Basically you fill with water and plug into the wall (typical in a hotel room in Asia) and it heats the water to boiling and automatically shuts off. Then you use the hot water to add to your tea or instant coffee and in some hotels a container of cup-o-noodles.

Have Vicki and Mike in a hotel room in Asia, and Mike is antsy for a morning cup of instant Joe and the tap water isn't hot enough. :biggrin:

If you have seen one as a freebee or part of a larger market set and can point in its direction it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Gary

Kept searching and found one in TruForms Kitchen Appliance Pack by using the search term kettle :blink:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=95245

...why would that be considered an Asian thing? Electric kettles were invented in Great Britain in the 1890s and have been around in the west since then. I don't know of a household in North America I've been to that doesn't have at least one, as well as a huge percentage of university dorm rooms and business offices.

In Asia, electric thermo pots are more comment.

Look like this:

Poser version:

You can find it here:

http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/food.html

Direct link for the download:

http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/pump_pot.zip

This reminds me of a former girlfriend. She was German but thought she spoke fluent English; I went along with this because... well, you all know why. Her English was generally pretty good.

But I became helpless with laughter one day when she described a kettle as a 'water cooking machine', which annoyed her considerably, and led to a massive argument. Some time later I went onto Google Translate fully expecting the English word 'kettle' to be something like 'wasserkuchenmaschine' in German, but it isn't: it's 'kessel'.

Kettle is both. The german word is "Wasserkocher", but the older metall kettle without any electrical heating is called "Kessel" or "Wasserkessel".

If you are in need, I can try to make a kettle like the one above in the next couple of days, should not be too difficult. Any moving parts required? Switch or top?

Thanks Bantha, bought the trufrom set I linked to and all set and the scene is close to being ready for a final render (I hope)!

All fine then.

By the way "Wasserkuchenmaschine" would be a "water cake machine"... Kuchen=cake, Kochen=cook something.

Quote - All fine then.

 

By the way "Wasserkuchenmaschine" would be a "water cake machine"... Kuchen=cake, Kochen=cook something.

Actually I do own one, but it sits in my apartment in China and I travel on business mostly in Asia that last several years and forgot that most hotels in Europe have them too.

But my question is are you saying I can bake a cake in my kettle? Heading for China Friday, wondering if you are suggesting I give it a go! :laugh: