Monday, 10th October 2005
Bang and the dirt is gone
I was in the middle of cooking dinner the other night when the kettle exploded.
It was quite spectacular in a way — all of a sudden the lid flew off with a loud noise (landing in the washing up water with resulting sizzle) and I caught a brief glimpse of an orange glow in the kettle before it subsided. The mains circuit breaker for the whole flat was triggered, inadvertently powering down both our computers, and the lights for the kitchen too. White smoke started filling the air; luckily our faulty cooker hood was fixed a mere six weeks after we moved in, so I could turn on the extractor fan as well as opening the windows.
The explosion blew calcium carbonate (from the limescale) everywhere. It certainly removed the limescale, although I hope this isn't the method that Cillit Bang uses.
For the record, we think our kettle malfunction was a combination of there perhaps not having been enough water in there, and also the kettle having been at least 30 years old (probably more) and having sat in my parents' loft for goodness knows how long.
Still. On the plus side, we'll be getting a brand new kettle from Kevin's sister, who hadn't yet got us a house-warming present. On the downside, since neither one of us drinks tea or coffee, we'll still only be using it to boil water for pasta.
Comments
That's rather scary O.O... and ah! I thought I was the only person to use a kettle to make water for the pasta. =D Now i know I'm not alone!
There went my Cillit Bang joke. Um, looks like it went bang quite a lot! Bit frightening I'm sure.
I never used to use a kettle for pasta-water either until last year at uni... it didn't occur to me that it was faster :-)
Aha, Kevin trumped you on the Cillit Bang! (Their slogan actually is "Bang and the dirt is gone". I thought it was fitting.)
http://www.luckykazoo.com/media/2005/03/cillit-bang-remix.html
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