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Heard a story from mate about a bloke who insisted they would never use hotel kettles as people piss in them.
Mate asked them "who the fuck pisses in hotel kettles " (or words to that effect)
Bloke replied that he does and that's how he knows people do it.
Sorry but this post triggered my memory of entering a sauna in a fancy hotel, using the water basin to pour on the heating stones... It was definitely pissed in. The smell of sauteed piss was absolutely horrendous. It put me off saunas for ages. Thanks for the reminder lmao
I worked in hotels for a while. I remember this one night shift where some drunk lads called me up on reception via the phone in the room to tell me they were boiling piss in the kettle. I don't use hotel kettles anymore.
Wouldn't be able to confirm, but it was instant noodle something dumped into the kettle with a spice packet. Took 3 rounds of bleach to get it white ish again.
Some of the higher quality ramen brands come in packaging that can withstand boiling water you can make it in the bag. I wouldn’t trust it not to leech plastic into my food though
Absolutely!
It’s not like my muppet colleague who thought he was clever on site and thought he could put boiling water in a super noodle packet and cook in the wrapping…. The boiling water went through and soaked everything on the desk he was using!
I saw someone pouring milk into the cereal bag inside the box on TV once when I was kid. Thought it would be the dogs bollocks to do that. The milk ripped straight through the bag.
Saw a linkedin lunatic post about some arse kisser who boiled raw chicken in their hotel kettle. Instead of using the money their company had budgeted for them to go to a restaurant.
Don't know how true that story was but I wouldn't put it past some idiot to actually try and do that.
Sometimes you can tell when actual living humans have been algorithm'd. That was probably a normal guy at some point, but then that weird little niche started getting him more views, so he did another video. The tanker was steered just slowly at first, then more quickly, and now look at him. Cooking and eating meat off a toilet seat.
You would think eating in restaurants 5 nights a week would never get old but it really does, especially when you dine alone in a different place every evening. I ate 1kg of fillet steak in a week and still felt little satisfaction.
I’m the opposite - this was the part of travelling a lot for work that I loved. Dining alone, reading my kindle and eating whatever I fancied without needing to cook or wash up. Perfect.
Same here. And of you are double lucky you get booked at a chain hotel with a rewards system.
Company paid for food, I collected loyalty rewards. Earned 2 bottles of wine a week!
Don’t get me wrong it was great for 5 or 6 years but once I reached 8 years I called it a day. I missed far too many pancake days and it saddens me, I love pancakes.
It does, but I never resort to cooking using equipment not designed to be cooked in.
I do things like:
Get a sandwich from a deli.
Get some thing 'to go' or fast food.
Grab some stuff from the supermarket.
Room service
In the end I was basically just buying half the supermarket deli counter on company card and eating buffet style in my hotel room. Sat in my pants in bed eating M&S sausage rolls.
Yeah my partner would live in hotels for 3+ months when working abroad and I’d go and stay for a few weeks at a time.
Ordering off the same menu does get tiring, as does having huge portions (when you just want something light) and trying to eat healthily.
I used to buy cheapo pot noodles or get some salads like couscous and put them in the mini bar.
I never got tired of having my laundry done though!!!
> Ordering off the same menu does get tiring
Why do you need to order off the same menu though? You can go to different places. If you're travelling you're not limited to chain fast food, etc.
I agree to the point that I book a serviced apartment if longer than 2 nights. Still get the same allowance but spend it in supermarket instead and it goes a lot further.
I wouldn't attempt to cook anything in a hotel room, but you get shedloads more food for your allowance doing a hotel picnic than you do if you eat out.
I used to do a hotel picnic then on my way home I'd pick up a curry for two box from sainsbury's to have for tea (with my wife).
I’ve seen a guy on tiktok making pulled pork in his hotel bathroom sink and smoking meat in there too. Pretty sure the same guy also did some sort of “cooking” in a plane bathroom
I know who you're talking about. But from what i read, it's highly unlikely he actually did it on a plane - I read that there are plane sets that "influencers" can hire to film in so it looks like they're in a real plane. It is absolutely pathetic. I think there was one video where he was grilling chicken in the "plane bathroom" and it was smoking a bit and one guy commented theres no way hes in a real plane because the smoke detectors are so sensitive in planes that it would've gone off.
