We’ve heated gallons upon many gallons of both hard and soft water for tea and hot cocoa making, with many electric kettles. We find that without routine cleaning, these kettles can get stained brown, especially if you brew the tea directly in it after the water boils. This can be hard to remove if allowed to … Continue reading How to Clean an Electric Kettle Safely
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How to Clean a Cordless Electric Kettle
We’ve heated gallons upon many gallons of both hard and soft water for tea and hot cocoa making, with many cordless electric kettles. We find that without routine cleaning, these kettles can get stained brown, especially if you brew the tea directly in it after the water boils. This can be hard to remove if allowed … Continue reading How to Clean a Cordless Electric Kettle
Fixing Noisy Window Air Conditioners
Anyone living in warmer climates and seeking to cool their bedrooms, living rooms, and other small to medium-sized living spaces, has probably grappled with the problem of noisy window air conditioners. Indeed, we’ve installed units from five to twelve thousand BTUs in our windows at apartments, homes, trailers, and even basements, and have been frustrated by all … Continue reading Fixing Noisy Window Air Conditioners
How to Quiet a Noisy Window Air Conditioner
Anyone living in warmer climates and seeking to cool their bedrooms, living rooms, and other small to medium-sized living spaces, has probably grappled with the problem of how to quiet a noisy window air conditioner. Indeed, we’ve installed units from five to twelve thousand BTUs in our windows at various apartments, homes, trailers, and basements, and … Continue reading How to Quiet a Noisy Window Air Conditioner
How to Defrost Freezer with Heat Gun Quickly
We’ve found that a heat gun significantly speeds up how quickly a freezer defrosts, whether it be frost free or manual defrost. Have rented a few apartments equipped with manual-defrost freezers. Indeed at this very moment, I have a manual-defrost Frigidaire upright freezer in the basement that requires semi-annual defrosting (two or three times per year) … Continue reading How to Defrost Freezer with Heat Gun Quickly
Repair Electric Kettle Lid, Hamilton Beach 40891
We love our Hamilton Beach 40891 cordless kettle. But by necessity, we learned a bit about kettle repair, when the lid for that kettle came apart after several years of use. We fixed it, and so here, we share how to repair electric kettle lid on our 40891 Hamilton Beach teapot. So, we determined how … Continue reading Repair Electric Kettle Lid, Hamilton Beach 40891
Instant Pot Buttons, Smart WiFi, By Column
This piece describes button locations on Smart WiFi Instant Pot. We list each button location by column. Note that this post covers only button locations. It neither describes what each button does, nor how to use it. For that, please see our Instant Pot WiFi Pressure Cooker Buttons Guide that covers the whats and hows … Continue reading Instant Pot Buttons, Smart WiFi, By Column
Reset Button on Instant Pot Smart WiFi Cooker
The Instant Pot smart WiFi reset button has several uses, everything from setting the cooking pressure level to moving between cooking parameter fields, to turning the pot’s WiFi interface ON and OFF. Here, we explain where the reset button is, and briefly cover how to use it to factory reset your pressure cooker. We do not … Continue reading Reset Button on Instant Pot Smart WiFi Cooker
How to Set Up Instant Pot Smart WiFi Pressure Cooker
When you get a new Instant Pot, it’s so tempting to just dive right in and make the best tasting recipes around, in the shortest time. But note that this electric pressure cooker need some preps before you can use it to fullest advantage. If you take the time to learn how to connect it … Continue reading How to Set Up Instant Pot Smart WiFi Pressure Cooker
Change WiFi on Instant Pot Smart WiFi Instructions
Let’s say you’ve previously set up your Instant Pot Smart WiFi pressure cooker. That is, you created an Instant Pot account through their Instant Pot app, which means that you’ve also installed that app on your mobile device. You also assigned your cooker a PIN, and it now shows up in the app’s My Devices list. … Continue reading Change WiFi on Instant Pot Smart WiFi Instructions