Re: Household appliances which work directlyusing X 10 p rotocol

[Nigel Orr <nigel.orr@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:22 07/01/00 -0000, you wrote:
>I tried using the coffee percolator last night and it's brilliant!

Doesn't it taste a bit of coffee though?  I am a fussy tea drinker though,
so maybe it's not noticeable... or do you have a spare percolator?

The theory is that tea should be made with freshly boiled water, and that
it _shouldn't_ be kept artifically warm afterwards (no, not even a tea=
cosy!)

We got a Tefal teamaker for Christmas last year (no, I'm not offering
another review ;-) ), which does the same job, except it doesn't keep the
tea warm afterwards.  However, the tea is kept separate from the water once
it's brewed, and, even if it's poured a while later and microwaved in the
cup to reheat it, it still tastes fine.  Certainly (IMHO) better than tea
that has been tea-cosied, although obviously still not to the appropriate
British Standard (whose number escapes me at the moment...) ;-) !

Ours is on an ordinary timer at the moment, and works well.  I believe the
co-op are currently selling them for =A39.99 from someone posting on a
newsgroup which is a bargain, I'd recommend it to anyone...

And no, it doesn't look like the normal tacky teasmaid, more like a small
goldfish bowl on a stand ;-)

Nigel


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