When HN users recommended it
2 HN users recommended this in 2015, in 2 comments.
20072026
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Instant Immersion Heater Portable Beverage
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
Well you can get a cup size immersion heater:
http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Immersion-Heater-Portable-Beve...
For about $9. We used to have those growing up.
But those can be very unsafe. (Or at least those designed and built by the Soviet industry were...).
That was a mistake, the second link should be this crappy heating element: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VK0DRY
The water pump has been fine so far after maybe 10 hours of being immersed over a few weeks, I figure if it gives up I'll get another one.
I put a pot on top of a hot plate. The hot plate is turned on but the Willhi unit turns the power on and off. At first it overheats the water by about 10 degrees, so give it time to heat up before immersing the food, but after cooling down it oscillates around 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Before the hot plate, I had that coffee element which I taped to the side of the pot. The problem with that previous heater was that despite saying "immersion", you can't submerse the cable without electrifying the water. The thing got banned in Canada. Don't buy one.