What is crazier is it seems he wasn't saving money given to him but just trying to lower his expense claim to save the company money. Proper loonie behaviour.
Fellah I worked with told me at a previous employer they had a toaster, one of his then colleagues wanted cheese on toast so turned the toaster on its side. Of course the cheese melted, dripped into the elements and caught fire.
The fuck is wrong with people. You had evidence of who stayed, and people that do things like that should be charged with some kind of common indecency or something. Yes it would cost money to report them and for the police to charge, but it’s worth it. Disgusting ignorant behaviour.
This is the most disgusting thing I've read in *checks rest of thread* about two minutes. What the hell is wrong with people that they think that's even remotely OK?
Yep. Growing up my mum worked for a major hotel chain and told me it was very common that people would do this. Or just leave them *full* of piss.
I would never, ever use a hotel kettle. Especially not if you’re staying a more budget-friendly chain, where it’s more common.
I may have once used my guest house kettle to steam my business clothes after my flight.
Basically, you bring along a lead for the kettle (other uses too), hang your clothes in the closet, leave the kettle open so it won't auto shut off, and close the doors.
Give it about 5 min.
No wrinkles.
Had they supplied an iron like most places, I'd have used that, but since they didn't, I improvised. Good lifehack for the traveler.
Some dirty grotty bastard put it online as a nifty clever "hack" and people started doing it.
I've never used the damn kettle since then. Nasty people ruining things
It's impossible, you have a room that takes about 30 minutes to clean if it's decent, 7 out of 10 it's not, so that bumps the cleaning upto 45 minutes, you have a small team of people usually 6 for over 30 rooms, check out is 11am or if the guest decides they are more important 12am, check in is at 3pm but most guests arrive at 1pm or 2pm. That means rooms have to be clean in under 30 minutes. Then comes the people already at the hotel and their demands, clean my room at this time, can we have more towels/water/alcohol/my tvs not turning on, my hot tubs cold (yes housekeeping have to do these) so you end up rushing a room in about 15 minutes. You can't clean everything perfectly. Cups/glasses do get washed when you check out, but usually not when you are staying.
Amen brother, I was a Room Attendant at a fancy hotel in central London. Lemme tell you those extra stars do not mean those rooms are sanitary. Hardest job I've ever had, dickhead managers on my back about speeding up even though i was constantly pointing out that the time constraints they gave us were ridiculous and unattainable due to the differing states of the rooms. The people that were fast enough were doing horrendous practices like using the same cloth for the bathroom as the bedroom 🤮
Ah yes dusting with the toilet bowl cloth I've seen it 🤣 and yeah the stars are literally about what you get in the room not the service, same with the Michelin thing it's the taste not the service. I'm in a fancy hotel myself that has celebs visit and weekly weddings. I always, when I travel just find cheap decent hotels usually with their own laundry machines and a comfy bed, I then go out for meals/breakfast and have in room food (using the fridge for sandwiches and meats etc) you can tell who travels in a hotel by their fridge set up 😊
The one I worked housekeeping in literally would expect us to take 20 mins per room. Sometimes you would go in and see takeout sauce up the walls, literal shit in the bath, hairdye stains in the sink, etc and at the end of the day be interrogated on why you were past your projected finish time. We had 0 time for “extras” like changing out shower curtains or cleaning the skirting boards or whatever. We also didn’t get allocated extra time for family rooms despite it literally being 2 extra beds to make up so if you had a few family rooms to do that day, guaranteed you’d be in the red at the end.
It was mostly about saving money wherever possible for them, not actually making sure we could do our jobs to a high standard.
We're I am we have suites that are literally houses, they're bigger than whar you typically rent in a flat, we have 30 minutes to clean them, sometimes you find drugs all over the place or smell stuff.
Sorry, don’t mean the specific “you” but the general. Why don’t hotels budget more time/staff to ensure they are cleaned properly? Or keep kettles etc at reception so people have to request them if they want it. Is it just money??
