Hey! I deleted a couple of things from this script which I shouldn't have. I've made a follow-up video on Connextras which includes them and more! Here's a link, but you can also expand this comment for a quick run-down. ua-cam.com/video/RpoXFk-ixZc/v-deo.html *Coffee makers.* That's what we use. And since they'll make hot water, too (so long as you don't put coffee in them) many people will also use them for making other hot beverages. Some coffee makers are better than others for that, though. I would imagine that as soon as the percolator became popular, we got hooked on coffee and never went back. Also; Microwaves. That also works! It seems to offend the more British among you (and some other folks get freaked out by the slim possibility of superheated water) but if you want a single cup of tea, nuking a mug full of water for about two minutes will in fact bring it to a boil. Energy is energy, and water is water!
I do t get how this can be unless there is something in the water it’s just heated. That said coffee maker water tastes like coffee and is rarely above 80c. Okay for green in a pinch but I’m a tea snob.
So, I did some cursory googling (love verbifying nouns) and, take this with a grain of salt, as my source is a "Slate" article but: "The longer water boils, the more dissolved oxygen it loses-and tea experts say that dissolved oxygen is crucial for a bright and refreshing brew." As well as: "Microwaved water can also be taken to several degrees above boiling if heated for too long (which is impossible in a kettle, because the metallic surface prevents overheating). Such ultra-hot water destroys desired aromatic compounds and elicits an excess of astringent, bitter notes by overcooking the leaves" So...maybe microwaving water MAY have an effect on the taste of tea, but it looks more dependent on the temperature. Something to keep in mind, maybe 🤔
The sass in this one was a delight. And my desire to rid myself of a gas burner has only gotten higher. Not the point of the video, I know, but I was already sold on kettles.
"slim possibility of superheated water" .. yep, might be a slim chance, but it's happened to me once, so I avoid the chance of a second water bomb now. It's not fun.
For me as a German, those stove-top kettles look like an antique relic, something you might find at your grandma's house, while electric kettles are the modern equivalent.
As a Brit', Stovetop (or Hob) Kettles are a reassuring back up, for whenever the electric one isn't working. After all: you can boil a Hob Kettle on basically anything that's hot, yet if there's a power failure or the device is due for de-limescaling, the E-Kettle isn't much use. If anythings worth doing, it's worth having several ways of doing it 😉 .
I haven't had tea in years, still use my electric kettle all the time for cup noodles and coffee and because i'm too lazy to wait for a saucepan to boil water for pasta so I put pre-boiled water.
Exactly! I drink tea maybe once a month, yet use the kettle to preheat water for so many things in the kitchen! Making pour-over coffee, cooking pasta, steaming dumplings, heating up hot dogs (you can guess where I'm from). All of that uses hot water.
I feel like everyone failed to realise how much cheaper 1kW of gas is (or rather was) than a 1kW of electrical energy... According to data i found online, in the city i live in, in January 2022 the cost of boiling water would be similar, even with that huge loss of energy when we boil water with gas. Years ago i thought about how when i was a kid we didn't use electric kettle because it was more expensive than boiling water with gas, my parents counted that. Which led me to point, what a failure, or just screwing people over with bills that is. burning gas in gas power plant is surely way efficient than burning it yourself, yet... here we are >.< i hope my comment makes sence, i can try to explain if someone didn't get it :v
Found myself with a few dull moments to spare, so thought I’d time ours (UK). Rolling boil in 2.02. No one asked for this information, but here it is anyway. Another enjoyable watch, thanks!
American here I had an expensive kettle that would boil the water in the same amount of time. It was really cool because it was clear glass and had a pretty blue light that shined up into the kettle. It lasted 4 months and stopped working. I bought a cheap black plastic Black and Decker kettle for $19 it takes close to 4 minutes to boil but I've had it for 6 years. I use it for tea, French press coffee, instant mashed potatoes, Stove Top Stuffing, ramen noodles, instant soups, hot chocolate and for hot holiday drinks. BTW I have had an electric kettle since my first year of college in 1978.
