12v Kettle Recommendations

[SomeoneElse]

We have an ancient Phillips 800W travel kettle, at the max fill mark it holds 700ml perfect for our two large mugs. It boils in an acceptable six minutes, the inverter took 75Amps at 12Volts when we had lead-acid batteries, now its barely 70Amps at 13Volts with our lithium batteries.

 

[Coolcats]

You may wish to play with this and it would help explain what power (energy) https://bloglocation.com/art/water-heating-calculator-for-time-energy-power

As others have said 12v kettles are pretty pointless. If you dont have gas get a Jet Boil flash ( don’t use it in the van though). https://www.jetboil.co.uk/

 

[Coolcats]

ANYTHING which produces heat from 12v is a waste of time and battery power.

Cigarette lighter maybe they get pretty hot

 

[Minxy]

What if the regulator breaks or there is a fault always nice to have a back up especially with it being so small.

Well that is one of the 'dangers' of wildcamping - we might have to drive to a village for a coffee, or go without.

If it happens for the first time in 12 years I will not cry about it too much. I think you would not either.

Geoff

We've had issues with gas in the past due to a fault so always carry one of the suitcase type stoves, benefit is it can be used when the main gas is turned off (ie waiting for ferry/tunnel) or outside for cooking stinky stuff.

 

[two]

We use a low power mains kettle off an inverter, great to use when on the tunnel!

We take a flask.

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[two]

The energy required to heat 1cc of water from 20°C to boiling point is 80calories. After that you just waste energy boiling it away (remember “latent heat”?) but assume that you will always use more than that minimum amount of energy.
If you are boiling half a litre, say, it would require 40,000calories (roughly 50Wh), or at least 4Ah of a 12V battery’s capacity.

If anything, this goes to show how little energy a battery bank holds. Better to use it, then, for more important stuff than boiling water.

 

[MisterB]

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W also utilise a flask, I doubt there is actually any efficiency saving but it makes it easier and quicker if we stop en route

 

[Lenny HB]

We use a low power mains kettle off an inverter, great to use when on the tunnel!

That's the only time we use our kettle off the inverter as I don't want to kill my batteries but OK if you have a big battery bank, I only have 3.

 

[jongood]

Not necessarily, after I make the drinks I put some cold water in the kettle and swish it round, it soon cools it down so it can go back in it's cupboard before we've even drunk our coffee, it also has the benefit that the water is slightly warmed ready for the next cuppa and doesn't take as long to boil.

Do you have a glass lid on your hob though?

 

[Minxy]

Do you have a glass lid on your hob though?

Yes, so long as you don't put the lid down when the burner is on there is no danger of it smashing, it's heating up from a direct flame that causes them to shatter. In all the years we've been doing this we have never had a single glass lid shatter.

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[Lenny HB]

Yes, so long as you don't put the lid down when the burner is on there is no danger of it smashing, it's heating up from a direct flame that causes them to shatter. In all the years we've been doing this we have never had a single glass lid shatter.

It's the stupid ones with the electric hot plate that give the most problems.