Super!

[azekeil]

So after a day of all of us recuperating at home watching films and doing not a lot apart from boggling at the binary weather we went to the archery field. During the day we had wind, bright sun, a 3 minute blizzard, bright sun, wind, bright sun, and then just as we'd got ourselves together to get to the field we had a 10 minute hail storm. It was weird. We decided to go anyway as we guessed correctly that the weather would clear up before we got there. It was the first time for ev1ldonut and myself but kissycat1000 had been before. Anyway, I managed to shoot my bow! Quite reasonably! I even got a gold! (although that was mostly luck than judgement)

We discovered the groundskeeper had been and locked the gate so we couldn't get out. Luckily there was a way around by lifting a side gate off it's hinges to get through...

I'm hoping to persuade people they want to play Order of the Stick with me tomorrow at some point. Any other local people want to join in?

Oh, and this may or may not be the best thing evar. I intend to get one tomorrow but I may return it if it turns out to be rubbish for tea.

Comments

[blaadyblah.livejournal.com]

Ooh do report back on the tefal thing, I've been curious about that myself!

*hugs* - cause I haven't in a while.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

There are a bunch of videos on YouTube. It's noisy and that's 3 seconds before hot water starts coming out, not 3 seconds to a full cup of hot water. It's more like 30 seconds for that. In practise they're limited by the current that can be supplied to the kettle to heat the water (13A). Other kettles will also boil a cup of water in 30 seconds - the only real advantages this system has over traditional kettles is that the water is in your cup and it only heats pretty much what is needed. The downsides are the noise and the fact it doesn't make a proper cup of tea.

I think I shall be avoiding it after all that.

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

It seems that by the time I read this entry you'd already found all this out.

I'll get my tardy hat and sit in the corner.

;)

There was a time (still is???) that you could get a heating element you could dangle over the side of the cup and heat the water inside the cup. Effectively using the cup as the kettle itself. I imagine modern health and safety laws prevent this happening in case THE WORLD ENDS.

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

New icon! Credit to who?

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

The QuickCup is indeed rubbish for tea. Marvellous for instant coffee drinkers but the tea...blech.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Is that personal experience?

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I've had tea made with one and one of the lasses at work had one. She said that the water doesn't get quite hot enough for tea. Because it is heated by passing over an element, much the same as an electric shower, it cools down very fast indeed so the tea doesn't quite brew properly.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I did wonder about that. We have a hot water urn at work which never seems to produce a decent cup of tea as far as I'm concerned. But the FAQ did go a way to convincing me that it would be OK..