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Anonymous Fri Apr 10 07:13:15 2015 No.796627 [Reply] [Original]

What's the best way to heat a bath full of cold water? I have no gas, only electricity.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 07:22:49 2015 No.796633 >>796627 Heat water on electric stove. Put water in bath. That said, you are probably asking the wrong question. You should be asking: whats the best way to bath when I have no hot water? The answer is a sponge bath.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 07:24:30 2015 No.796634 take the heating element out of a kettle and stick it in water

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 07:31:24 2015 No.796636 >>796627 put your bathtub full of cold water on one of your stove burners, heat gently until water is steaming.

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 07:36:20 2015 No.796637

>>796627
>m
Don't have a normal electric hot water heater? What about a kettle? It's the fastest way to heat water but if you also have electric stove put a few pots on there. Dump as much water as required to heat your tub. Otherwise find a ceramic tub in the dump, put it outside on concrete blocks and build a fire under it.

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 08:58:31 2015 No.796661

If you have an electric stove, boil a big pot of water, mix with cold water in a big bucket and use it to wash yourself, thats what I did when I was in the mountain. I only had a gat stove and a rig of batteries charged with solar power, i used normal appliances with an inverter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 09:17:41 2015 No.796670 >>796627 Fill your oven with rocks, heat 'em up, then put 'em in the bath.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 10:10:59 2015 No.796691 Depends how broke you are. Pretty much everyone has the materials to make a stinger (Immersion heater). Just don't electrocute yourself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 11:34:22 2015 No.796756 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=guXMWK9G6Lg#t=101

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 11:45:38 2015 No.796769

>>796691
Back in the soviet days my dad used to make one to heat up tea water out of:
-2 razor blades (could use more for faster heating)
-2 matches (could use more to space razors)
-Some wire
-Some string to hold it all together.

The idea was that the matches separate the razor blades a bit, increasing surface area, basically making a radiator.

Razors heat up fast because low mass, give off heat quickly because high surface area.

Boiling cup of tea in 1 minute.

And if the capitalists start knocking on your door you can use as defensive weapon, also.

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 11:55:31 2015 No.796786

They make safe immersion heaters for this, generally for pools. We used to keep one in the cow and pig troughs in the winter since they stayed by the outside walls and could ice over. Never had any electrocuted animals to clean up.

The real issue is heating it fast enough to counteract the cooling.

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:28:13 2015 No.796819

>>796627
Microwave cups of water.
It is faster and more energy efficient then a stove or oven.

If you have some money an immersion heater for a bathtub would be ideal, or you can make one. I still wouldn't bath with it in the water, even with odds of electrocute being lower then people think.

Might want to just save up an buy a small tankless water heater (or point of use water heater) they cost less then the typical tank ones and work very well for small jobs.

Also look into sponge baths as they use less water, so you save on water and heating.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:23:26 2015 No.796843 >>796634 mmmm .. sous vide anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:50:21 2015 No.796863 Drop a toaster in

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:51:25 2015 No.796864 >>796863 /thread

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:55:29 2015 No.796867
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>>796627

FFS everyone, have you never been to China or India?

You put this thing in the water. You COULD be there yourself but I wouldn't trust cheap electrical objects from far east.

Anyway, it heats the water, just like if you had a giant water heater. And you can get these things from...oh, I dunno, most stores in those countries.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:35:55 2015 No.796911 >>796867 Not everyone lives in China or India, smart guy

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:40:27 2015 No.796915 File: 1.31 MB, 300x168, 1a9f8cba03bb3f6a416730aeb983e6c0.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>796867 Everything is made in china, especially electric stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:59:28 2015 No.796925 >>796867 I used to make my tea with one of these when I lived in India.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 17:15:10 2015 No.796962 >>796627 an... electric... hot water heater... is this nugget for real?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 17:20:46 2015 No.796965 File: 41 KB, 415x367, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>796867 >made in china >put electricity into water

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:22:57 2015 No.797025 >>796863 Just make sure your in the bath tub before dropping the toaster in

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:31:33 2015 No.797028 >bath tub skip that, just make a metal container out of pipe, fill it halfway and put it over a fire. Boom, instant hot water (also steam)

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 21:18:37 2015 No.797073 >>796661 Bunker bro pls accept me as an apprentice

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 07:40:22 2015 No.797740 This one time I put a pot of hot water in my bathtub. took a crane to get it out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 11:35:38 2015 No.797829 >>796769 What was heat source though. Electricity?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 13:09:23 2015 No.797864 >>797829 hatred of capitalist comrade.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 13:44:47 2015 No.797886 >>797829 >>797864 Both. But, yes, electricity. That's what the wires are for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 11:18:39 2015 No.798345 >>796627 Aquarium heater.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 11:49:28 2015 No.798354 Get an extension cord and put a toaster in your bath.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 08:49:17 2015 No.798710 Cool down the surrounding area with dry ice so that the water is comparatively warmer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 17:46:08 2015 No.798914 >>796627 Fucking easy. Call all the ghetto niggers that live around you and tell them to piss at the same time. Depending on the amount of people called, the water will get warmer!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 18:29:40 2015 No.798943 >>796819 >Microwave cups of water. >It is more energy efficient then a stove or oven. what

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 20:24:39 2015 No.799003 >>796962 Oh, it's real alright. My cousin almost got electrocuted by one, too. If another cousin hadn't come by just in time she would be long dead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 18:01:29 2015 No.799420 >>796627 Put your kettle in the water then turn it on

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 19:42:41 2015 No.799485 >>796633 This. When the hot water in my building broke from a couple of days, I tried heating water on my stove, but quickly realized it would take a lot of time. So I just had a sponge bath.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 04:24:22 2015 No.799670 >>796962 >>796965 Do you guys live in a third world country?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 16 21:36:17 2015 No.799903 you dont really need hot water to shower

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 01:19:35 2015 No.800482 >>799485 they were good enough a century ago

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