Serious question and not a dig to the Americans here, but why do you guys not use electric kettles...

Serious question and not a dig to the Americans here, but why do you guys not use electric kettles? It's a strange concept for me to see you use an old method that we used up to the 70's to boil your water.

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my wife's american, and when she first came over here, she thought it was weird that everyone had an electric kettle. only extremely posh people in the states have one.

Weren't they planning on restricting assault kettles at some point?

because they don't drink tea and they use those shitty drip coffee machines instead of plungers so they don't really need one I guess

I use a stove top for muh French Press . Fight me.

Most Americans I've visited have had electric kettles. Even hotel rooms in the US have electric kettles. Of course, electric kettles are less useful if you have fast glass-ceramic electric stoves, gas stoves or induction stoves, so having an electric kettle should signify that you have a shittier stove.

I use them.

Really convenient.

Only if over 6 litre capacity without safety nozzle. It was after a pretty vicious water attack though so I think it's pretty sensible.

I do use an electric kettle. I'm drinking my electric kettle made tea right now

Everyone I know has an electric kettle.

My dad has one. I don't trust plastic to be inert to boiling water and the ones they sell in the US are plastic. He has one and I've used it a bunch but now I only microwave a cup instead. I don't let them catch me because they scoff at me for being concerned about heating food items in plastic containers. I grew up eating a lot of food out of microwaved tupperware and I'm the shortest most effeminate man in my family so I'm wondering if it's linked.

The US 110V power system is rubbish, they cannot boil water very fast with electricity, sometimes their kettles have 2 plugs.

>plungers
you mean a fucking french press?

i use both but a press is a fucking hassle
also it makes like 4 cups of coffee max

You're a bit behind the times. We all use Keurigs now.

I identify myself as an assault kettle

They can't really do that efficiently on 115V. 3kW kettles are standard here but practically impossible there.

and another thing, why do americans put their salt in the fridge?

that's one thing i just don't understand, americans are weird

this tbqh familia

it's convenient and very wasteful at the same time, a perfect american invention

Wtf, nobody does that.

no one does this.

I do put my bread in the fridge, however. I live in Florida and it is so humid here that bread left on the counter will be moldy in less than a week

>110V
>115V


>let me tell you about your electrical standards

>extremely posh
>costs €30

American here, lived in England. Use electric kettle, have for 10 years. Shit is cash, can confirm.

Aren't you concerned about the electrons in the water?

So is the stove top meant to look like Hitler or not?

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Americans that are old women or faggots and thus actually drink tea regularly usually have an electric kettle

Poormericans cant afford that fancy technology

I've wondered the same thing ever since I discovered the nearly universal practice among Americans. I asked an American exchange student who did this and she just looked at me and laughed and explained that it was because she "didn't want it to spoil obviously".

We don't drink tea very often. I'm the only one I personally know who likes it, and I don't even drink it once per day. We're a coffee country, i believe.

nah mark my words i've witnessed it a dozen times. when i asked why all i got was 'everyone puts their salt in the fridge'.

Most Americans don't drink a shitload of tea. A stovetop with a kettle on it has a nice aesthetic. Americans primarily drink black teas that brew best at 212F/100C so they don't need a thermostat, they just have to take it off heat and pour it once it whistles.

We drink far more coffee, and drip coffeemakers are far more convenient and ubiquitous than electric kettles.

I wouldn't call it "posh" since the tea craze in recent years among younger people.

Press makes good coffee (if you have good beans going in) but it's far more of a hassle. It's my preferred way but I get why most people prefer drip.

Depends on the hotel. Higher end hotels more frequently have electric kettles now, most budget hotels in the US do not.

>Of course, electric kettles are less useful if you have fast glass-ceramic electric stoves, gas stoves or induction stoves, so having an electric kettle should signify that you have a shittier stove.
Glass-ceramic electric stoves actually wear out over time, so using them full blast to make tea several times a day isn't really good, it'll just lead to you replacing the stovetop sooner.

They make ones that are entirely stainless steel surface on the inside of the kettle so no water is in contact with plastic.

Nobody does this. One thing we DO happen to do in the US that most countries do not is refrigerate eggs. This is because we wash eggs off before shipping them out; this washes off contaminants on the surface of the egg, but it also washes off the natural protective layer around the eggshell, so they have to be refrigerated after that or they go bad.

