My tea kettle just died
Space Cowboy wrote:
> May it RIP. It served me faithfully for 15 years. It was the most
> expensive kettle I ever bought at $50. It was heavy guage stainless
> steel with removal whistle. You could tweek the tweeds. This one
> could handle high heat for hours after a boil down. You never needed
> gloves for the handle even then. It was a well balanced pot with nice
> contoured handle for easy pouring with one hand. There was never any
> blowback of steam from the spout when pouring. If there was a down
> side you always had to remove the whistle from the spout but you could
> still do that with two fingers even with the steam. In it's death
> throws it revealed something about the anatomy of why it was so
> efficient and durable. There is a steel plate for heat dispersion
> ticky tac to the bottom of the stainless steel. Fortunately this fell
> off in the sink and not above the ceramic glasstop. I'd say it weighs
> at least a pound. The plate will make a nice trivet. I might try it
> with a high temperature glass kettle. In the mean time I'm using a
> liter sauce pan which matches the volume of the pot. It heats so fast
> under two minutes on the small burners I never use I might stay with
> that awhile till I get over my grieving and even think about replacing
> an old friend. I've already done some scouting because I knew the tacs
> were working loose and all I see is cheap and tinny and cheap and
> plastic.
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> Jim
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