Removed the stupid, loud beep from the kettle

That's an insane design choice.

There's a fan here that has a bright blue LED capable of lighting a whole room. That LED shines when the silent mode for the night is activated 🙄

Time's up, now get back to work

beeped when the sleep timer ended

Oh, so, it was an alarm clock after all

I have a bluetooth headset with a stupid bright blue led angled perfectly to reflect in one's glasses, because I'm too stupid to notice the music means the thing is on, I guess... At least I know the designer has perfect vision.

My friend just bought a toaster that plays a tune when it’s done.

A toaster. That needs to tell you when it’s done.

My car has no fewer than five different beeps when starting up. Sometimes it just keeps beeping forever. It did when I went to see it for the first time. I was trying it and stopped at a light, and it just kept beeping. Forever. The sales person had no idea why. I wanted it so badly, it’s pre-spyware car but the beeps were untenable. Spent 20 minutes looking up what the f is up with it. I found an obscure old forum post where someone had complained about the overly sensitive sensors and there’s a secret tiny hidden button that doesn’t feel like a real car button when you press it and it mutes them until you restart the car. I found it, pressed it, and the beeps went away.

I’ve had the car for a decade now and the beeps persist, lest I press the “beepn’t” button, and yknow… that’s alright. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but that’s a hilariously bad design flaw.

I have a relatively new appliance that doesn't beep on completion. It sings. A song. Like, . . . a 20 second song. Like an ice cream truck.

Beeping increases accessibility for folks with vision loss. It's there to help more than regular sighted users be comfortable using the product.

I turned off the beeping on my microwave and it was actually really awkward pressing buttons without the aural feedback that I had become accustomed to.

Luckily this is a pretty simple thing to diy, at least for a kettle.

If anyone wants to repeat this, but doesn't know how:

• Unscrew the bottom (if the screws are different, keep track of which goes where)
• Locate the beeper and...
  • Remove it with a soldering iron
  • Cut its legs off with some kind of clipper
  • If you have neither, wiggle it until the legs break, or carefully rip it off the board

They'd mumble something about safety I bet, I'm on team remove the beeper however.

This seems to be the problem with the tech trend of removing tactile knobs or actual buttons.

Now we have these "touch" screens that can only provide feedback through annoying beeps, because you can't feel them or hear them click anymore.

My electric kettle for example has a lever to press down and start it. No beeps needed, because when it's done you hear the mechanism click off as the lever returns to its off position.

On the other hand my air fryer can get fucked with that one "everything knob". I've accidentally turned it a smidge many times pressing it in to start. This resets all the settings that I have to dial back in and makes me want to yeet the fucker out the window.

Oh the fucking microwave. Newer ones supposedly have a setting to turn off the beep but mine doesn't. It constantly beeps when it is done which is a delight if I'm in the bathroom trying to excremeditate.

RTFM, there might be settings to stop the beep.

I hate the beeps too, but these are ultimately accessibility and safety features. Disabled folks may use these beeps to sus out what the appliance is doing.

Actually it'd be quite nice if stoves and ovens made a noticeable background sound when they were on. Like something pleasant, but noticable, so you don't accidentally leave them on.

I mostly solved that by not having fires often.

Nooo, not my precious alarm clock... it's the only thing that still works for me. I always manage to sleep through the loudest alarm volume on two different phones, regardless of whatever tones or music I choose. Not even El Sonidito works anymore.

I'll be dead (metaphorically, at the least) if the smoke detector stops beeping for me :(

I know right?! It's giving me a headache and I feel just so tired.

The ninja air fryers are famous for their obnoxious and loud beeps! Friend of mine has one, and I was stunned by how loud it beeps. And it does that at every step of the process: Choosing temperature and time, starting, restarting (after necessary turning over the fried goods), at the end (multiple times then).

Looked it up and found loads of complaints about that problem.

And it is called a ninja?

File a lawsuit for false advertising.

I believe our LG washer had a setting to turn that off.

