It’s not “hotel wiring” that I trust, it’s UL Listed and Code Mandated that I trust. BTW, the difference between a bath counter with electrical outlets and sink and my home kitchen counter with electrical outlets and sink is that I don’t have GFCI at home as it was built prior to that code…

I’m safer at the hotel counter / sink that at home with the toaster…. (One circuit in one bedroom is wired backwards and I get ground leakage to the metal window frame that tingles… I’ve used the circuit tester and it reports hot / neutral reversal. The plug with the fridge in it gives a ‘tingle’ to ground too… So whoever wired the house was a bit “dodgy”… Lucky for me, the ones near the kitchen sink are correct…. It’s on my “todo list” to get the others wired correctly. I was “wiring hot” at 8 years old and Dad was an electrician for “a while”…)

So these small appliances are pretty well double insulated in most parts, and plugged into a GFCI socket. Hard to “have issues” with that. Oh, and the counter is plastic… So unless I put one hand on the faucet AND it has metal pipes (not always the case here) AND have a fault in the wiring of the appliance AND touch the “right” part AND have the GFCI fail… then I’m OK.

Compare alcohol stove: Bump it wrong, I have a flaming spill onto flammable plastic based carpet.

Um….

@Adolfo:

Notice they do not show removing the filter? It wasn’t done yet. The hole in the bottom is about the size of a round toothpick. It soaks the grounds fine… and one must be a bit patient with it. Also, I use about 2 x the coffee they did ;-)

How many babies are born very premature and kept alive because medicine can, not because nature thinks they’re viable?

Prior to modern invention
Life was but a shorty
Regardless of Nature’s intention
Now most can live past forty

Back in an earlier time
I was born way premature
Now I’m here making rhyme
It beats being dead, I’m sure

And I’ve had some success
And employed thousands of folk
A keeper? I’d vote yes!
(It’s an anecdote, not a joke)

There are problems in health care
At a long seminar today
I saw many attempts at “fair”
But “what works” should still hold sway

And decisions on who lives
Are always fraught with risk:
Our compassion often gives
Facing numbers on a disk

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle