The Kettle That Wouldn't Switch Off
The idea: boiling water stays at 100 °C and makes steam; heat moves only where things touch.
Read it
Who is in this book
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Beto a child of the Green Takes things apart -
Shift Boiling water stays at 100 degrees; the heat goes into making steam from HeatForge -
Lan a child of the Green Goes first; makes a friend in a minute -
Touch Heat moves into something only where it touches; follow the heat to find where it is lost from HeatForge
Every recurring character has a short tune, so you can tell who is on stage before a word is said. The tunes play only when you tap, and the Reading Access sound switch turns them off.
The Honest Page
Which parts of this story are true, stretched or made up?
True
- Most electric kettles switch off when steam from the boiling water reaches a small bimetallic disc, which snaps as it warms. Source
- At sea level water boils at 100 °C, and while it boils it stays at that temperature: the extra heat turns water into steam. Source
- Heating 1.5 litres of water by 85 °C with a 3000-watt kettle takes about three minutes, if no heat is lost.
Stretched
- A cracked seal was the whole fault. What we simplified: Kettles that will not switch off can also have a worn switch, which only a grown-up should open, unplugged, or which needs a new kettle.
Made up
- The Mend Shed, the café and its kettle are made up. Shift and Touch come from HeatForge.
Tell it back
Tell the story in your own words: who was there, what went wrong, and what they found out. Then the kettle's old cracked lid seal, for the shed's shelf of fixed things goes on your belt.
On your belt: the kettle's old cracked lid seal, for the shed's shelf of fixed things.
Your belt lives on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ring the hammer for someone
Pick this book for someone younger. The link carries only the book, and it will wait for them on the Green.