tee59:
The olden days heaters were good and worked perfectly well. But the ones we have now, can't even last longer by mere only boiling water. Heater consumes much power.

Yuneehk:
My experience with this boiling ring eh...

Funnily enough, it's still my go-to just for heating up water. Over the years, I've understood it and serves me well. It's very fast and easy to use especially when I need to heat up water. When I started using it, the plastics I use will melt because I didn't fill them to the brim.

I also remember using it to cook beans half done because I heard somebody say it. Same for white rice and it worked. Those days when we were trying to conserve kerosene or gas

cenaman:
Death trap

obembet:

Omicron007:


You really did exploits with the ring.
I hope you didn't sustain any electric shock from the heater?

Yuneehk:
My experience with this boiling ring eh...

Funnily enough, it's still my go-to just for heating up water. Over the years, I've understood it and serves me well. It's very fast and easy to use especially when I need to heat up water. When I started using it, the plastics I use will melt because I didn't fill them to the brim.

I also remember using it to cook beans half done because I heard somebody say it. Same for white rice and it worked. Those days when we were trying to conserve kerosene or gas

dochenaj:
Clearly you can't try using this with a prepaid meter.

As you're done cooking, your purchased token will follow the food and get done.

Yuneehk:

Yeye You'll need power supply before you can even use purchased token na.

The times I used it for rice and beans, if prepaid was existing then, it wasn't popular. It was really way back.

maleekberry:
A deadly appliance
A perfect example of small but mighty
You fit use am boil water, cook food and also make soup.

But if this heater shock you, all your hair go stand immediately

placeofallure:
I'll never ever forget. It was December 26, 1999

The fanti carnival was going on from street to street, there was a procession of happy people dancing and all.

A neighbour plugged water with this appliance, she wanted to make eba. There was power outage and on hearing the sounds of drumming outside, she left to go see the procession without unplugging the boiling ring. She even followed the procession.

Shortly after, power was restored. Nobody knew that the house was in flames until it was too late. The lady, a teenager at the time left her sleeping baby in the room. Somebody had to do a Jack Bauer stunt to go pull out the baby.

Our apartment was right next to where the fire started. I wasn't even home, just my kid brothers and sisters. Our parents have traveled to celebrate Christmas in our village. My big sis too wasn't home. That was how the entire building was razed, as in totally razed at Christmas.

The fire was fast. It had caught all the ceilings, so when people rushed in to pick things, the ceiling was dropping on them, they had to abort the mission. We didn't bring out a pin from the fire. We had just the clothes we were wearing, no pants nothing. I'm mostly pained about my pictures. All the childhood pictures, those memories gone.

People in the neighborhood started donating stuff ranging from clothes to food, to money. We became destitute. Our parents had to cut short their trip. We slept with friends, family etc for about 3 months before we got our groove back. I had to return to school a week or so after the fire incident. Before then, I moved in with my bf now hubby. My dad had to cough out money for new clothes apart from the normal semester expenses, my bf too. I came back after the semester to a new apartment.

Since then, you'd never see me use that thing, Never!

tayo60:
The use of this thing created many sad memories