spokewrench
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I learned three lessons this morning. The first is that only a fool would store an immersion heater in an empty mug. Before your first cup of coffee in the morning, what's to keep a fool from putting a mug of water beside the empty one, turning on the timer, and walking away without noticing that the heater is in the empty mug?
The second lesson is that I'm still the fool I used to be. This morning when I came back to be ready for Bob Dylan to blow his siren whistle, I wondered why there was no heater in the coffee water. Then I saw it in the empty mug. The lesson is to store the heater on a ceramic saucer, not in a ceramic mug. Even I can tell a saucer from a mug!
I'd bought a 300-watt heater and noticed that the part of the element that wasn't submerged, glowed and ended up discolored. I switched to a 180-watt UL-certified heater that I found in a drawer. After being left on in an empty mug, it would no longer work but hadn't gotten hot enough to discolor the chrome-like surface.
The third lesson is that fools look for UL certified immersion heaters. If you're smart, you'll buy one that's not certified. It will cost less and heat your water faster. I'm not that smart. I ordered another UL-certified heater.
The second lesson is that I'm still the fool I used to be. This morning when I came back to be ready for Bob Dylan to blow his siren whistle, I wondered why there was no heater in the coffee water. Then I saw it in the empty mug. The lesson is to store the heater on a ceramic saucer, not in a ceramic mug. Even I can tell a saucer from a mug!
I'd bought a 300-watt heater and noticed that the part of the element that wasn't submerged, glowed and ended up discolored. I switched to a 180-watt UL-certified heater that I found in a drawer. After being left on in an empty mug, it would no longer work but hadn't gotten hot enough to discolor the chrome-like surface.
The third lesson is that fools look for UL certified immersion heaters. If you're smart, you'll buy one that's not certified. It will cost less and heat your water faster. I'm not that smart. I ordered another UL-certified heater.
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