Toasters, kettles, stoves, ovens…
Where I live everything is electric for the vast majority of people. The norm here is to have electric stoves and electric water heaters. Even heating houses is mainly done through electricity.
I was so surprised to learn as a teen that this is not the norm everywhere, and that some people are actually still lighting fires in their houses to cook food.
I concluded a while back that if you make some sort of miracle that handles both heating stuff and water stuff you can replace a ridiculous amount of appliances. Everything from a stove to a car wash.
Like an automotive carpet shampooer?
That too
Wait till OP finds out that most of cooking is putting heat into food.
And taking water out!
Or sometimes putting it in
Oh yeah! Like soup! Love soup!
Dry the wets, wet the drys, dry the wets, wet the dry, dry the wets, wet the dry, the dust the wets Spagettii
If you really think about it. All any appliance does is turn energy into heat.
Why stop at appliances? By that logic, humans are nothing more than self-propelled heaters. The whole universe is nothing but shifting pockets of heat like the ripples of a pond bouncing back and forth until they all disappear.
Such nihilism.
There was a paper floating around about a decade ago. Basically it was asserting that biological life is the natural outcome of entropy itself. Bc living beings are especially good at increasing entropy over time. Not sure if it was credible but a fun idea nontheless
Are we not?
We also have the ability to think sometimes
Saying that all appliances turn energy to heat is true, but saying that all appliances do is turn energy in to heat is not. While heat is still a byproduct, lots of appliances make things move as well.
For heat pumps, the thing they’re moving is heat.
They’re really moving refrigerant. It’s just that the refrigerant keeps changing temperature (heating up at one end of the journey and cooling down at the other end).
And what is that movent? Eventually decays into heat.
I understand that, and called it out in my comment. Heat being a byproduct of movement does not mean that a device that creates movement “only” creates heat. That’s like saying all drink dispensers only dispense piss, because what does it eventually turn in to?
False. My water filter pitcher does not turn energy into heat.
(Ok, fine, it uses gravity to move the water through a filter, which technically converts some of the potential energy of the water into heat through friction, but that’s not something the pitcher does, that’s something the earth does that the pitcher uses to its advantage.)
Not an appliance, that’s a tool.
I would say it falls under definition 2b here:
And that most of these appliances are pretty much irrelevant in the modern world, just staying around because people think they need them. A convection oven with an induction stove on top replaces microwave, kettle, toaster etc.
EDIT: Not sure why I’m getting downvoted. It’s obviously not ideal for every situation. Like for example I have a kettle, but only because I can set i to hold a specific temperature for when I brew coffee (94°C) and tea (80°C) which would be less convenient to do on my induction stove, even though it boils water faster.