For those wondering, being a European, owning a kettle, a sodastream, and an induction stove top, I thought I'd repeat the experiment with those. Here are the numbers for reaching boiling point for a sodastream worth of water: 240V kettle: 2:13 3 phase induction stove top at max setting: 2:38 So in fact, a 240-land kettle is still faster than an induction stove top. I suspect not all those 3 phases are pumped into the stovetops themselves, but are rather used for the stove part.
Australian here also 240V, SMEG kettle rated 2000-2400W 905g water when filled just above the line of our sidastream bottle. Time to the start of a rolling boil 2:42 I'm going to try to remember to do this when the sun is up and my solar panels are producing as I'm convinced they pull up the voltage...
Our induction stove is 3200W per burner on a 32A 230v supply. It’s pretty quick. I’m going to measure it because it’s notably faster than our old kettle was!
I can't speak for how the power distribution is in combined ovens and cooktops, but if they are connected separately, the oven will be single-phase while the cooktop is three-phase.
My induction cooker in boost mode beats a 240V SMEG kettle if none of the rest of the cooker is in use, but only by a few seconds. I expect a cheaper kettle that doesn't have variable temperature features might win.
I went to Europe about 8 years ago. All of the hotels had electric kettles with instant coffee and tea. When I came home to Montana, I went to Walmart and purchased an electric kettle. I was amazed at how fast they boil water compared to a stove-top kettle. I have one at work and one at home, excellent tool!
Sure it is induction? I see no reason to push electronic energy in a magnetic field to induct a circular current in a fixed boiler setting I would guess it’s a resistor with a cover.
Great presentation of energy and calculations. I have a Breville 240V / 2400W electric Kettle here in Australia where is Power input measured at 2440W. It boils 1L water from 20 DegC measured to 100 DegC in 2 min 32 Sec (152 sec). Calculated works out to 137.2 Sec. So only about 15 sec loss of efficiency in heating up the element plate in the bottom and the plastic casing. Power used calculates to 93Wh. This particular kettle has 5 selectable temperatures from 80 to 100Deg C for Green Tea, White Tea, Dolong, Coffee and Black Tea. A great Kettle.
I'm Australian. Our main use of an electric kettle is not for making tea. It's just for boiling water. It can be used for everything. If you need to cook some pasta and are in a rush then just boil the water in the kettle before moving it to a pot on the stove, and so on. Also, love your videos :)
@@carsonwilliamsjust makes the heating the water much quicker. Doesn't cook pasta. Probably 3 to 4 times quicker to heat up water, most kettles can boil up to half a gallon. Cheap ones cost $10 Australian. So maybe $7 US.
I remember in college somebody had a "tea wand"- which was basically just the heating element from an electric kettle on a wall plug. You just stuck it in a mug and plugged it in. The water was hot almost instantly. And yes- that means it was both a fire and an electrocution hazard at the same time. Great video as always.
I remember ladies at work had those, back in the '70s. The company provided coffee, in big industrial coffee pots ... but some wanted something a little more, um, "refined" I guess.
I used to have one of those! It was very convenient, and small enough to be portable, allowing me to have hot coffee or instant soup anywhere with an electrical outlet.
Here in the UK, and probably also in Europe, a new-ish kitchen gadget is a boiling water outlet by the kitchen sink. It works by using an in-line element that instantly heats water when you turn on the tap. It is efficient as it only boils exactly the amount of water you want to use. It also keeps the kitchen cooler. They are expensive to install, but with energy costs spiralling, they will probably pay for themselves over a year or two, not to mention the time saving.
@@gsadow . Apparently they are easy to install, only need a convenient power outlet and can heat the 3 litre insulated tank in about 10 minutes from 240Volts. If you just draw one cup of water, the tank refills so it is ready within seconds. The most well-known brand is Quooker, which is Dutch. I imagine the biggest advantage is that you don't have to boil a kettle for hot drinks, cooking pasta, etc., so they are time saving. And also you only use enough energy to heat the exact amount of water you need,
@@bp8339 . Having an electric kettle, that is what I do. In houses or offices with many people making hot drinks at different times, it might make sense to install one so for speed and convenience the kettle wasn't being constantly filled, heated, then 15 minutes later, had to be heated from cold...it was just an alternative option.