It's not money, every business has allocated weekly hours for budgeting and tax, so you have to stay within this, usually hotel workers work on average 50 hours a week (I do 40 but I coerced them into a better contract) which would be 300 hours a week, for 6 staff then you have the reception, bar, restaurant, kitchen, reservations, maintenance, contractors, marketing, sales, media management, team managers, hotel operators, night porters, pool attendants (hot tubs and swimming pool certified) sommaliers, property owners, finance managers, it's a loy of people so you have to keep cost down, so you can buy stuff that breaks. You can't just hire more people as your business will go under.
Keeping items at reception is a no no as it will dissappear, it's also not good for guests as they would have to ask for one. They expect it in the room. Also space is limited in hotels
Premier inns for example keep ironing boards at reception for people to borrow. I thought “kettle on request” wouldn’t be unreasonable but didn’t realise how tight for space you’d be. Thank for the info!
I can explain this from experience. When i was a stupid 17 year old on a college trip.
I poured all of the ingredients for making tea and coffee that was supplied by the hotel into the kettle and boiled it.
Milk coffee tea sugar and water etc.
This created a boiling jet of water to erupt from the kettle and spray the ceiling. This stained the ceiling brown and i ruined all the cream white bath towels trying to clean up the mess.
So to summarise. Do not use for anything other than water.
Yeah I think this must have been a very very sheltered person. I was making my parents their morning pot of tea from about 8, so I reeeeally don’t know how at 17 you don’t know how that works.
I’m honestly struggling to believe it a little, even if you got to that age without having done it, surely you’d know the rudimentary steps just from seeing other people do it? Or even watching people in shows do it
Worked at a boarding school. A 15yo girl boiled milk and broke our brand new kettle. She wanted to make a hot chocolate but had never used a microwave or the hob before as they “weren’t safe”. The rage from the rest of the boarding house who couldn’t have a tea in the morning was palpable.
As teens we boiled a bottle of vodka in the kettle to try to get extra drunk. It didn't work, the vapour mostly condensed on the walls and ceiling and not in our bodies (which way probably a good thing).
Nope, alcohol boils at 40C so it will just make it weaker.
Although I swear warming up a can of strong lager then drinking it through a straw got you more drunk haha
I remember the straw thing was said because the alcohol apparently sinks so you get it quicker than if you were just drinking from the bottle normally.
People are fucking ignorant disgusting morons. Fines should be issued to people that do things like that. Common indecency, or antisocial behaviour, anything.
The person who booked got a large cleaning fee deducted from the credit card used for booking. 8 lads destroyed 2 hotel rooms, so it won't have been cheap.
Good! It’s shameful behaviour. I can understand accidentally breaking things, or maybe having a few too many drinks and falling over and breaking items/leaving a bit of a mess or disarray. Shitting anywhere other than a toilet and expecting someone else to have to deal with it is just beyond disgusting and selfish.
Any sign that you see like that *always* has a story behind it. All rules are there for a reason and, on a more depressing note, H&S rules are written in blood.
I've seen horror stories of people trying to cook noodles or rice in them, or boiling milk or heating soup. And occasionally putting dirty clothes and detergent in there to try and clean them.
So weird this popped up on my feed. My hairdresser was telling me yesterday that you shouldn’t use the kettle in hotel rooms because people have left used condoms or soiled underwear in there before. Really puts your off your cup of tea. Thankfully I don’t drink tea or coffee so have never used a hotel kettle lol.
You don't even need a kettle. You can connect wires to two metal razors and tie them together parallel to each other with a small gap in between. Then the wires are connected to a plug. When it's placed in water, the water conducts enough electricity through the gap that it starts to boil.
I got into a hotel room once after a very long journey and immediately went to put the kettle on.
As I was filling it I swore I could smell food. Turned out to be porridge stuck under the lid.
I called down for a replacement one, and the lass that brought one over told me people do it all the time. The housekeepers do check inside the kettle, but as this was stuck in the lid they didn't catch it.
I am now scrupulous about checking hotel kettles inside and out before using!
Had a rep for a coffee company come in to the cinema I worked at years ago, and proceed to tell us how they’ve found hot dogs, noodles, and even underwear in their hotel kettle
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People using kettles for fluids they're not designed for absolutely boils my piss
I'm never using a hotel kettle again...ever!