The point is that your voltage (at regular outlets) is low. Drawing the same amount of power requires a far higher current in a ~115V system then in a ~230V one. Since there is a practical limit on how much current can safely slow through a normal cord and outlet, this places a far lower limit on the amount of power a normal appliance can draw.

In other words, absent special solutions like hardwiring or multiple plugs, you can't have 3kW kettles.

now that is bizarre, don't americans know that salt doesn't expire? shake my head to be honest family

We don't put salt in the fridge. Who do you know that does this?

because tea is for faggots and numales.

drink coffee asshole.

and you don't need hot water for the shitty instant coffee you americans like to drink?

I use one of these.

is this really politics?

>not drinking tea

We enslaved a whole nation of Indians (dot kind, not feather) and hooked the entirety of China on opium to bring tea to the world, ungrateful bastards.

What the fuck is an electric kettle and how does it work?

We have coffee making machines in every kitchen, and one, or more, dunkin donuts on every corner here in New England.

Natural gas nigga. And if not that then plenty of coal to go around. And then other petroleum products. And if the coal runs out then there's mad wood to burn.

Source: I've cooked, heated, lit, enjoyed all of them. So far only lighting is best done with electricity.

It's a bit of a different perhaps if you're not living on a wet rock.

maybe it's just you guys on Sup Forums because nobody on here acts normal but on my trip to the states it was very common senpai...

Because I can easily strap mine to my bug-out bag.

I...I have an electric kettle user

Most people I know do

She also wouldn't drink water in europe unless it was straight from the tap after it had been running for minutes. This was because bacteria grow in the water here according to her since there's no added anti-bacterial chlorine as it is in the US. Apparently this is a quite common belief among Americans coming to live in Europe. They'd even talked about this at the preparatory meeting at her uni (UCSB) before they went on exchange.

i laughed way to hard at this

Most americans that actually make coffee have a regular drip coffee maker. Instant coffee is largely reserved for waiting rooms and other places where they don't expect it to be used often and just want to have coffee that someone can make if they want to. For a general consumer product, it's gone down in recent years, because people to lazy to actually make coffee just buy coffee drinks premade now.

It passes a current through the water to heat it.

Try it, you can replicate it by cutting the end from a normal two pin plug, stripping the wires and putting them in a jug of water.

What the fuck? No one I know puts salt in the fridge, who the hell are you visiting?

It uses electricity to cook tea. I think I saw one one time

This is retarded.

>french press
we just call em coffee plungers. you have a point about quantity but how is it even remotely a hassle?
>boil water in kettle
>put ground coffee in freedom press
>pour in hot water
>wait a while and push down plunger

Africa really does produce the best coffee. Don't we agree friends?

Maybe people were fucking with you m8, no one ever puts salt in the fridge. Salt is normally kept near the stove, near the spice rack, or on the table.

I used a french press once, the bottom smashed open and spilled hot coffee all over my foot.

Thanks Pierre.

>Maybe people were fucking with you m8
oh really? :^)

>Glass-ceramic electric stoves actually wear out over time, so using them full blast to make tea several times a day isn't really good, it'll just lead to you replacing the stovetop sooner.
Lol, dumbest shit I've ever heard.

French press is an objectively shitty way to make coffee

>Chemex
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>Espresso machine
>Moka pot
>Drip
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>French press
>Boiled mud
>Instant

Are you positive you're not thinking of baking soda? We sometimes put a box of that in the back of our fridges.

No American I've known puts salt in the fridge. Unless you're trolling, and if so, bravo.

What is a Keurig

Ethiopia best coffee.

Although Kopi Luwak is fucking amazing.

A unit of measurement for human feces

we do, why do you assume we don't?

even houses that were "electrified" in the 1940s when electrification was catching on are wired for at least 100A. 100A x 100V (we're rounding down for safety) = 10kW.

It's normal to be wired for 200-800A these days, and it's actually 240V coming in anyway if you go leg to leg instead of neutral. That's why significant loads, like electric stoves, for instance, are wired for 240.

Harari is my favorite

Cheeky cunt. I had a laugh.

>be American
>need hot water for tea
>walk over to pic related
>instantly have extremely hot or pleasantly cold water at the touch of a button
>glad I'm not Europoorean
>*sips tea*

>and another thing, why do americans put their salt in the fridge?
What the fuck are you talking about?