In our old apartment we had replaced a standard electric cooktop with an induction one (here in Ireland it's not considered that new of a hotness), and it was *phenomenal*. Ridiculously fast and remarkably easier-to-clean than its visually-identical predecessor (presumably because it doesn't get as hot itself). We have since moved to a house with a gas cooktop (and no electric point suitable for an induction one... yet...) and we miss the induction one dearly. I also vote for content about induction cooktops ^_^
I have an induction cooktop in my little apartment (not even a proper stove, just a single cooktop for one pot or pan) and it is almost frightening how quickly it heats a pot or pan.
Yess! In my student housing in the Netherlands i had to share my kitchen with 13 others. So naturally I opted for making a kitchen top in my room with the induction top from ikea! Honestly so much better than gas and less dangerous and easily cleaned!
Induction (not regular resistive-heating glass ceramic first shown in the video, but the good second one!) is absolutely the way to go, it should be practically mandatory for everyone to get it - it's just so good. As a European as well, I've had induction cooktops for several years and I couldn't go back to anything else.
I just can't imagine living without an electric kettle, and still don't understand how people in US can even live without it. It's not just for tea, also coffee, hot chocolate, instant noodles, instant oats, home bubble tea, for cleaning dishes (or softening hardened food in pot/pan, softening old mugs), for cooking pasta (add boiling water to the pot is quicker than waiting for the stove), etc. I can boil a litre in 1 min 40 seconds. It's just incredibly useful and versatile. The thought that I'd have to wait around 6 minutes for a stove kettle that doesn't even turn auto off is mind numbingly ridiculous.
we have a smaller version in the USA we use quite a lot called a HOT SHOT. It quickly boils enough water for a large cup of coffee, instant soup tea, or instant oats, etc.
We have electric kettles. I have two, actually, plus a regular stovetop one (gooseneck for pourover coffee). I suppose most Americans don’t drink tea, but plenty of us do.
:-D when i moved into flat (i'm living in now) i purchased nice red (:-D) stovetop kettle. Used it (may be) 3 times? :-D Just was not worth the waiting. I excused myself from my old electric kettle and plugged it back in ASAP. :-)
Here in Germany we have at least one electric kettle in every household. And not only that, we have them in every hotel room, office, break rooms at work, literally everywhere. And it is very common knowledge that these things not just bring water to a boil faster than anything you can put on a stove but that they save a lot of energy.
We have a puck coffee machine that also acts a hot water dispenser. In my experience American offices have some form of electric hot water dispenser. It’s homes that are the problem in my experience. I use a kettle in my home.
As German I use the kettle each day for tea and instant coffee but as well for nuddle water, potato's water. It is much faster then using the pot. Later on ongoing cooking as usual with pot. Our 230v net of course has much more power, 2000W is the standard size.
@@stephensnell5707 Why correct someone's spelling when you clearly know that they are not a native English speaker to begin with? He wrote "As a German". You speak English because it's the only language you understand, and we Europeans speak English because it's the only language that you understand. Don't be that nitpicking dude going "Well *Ackchyually*" (And yes that is spelled "Actually", I just needed to make that clear as you might think that it's not purposefully misspelled...)
English here... glad you mentioned using the kettle to fill a pot to then boil for pasta etc. Yes we do drink tea... but... we use the kettle just as much for getting water hot for cooking and then transferring to a pan.
@@dennisfraser6896 I’m expat living in China…, ukk. Never. Not even back home in UK would 8 drink tap water without boiling. Sorry. I use a kettle every day for drinking and cooking. Fast and efficient.
@@honey23b2 this! I live in Australia, yes the tap water is safe to drink here but how could you tolerate the taste? Cold boiled water just tastes much better.
