What do you use your kettle for??

Other than for tea and coffee??

So we've been here a total of almost 4 years now and up till recently I have only used our kettle to make tea (we have a drip coffeemaker).  A few weeks ago my neighbor and I were talking and somehow got to the topic of kettles and how I never had one till living here and she couldn't believe how I got on with life in the kitchen. 

For example she told me to pour the boiling water over pasta (the dry kind) and it would be done in minutes-- a very DUH!!! moment for me that has changed the way I do that. 

So are there any other "secrets" out there???  Inquiring minds would like to know

I use it to get the water up to boiling point for whatever I'm boiling... potatoes, rice, pasta, or veggies.  Also, to make jelly or gravy (Bisto). It's a lot quicker than waiting for the stove to bring tap water up to boiling point.

I do the same. I can't tell you how many times a day I put the kettle on!

I use it for everything drofnnyl said. Plus I also use it to warm up the dog's food (that has been refrigerated).

To be honest, I didn't think of it on my own. DH suggested it and after a few weeks it became second nature to use it for everything.

The boiling water for food thing came as a big duh for me, too! DH did that for pasta and I was like 

In the winter, I use my kettle to boil water that I then pour into my hot water bottle thingy. I put it in my bed to help keep me warm, especially when DH is working nights!

In the winter, I use my kettle to boil water that I then pour into my hot water bottle thingy. I put it in my bed to help keep me warm, especially when DH is working nights!

I do that too! Tap water isn't nearly hot enough for my hottle bottle.

Ahh, I love having a kettle. Wouldn't know I would do without it!

Boil water for pasta, rice, vegetables, etc

For mixing up stock cubes, gravies, miso soup or the very occasional packet soup

For making homemade stock - add to all the bits and bobs and its already to a boil

Tea and instant coffee (when I only want a cup and not a whole drip pot), hot chocolate

I love it in the morning- I have a small food flask to which I add porridge or pinhead oats, readybrek, etc- plus raisins, or bananas, or whatever - add the just boiled water from the kettle and stir and by the time I cycle to work its cooked to perfection

Another one who uses it for hot water bottle

Pre-warming food flasks as well

Its really handy when the boiler isn't working and you need to do the washing up!

Lemsip - having had a cold this past week, its been very helpful!

Ahh, I love having a kettle. Wouldn't know I would do without it!

Boil water for pasta, rice, vegetables, etc

For mixing up stock cubes, gravies, miso soup or the very occasional packet soup

For making homemade stock - add to all the bits and bobs and its already to a boil

Tea and instant coffee (when I only want a cup and not a whole drip pot), hot chocolate

I love it in the morning- I have a small food flask to which I add porridge or pinhead oats, readybrek, etc- plus raisins, or bananas, or whatever - add the just boiled water from the kettle and stir and by the time I cycle to work its cooked to perfection

Another one who uses it for hot water bottle

Pre-warming food flasks as well

Its really handy when the boiler isn't working and you need to do the washing up!

Lemsip - having had a cold this past week, its been very helpful!

Ditto all of the above!

I only use it to one thing - boiling water! 

But as said, apart rom tea, coffee, hot chocolate......also boiling the water for cooking pasta, rice etc as it boils quicker. Making gravy,
Also, before we got a new combi boiler a couple of years ago, used it in the summer for hot water for washing the dishes or having a shave.

Oh and when I was younger....steaming stamps off envelopes because I used to collect them.

All of those things mentioned (minus the stamps )... I dont know how I lived without it all those years!

I also use it for my pet rabbit who has respiratory problems. I put him in his carrier and put a bowl of boiling water from the kettle in front and a towel over the whole thing. Really helps him on his bad days.

I use it for all those things as well. Particularly the hot water bottle. That thing is working a few times a day for that alone in the winter time! I keep the heat turned down and the water bottle hot! 

I only use it to one thing - boiling water!  

I have to confess, I once used it to boil beer.  
I was remembering how in Bamberg, there were the tables/shelves with electric immersion heaters and people were taking their beers up to be warmed (it was winter, and outdoors, so... really cold, but apparently they do it all year round because some folk just prefer a room temp bockbier!).  I was trying to do sort of the same thing, but got distracted and forgot to take it off before it boiled and foam overflowed everywhere, leaving a sticky mess.

I use it for pretty much everything mentioned.

Nearly everything mentioned, as well as using it to heat up my canning jars and lids. I don't have a pot tall enough for some of my jars, so using water from the kettle works wonderfully! 

I'm going to try boiling some weeds out from between the paving stones in the back garden tomorrow as well. Can't get too close to what I have planted though!