectopia ever.

CURSED KETTLE! WOO.

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kettle/boiling water video = good day