It's a kettle. not just any Kettle but the finest pink rubber. Kettle from China I mean everything's made in China but this is a direct import so it may have special special features inside. Can you even see inside here? I'll shine a light down into it.

Inside we have a stainless steel looking boiling plate. it does say 304 whether that means uh, 304 stainless steel or something else. I Don't really know it's read about 600 watts, but you know what? Let's just fill it with water and we'll boil it. I'm just going to fill it with water right now.

one moment please. The water has been put in I've put in 500 milliliters or half a liter. It is up to just below the max. Mark Here let's plug it in and see how long it takes to boil.

So I'm going to plug this into my little tiniest uh test meter here. and then there's a switch on the side and at the same time as I press the switch I'm going to start a timer. So the power. it says 720 Watts it's at 600 watts but 720 is good is it PTC element.

but I don't think it is a PT helmet I Think it is an actual heat element right? Tell you what. I Shall let this come up to temperature and apparently when it comes up to temperature it doesn't cut off. They say if you're traveling and you go to a very hard high altitude where a water bottles sooner, it may not stop boiling because it is purely thermal that it will cut in and out once it reaches the desired temperature, right? Tell you what? Since this is literally waiting for a pot to boil, I shall pause the video and come back once it has biled one moment, please. And the result? It took about five minutes to boil 500 milliliters of water.

so say roughly one minute per 100 milliliters. So probably just three minutes if you made a single cup in this. it started boiling steam Canal as you'd expect and then the cutout kicked in. So it works.

That's good. Let's move this stuff out the way and I'll pull the water out with this. and then we shall open this thing. But first, before we do that, let's see if it feels wobbly.

Does it feel robust? But now it's full of boiling water? Uh, it does. It doesn't feel too bad. It feels like you could tip that without it suddenly going rubbery and dying and doing stuff anyway. We'll also check out this cable because there's always a suspicion that the cable with these import products may not be up to standard.

This is a thing if you use it with another product that draws more power, right? Tell you what. I'll pause while I pour this away and then we'll explore it one moment please. This is very hot, so I'll let it cool down and while it's cooling down, well, it's a kettle. So yes, it is hot.

let's explore the cable so let's just lob uh. this cable off the cable does say well. it's embossed with uh, 0.75 millimeter, two core, 0.75 millimeter. Do you trust that you trust any? Oh God No.

Look at the size of the chords and that, right? So what? Let's uh, nibble, nibble, nibble through this. I should have got a lighter handy for the aluminum test. I Think this is very cheap, nasty cable, but we've got other stuff to compare it to. Here it is.

uh, let's compare it to actual 0.75 millimeter which looks a lot thicker. Let's strip them. I should just strip them with the Snips it does look very coppery. Oh, it doesn't feel right though, does it? Oh, it feels very, very rigid.

Let's uh, strip some of this feels better. Uh, right? I Want I'll just grab the lighter and we'll do the flame test. I have the lighter. Let's do the flame test and see, we'll try it on the real copper first.

So I shall hold a flame under the real copper. I've just pull a couple of strands out and it discolors. It goes kind of like it glows. Oh, it's actually melted down a bit, but it's not shriveling up like the uh, the aluminum normally does.

Let's pull a couple of strands out of this and do the same flame test I Should Zoom down there shouldn't I I Should Zoom down flame test and it just instantly just absolutely just shrivels up and goes limp. So this is just copper coated aluminum, isn't it or some other? Bakery Compare the two of them. see that one's just shriveled and gone limp. This one has held its shape though it has melted back a bit with the heat.

Uh, right. so not really necessarily the very best cable not super current carrying Excellence here. Okay, well that was predictable. That's fine.

It's what we've come to expect when you get leads with Chinese products. I Do recommend throwing them in the bin and getting reputable leads from a reputable Source In the UK that'd be something like RS Components Rapid Electronic CPC The big suppliers who have a a reputation to protect this thing is color now. I'll still get water every winter. There are three screws under here, so let's bring in a driver and remove those screws and see what it reveals.

I would guess there maybe into the stainless steel heater plate in the bottom. If it is stainless steel, it feels like they're spinning. To be honest. I'm sure they are coming out well.

they are quite long. Oh, they're very long with a little rubber band, a little rubber bone. This is where I could have got my new cordless driver and done this really quickly but I didn't Did I no I really have to start doing that. Is this going to come off? Is there something else I should know? Is there some secret thing holding this in place? I should just keep on screwing just in case any better.

Oh, that is better. They are quite long. They are quite long. What is this going to reveal? Okay, it's going to reveal something very simple.

It's going to reveal the incoming Supply which does have an earth connection. Uh, shame that it's a double pole plug. But for reference because this metal ring which is kind of makes it important really. Uh, you.

if you use an earth cable, there is an earth wire going on to the chassis here, the metal components uh, the little connection at the side does. go through this switch with its little new indicator and even notice the neon indicator. But it's got three connections so there will be a new indicator and then one leg goes to the heat element and the other leg goes to the thermostatic switch. Well actually the thermostatic switch goes via this to the So the little indicator light go off as well.

The look of it and that's very straightforward. It's not bad. It's a fairly solid little thing down here. and how have they fastened the rubber into? Have they basically put two? Oh, I Think they've actually crimped two layers together with the rubber trapped in between them.

It looks like it, so it is physically crimped in. That's interesting. It doesn't seem to be coming out. Teresa which is good.

So there we have it. It is more or less what I expected the heater plate with the heater physically, um, fused onto that. It's good that it's Earth I Wasn't expecting that. Well, it's a bit nicer if they actually Supply the Earth cable.

But but you get what you get. And so there we go. the the Pink Rubber Kettle To all intense purposes, it's not too bad. It seems quite a logical design and the thermal cutout did trip just after the water started boiling, so it is fairly close to the correct temperature.

That's pretty good. So there we have it. So if you do get one of these I don't necessarily recommend you've got one of these. But if you do get one of these, uh, get yourself a three core proper pre-core Flex if you have if you live in an area with grounded sockets and either way, you just basically change the flex for a new one anyway, because this is just not really great.

It's not going to handle up to fault conditions very well, but there we have it. Z Chinese Rubber Kettle The pink Rubber Kit I should have demonstrated that to fold a bag down, you're basically just fold it in like this and you just smidge it in and it just compresses back down to a smaller size for travel, presumably. But that's it. The rubber Kettle from China it's not too bad.