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The Boiling Ring(Heater) is a very common household electrical appliance in Nigeria. It can be adapted for various uses like boiling water and cooking light meals.

The Heater has caused a lot of disasters and even claimed lives in homes due to improper usage.


Back then in School, I and my roommates used this heater to prepare roasted chicken. When we kill a chicken, we remove the feathers and all the intestines and other necessary 'removables'.

We then insert the heater through the orifice created at the anus region and plug the heater. After some minutes, the chicken becomes fully roasted. We then order some Budweiser Beer to use and wash it down.

Share your experience(s) using this electrical appliance.

A deadly appliance
A perfect example of small but mighty
You fit use am boil water, cook food and also make soup.

But if this heater shock you, all your hair go stand immediately

The olden days heaters were good and worked perfectly well. But the ones we have now, can't even last longer by mere only boiling water. Heater consumes much power.

tee59:
The olden days heaters were good and worked perfectly well. But the ones we have now, can't even last longer by mere only boiling water. Heater consumes much power.

I concur.
This particular heater is very strong and powerful.
It takes just minutes for water to boil.

Happy fathers day Lalasticlala

Lol back then, I wanted to check if the water is hot enough for tea Omo the shocking no be here and also I didn't fill the cup i was using the thing burn the cup.I still when this same boiling burn my mistakenly 2015 the mark still da my hands even though not obvious

Holly Gram good and horrible memories with dis but it was all fun!


LITE UP my WEED in peace


WTF MAN!

This iron shock me for this life when I come haaa I no fit forget even as I day type I still day feel the effects

Death trap

My experience with this boiling ring eh...

Funnily enough, it's still my go-to just for heating up water. Over the years, I've understood it and serves me well. It's very fast and easy to use especially when I need to heat up water. When I started using it, the plastics I use will melt because I didn't fill them to the brim.

I also using it to cook beans half done because I heard somebody say it. Same for white rice and it worked. Those days when we were trying to conserve kerosene or gas

Yuneehk:
My experience with this boiling ring eh...

Funnily enough, it's still my go-to just for heating up water. Over the years, I've understood it and serves me well. It's very fast and easy to use especially when I need to heat up water. When I started using it, the plastics I use will melt because I didn't fill them to the brim.

I also using it to cook beans half done because I heard somebody say it. Same for white rice and it worked. Those days when we were trying to conserve kerosene or gas

You really did exploits with the ring.
I hope you didn't sustain any electric shock from the heater?

cenaman:
Death trap

Back in the day, using this heater to heat water was very easy and stress-free when there was light. You don't have to waste kerosenes or gas or firewoods. Most time while having the heater inserted in the water and plugged to the socket, i would dip my finger in the water to check if the water is becoming hot.. Quite risky but, nothing happened to me.

obembet:

Obembet, come and share your experience...

Omicron007:


You really did exploits with the ring.
I hope you didn't sustain any electric shock from the heater?

Nah, never did.

So happy that things like this are not in use like as of then,Now we have hot plate as another better option. A real death trap.
I could a particular night back then I forgot to unplug this boiler from the kitchen socket after power (Nepa) outage, I left it placed inside a plastic container with water we normally use for it to cool off after use, Power was restored back at 4am in the morning, I woke by 6am only to get to the kitchen to see a very thick mist of cloud( smoke everywhere). The useless boiler dried the water in the plastic cup, burnt the plastic cup and caught
the wooden shelve beneath it on fire. It was a scary experience.

Yuneehk:
My experience with this boiling ring eh...

Funnily enough, it's still my go-to just for heating up water. Over the years, I've understood it and serves me well. It's very fast and easy to use especially when I need to heat up water. When I started using it, the plastics I use will melt because I didn't fill them to the brim.

I also using it to cook beans half done because I heard somebody say it. Same for white rice and it worked. Those days when we were trying to conserve kerosene or gas

Clearly you can't try using this with a prepaid meter.

As you're done cooking, your purchased token will follow the food and get done.

This thing melt my bucket for school.. Then I dey put on rubber slippers wen I want to plug or unplug it..

Boiling ring do me shege
First time I plug am I come hold the iron part to Check if it’s working, you know the rest of the story
I dey around 12 yo that year

I caught a glimpse of heaven cos of this thing

This and electric cooker Grrrrrrrrrrrrr me.

Plugged the heater and dipped my hand in the bucket, you know the rest.

As for the cooker, a pot was on it, wanted to check if it's red already so I lifted a side of the pot

dochenaj:
Clearly you can't try using this with a prepaid meter.

