Time and boiling water…

Time flies, seize the day, life’s too short, make every second count, what a waste of time!  We’re a nation obsessed with quotations about time.  It’s understandable, because time is precious – and that’s another saying. 

Unlike anything else, you can’t get more of time; you can’t buy it and it’s difficult to trade it.  One thing is certain – once it’s gone you can’t get it back. 

Mostly people want to save time, and that’s where we score highly – quite apart from saving water, energy and money, we can help you reclaim a lot of those precious minutes.  On average, a kettle takes around three minutes to boil.  A kettle with just a little water in it will take less time, of course, but we tend to overfill kettles and boil too much water for just one cup.  This may be because we don’t really trust that the water will be nice if we only boil enough for one cup – a lot of us live in hard water areas and suffer from scaly kettles – or we’re concerned that we won’t boil enough and will have to top up the kettle and reboil it, which would, of course, be wasteful. 

Three minutes doesn’t seem long, does it?   But if you’re standing waiting for the kettle to boil, it seems ages.  So we often go and do something else while the kettle is heating the water, only to miss it boiling and let it cool while we get distracted.  So again we have to reboil, and that’s more waste. 

This pattern may well be repeated several times a day, and instead of three minutes, each time it can easily turn into five or six. 

Far better to cut out the waiting altogether – and you can with a Quooker.  Better by far to make tea, coffee or a snack instantly, then get on with the rest of your day.  Over the course of the day, this can save you quite a bit of time to do more useful things. 

It also helps not to break your concentration and focus.  Did you know that each time you are interrupted you lose about 50% of your effectiveness?  Simply going to the boiling water tap, making tea, then enjoying it before you move onto your next task, helps you to plan your productive time and your breaks more effectively. 

Even if you only take three minutes to boil a kettle four times a day, over a year that adds up to a staggering three days spent just hanging about waiting for kettles to boil. 

We could easily list a hundred more interesting things you could do with the time you could save, but it would take too much of your time to read it.  So we’ll just give you one – ditch your kettle and buy a Quooker!