Quirky?s Boil Buoy is a floating chime that lets you know when a pot of water boils. It also has a pun in the name which only really works if you speak English with an English accent.
?Buoy? is pronounced that same as ?boy? on my side of the pond, instead of ?boo-ey? in the US, a vocal contortion that has nothing to do with the word?s spelling. Further, a ?ball boy? is the young lad that runs across the court to pick up stray tennis balls during a match, which has nothing to do with boiling water.
The Boil Buoy is a floating, weighted mini-buoy with a bell in the middle. When the water boils, the rising bubbles make the buoy jiggle and the bell rings. Simple, ingenious and foolproof. Here?s the video of the prototype stages, complete with excruciating pronunciation of the name included:
The traditional method for warning yourself of boiling water is to drop a few glass marbles into the water. They start to rattle as the pot starts to boil dry: hardly helpful for pasta, but great when steaming a home-made Christmas-pudding (or ?plum-duff?) for hours at a time, as I do every year. Another favorite is the coffee whistle, which sits on the top of the exit-tube of a stovetop espresso-maker and toots a warning when the coffee is done. This will stop you falling back to sleep after dragging yourself into the kitchen of a morning.
The Boil Buoy will be just $10, and will trip into production when the requisite 1500 pre-orders have been placed.
Boil Buoy product page [Quirky. Thanks, Tiffany]
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