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>Are you positive you're not thinking of baking soda?

Everyone does that.

what? where?

>nah mark my words i've witnessed it a dozen times. when i asked why all i got was 'everyone puts their salt in the fridge'.
They were fucking with you.

Don't bother, he is legitimately retarded.

Multiple plugs won't solve shit since usually it's not 1:1 on outlets to individual breakers. For a circuit breaker that isn't dedicated to an individual appliance (refrigerator, electric oven, electric clothes dryer, etc.) you typically have a breaker for more than one set of outlets that is 15 or 20 amps. 20 amps being more common in kitchen scenarios.20 amps * 110V = 2200 watts. Some kitchens and older homes have circuit breakers or fuses wired for less.

I own a 1500W kettle and it's plenty fast. I guess a 3kW kettle would be faster, but not in a meaningful way for my use.

He's not wrong - most US kitchens would use either 15A or 20A circuit breakers with 15A or 20A GFCI outlets. Draw more than 20A across all outlets wired to the breaker and either the outlet will trip (if it's more than 20A through a 20A GFCI outlet) or the breaker will trip (if the 20A comes through a combination of outlets on the same circuit).

It's a kettle with a heating element in the base that gets hot when electricity runs through it.

Instant coffee is down, premade coffee drinks in cans/jars are up and single serve machines like Keurig and Tassimo are up. Instant coffee is declining rapidly as a result of these trends, agreed.

I just had to replace my glass ceramic electric stovetop after 11 years because the entire thing took a shit, but before that happened the burners were much less effective than they were when the range was new. It's normal that they wear down, and in today's glass-ceramic stovetops the heat sensitive switches that control the burners are often not serviceable parts, requiring the whole range to be replaced.

No. Italian or French are soooo much tastier.

Hot water out of these things tastes gross, dunno what it is but it has a very distinct taste.

Only if you didn't follow the fucking directions and rinse it out when you get it. Hell, even literal mongoloids in Asia know not to just plug it in and use it.

>tfw somebody ran a 20A line into my kitchen for for a single 22W fluorescent light

feels good man

still have to get around to tracing down that 15A 240 line running out of the breaker box. No fucking idea what that's for. I've had it knocked off for the entire time I've been here.

>Are you positive you're not thinking of baking soda? We sometimes put a box of that in the back of our fridges.
This is common as the baking soda acts to absorb odors, preventing stale or smelly food from causing other things in the fridge (e.g. milk) from absorbing the taste instead.

Houses are usually wired with high amounts, but individual rooms on non-appliance outlets typically aren't wired for more than 20 amps (20 amps * 110V = 2200 watts) in the US.

Plastic often gets used in the lines of water coolers that dispense hot water. I try to avoid it.

It depends, in newer models they usually instruct you to flush it and then after the initial dispense the taste is fine, older models sometimes have a persistent taste even after long periods of use.

I boil eggs in my electric kettle, boil spaghetti, heat up saucepacks
Its so convenient.

Calm down Alex I'll buy the water filter ok?

Because we don't drink tea you fucking homo.

I use one every day to make coffee and tea.

I do it. Everyone I know does it

This; it's actually where the phrase "live stream" comes from.
You should "live stream" yourself "live streaming".
lol so meta

you may be right but the day I listen to a britfag's opinion on food is the day I ask a nigger to look after my bike while i'm in the store

Not sure if trolling, but Italy and France are not coffee producing countries.

S A V A G E

He was trying to make a point about the grid, not the outlet wiring.

As for outlet wiring, having a noice 50A 240 socket in the kitchen of and old fashioned house means you can get a real gas stove instead, install a secondary service panel with proper grounding, and then run a ton of new outlets all over the kitchen, all over the rest of the house, and still have room left to think about trenching a line for another service box in the garage.

All on a mere 100A.

Mine cost 8 dollarydoos.

Why not just use the microwave?

>New Zealand cuisine
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The only culturally relevant contribution you've made is Mad Mike.

I like boiling water on a stove. It feels like I am good at cooking/making things.

whats mad mike?

The amount of cheeky bullshit in this thread is amazing.

Never change Sup Forums.

Wtf I hate Italy and France now

Exactly

I have a natural gas stove. Why would I want an electric kettle?