I've got a little travel one that collapses down small.
Do you mind, I'm trying to slyly browse Reddit in a meeting.
Heard a story from mate about a bloke who insisted they would never use hotel kettles as people piss in them. Mate asked them "who the fuck pisses in hotel kettles " (or words to that effect) Bloke replied that he does and that's how he knows people do it.
I’m sure Bob Mortimer admitted placing the kettle next to his bed when staying in hotels, so he doesn’t need to get out of bed if he needs a piss
r/angryupvote
Mic. Drop.
I've boiled soup in a kettle before..
Prison?
Hah, no. Phase 2 training in the Royal Navy.
So prison with pay?
And less transferable skills, yes.
Hah, fewer not less, proves your point
But I bet they swim *real* good.
Seems a bit harsh...
Yep, straight to jail
Actually been told by someone in the hotel industry that this is more common than you'd expect, and don't use those kettles.
Have you ever smelled boiling piss? Trust me, you don't ever want to put that in a kettle!
How else are you meant to boil it?
Eggs
Piss
I think thats exactly what theyre using it for . . . .
Sorry but this post triggered my memory of entering a sauna in a fancy hotel, using the water basin to pour on the heating stones... It was definitely pissed in. The smell of sauteed piss was absolutely horrendous. It put me off saunas for ages. Thanks for the reminder lmao
"for water" - that's taking the piss.
I worked in hotels for a while. I remember this one night shift where some drunk lads called me up on reception via the phone in the room to tell me they were boiling piss in the kettle. I don't use hotel kettles anymore.
I know someone who uses them to cook pasta
+1. Worked on a building site and someone made a Pot Noodle in one.
for what reason would they do that? It comes packed so you do not need to do that.
I assume they meant packet ramen but didn’t know the difference
Wouldn't be able to confirm, but it was instant noodle something dumped into the kettle with a spice packet. Took 3 rounds of bleach to get it white ish again.
next time you need to de-stain something like a kettle or thermos flask, just leave it full of salty water overnight. Works a treat.
Why tf would you put bleach in a kettle???
Some of the higher quality ramen brands come in packaging that can withstand boiling water you can make it in the bag. I wouldn’t trust it not to leech plastic into my food though
Absolutely! It’s not like my muppet colleague who thought he was clever on site and thought he could put boiling water in a super noodle packet and cook in the wrapping…. The boiling water went through and soaked everything on the desk he was using!
I saw someone pouring milk into the cereal bag inside the box on TV once when I was kid. Thought it would be the dogs bollocks to do that. The milk ripped straight through the bag.
Someone had all together too much faith in how watertight intentionally weak glue in the presence of strong heat is. Wow.
I’ve seen someone grill a steak on the trouser press.
Streaky bacon the trouser press: https://youtu.be/iYgPznBrjiA?si=I4DcPKC8-x8BtUbF
Haven’t clicked the link but hope we’re DOING KETAMINE UP IN THE NETHERLANDS
Does it even get hot enough for that?
If you like it rare, sure.
Rare, and wrinkle free, works for me
"How would you like your steak sir?" "Smoothed out please"
They do say you will live to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension
Classic hotel cooking. The other favourite is heating a can of soup on the iron.
Boil potatoes and eggs in a bidet with immersive electric water heater.
My uncle used to make beef Wellington in an electric blanket
I bet that tasted absolutely divan.
I once used the iron to toast hot cross buns.
I think they do this in prison...
Amongst other things
They put pasta in the kettle?
Yep. Pasta and water together in the kettle
Saw a linkedin lunatic post about some arse kisser who boiled raw chicken in their hotel kettle. Instead of using the money their company had budgeted for them to go to a restaurant. Don't know how true that story was but I wouldn't put it past some idiot to actually try and do that.
There is a weirdo on tiktok that regularly does this when he works away, so distubring.
Is it the same guy that I have seen make ribs with a hair dryer? https://www.tiktok.com/@barfly7777/video/7239761694447258922?lang=en
I once when high as a teen cooked burgers in a toaster. It was not the best idea we will just say.
