alt Hacker NewsThe boiling water thing reduces waiting time but doubles active work time. It would be much more efficient to just work on other tasks while the water boils if there are any.
This is also one thing I love about sous vide cooking. It’s slow in terms of total time elapsed but usually very efficient in terms of time spent actively cooking.
"Instant Hot" is a tap you can install that's like a mini-thermos/water heater to give you some amount of "instant hot" water.
There's a decent caled a "pot watcher" (aka: boiling-rattler) that is a mechanical "hey, it's boiling" indicator.
Anytime I'm cooking or thinking of cooking, I'll always throw water into the tea kettle (countertop boiler) and start it off, for exactly the reasons stated.
I'm very thumbs up (and already follow) almost all of his advice, including the "use two boiling elements to get water boiling faster".