Some hotel guests boil their underwear in the kettles to clean them
Some hotel guests boil their underwear in the kettles to clean them
YOU’RE going to think twice about making yourself a cuppa at the hotel after knowing what some hotel guests do with it.
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Caroline McGuire
YOU might think twice about enjoying a cuppa in the hotel room next time you’re on holiday.
Because it turns out that some guests like to use the kettles to clean their underwear.
The weird habit came to light earlier this week, when someone asked the question on Twitter after he was told it was “a thing” by a friend.
Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg tweeted: “Real question: does anyone I know clean their underwear in a kettle when travelling?”
After the revelation, the Metro did some digging around and found evidence on Weibo that, yes, this is in fact a thing.
Hotel guests use the kettles in their room to boil their underwear, thus, in theory, getting rid of all the bacteria and prepping your underwear for clean wearing the next day.
Unsurprisingly, scientists are not impressed by these reports. At best, it is just plain gross and at worst, it could be deadly.
Dr Heather Hendrickson is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biosciences at the Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Aukland told Gizmodo: “It is super super super super gross.”
According to Dr Hendrickson, some bacteria can’t be killed by boiling water like Clostidium botulinum spores, which causes botulism.
“These don’t cause sickness if they are consumed, but their presence in certain environments can encourage them to produce a toxin that can be deadly.”
On top of this, the kettle also won’t clean the pants properly without laundry detergent.
Dr Hendrickson added: “There are simply too many unknowns and hotel kettles are not industrial strength cleaning facilities.”
It hardly seems possible, but boiling underwear isn’t even the worst thing guests have done with kettles — there have also been reports of customers urinating inside them.
But the kettle isn’t the only thing in a hotel room you might want to steer clear of — in most hotel rooms, the hairdryer has even more germs that the toilet seat.
It is thought that the problem occurs because cleaners tend to focus on items like the toilet, bath and sink in a hotel bathroom.
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