Anybody who's ever watched Four In A Bed (or stayed in a hotel, come to think of it) knows that the cleanliness of your room is the height of importance.
With that in mind, you probably don't want to use the mini kettle in the bedrooms again, after a tweet about the gross thing some people do with it spread across the internet this week.
It read, "Real question: does anyone I know clean their underwear in a kettle when travelling? To clarify, I don't do this, but @blakemizzi claims it's a real thing."
Wait, what? Washing their pants? IN A KETTLE? We have so many questions.
As does Dr Heather Hendrickson, a senior lecturer in Molecular Biosciences at Massey University in Aukland, who spoke out to Gizmodo to confirm (quelle horreur!) that boiling your underwear in a kettle to clean it is indeed a bad idea.
Why? Because while someone might assume the temperature would kill off any germs, it doesn’t kill all microorganisms. Some spores are resistant to heat below 120 degrees celsius.
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So to confirm, using the kettle for anything other than boiling water is "super, super, super, super gross", Dr Heather says. "Who knows how long that water, with nutrients that have been introduced and then sterilised, sits around in the kettle before someone else uses it?"
DON'T DO IT, PEOPLE.
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