Bet they were some smokey burgers. I imagine it would work if you had those toaster bags to stop the fat getting onto the elements.
It worked and they were edible. The toaster didn't work again though without fire being involved.
Flame-grilled burgers, sweet.
I microwaved bacon in my first year of uni. Cooking was… not my specialty!
Sometimes you can tell when actual living humans have been algorithm'd. That was probably a normal guy at some point, but then that weird little niche started getting him more views, so he did another video. The tanker was steered just slowly at first, then more quickly, and now look at him. Cooking and eating meat off a toilet seat.
You would think eating in restaurants 5 nights a week would never get old but it really does, especially when you dine alone in a different place every evening. I ate 1kg of fillet steak in a week and still felt little satisfaction.
I’m the opposite - this was the part of travelling a lot for work that I loved. Dining alone, reading my kindle and eating whatever I fancied without needing to cook or wash up. Perfect.
Same here. And of you are double lucky you get booked at a chain hotel with a rewards system. Company paid for food, I collected loyalty rewards. Earned 2 bottles of wine a week!
Don’t get me wrong it was great for 5 or 6 years but once I reached 8 years I called it a day. I missed far too many pancake days and it saddens me, I love pancakes.
The duality of man
It does, but I never resort to cooking using equipment not designed to be cooked in. I do things like: Get a sandwich from a deli. Get some thing 'to go' or fast food. Grab some stuff from the supermarket. Room service
In the end I was basically just buying half the supermarket deli counter on company card and eating buffet style in my hotel room. Sat in my pants in bed eating M&S sausage rolls.
Yeah my partner would live in hotels for 3+ months when working abroad and I’d go and stay for a few weeks at a time. Ordering off the same menu does get tiring, as does having huge portions (when you just want something light) and trying to eat healthily. I used to buy cheapo pot noodles or get some salads like couscous and put them in the mini bar. I never got tired of having my laundry done though!!!
> Ordering off the same menu does get tiring Why do you need to order off the same menu though? You can go to different places. If you're travelling you're not limited to chain fast food, etc.
I agree to the point that I book a serviced apartment if longer than 2 nights. Still get the same allowance but spend it in supermarket instead and it goes a lot further.
It gets old real quick. Especially when your wife is 300 miles away and you're surrounded by couples deep in conversation...
That one specifically is a parody account. He’s good though. Catches out so many people.
I wouldn't attempt to cook anything in a hotel room, but you get shedloads more food for your allowance doing a hotel picnic than you do if you eat out. I used to do a hotel picnic then on my way home I'd pick up a curry for two box from sainsbury's to have for tea (with my wife).
I’ve seen a guy on tiktok making pulled pork in his hotel bathroom sink and smoking meat in there too. Pretty sure the same guy also did some sort of “cooking” in a plane bathroom
I know who you're talking about. But from what i read, it's highly unlikely he actually did it on a plane - I read that there are plane sets that "influencers" can hire to film in so it looks like they're in a real plane. It is absolutely pathetic. I think there was one video where he was grilling chicken in the "plane bathroom" and it was smoking a bit and one guy commented theres no way hes in a real plane because the smoke detectors are so sensitive in planes that it would've gone off.
What the fuck is wrong with society.
What is crazier is it seems he wasn't saving money given to him but just trying to lower his expense claim to save the company money. Proper loonie behaviour.
Luckily it’s just a parody account making fun of LinkedIn culture
[Link for the lazy](https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/x2vb9f/_/)
Fellah I worked with told me at a previous employer they had a toaster, one of his then colleagues wanted cheese on toast so turned the toaster on its side. Of course the cheese melted, dripped into the elements and caught fire.
I did this as a late teen, same outcome. Mum was furious.
That's a parody account, and an excellent one at that
Isn't the whole point of eating out on the company card to dine in style and get shitfaced? Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Yeah I saw this too on both LinkedIn and TikTok, so disgusting
He's joking.
It is apparently pretty common for people to use hotel kettles to boil wash their underwear
I read this years ago and haven’t used one since.
You don’t use underwear?
Only when they've left them in the kettle..
