Timeline for How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
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| Apr 29, 2016 at 1:32 | comment | added | user13683 | @DavidRicherby Absolutely, and NEVER trust the auto-shutoff, it is a convenience, not life-saving equipment. Mine stopped working reliably after 3 years. There is a fail-safe overheat fuse, but then the kettle won't work at all after that. | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 1:36 | comment | added | David Richerby | @PeterLeFanuLumsdaine By the way, I'm pretty sure that an automatic shut-off mechanism is a legal requirement for electric kettles in the UK, which explains why neither of us has never seen one without that feature. | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 19:44 | comment | added | David Richerby | @PeterLeFanuLumsdaine Auto shut-off on kettles usually relies on the steam that's generated heating a bimetallic strip. If you use such a kettle with the lid open, the strip isn't bathed in steam so it doesn't trigger and the kettle will keep boiling. However, DO NOT DO THIS. IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. YOUR HOUSE WILL NOT FEEL HUMID WHEN IT IS ON FIRE, even though water is one of the combustion products of organic matter. | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 9:00 | comment | added | Hobbes | This takes a lot of power, and a kettle without auto-shutoff runs the risk of running dry and then melting. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | @ZeissIkon: in the US, at least as of about 2010, plenty of cheap kettles (i.e. bottom-end models at a shop like Target) didn’t have an automatic shut-off. Moving there from the UK, where in my whole life I’d never seen one that didn’t, I was pretty shocked. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 12:00 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | That's also a concern, but most electric kettles will automatically shut off if they run dry. Only those made rather a long time ago will lack that feature. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 4:12 | comment | added | Aequitas | and the kettle running out of water | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 16:10 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |