Oh yeah! I didn't think I'd find one of these on eBay, but here it is... A mains voltage electrode boiler for making coffee or tea by passing mains current directly through the water in your cup to heat it.
But isn't that dangerous? Well HELL YEAH!
I'm not providing a link to the ebay listing for this item. It's really not the sort of item you want to have lying around where someone of low technical skillz can find it, since it's just a total death-trap in the wrong hands.
If you're technically inclined and live on your own then maybe you could consider one as a novelty. If that's the case then you'll find them on ebay or other sites that sell the Chinese stuff by searching for keywords like travel, water, heater, immersion and look for the ones that are clearly not spiral heating elements.
It works (really well), but the "power" it dissipates into the liquid will depend on the conductivity of the liquid. The purer the water is the less it will conduct, and the more minerals there are the more it will conduct.
But isn't that dangerous? Well HELL YEAH!
I'm not providing a link to the ebay listing for this item. It's really not the sort of item you want to have lying around where someone of low technical skillz can find it, since it's just a total death-trap in the wrong hands.
If you're technically inclined and live on your own then maybe you could consider one as a novelty. If that's the case then you'll find them on ebay or other sites that sell the Chinese stuff by searching for keywords like travel, water, heater, immersion and look for the ones that are clearly not spiral heating elements.
It works (really well), but the "power" it dissipates into the liquid will depend on the conductivity of the liquid. The purer the water is the less it will conduct, and the more minerals there are the more it will conduct.
My father showed me a sausage "cooker". Two nails in the end of plug. Skewer a sausage in between and put the plug into wall socket. Jank it out when the sausage is done.
Father , had a heater kettle element which when directly put in to water , boils the water of course…..
Locomotive engineer…. fresh Cuppa tea in minutes
hrmm.. I love the smell of chlorine gas with my morning coffee. great product 5 stars.
Fun for an electrician, dangerous to the normal bloke.
ReallY? Did someone actually DESIGN this? What college did s/he go to?
try use it as bum muscle trainer O_o just joking…
Holy. Snapping. Duckshit.
That's insane.
I accidentily invented this at the 4th Grade Science Fair. Good memories.
Back in the day people in mens prison used to hear water up by putting a cable from the main light and putting the live in the cup
It also splits the water intohydrogen(very flammable) andoxygen(makes things a lot more flammable), and quite a lot of it.and who knows what electrochemistry it can do when it's put into coffee or tea… probably turns it into poison
I wonder if some of the first action might be HO gas being given off just before boiling starts.
Sure enough, you did the hotdog electrocutor. If it is electrical, dangerous, and weird – Clive will have tried it!
Do you know how many deaths do these cause? Do people purposely suicide with it? What percentage chance of death is there? Is a minor shock more likely than straight death?
I tried one of these a few years back. The Cable melted within one second 🙂
Watching this again in 2022 to brighten my day and I love your enthusiasm here Clive. Do you still have this electrode boiler?