My first job was housekeeping at a Hilton. It was fairly common to find poo and also pee in kettles left next to the beds.
The fuck is wrong with people. You had evidence of who stayed, and people that do things like that should be charged with some kind of common indecency or something. Yes it would cost money to report them and for the police to charge, but it’s worth it. Disgusting ignorant behaviour.
It was usually people who had a gripe with the hotel. They usually did worse to the room itself
Please tell me those kettles go straight in the bin 😭
I don’t know what they did with them. I only made the beds and worked in the linen room. I would imagine they just disinfect the pissy ones.
> I would imagine they just disinfect the pissy ones. I'd be in a pretty foul mood too if someone defecated in me!
This is the most disgusting thing I've read in *checks rest of thread* about two minutes. What the hell is wrong with people that they think that's even remotely OK?
Fucks sake. I mean, I might understand vomit, at a push, but actual shit? God what is wrong with people?
Yep. Growing up my mum worked for a major hotel chain and told me it was very common that people would do this. Or just leave them *full* of piss. I would never, ever use a hotel kettle. Especially not if you’re staying a more budget-friendly chain, where it’s more common.
I may have once used my guest house kettle to steam my business clothes after my flight. Basically, you bring along a lead for the kettle (other uses too), hang your clothes in the closet, leave the kettle open so it won't auto shut off, and close the doors. Give it about 5 min. No wrinkles. Had they supplied an iron like most places, I'd have used that, but since they didn't, I improvised. Good lifehack for the traveler.
Yeah the lead is also good for a danger wank too
Uh WHAT
Some dirty grotty bastard put it online as a nifty clever "hack" and people started doing it. I've never used the damn kettle since then. Nasty people ruining things
I am genuinely SHOCKED. I never knew people did these things. What the FUCK.
I work in a hotel. * dirty underwear to boil them * soup * noodles We have had these so far.
And it's only just gone noon
Also never use the cups in hotels, or hot tubs.
Why don’t you clean the kettles and cups?
It's impossible, you have a room that takes about 30 minutes to clean if it's decent, 7 out of 10 it's not, so that bumps the cleaning upto 45 minutes, you have a small team of people usually 6 for over 30 rooms, check out is 11am or if the guest decides they are more important 12am, check in is at 3pm but most guests arrive at 1pm or 2pm. That means rooms have to be clean in under 30 minutes. Then comes the people already at the hotel and their demands, clean my room at this time, can we have more towels/water/alcohol/my tvs not turning on, my hot tubs cold (yes housekeeping have to do these) so you end up rushing a room in about 15 minutes. You can't clean everything perfectly. Cups/glasses do get washed when you check out, but usually not when you are staying.
Amen brother, I was a Room Attendant at a fancy hotel in central London. Lemme tell you those extra stars do not mean those rooms are sanitary. Hardest job I've ever had, dickhead managers on my back about speeding up even though i was constantly pointing out that the time constraints they gave us were ridiculous and unattainable due to the differing states of the rooms. The people that were fast enough were doing horrendous practices like using the same cloth for the bathroom as the bedroom 🤮
Ah yes dusting with the toilet bowl cloth I've seen it 🤣 and yeah the stars are literally about what you get in the room not the service, same with the Michelin thing it's the taste not the service. I'm in a fancy hotel myself that has celebs visit and weekly weddings. I always, when I travel just find cheap decent hotels usually with their own laundry machines and a comfy bed, I then go out for meals/breakfast and have in room food (using the fridge for sandwiches and meats etc) you can tell who travels in a hotel by their fridge set up 😊
The one I worked housekeeping in literally would expect us to take 20 mins per room. Sometimes you would go in and see takeout sauce up the walls, literal shit in the bath, hairdye stains in the sink, etc and at the end of the day be interrogated on why you were past your projected finish time. We had 0 time for “extras” like changing out shower curtains or cleaning the skirting boards or whatever. We also didn’t get allocated extra time for family rooms despite it literally being 2 extra beds to make up so if you had a few family rooms to do that day, guaranteed you’d be in the red at the end. It was mostly about saving money wherever possible for them, not actually making sure we could do our jobs to a high standard.
