Boiling water. It’s one of the easiest things to do in a kitchen. Up until this point I’ve mostly boiled water for tea or coffee using an electric kettle as they are quick, energy efficient, and automatically turn off when the water hits 100C for a few moments.
With a few eggs in my fridge that were begging to be boiled, I decided to make some hard boiled eggs this morning. Or at least I tried.
That’s my electric stove top with some eggs (one cracked) sitting in hot water. Sadly, the hot water is from the electric kettle and not from being boiled on the stove top! Trust me, I tried — for two hours — to no avail. Each time I turned the stove top on, selected which burner I wanted to use, and selected a temperature, the stove top would turn off within half a minute. Frustrating!
I looked online to see if I could find a user manual as the one in my apartment was in Chinese and failed to find an English one for my model. YouTube was of no use and my tummy was getting hungry for some eggs!
Finally I decided to try my old fashioned tea kettle and see if I could get that to heat up. Bingo! That worked. So now the mystery deepens for why my pots wouldn’t work with the cooktop. Apparently some fancy technology is to blame as this type of induction heat mechanism it uses is not compatible with my cookware. (WTF?!) There’s some sort of sensor that will shut off the heating element if there’s no pot on it that it can sense.
So yeah, I didn’t really get to boil eggs on my stove and instead used hot water from the electric kettle. Guess I’ll be needing to buy some new cookware! Anyone up for a trip that might lead to some new entries in the Auchan Chronicles?