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My fellow Americans, I must insist you add an electric kettle to your kitchen. Its very useful.
is ur electricity strong enough?
My electricity lifts every day bro... and doesn't skip leg day
Yeah, plenty.
https://youtu.be/INZybkX8tLI?t=590
Yes. Just ask the Canadians who all use kettles on a near identical electric grid to us. Americans may be impatient, but we're actually far more patient than brits when it comes to boiling water for beverages.
The reason most Americans don't buy kettles, electric or stove, is that we don't drink hot tea. It simply has not been popular since even before an electric grid existed in the US or England. Coffee is America's drink of choice, and we have electric brewers for that purpose. For a long time, drip style brewers were dominant. Now we use pods because yay plastic waste.
For the few Americans who do drink hot tea, they already do have kettles. They're just such a small minority that kettles are not considered a kitchen staple the way coffee makers are. And remember, stovetop kettles have always been a thing and work just as well on any continent, so the fact those never took off in the US means the speed to boil was never the issue.
You see so many posts about microwaving tea because Americans will occasionally drink hot tea, usually at night time with chamomile when they feel like settling down for the day, but not often enough to warrant a whole small kitchen appliance for. There are juat so many americans that an infrequent event multiplied by a population of 300 million equals a lot of posts. And what tea we do drink more often is iced tea, usually made in bulk in a pot on the stove then poured into a large pitcher to keep in the fridge. Many kettles are not large enough for that job, and the only heat resistant containers big enough to brew a gallon of tea we have are big pots anyway, so why not just heat the water in the pot on the stove?
I got one, very handy any time you need water thats hot
Wait, it's not common to have either electrical or gas stove kettle in us homes? They are absolutely mandatory in every house in central Europe
Hot tea isn't such a huge thing over here. Iced tea is much more common. That being said we do have an electric kettle where I work and a variety of teas to choose from for hot tea. I have an electric kettle at home but it only gets used for making coffee. Pour-over and to fill my Moka pot.
Kettles are used for much more than tea. You need boiling water for many more applications than just making tea.
Instant coffee, boiling water for instant noodles, getting water hot for adding to potatoes or any other veg you need to boil or steam.
For Americans specifically not so much because of their weak voltage. Their kettles are about 2x slower.
Well you can plug a US kettle into 240V with some shenanigans. It'll draw 6KW and boil water in half the time of a proper British kettle. Once (twice if you're lucky).
Technology Connections video
lol? if you just double the amps the wattage will be the same.
Type A plug max amperage: 15A (At 120v ~> 1.800KW). Type G plug max amperage: 13A (at 230V ~> 3KW).
Could not agree more lol
I bought one last year and I use it multiple times a day everyday. Life changing tbh
I have one of these, the same style with the inductive base. It has essentially never been used, despite being ready to use. I got it for a specific project that never got done (with acetone vapor), so it's in the kitchen cupboard doing nothing. Agree: the microwave can put a lot more energy per time into water. And the superautomatic espresso machine also, having a fatter cord, which can make steam and hot water in under a minute.
naaaahhh, microwave is enough
I'm gonna be sick.
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We have electricity issues? Must've missed that memo.
The grid is fine, and if anything, it's currently being modernised for renewables. That effect in the article, which wasn't even an incident, was because of a football match and is about as common as muck here - so they knew to expect it.
Ok, now make tea for a family with their 2.4 kids. That's 9 minutes in the microwave, which is too long.
It's not the amount of water that causes the spike in power demand. It's that the kettles draw 3KW, regardless of how much water is in them. The amount of water only affects how long the power is drawn for, not how much.