I’m back from my end-of-year travelling now, and normal posting will resume here soon. Since the markets will be closed until Wednesday, I thought I’d start off with something from my home life:
I am an avid loose-leaf tea-drinker. When I used to work in an office, I’d make constant use of the coffee maker’s hot water spigot. That was great, but now that I trade at home, I always have to heat water up on my stove. It’s like moving from cable or DSL back to dial-up internet service… the wait is excrutiating once you’ve had access to instant near-boiling water. Well, it finally bothered me enough to look into solutions, and I found this:
It’s the Zojirushi CD-LCC30 Micom 3.0-Liter Electric Dispensing Pot, and it’s everything I was looking for. For me, this is much better than buying a big coffee maker and running a water line to it. Now, for things like soups, oatmeal, tea, hot chocolate… just about anything that calls for sitting around and heating water… I no longer have to wait. And, while I’m not sure, I’d venture to guess it uses less energy than boiling water on my stove does.
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:13 am
I bought a e Zojirushi CD-ESK a few ago. It has worked great. You should however clean out the tank every so often. If you use bottled water or purified water you will have to clean it out less.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 am
Yeah, I plan to clean it every now and then. I haven’t yet, but I’ve read that the cleaning cycle it has works really well.