• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Electric kettles have been available at every American supermarket superstore for literal decades.

    Yes they aren’t ubiquitous here in the way they are in the UK and elsewhere, but they’re absolutely not a rarity at all.

    Sincerely, somebody who has been using an electric kettle for almost two decades.

    edit: wrong word. I meant places like Walmart, not places like Safeway.

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      8 months ago

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      8 months ago

      Curious if you have any insight as to why Americans in movies always boil water on the stove top? Australian here and we use electric Kettles. I assumed it was a 120 vs 240V thing.

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        8 months ago

        Again, ubiquity. Especially since the vast majority of Americans who make coffee at home do so in drip coffee machines, there just isn’t a lot the typical American is needs to heat up hot water for, so to most people an electric kettle is a non-mandatory item. Even most American tea drinkers honestly aren’t daily tea drinkers (myself included), so for many the benefit of having extra counter space beats out the benefit of having convenient hot water, and a stovetop kettle can most easily be put away in the back of a cabinet somewhere.

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          8 months ago

          Interesting, I like this take. Where as we boil water multiple times a day. Americans use that bench space for their dripulator.

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      8 months ago

      The people that don’t have kettles don’t drink tea. Pretty much everyone I know who drinks plenty of tea have kettles, and everyone knows that they’re an option.

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        8 months ago

        Well considered it was only 5 days ago that I made this comment, you successfully clocked me as a tea drinker and you might be on to something with your theory.