Man Spends 11 Hours Tweeting About Trying to Make a Cuppa With Wi-Fi Kettle

Have you ever had one of those mornings, where you absolutely need a nice cup of tea, but you can’t be bothered to get up and flick the switch to boil the water? Then get a Wi-Fi enabled kettle that you can turn on from your phone! Just… proceed with caution, as it may not be so simple.

Mark Rittman, a data specialist from Hove, England, wanted to try out his new Wi-Fi kettle at 9am, little did he know that it would be 11 hours before he got the damn thing to work.

After three hours, the actual kettle was refusing to connect to its own base, making it impossible to turn it on remotely.

Of course, he wasn’t simply trying to boil it, as he wanted it integrated to other smart devices in his home, such as Siri and Amazon Echo. Being a software engineer, he set about adding this function to the device.

That’s quite an adventure Mark, and credit to you for putting up with the damn thing for so long. I love great tech, but when a home kettle takes longer to boil than those awful ones you find in budget hotels, it’s really not that great.