coffee

I feel it’s my duty to correct an entry I made here a few weeks back, re: my electric kettle’s stay-warm feature oddly “breaking”… turns out (and maybe this isn’t a surprise to anyone who knows me well), it was just me that “broke”. Somehow, after using this kettle for something like six months, on the day in question above, I randomly forgot how to use the stay-warm timer. Instead of clicking the button and then turning the dial to increase how long it should stay warm, my brain decided that morning, to repeatedly press the button. Which isn’t ever how it worked.

Anyway – good news – my kettle keeps my coffee water hot for as long as I like now – so my second cup comes out faster during my working days.

A couple of nights ago, when it was raining like crazy here (my 8-inch rain-gauge was overflowing!), our power went out for a second around 5AM. Not sure if this is just coincidence, or if there’s a causal relationship here, but later that morning, my electric kettle would no longer let me press the “warm” button multiple times to set it to stay warm for a longer period. That is to say – it used to be, each time you hit that button, it would add 30 minutes to the “stay warm” timer. Now, when I hit the button it puts up a 30 – but hitting it again, just deletes the 30. I only thought about a possible connection between the power-fail and this change in behavior because, whenever the kettle loses power, it forgets that I want it in “quiet” mode – so when i first turned it on, it was beeping at me, which made me think about the fact that it had lost power. Then, when I saw the change in behavior on the stay-warm function, I wondered if those thing were related. I did un-plug, wait 10, and re-plug, to see if that would fix it, but, no dice. :shrug: