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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Electric kettles (or hot water jugs depending on where you are) are just not a thing there. Apparently it has something to do with your 110v AC system. They don't boil as fast, and so never really took off. Just a little factoid that blew my mind, considering how commonplace they are everywhere else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I have an electric kettle but I don't personally know any other American who owns one. People are weirdly interested in it when they visit me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I mean, they sell them at Costco, I'd hardly call that unknown. They're less common because most people just don't need them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They are available now. This was in WaMart

https://i.imgur.com/d5ae1Po.jpg

Some of them even plug in!

But yes, kettles and toasters take forever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I got this electric kettle and it heats up really quick. It shows the exact temperature on a screen too.

https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg-ekg-electric-pour-over-kettle

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

We aren't big tea drinkers, so we only need hot water for food preparation.

The coffee machines make their hot water for coffee. If you don't use a coffee machine to make coffee, you might use an electric kettle or the microwave if you are derrainged.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LOL, we has 2 and have never used them. One is at camp, where we have a gennie, and we sold the other at the flea market.

The only hot drinks we make are coffe and we have 3 machines for that. If we need hot water to cook, we heat it on the stove top. I just can't see why we would want one. Am I missing out?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They're faster than the stovetop by a lot over here, so if you're boiling a lot of water multiple times a day (for tea, coffee, ramen, and whatever else) they're super convenient.

If you're not making many hot drinks (or have better machines for that) I'm not sure how much use they are.

As for cooking, I know for myself, when I make something like rice, I boil the water in kettle first, and it definitely saves me a couple minutes. A few minutes doesn't sound like much, but it all adds up. Another commenter says that they're actually not that much slower over there, so it might be worth timing one compared to stove top?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My wife is from the Philippines. You can be damned sure we have a rice cooker. :)

Jo Koy has a bit where you can always find the dark kitchen in a Filipino house. Aim for the red light on the rice cooker. Also, that video taught me to cook rice. My wife was laughing her ass off because it's perfectly true.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A lot of things are faster than me.

In my defense, my left leg hasn't been as good since I took a tumble off my bike into a gutter outside of Fuzhou a few years back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

They're significantly faster than boiling water on the stove here in the US too.

I have an electric kettle because I'm a tea drinker. Not gonna lie though, it did take a while before I realized I could just generally boil water in the thing. One day, looking directly at the kettle while I filled a pot with water, the dusty light bulb in my head finally lit up. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

They do exist here, just not very common. But in my family at least, every person has one in their kitchen. We are big tea drinkers though. I use mine a lot to heat broth for Ramen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not that much slower. Our 20a outlets give 2,400w, while yours gove 3000w. And, it's still faster than a stovetop kettle. Its more that we don't make hot tea very regularly, while drip coffee was the dominant hot drink for so long.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I had to leave my 3k beast kettle in the UK as it would blow the circuit here in Oz. Everyone has a kettle here though as they still have the Brit DNA and lowkey love tea with their cricket.