As you're done cooking, your purchased token will follow the food and get done.

Yeye You'll need power supply before you can even use purchased token na.

The times I used it for rice and beans, if prepaid was existing then, it wasn't popular. It was really way back.

Yuneehk:

Yeye You'll need power supply before you can even use purchased token na.

The times I used it for rice and beans, if prepaid was existing then, it wasn't popular. It was really way back.

Chai! Power was better many years back. Instead of moving forward we are moving backwards.

I never ever used it for fear of shock oo

I'll never ever forget. It was December 26, 1999

The Fanti Carnival was going on from street to street, there was a procession of happy people dancing and all.

A neighbour plugged water with this appliance, she wanted to make eba. There was power outage and on hearing the sounds of drumming outside, she left to go see the procession without unplugging the boiling ring. She even followed the procession.

Shortly after, power was restored. Nobody knew that the house was in flames until it was too late. The lady, a teenager at the time left her sleeping baby in the room. Somebody had to do a Jack Bauer stunt to go pull out the baby.

Our apartment was right next to where the fire started. I wasn't even home, just my kid brothers and sisters. Our parents have traveled to celebrate Christmas in our village. My big sis too wasn't home. That was how the entire building was razed, as in totally razed at Christmas.

The fire was fast. It had caught all the ceilings, so when people rushed in to pick things, the ceiling was dropping on them, they had to abort the mission. We didn't bring out a pin from the fire. We had just the clothes we were wearing, no pants nothing. I'm mostly pained about my pictures. All the childhood pictures, those memories gone.

People in the neighborhood started donating stuff ranging from clothes to food, to money. We became destitute. Our parents had to cut short their trip. We slept with friends, family etc for about 3 months before we got our groove back. I had to return to school a week or so after the fire incident. Before then, I moved in with my bf now hubby. My dad had to cough out money for new clothes apart from the normal semester expenses, my bf too. I came back after the semester to a new apartment.

Since then, you'd never see me use that thing, Never!

Lalasticlala

maleekberry:
A deadly appliance
A perfect example of small but mighty
You fit use am boil water, cook food and also make soup.

But if this heater shock you, all your hair go stand immediately

placeofallure:
I'll never ever forget. It was December 26, 1999

The fanti carnival was going on from street to street, there was a procession of happy people dancing and all.

A neighbour plugged water with this appliance, she wanted to make eba. There was power outage and on hearing the sounds of drumming outside, she left to go see the procession without unplugging the boiling ring. She even followed the procession.

Shortly after, power was restored. Nobody knew that the house was in flames until it was too late. The lady, a teenager at the time left her sleeping baby in the room. Somebody had to do a Jack Bauer stunt to go pull out the baby.

Our apartment was right next to where the fire started. I wasn't even home, just my kid brothers and sisters. Our parents have traveled to celebrate Christmas in our village. My big sis too wasn't home. That was how the entire building was razed, as in totally razed at Christmas.

The fire was fast. It had caught all the ceilings, so when people rushed in to pick things, the ceiling was dropping on them, they had to abort the mission. We didn't bring out a pin from the fire. We had just the clothes we were wearing, no pants nothing. I'm mostly pained about my pictures. All the childhood pictures, those memories gone.

People in the neighborhood started donating stuff ranging from clothes to food, to money. We became destitute. Our parents had to cut short their trip. We slept with friends, family etc for about 3 months before we got our groove back. I had to return to school a week or so after the fire incident. Before then, I moved in with my bf now hubby. My dad had to cough out money for new clothes apart from the normal semester expenses, my bf too. I came back after the semester to a new apartment.

Since then, you'd never see me use that thing, Never!

Mehn!!!

Ours would have been like that if not for the quick intervention of our next door neighbor.

I think I was barely five or so, my mum was using it to boil water. She then told me to off the socket when it starts boiling. Locking me and my younger bro from outside, she went to get something close by.

Mumu me, instead of switching off the socket when the water started to boil, I removed the boiling ring and placed it on the table while the socket was still on

Na so fire oh, it started getting serious, to the extent that the flame was almost touching our ceiling. I was just there looking, telling my younger brother "see fire," fortunately our neighbor started perceiving the smell of something burning,traced it to our room and that was how that impending disaster was averted oh.

After then, the use of boiling ring in the compound was banned by our landlord. The fear of boiling ring is still in me till tomorrow

The use of this thing created many sad memories

tayo60:
The use of this thing created many sad memories

True!



Lalasticlala
Mynd44

I saw my ancestors wen e shock me..

They told me to go back ...
Sey no be ring boiler go kill me ...