Many modern kettles now do not have a heating element, but a bottom metal plate which boils. Flat surface builds chunky plaques of scale( I live in Herts), which break off and garnish our drinks! so these kettles also consume more power. I find it useful to descale once a month.
To clarify, is that a heating element that’s just shaped differently than mine? (Like if the metal plate in mine was on top of the tube, and covered the whole base of the kettle.) Or is it actually a different mechanism?
I never opened up the ones I used, but I would expect that there is a similar heating element which just has no direct contact with the water and is connected to the bottom plate thermally, but not electrically (compare this wikimedia image.
Many modern kettles now do not have a heating element, but a bottom metal plate which boils. Flat surface builds chunky plaques of scale( I live in Herts), which break off and garnish our drinks! so these kettles also consume more power. I find it useful to descale once a month.
To clarify, is that a heating element that’s just shaped differently than mine? (Like if the metal plate in mine was on top of the tube, and covered the whole base of the kettle.) Or is it actually a different mechanism?
I never opened up the ones I used, but I would expect that there is a similar heating element which just has no direct contact with the water and is connected to the bottom plate thermally, but not electrically (compare this wikimedia image.