what will happen if.......

robbie_998

what will happen if i try to boil an empty kettle.....???

amacachi

Try it and record it.

[Jackass]

As far as i know, the element (bar at the bottom of the kettle) will just cut out after a few seconds....seeing as it's designed to know when wat has reached boiling point and cut out, it will far quicker reach that temprature point on it's on and cut out. But it may damage it and destroy the kettle...if the element burns out or is damaged, then the kettle is usless...

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

It'll break. Also don't try to boil an egg in a kettle, and don't put wash up liquid in there. Basically any "what if...?" question involving a kettle or a microwave should be left uninvestigated.

shenanigans1982

Luciano Squeaking Musket wrote: »

It'll break. Also don't try to boil an egg in a kettle, and don't put wash up liquid in there. Basically any "what if...?" question involving a kettle or a microwave should be left uninvestigated.

I was gonna ask what happens if you boil a kettle in a microwave...there goes that idea.

pikachucheeks

In a word ; explosion.

Even Brainiac don't dare to do that!

Ruu_Old

sugarman wrote: »

I'd imagine it'd explode and you'd end up picking chunks of metal out of your face for the next six months and be left with big puffy fish lips bigger than the rest of your face.

Like Father Bigley?

mental07

sugarman wrote: »

I'd imagine it'd explode and you'd end up picking chunks of metal out of your face for the next six months and be left with big puffy fish lips bigger than the rest of your face.

Like Fr. Bigley? :P

mental07

sugarman wrote: »

Exactly Like Fr Bigley.

Maybe that's what happened to him?

robbie_998

mental07 wrote: »

Like Fr. Bigley? :P

i was looking for that vid to put with this thread but couldnt find it ! :rolleyes:

robbie_998

sugarman wrote: »

This one?;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25N-4zrk390

nope i found that one...

thats not the full one mate :pac:

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Try boiling a kettle with petrol in it :eek:

jill_valentine

sugarman wrote: »

I'd imagine it'd explode and you'd end up picking chunks of metal out of your face for the next six months and be left with big puffy fish lips bigger than the rest of your face.

Ruu wrote: »

Like Father Bigley?

sugarman wrote: »

Exactly Like Fr Bigley.

mental07 wrote: »

Maybe that's what happened to him?

Oh God.

Oh God, I f*cking love the internet.

we'llallhavetea_old

Tape the switch to 'on' on an empty kettle. That could be fun. Wonder how tomatoes would react in there? Would they mulch down or just explode or shrivell? Get back to us.

Super-Rush

Try boiling a kettle with cooking oil in it

jill_valentine

I still like the egg-in-a-kettle idea. Makes way more sense than fish-in-a-kettle.

jill_valentine

In answer to the original question, nothing will happen so long as the kettle is closely supervised.

Also, weirdly, I'd been listening to a song about Kettles when I saw this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYloi-d4s80

Of which there surely aren't all that many. "Speak of the Kettles...", I suppose.

galwayrush

Anya Teeny Track wrote: »

Try boiling a kettle with petrol in it :eek:

has to be in a microwave though, much safer i think...............;)

Biggins

robbie_998 wrote: »

what will happen if i try to boil an empty kettle.....???

You get one angry female tied to the kitchen sink trying to kill you with her chain!

Wadi ya expect! :P

Captain-America

Should I boil it again?

No, I liked it better the first time.

CutzEr

You know what, I wonder what would happened if you put cofee beans in the kettle

You would get..Tofee? Aha! I knew that's how they made it.

g-whizz

[Jackass] wrote: »

As far as i know, the element (bar at the bottom of the kettle) will just cut out after a few seconds....seeing as it's designed to know when wat has reached boiling point and cut out, it will far quicker reach that temprature point on it's on and cut out. But it may damage it and destroy the kettle...if the element burns out or is damaged, then the kettle is usless...

no it won't. a kettle reads the temperature of the water, and then stops, not by the temperature of the element.

jill_valentine

So we actually still haven't established what would happen?

GA361

Ruu wrote: »

Like Father Bigley?

Who's he . . . . . . I was thinking more along the lines of Brian cowen

Orla K

My father managed to do something like this.

He boiled the kettle and didn't put the lid down, all the water boiled off, the kitchen was full of smoke and it blew a fuse.

JohnCleary

[Jackass] wrote: »

As far as i know, the element (bar at the bottom of the kettle) will just cut out after a few seconds....seeing as it's designed to know when wat has reached boiling point and cut out, it will far quicker reach that temprature point on it's on and cut out. But it may damage it and destroy the kettle...if the element burns out or is damaged, then the kettle is usless...

No, the kettle knows the water is boiled by steam. When water boils, the stream rises up into a channel in the kettle and there's a switch/sensor in there that knocks the kettle up. That's what sometimes when you try to boil another load in a kettle just after boiling, the switch won't stay on... there's still water in the cut out switch/sensor

jill_valentine

Luciano Squeaking Musket wrote: »

It'll break. Also don't try to boil an egg in a kettle, and don't put wash up liquid in there. Basically any "what if...?" question involving a kettle or a microwave should be left uninvestigated.

You're just trying to stop us inventing something awesome.

ejmaztec

JohnCleary wrote: »

knocks the kettle up.

:eek:

snubbleste

Have you tried putting the kettle in a saucepan of water on the hob and boiling it?

browner85

what happens if you put coke and mentos in the kettle???????????

Rowley Birkin QC

What if you put a kettle in another kettle and boiled it?

Apparently a microwaved bar of soap produces hilarious results.