Use less in the kettle
British people love cuppas even more than we love talking about the weather - but we’re actually not very good at making the stuff. You see, we boil on average twice as much water as we need – which is plain silly. Because if everyone boiled only what they needed, it would save enough energy to power 295,000 homes for a whole year. We’d also trim around 90 seconds off the average tea round, which is just enough time to have a discussion with Gladys in Accounts about how windy it’s been lately.
- Using a cup to measure water into your kettle will mean you get the right amount of water each time. But for a high-tech, Star Trek-esque alternative to cup-counting, get yourself an Eco Kettle. You fill it up as much as you want, but, by pressing a special button, only ever boil what you need. Beam me up Scotty.
- If the Eco Kettle isn’t your cup of tea (pun intended), there are lots of other energy-saving kettles out there.
- If you overfill the kettle to avoid the horrible limescale dregs at the bottom, try making your own vinegar descaler.
- Once you’ve got your kettle-filling technique down to a tea (pun, once again, intended), this formula will show you how to brew the perfect cuppa.
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Here’s a thing. As a nation we Brits drink 229 million cups of tea and coffee a day - that’s well over a billion cups a week or a whopping 84 billion cups a year. It’s not known how many of those 84 billion have biscuits dunked in them, but what is known is that ginger nuts are by far and away the best biscuit to dunk. And that’s official.
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