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<\/a>Bodum Isis 5500-1 Of Questionable Origin<\/center><\/p>\nWhile perusing Craigslist Detroit Danielle came across a “garage sale” of questionable origin. That is, a supposed garage sale taking place in one of the hangers of a private FBO located at Troy airport. (More info<\/a> and photo of inside the hanger<\/a>.) We swung by there this afternoon and while most of the things available were open box \/ missing item RTA furniture, there were a few interesting things. The only one we found worth purchasing was the Bodum<\/a> electric kettle seen above. It was US$20, marked Salvage (on a yellow item number sticker on the top), but seemed to be unused. The kettle itself was in great shape, the box was just a bit beat up.<\/p>\n Usually when I heat water for tea or whatnot I use a metal kettle on the stove. This works, but it’s both a bit slow and inefficient. I’ve been wanting an electric kettle, but there only seem to be two varities available: cheap white plastic, non-detachable cord, and a top which can’t be opened much, if at all (<US$20) or expensive (>$50), stainless steel and plastic, and not much better made than the cheap ones.<\/p>\n This one is of the same heating element design, except the top opens up all the way to allow for easy cleaning, it was cheap, seems to have been unused, and almost all of the energy spent is actually put into the water. In the initial test it heated six cups of water to boiling in around three minutes. Not bad at all.<\/p>\n I think tonight I’ll make some valerian root tea to celebrate, and also help take off the edge which the multiple cups of coffee throughout the afternoon have put on me. Whoops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bodum Isis 5500-1 Of Questionable Origin While perusing Craigslist Detroit Danielle came across a “garage sale” of questionable origin. That is, a supposed garage sale taking place in one of the hangers of a private FBO located at Troy airport. (More info and photo of inside the hanger.) We swung by there this afternoon and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-food","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24637,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/24637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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