Workplace bought a new kettle

[CoolHands]

Well, a Culligan ‘water dispenser’ as they are these days. Groovy. But no! Keep making cups of tea and thinking it doesn’t seem very hot - turns out the fking thing has a target temperature of 87 degrees! Not even smegging boiling! WTF

Is this so us adults can’t burn ourselves? What is the world coming to. And no, it’s not adjustable, I looked up the manual

[eharding]

Your employers heard you liked having cool hands, hence provided a low-temperature beverage solution. Make your bleeding' mind up.

[CoolHands]

Haha I didn’t notice that

[the tribester]

It's so you're not wasting time waiting for your beverage to cool down. You can drink it quicker and GET BACK TO WORK!

[LJF_97]

They are better in terms of H&S and energy usage in places with a lot of employees.

[Jazoli]

Fitted thousands of these things over 7 years, they are a bit crap to be honest and very much a budget solution but a lot 'safer' than a kettle from a corporate h&s perspective.

It's still very easy to scald yourself at 87 degrees, best thing is if someone has used it before you you are very likely to get water at 60-70 degrees unless you wait for it to come to the boil again! The undercounter zip taps were far superior.

Edited by Jazoli on Tuesday 22 October 23:08

[wyson]

That’s actually a good temp to brew green teas. Perhaps change your beverage?

[RJO]

Is there a microwave in the kitchen?

[kevinon]

Any powerfully built director would eschew such a travesty and buy their own pour -over kettle which allows you to set any target temperature.

92 degrees for coffee, 98 degrees for builders tea. And yes, 70 degrees for matcha for those who are so inclined. One of my better purchases.

https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg-ekg-elec...

[dandarez]

Cold or warm tea, nothing worse!

Got an Asda close by?
Nip out and grab one of these and plug it in out of sight

https://groceries.asda.com/product/kettles-coffee-...

1.7 litre capacity means you can boil multiple cups of tea at once.
Snazzy Black-Diamond effect body -1.7 litre capacity - Boil dry protection - Rear water window
Energy saving feature -Water level indicator - 3kW fast boil.

Massive cost of...
9 quid!

[GiantEnemyCrab]

LJF_97 said:

They are better in terms of H&S and energy usage in places with a lot of employees.

Ah the good old H&S, let's no actually worry about it it fulfills the function of making brews properly though, along long as the wall-sized shelf of paperwork is ok.

Ever wonder why economically we struggle - legions of people coming up with dumb st like this!

[Mabbs9]

I think by the time a kettle gets poured into the mug it'll be closer to 90 than 100. If you're actually getting 87 then you can warm the mug first then make your brew.

[Crumpet]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

LJF_97 said:

They are better in terms of H&S and energy usage in places with a lot of employees.

Ah the good old H&S, let's no actually worry about it it fulfills the function of making brews properly though, along long as the wall-sized shelf of paperwork is ok.

Ever wonder why economically we struggle - legions of people coming up with dumb st like this!

It can’t genuinely be a health and safety consideration, is it?! Surely it’s just some misguided manager somewhere rather than H&S guidance.

When I think of all the interesting ways available of killing oneself at my workplace it’s a wonder anything actually gets done. (We have a kettle.)

[ATG]

LJF_97 said:

They are better in terms of H&S and energy usage in places with a lot of employees.

Except they aren't. Some middle ranking facilities manager may believe that, but he/she/they are wrong. In reality the device fails in the one task it is supposed to perform and also costs an absolute fortune to buy and maintain ... compared to a kettle that (a) works and (b) costs bugger all and (c) requires no specialist maintenance.

If a member of staff can't be trusted to use a kettle without injuring themselves, what exactly are you going to trust them to do? What good are they as an employee? "We let Darren manage a team of ten people, but we're don't trust him with a kettle."

[ATG]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

LJF_97 said:

They are better in terms of H&S and energy usage in places with a lot of employees.

Ah the good old H&S, let's no actually worry about it it fulfills the function of making brews properly though, along long as the wall-sized shelf of paperwork is ok.

Ever wonder why economically we struggle - legions of people coming up with dumb st like this!

This with nobs, bells and whistles on.

[Evanivitch]

They've saved 0.013 kWh per cup of tea, which over the course of the year means someone will earn a very exciting £75 gift voucher for discovering such a huge efficiency gain.

Also, by making the communal coffee facilities absolutely useless they've improved productivity by 45%.

[Spare tyre]

It’s the sort of thing that seems to have endless servicing and repairs

What happened to the boiling taps on the big bottle water dispensers, they always seemed to work

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

I find it incredible that people are prepared to spend hundreds if not thousands of pounds on these things and boiling taps that don't make as good a cup of tea as a £9 aAda kettle.

Plus they need servicing and repairs, with a kettle you just buy another one.

[K87]

We spent a ton of money and installed a Quooker.

Boiled water alright.

The Quooker was to replace a kettle and replace a hot tap for washing up, the sinks had no hot water tap

A number of people burned their hands. The classic was people putting dirty cups in a washing up bowl as if they were at home, dirty tarts, and then filled it boiling water from the Quooker. Someone comes along a minute later and pulls their mug out of the water, scalding their hands. they had to be taken to hospital.

The problem is that if someone is taken to hospital from a place of work you have to tell the Health and Safety people who visit and make a recommendation.

We gave up in the end and had a vending machine.

[ARHarh]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

I find it incredible that people are prepared to spend hundreds if not thousands of pounds on these things and boiling taps that don't make as good a cup of tea as a £9 aAda kettle.

Plus they need servicing and repairs, with a kettle you just buy another one.

About 6 months ago we bought a new kettle as the old one had been a kettle too long. We had a budget of up to £100. Could not find one we liked, so bought a £15 job from Tesco, to tide us over. Its quiet, boils quickly, looks OK and manages to make water really hot. It doesn't feel as nice to touch as some of the expensive ones, but I really don't get off on caressing my kettle. We have not even considered replacing it. Makes you wonder why you need to spend more.