Do you know what the immersion means in Ireland? Well I certainly didn't...and unfortunately we learned our lesson the hard way. What is the immersion? Well it's the way the Irish heat their water because guess what? They don't  have the luxury of just having hot water ready to go all the time and you have to pay a premium to heat it up, so homes have what's called an "immersion" with a switch that gets turned on when you want to have really hot water.

Of course we did not know this and only discovered it after we received a 400 Euro electrical bill!!!! Upon calling the electricity company they asked if lI eft on the immersion and through logical deduction we figured out that was where we had gone wrong...the girl on the phone said with a warning in her voice "well now that would be it then, that's the most expensive thing ya know". When I told my coworkers they all started laughing as it's a thing here from their childhoods of always being told to turn off the immersion or being accused of leaving it on too long. I guess I really a spoiled brat coming from the land of hot water on demand!!

Talking about YouTube - Des Bishop's Immersion Routine