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All those kettles from the 70s look realy well made. Maybe it’s the abundant chrome.
by danw1979 3y ago
All those kettles from the 70s look realy well made. Maybe it’s the abundant chrome.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoHow unprofitable. Much better to use bits of metallised plastic which flake to death in a few years. Cheaper to make and those suckers'll be back soon enough. You can probably fix the flex properly too, new ones often have a moulded captive boot in the cable instead of a screw clamp.
- lm28469 3y agoUsing plastic is much better, especially for the parts in contact with water. You wouldn't want boiling water in contact with metal, it might leach chemicals that would end up in your system
- switch007 3y agoHuh? Millions of cooks every day boil liquid in metal pans. What’s the issue?
- actionfromafar 3y agoExactly the reverse.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIf your water is acidic enough to leach stainless steel, you have bigger issues than the chromium.
- tragomaskhalos 3y agoLast time I bought a kettle my wife did her nut because I went for the 20 quid option rather than spending £80 on some prop from a lifestyle magazine, however I maintain that my reasoning was sound - all modern kit is indeed built with a depressingly imminent obsolescence, to which price point confers only limited immunity, and this is exacerbated by the brutal hardness of London water, which will scale and calcify any appliance that so much as looks at it.