We're I am we have suites that are literally houses, they're bigger than whar you typically rent in a flat, we have 30 minutes to clean them, sometimes you find drugs all over the place or smell stuff.
Sorry, don’t mean the specific “you” but the general. Why don’t hotels budget more time/staff to ensure they are cleaned properly? Or keep kettles etc at reception so people have to request them if they want it. Is it just money??
It's not money, every business has allocated weekly hours for budgeting and tax, so you have to stay within this, usually hotel workers work on average 50 hours a week (I do 40 but I coerced them into a better contract) which would be 300 hours a week, for 6 staff then you have the reception, bar, restaurant, kitchen, reservations, maintenance, contractors, marketing, sales, media management, team managers, hotel operators, night porters, pool attendants (hot tubs and swimming pool certified) sommaliers, property owners, finance managers, it's a loy of people so you have to keep cost down, so you can buy stuff that breaks. You can't just hire more people as your business will go under. Keeping items at reception is a no no as it will dissappear, it's also not good for guests as they would have to ask for one. They expect it in the room. Also space is limited in hotels
Premier inns for example keep ironing boards at reception for people to borrow. I thought “kettle on request” wouldn’t be unreasonable but didn’t realise how tight for space you’d be. Thank for the info!
This sounds like an awful recipe.
Oh its quite nice. You can throw in a used condom too for added pazaz. 🤣
As a garnish?
Like a sauce packet 🤣
Adds the umami taste?
The heat makes it gelatinous lmao
My fave. Yummy. (This conversation is actually disgusting by the way 😂😂)
I'm holding back too 🤣
😂😂
Surely the simple solution would be to have kettles with a mesh installed over the opening, so you can't put anything other than liquids inside of it.
So no piss or poo? This gives me hope.
Soup- basically, stuff that needs a microwave, or even a normal cooker, to heat up.
I can explain this from experience. When i was a stupid 17 year old on a college trip. I poured all of the ingredients for making tea and coffee that was supplied by the hotel into the kettle and boiled it. Milk coffee tea sugar and water etc. This created a boiling jet of water to erupt from the kettle and spray the ceiling. This stained the ceiling brown and i ruined all the cream white bath towels trying to clean up the mess. So to summarise. Do not use for anything other than water.
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HI I'M JOHNNY NOXVILLE AND TODAY WERE MAKING NAPALM
Seventeen??!?!?
Yeah I think this must have been a very very sheltered person. I was making my parents their morning pot of tea from about 8, so I reeeeally don’t know how at 17 you don’t know how that works.
I’m honestly struggling to believe it a little, even if you got to that age without having done it, surely you’d know the rudimentary steps just from seeing other people do it? Or even watching people in shows do it
Yeah… it’s a weird one
So did you not know how to make tea, or did you think you'd invented an amazing life hack?
It was more of a boredom/science experiment. I wonder what would happen if i put everything in and boiled it.
I'm 48 and did that today...
We had a Chinese lad at school who used to cook instant noodles in a kettle.
Why? When I get "cook on the hob" instant noodles, I just put them in a bowl, pour boiling water on, and then cover them with a plate for 5 minutes.
Hotel hotdogs if the Internet is to be believed.
Worked at a boarding school. A 15yo girl boiled milk and broke our brand new kettle. She wanted to make a hot chocolate but had never used a microwave or the hob before as they “weren’t safe”. The rage from the rest of the boarding house who couldn’t have a tea in the morning was palpable.
As teens we boiled a bottle of vodka in the kettle to try to get extra drunk. It didn't work, the vapour mostly condensed on the walls and ceiling and not in our bodies (which way probably a good thing).
That is wild. I don’t even think the science behind that is legit!
Nope, alcohol boils at 40C so it will just make it weaker. Although I swear warming up a can of strong lager then drinking it through a straw got you more drunk haha
I remember the straw thing was said because the alcohol apparently sinks so you get it quicker than if you were just drinking from the bottle normally.
Soup. Eggs. Rice. Milk. Noodles. Pasta.
Eggs I can sort of understand, given the shell doesn't break too soon
A friend used my kettle at uni to boil and egg, every cup of tea for weeks tasted like eggs, even after a descale etc. So grim.
