As energy bills are expected to rise, households will be looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs this year.
One TikTok user claims you could save £329 each year on your energy bills through a simple kettle trick, reports The Mirror Online.
The money-saver, known only as scott8bits, explained how it costs as much as £400 each year to boil your kettle frequently, so if you're a big tea drinker then this could be adding to your annual bill.
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Rather than boiling the kettle each time you fancy a hot drink, he suggests filling your kettle up to its maximum and turning it on.
After you've poured out enough for a single cup, the rest - roughly five or six cups more - he suggests should be poured into a thermos and saved for later on.
While it may work for some, people should note that not everyone will use as much as £400 each year on boiling their kettle.
It is also dependent on the power rating on your appliance and how many hot drinks you consume in a day.
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A standard 3kW kettle costs around 9p if in use for 10 minutes, according to data from Uswitch.
Therefore, if you filled up your kettle for just one cup of tea, you'd use around 1p worth of energy.
Energy experts counter what scott8bits has said in his TikTok video - and say filling the kettle up with only what you need is actually the best way to keep costs down, especially if you find yourself wasting kettle water.
If you only make one cup of tea a day, then you’re unlikely to make a saving by filling up the whole kettle.
Another way to save money when using a kettle is to switch it off at the wall.
How much will my energy bill go up by?
Millions of households will see their energy bills increased by an average of £700 from April this year after the regulator Ofgem confirmed it is increasing its price cap.
Those on default tariffs paying by direct debit will see an increase of £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1 - a staggering rise of around 54 per cent. Prepayment customers will be the worst hit, with an increase of £708 from £1,309 to £2,017.
The move will affect some 22 million households across the country and follows a 12 per cent rise in October.
It will affect default tariff customers who haven’t switched to a fixed deal and those who remain with their new supplier after their previous supplier exited the market.
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