After a couple weeks in the UK I immediately added one of these to my kitchen when I got home. I also gave up coffee which jacked up my stomach and am now a yorkshire gold fanboy. Couldn't imagine not having an electric Kettle handy now.
Yorkshire Tea is very very good, did you ever try Rington's Tea from a little further north? It is my favourite, but I am biased as I come from there. :)
It was funny how he talked about cooking and cleaning with hot water. If you're English, there is only one use for a kettle and that's making a cup of tea. I make about ten cups a day and if it took 8 minutes rather than 2 to boil a kettle that would waste an hour a day.
12:29 - The Blue LEDs are very handy for my mostly deaf father whenever he’s making tea, couldn’t hear a whistle to save his life but he can see when the LEDs turn off.
his complaint is with the blue part, not the light part (it's come up in previous videos). Blue light is harsh and especially annoying in the dark, which is why it's poorly suited for small screens/indicator lights that stay on overnight. In the kettle, it's (probably) purely an aesthetic annoyance
well, in EU, they sell pretty cheap electric kettles in Lidl with different colors for different temperatures too. 50°C is green 70°C blue 80°C purple 90°C lime 100°C red
Lights as indicators in addition to sound certainly make tools more inclusive, but I do think there's a more elegant way to do it that isn't harsh to the eyes. Blue LEDs are just unpleasant when used like this. For a kettle without specific temperatures that just boils, I think a cyan LED for for heating and red for ready would be better than the one shown in this video.
Enjoyable video. I’m from Australia, where just about every house has a kettle…I went to the US for the first time in 2023 (East coast), and again this year (West coast), and I was perplexed by the lack of kettles in homes and stores. I rarely drink tea, but I do make my own espresso with a portable espresso maker, for which I need to boil water, so I bought my own kettle whilst there. Espresso, or lack thereof, is another US oddity, as most people over there seem to drink drip filter coffee, whereas I would suggest espresso based drinks are by far the most popular caffeine beverages here in Australia.
Wouldn’t it be the Boil% category of the game “water?” I’ve been running the Freeze% category for awhile now and implementing a BLJ from the sink to the freezer is my newest time save - set a PB with that trick!
I'd suggest a propane or oxy-aceteline torch in a "pot" made of tungsten. It's expensive as all get out, but that's the cost of holding a world record.
If I need a big pot of boiling water, I put 1/4 of the water in the pot on the electric stove - max heat. Then I boil the other 3/4 in the electric kettle.
excuse me. hot dogs? wouldn't that make the kettle taste odd from the hot dog water. even if you pour it out i would still think it would leave a lasting taste
Dude from Germany here! Never thought of someone not having an electric kettle out there, boiling small portions of water using a stove is something you will usually never do here (needs more power and time). Boiling water with a kettle takes just up to an minute (230V mains voltage)
I don’t hardly ever need to boil water. I think the difference is that in the USA we don’t have a spot of hot tea as a daily normal thing. I drink iced tea which I make in a larger quantity at a time. Coffeemakers take care if the coffee brewing. Microwave can heat a cup of water very quickly as well. Just different social customs.
@@denmar355 It is not just tea. Even if you are just cooking things (noodles or potatoes), many people here start with this kettle, because it is almost instant hot. And a microwave is not as fast as this one. A microwave is good for a cup. If you do more, it's wasted energy and time.
I got gifted a cheap Walmart electric kettle from my aunt when I moved to college. The. Best. Thing I have ever owned. I made styrofoam cup ramen in my dorm so often, and with no coffee pot, I made tea for everyone who came over. It’s so convenient to set it to heat and do other things. After I’ve got my cup of tea and the an hour later water has cooled, I pour it into my water filter jug in the fridge. It’s boiled water and I don’t feel wasteful of a resource I pay for.
