Re: Household appliances which work directly using X10 p rotocol

["Brown, Andy [Infrastructure]" <AndyB@xxxxxxx>]

Funnily enough, I haven't made coffee in it for about 18 months, so no, =
it
didn't taste of coffee.

I guess your requirements for good tea far outreach mine.  Wet, warm =
and
under a tea cosy.  I always seem to wake up with a stinking hangover =
these
days as well so I'm not best qualified to be a tea connoisseur!

Andy



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nigel Orr [SMTP:nigel.orr@xxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, January 07, 2000 10:40 AM
> To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject:	[ukha_d] Re: Household appliances which work directly using
> X 10 p rotocol
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> At 10:22 07/01/00 -0000, you wrote:
> >I tried using the coffee percolator last night and it's brilliant!
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> 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?
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> 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!)
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> 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...) ;-) !
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> 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...
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> And no, it doesn't look like the normal tacky teasmaid, more like a =
small
> goldfish bowl on a stand ;-)
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> Nigel
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