Mine may have markings but I have never used them that I remember.
Yup, works in theory. ;-)
I guess that depends on several things ... like how many people are expecting a hot beverage at once, the uniformity of the cups used by each, the location of the cups, tap and kettle and (and this is the biggie), if you have *a life* or not. ;-)
Do you dip the same cups in the kettle to fill them once the kettle has boiled Dave .
So do you carry each of the cups to the sink, fill each separately and carry them back to the kettle one at a time (or use the same cup 'n' times if all the same size)?
Ah, you have an advantage on us then (as this place can be more like a cafe on occasion). ;-)
I put the cordless kettle (as that was the main point of having cordless kettles I thought) under the tap and put in what I consider 'enough' to fulfil our predicted need for that instance.
Makes sense. We rarely fill the kettle to the max, unless we need that much boiling water of course.
Yes. 'Difficult' in comparison to doing what we typically do.
Yes, and we also *manage* and do so quickly and easily most times by guesstimation, often with less than half a mug of water 'spare'.
Yes, but 'the point' here was that an insulated kettle would also do so 'longer term', potentially long enough to make any overfilling of no real consequence (and therefore any time wasted playing 'measure the precise volume' moot). ;-)
(is it just my Newsreader that doesn't wrap Dave's messages properly?)
Or, rather that suffer the losses normally incurred whenever you convert energy from one format to another, just have the kettle store any hot water as efficiently as possible. You save energy when heating (minimise losses up to the boiling time), you minimises losses from when it's boiled and when you actually use the water (you might be distracted somehow) and you save energy between boilings. Result. ;-)
Cheers, T i m