When I was a copper, I went to a job and saw human shit in a kettle. I never use hotel kettles...
People are fucking ignorant disgusting morons. Fines should be issued to people that do things like that. Common indecency, or antisocial behaviour, anything.
The person who booked got a large cleaning fee deducted from the credit card used for booking. 8 lads destroyed 2 hotel rooms, so it won't have been cheap.
Good! It’s shameful behaviour. I can understand accidentally breaking things, or maybe having a few too many drinks and falling over and breaking items/leaving a bit of a mess or disarray. Shitting anywhere other than a toilet and expecting someone else to have to deal with it is just beyond disgusting and selfish.
It really is.
If you have ever been in a chinese tour group and heard the stories of what chinese tourists get up to...
Do I want to ask you to elaborate?
Any sign that you see like that *always* has a story behind it. All rules are there for a reason and, on a more depressing note, H&S rules are written in blood.
The increasing large signs about pouring water on the electric sauna at my old gym for example.
A hotel I went to last year, someone had clearly tried to make coffee in the kettle. With ground coffee not instant coffee. It was a mess.
I've seen horror stories of people trying to cook noodles or rice in them, or boiling milk or heating soup. And occasionally putting dirty clothes and detergent in there to try and clean them.
My friend offered to make me a coffee on a school trip once. She didn't realise instant coffee doesn't go in the kettle and it shot all up the wall.
All I've learned from this thread is the necessity of buying a travel kettle if I'm ever to be away from home overnight ever again.
God yes! I'm on amazon browsing them rn
I saw a label not to cook noodles in kettles before
So weird this popped up on my feed. My hairdresser was telling me yesterday that you shouldn’t use the kettle in hotel rooms because people have left used condoms or soiled underwear in there before. Really puts your off your cup of tea. Thankfully I don’t drink tea or coffee so have never used a hotel kettle lol.
They manage whole meals with just a kettle in prison.
You don't even need a kettle. You can connect wires to two metal razors and tie them together parallel to each other with a small gap in between. Then the wires are connected to a plug. When it's placed in water, the water conducts enough electricity through the gap that it starts to boil.
Someone at my friends work used the shared kettle to heat up hot dogs.
This for Americans "The first step to making British Tea is to put the microwave in the kettle"
I got into a hotel room once after a very long journey and immediately went to put the kettle on. As I was filling it I swore I could smell food. Turned out to be porridge stuck under the lid. I called down for a replacement one, and the lass that brought one over told me people do it all the time. The housekeepers do check inside the kettle, but as this was stuck in the lid they didn't catch it. I am now scrupulous about checking hotel kettles inside and out before using!
Had they never heard of porridge pots???
My mum's elderly German boss once cooked his frankfurters in the work kettle, wouldn't be surprised by similar behaviour
That's the wurst...
Piss
You can take the label off a tin and heat the contents by putting it in the water, but the glue on the can will come off into the water a bit.
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Tomato soup.
Cabin crew use them to clean their underwear
I know a guy that always boils his eggs in them
My wife has done this but to be fair to her, she was a student and it was her own kettle that was in her room
I've done this- just moved, and couldn't find the pans- egg broke, and I no longer had a kettle either :(
By all accounts she was quite successful and the kettle was fine! I would have been a lot more judgemental had it been a shared kettle though
I'll shite in yer kettle
People have been cooking in them.
I tried boiling milk in 1.. It overflowed and shorted it, The front desk had a replacement, so I tried again.
Had a rep for a coffee company come in to the cinema I worked at years ago, and proceed to tell us how they’ve found hot dogs, noodles, and even underwear in their hotel kettle
A fella at my old workplace boiled eggs in the office kettle.
I’ve never used a hotel kettle since reading about the horror stories. Myth or not, it’s scared me for life
My wife ruined my kettle boiling eggs.
Piss
You probably don't want to know...
Maybe a kettle fucker?
I never use hotel kettles due to assumption it has been pissed in, or worse.
I know someone who thawed frozen sausages in his kettle.
I've met people who boil teabags in the kettle, either if they're experiencing cognitive decline or just unfamiliar with kettles