Breville Silver Filter Kettle

[bens_dad]

miss_t_ide bought a Breville Silver Filter JK120 kettle. Our old one dribbled a lot but this one pours very nicely.

However, when standing on the base but switched off the kettle is illuminated by a blue light. The manual says:
the illumination of this kettle is achieved by using LED's. The amount of energy used for this is very small, a fraction of what is used by a light bulb.
Maybe, but when I want to illuminate not only the kitchen and the hall, but the wall halfway up the stairs as well
I don't immediately think "Ah, I'll turn the kettle on".

I really want to take this environmentally unfriendly kettle/lamp back but I don't think miss_t_ide would be happy without a kettle that only pours water into the cup.

Comments

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

could you switch it off at the wall?

[bens_dad]

Not with wet hands.




And I'd have to rearrange the plugs for the chip fryer, the microwave and the radio so that I didn't turn them on/off as well.
I can just not put the kettle on its base, which only wastes counter space, but the principle is the real point.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

dry your hands first, *then* turn it off at the wall?

:-)

For the sake of your sanity, I'd spend the couple of minutes rearranging your plugs.

My usb wireless thingy also had a bright blue LED in it, which stays on even when the PC is off. I've had to resort to turning it off at the wall.

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Problem is that the deep fat fryer needs to have its own socket so that it *can* be turned off at the wall, as that's the only way of turning it off. The other socket therefore has an adaptor to enable us to plug in the microwave and the radio as well. I'd like to rearrange the kitchen entirely and this will be taken into consideration when at some point in the future we get a new kitchen.

[martinoh.livejournal.com]

"I really want to take this environmentally unfriendly kettle/lamp back"

Environmental cost/benefit analysis time - what would the total energy wasted on returning the kettle be (including but not limited to your own activity and that of the retailer in putting it through their returned stock mechanism prior to its resale or possibly even disposal as used equipment) relative to the cost of allowing it to glow?

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

I just leave it off its base unless I want to boil some water...
...or illuminate the kitchen without putting the light on!

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Dam' straight! I'm sick of pouring boiling water all over the work surfaces, the washing machine and the cooker!