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TIL you americans don't own electric kettles and microwave water instead
- Thread starter galv
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I live in the states and use an electric kettle. IIRC our voltage isn't as strong as the UK and it takes longer to boil with an electric kettle than in the UK. I did a side by side with my traditional kettle and the electric just barely beat it. I'd honestly rather have the electric then a big heavy kettle taking up a burner all the time, so fine by me and when we had an energy audit done the guys said that the difference in electricity using an electric kettle versus a gas stove is pretty negligible.
I only cook rice maybe twice a week and just enough for my wife and myself. So rice cooker would probably be overkill for me.
US power grid is half the voltage. Shit actually takes a long time to get hot.
Growing up we always heated up water on the stove top in a pot. We never nuked water.
Now as a grown ass adult I'm a proud owner of an electric kettle.
Now as a grown ass adult I'm a proud owner of an electric kettle.
most of us use pots I think if we even drink tea, not kettles
Oh... that actually makes a lot of sense now, didn't know that.
Only twice a week? If I cooked something twice a week, I'd definitely have an appliance for it.
Stop being condescending. Americans may have a lot of problems, but we don't need 'furriners' coming here--the country that invented Science--to try and tell us how hydrodynamic gnomes excite water molecules in a microwave. So stick it where the sun don't shine, you commie bastages, Americans are just as--if not more--smrt than the people in whatever hole you come from
Why y'all using electric kettles and not those Japanese appliances that just keep the water at 95C? Have that hot water on tap, y'all, it's 2018.
just go outside and fire up the propane grill and slap that pot of water down on it, you'll have hot water in no time
Nah, fam.
Boiling water in the microwave sounds so .. unnecessarily tedious.
Also if it boils over, ya got a mess in the microwave.
Electric kettles never have that problem.
Electric kettles - 1
Microwaving water - 0
Today I learned non-Americans think everyone in America is exactly the same. J/k
I knew that by the dozenth time I'd seen a thread like this
I knew that by the dozenth time I'd seen a thread like this
I'm drinking some cold tea with my dinner right now! That's the good stuff!
I live where its not what I would consider to be hot more often than not! Drinks are supposed ta be cool an refreshing! They're the counterbalance to warm/hot meals!!
What makes you think it would be less healthy than microwaving literally anything else?
I guess we better not tell them about microwave bacon, then, huh.
I won't microwave bacon, though. For serious.
As an American, I always thought it was because the higher the voltage of your electricity, the faster electric kettles will heat up water.
So with US voltage they wouldn't heat up as fast as EU voltage. So they're not popular in the US because a microwave can do it just as fast or faster.
So with US voltage they wouldn't heat up as fast as EU voltage. So they're not popular in the US because a microwave can do it just as fast or faster.
Lots of people I know in the States have electric kettles. And rice cookers too. Go to Target or wherever, they are right fucking there on the shelf....because people do buy them here.
Honestly I should probably just microwave it though, uses less electricity.
Brits are weird thinking hot water is different depending on how it is heated. Maybe they like scale?
Honestly I should probably just microwave it though, uses less electricity.
Brits are weird thinking hot water is different depending on how it is heated. Maybe they like scale?
Your instant pot game is weak. I have a second smaller instant pot for rice and veggies.
Part of my morning routine is putting a cup of water in the microwave for 1:45 enough time to put on my pants and undershirt. Come back put in my tea bag let it steep. That's long enough to put on the rest of my clothes. Then I can sit and enjoy my morning. Now I can't because the rest of the world looks down on how I heat my water.
i was joking, i am pretty sure all these things have negligible effects on your general health, including microwaving water
unless you microwave distilled water for like 10 minutes then it might explode or something i think
As a guy who eats rice every day and doesn't understand the concept of sandwiches
I just use a pot.
Because they cost money, and I don't want to deal with having to store another appliance that I'll probably use all of maybe 2 times a year. And even then, my water heater gets hot enough that it's good enough for hot chocolate, so an electric kettle serves even less purpose. It is literally a waste of money and space.
That's how anything in a microwave gets hot though. The moisture inside things heats up.
Stick a piece of cardboard in yours and see how hot it gets.
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I don't, it just seems a lot more out there than heating water any other way.
We're also very very fat and lazy and have a mountain of olympic gold medals stashed away underneath a turbo-version of fort knox
We have a thread about this like every 4 months I'd say. America is a big country with lots of different people and traditions.
Living in the north east, I never knew that other people in American use the microwave to heat water. I've always had either a stove-top kettle or, when I didn't have a stove at my old apartment in college, an electric kettle, which I we called "a hot pot."
This is what I have now:
This is what I used to use in my old apt that didn't have a range:
It was a piece of shit.
Living in the north east, I never knew that other people in American use the microwave to heat water. I've always had either a stove-top kettle or, when I didn't have a stove at my old apartment in college, an electric kettle, which I we called "a hot pot."
This is what I have now:
This is what I used to use in my old apt that didn't have a range:
It was a piece of shit.
I mean this.
I get boiling or near boiling hot water, cause you don't always want it boiling in less that 3 minutes.
I mean you can cook a turkey in a microwave in an hour if its big enough and strong enough.
I don't need an electric kettle that is a thing octogenarians own.
I have contemplated a good old fashioned tea pot but we do have an electric range so nope.
If I has gas heat/range I would go tea pot because it'd as fast/faster and more cost effective.
Also I drink tea rarely, coffee a helluva lot more, in many forms, and fuck all yall I grew up in the south and good tea in made in ginormous giant glass jars in the Sun all day. I used to way over sweeten it to the point of sickness, but at least I did become civil and never make sweet tea anymore.
I do wish more people didn't wear shoes in houses here, could drive straight drive cars, etc
Also I see above someone mentioned a hot pot, my family is from the north east and we grew up with those. American is really funny in its regionalities & I think some more euro centric people struggle with vast differences that can exist in between regions.
Like the North East is as different to the South East almost to the point of the differences between Germany and Italy.