Similar to how people in public places have their phone ringer set to "Hear it from across town"

Right, guess I'll be pulling a wire from my kitchen to the neighbour tomorrow.

I don't think I'm up for a screw that short

Or you can do like I did and lose that frequency range of your hearing. I no longer hear the washer or dryer or the microwave.....Problem solved!

Look for a "my settings" function.

Fun fact: Some microwaves have a hidden mute feature (my GE did). Can't hurt to google the model number for the manual to see if yours does.

I have one that not only cannot be disabled but its beep is so fucking loud you can hear it across the house and beeps 4 fucking times when its done.
If im microwaving something im not going far, usually not even leaving the kitchen, why does it need to summon the foreign legion?

I always stop it seconds before it reaches 0 to avoid that shit

Just lose your hearing for that frequency range. It worked for me!

Is it going to beep like a smoke alarm?

Don’t they all have auto-shutoff?

I'm assuming that must be over in Europe because here in the USA electric kettles are relatively rare. And if this is the UK, I'm surprised the leading cause of fires isn't all those ring circuits they like over there.

Ive also filled the hole with glue. Same thing

Do you have a preferred foam tape?

I'm probably going to be buying some in the next couple weeks (I will probably need some shims) and anything foamy will work

Mine used to beep when I left the door open for a certain time (usually happened when putting groceries away), but at some point it stopped. Maybe I held the button too long and muted it instead of snoozing the alarm. Either way, I like it better like this.

Did you fix the switch or remove the buzzer? If the switch is bad, the inside light mat be on all the time. I've heard of feed spoiling that was next to the light.

That's unreasonable.

I would have bought the simplest one with only an on/off switch. The thing's a little too big and it beeps, but now that I have it, I'll keep it until it dies or becomes nasty.

The air fryer is one that I actually find useful, but it was way too loud so I just covered it with hot glue

Should work, yeah. I guess I'd start by trying something like 100 ohms, but I don't really know.

Being less confident in my soldering skills, I also just cover the emitter in hot glue, or that tacky stuff that kids hang posters with.

If the appliance can't survive a simple vocal cord surgery with a pair of pliers, then it would never survive in the real world anyway.

Was it a Samsung?

Do you mean that you blocked the steam release valve?

RTFM? The beep of my microwave can be turned off by holding two buttons for 3 seconds.

And can they please finally add a DC fan indstead of the loud AC thing? I don't want to wake my neighbours just because i'm heating a tea.

His kettle requires updates and a restart every time he tries to use it.

afaik, electric kettles are more efficient than stove kettles, and microwaved water is incredibly dangerous, since there isn't any cavitation points for the boiling to occur the water can become superheated, meaning the second you put something in to the cup or jug or whatever, that contains the superheated water, it is basically going to explode.

Also, microwaving water is just fucking weird. I think kettles are more commonwealth countries, given the history with tea and the british and stuff, whereas the US is more coffee based, so less need for kettles and stuff. I have never owned a coffee machine or anything that makes coffee, I currently do not own a microwave, i have always had a kettle. I have never had a kettle that beeps.

Technology connections did a good video on yt

It's the easiest and fastest way I can boil water. If I had induction and a fitting kettle, it would probably be equally good while taking less space. I once looked what kind of stovetop kettles exist, but none seemed good. Also, with the context of this post, you may guess how I feel about a whistling kettle. I just want to boil water, not listen to high pitched noises.

I've never microwaved water because the kettle is just faster (NZer with 240v here) but recently switched to induction stovetop, and the "P" setting sends 3.7kW into a single element. It's ridiculous how fast you can boil water on that puppy. I don't really use my kettle anymore.

It's fast as fuck. 2 cups of water takes 2 minutes.

An electric kettle is more efficient and faster than a stovetop because better contact between the element and the water.

For Brits (who drink tea on the regular), and because they have a 240v electric, tea kettles heat faster than stove top and are very convenient.

Since Americans don't have tea like Brits, and we are more coffee-centric, kettles aren't very common.