It being suddenly cold and rainy here in the Windy City, I decided that afternoon tea would be a nice thing to have while I wait for my challah to rise. Unfortunately, the electric tea kettle has other ideas. Despite working perfectly well this morning, it is now refusing to boil water. The outlet itself is fine (I tested it with the toaster), so it must be a problem with the kettle itself. The plug and the cord seem fine, and nothing appears to have changed since this morning. Does anyone have any other ideas for things I could check?
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Sorry.. that is the extent of my electrical knowledge. IF the outlet works and the kettle doesn't... then its dead.
Poor grad student. Let us know what bank to send our donations to the "French Pony Teapot Fund". I'm laughing, but I really do sympathize. I recall when my old percolator from college died. That was only about four or five years ago. I used it to make mulled cider. Anyway, I had to ask for one for Christmas. I have a nice shiny one now. But I kind of miss the old Harvest Gold one. She was a loyal friend.
Harvest Gold? That's a dated color, isn't it?
LOL! Uh...yeah. Tells you when I knocking around academia. Most of that decade, in fact. But the Harvest Gold Girl was a trooper. She made it through college, single-life, marriage and two kids. They just don't make 'em like her anymore.
I'm not completely giving up on the teakettle yet. I want to see if it'll shape up by tomorrow.</i. I really had to laugh at that. I'd do the same thing. Too early to admit defeat. I'd give it a stern talking to and a good night's rest. Then give it ONE MORE CHANCE.
Yes, yes it do. But you're right, appliances from back then are troopers. My former refrigerator was of that era, and as far as I know, it's still chugging along back in Grad School Town.
I'm not completely giving up on the teakettle yet. I want to see if it'll shape up by tomorrow.
I really had to laugh at that. I'd do the same thing. Too early to admit defeat. I'd give it a stern talking to and a good night's rest. Then give it ONE MORE CHANCE. Maybe more than one.
I hadn't been married long...still not in the senior citizen crowd...and I went to replace an appliance. Shoot, I can't even remember what it was. But as I talking to the sales lady, I remarked that the previous one I'd had was a good one. Maybe it was a drip coffee maker. Anyway, I told her I'd had the one no longer working since I was in college. She replied: "That was a long time ago." I was in my late twenties.
On the same day, I purchased something else in another department and when the 'girl' (and she was a girl) asked to see my driver's license, she looked at it, then at me and said: "So which is really your hair color?" Both of them, you snotty kid. It's the same.
I think that store went out of business.
Are you back in town?
The new kettle store?
Perhaps it just doesn't like working on Chicago electricity.
The thing has worked fine on Chicago electricity for years on the North Side, and then another couple of weeks down in Hyde Park. I think its only complaint would be that it's aging rapidly.