I had some UK and Australian friends give me a hard time about the "archaic" way I boiled water in a pot if I wanted to make a cup of pour-over coffee or tea. After singing the praises of the simplicity of the electric kettle, I decided I'd get one for myself. My only issue is that I didn't make the decision to buy one sooner. It's SO easy and convenient! Boil the perfect amount of water for a hot beverage in about 2 minutes? Yes please! I got mine last fall and have used it almost every single day since. Plus it's great for certain foods that need boiling water. In less than 10 minutes, I can make a pot of couscous using the amount of water needed. If you're even remotely on the fence, let me be the voice that pushes you to get one. You won't regret it!
These days i have super powerful induction stove, but before when i had old cast iron stove top with 2400W burners, i used to boil water in kettle and make rice, pasta, couscous with it. it cuts 8-10mins off from preparing time. A lot compared to the fact that it takes 8-9 mins to make spaghetti when the water is boiling.
@blackmancer - The plot yet thickens. '. . . certain foods that need boiling water. In less than 10 minutes, I can make a pot of couscous . . .' - meaning, with the water which has already been boiled; thus pouring the boiling water into the bowl with couscous: after which the couscous absorbs the water in the bowl, or is further cooked in the 'pot' which is being mentioned. Australia is not for the weak-minded, though: I have cousins living in Perth, Melbourne and the Outback, as well as quite a few immigrant acquaintances.
"on a regular basis" & "from time to time" seems to me to be opposite phrases . .. Perhaps pedantry us my downfall...or your phraseology us unbalanced. ?! 🤔
@brigidsingleton1596 That is intentional to add comedic effect. That being said irregular events could occur on regular time intervals. For example rain rains seemingly irregularly, but if you look at a bigger picture there is certain periods and conditions when it is likely to occur
I'm an avid tea drinker and I've been using electric kettles for 2 years. Absolute game changer. I started with a cheap aluminum version that only has an on switch with automatic shut off, but graduated to a 1.7 liter, variable temperature. If I'm traveling in North America, the cheap one goes with me - otherwise, it lives at my office. Several coworkers appreciate that we have the kettle, I hear it going all day long - and nearly everyone ended up buying their own electric kettle at home. My trip to the UK last year was amazing - kettles everywhere.
I’m an American but I’ve used an electric kettle for years. I lived in London in 1977 and saw electric kettles there and fell in love with them. I got one a few years later when I got my own apartment in 1981.
As someone from a tea-drinking country I must say that the speed is a good benefit, but the main from switching from stovetop kettle. When each member your family drinks tea 4-6 times a day, one of your stove burners is almost always occupied by the kettle. So it's just more convinient to have all four burners at your service whenever you need, no matter when someone wants to have a cup of tea. Especialy during family gatherings - the stove is occupied with pans and pots.
It takes me 4 minutes to boil a cup of water with my stove kettle. Also I use loose tea in a glass kettle that I have to steep. I ha e to use 1 tablespoon of loose leaf tea for one cup of water tablespoon of loose leaf tea for 8 oz of water. I still have not found to precisely, pour one cup from a kettle into my steeping kettle. But what I do is take one cup fill it up with my water. Pour that into my tea kettle on the stove and then when it boils pour that into my steeping kettle. I get the perfect amount each time. If you're doing tea bags then yes an electric kettle would work just fine.
@@flextefitness4954 I don't understand how you came to your last conclusion. People around the world drinks tea differently. My parents had a small tea shop in the 90s, so we tried a lot of different tea and loose tea is much better in general. So we used to make loose tea most of the time. In a teapot you will have a tea brewing, a small portion of which you add to the cup and then mix with hot water from the kettle. In this case there is no difference between stovetop kettle of an electric one. And if you use teabag it doesn't affect much, you just need less water, because you brew tea already in a cup (BTW, you can brew loose the directly in the cwp too, and brew teabags in a teapot - a lot of different options and it doesn't connected much with type of kettle. You just need a boiled water, no mater how you boil it)
@@alpienari Thanks for this response. It is very hard to explain what I'm saying just by typing it. The instructions on my tea say 8 oz of water to 1 tbsp of tea. So yes, if I wanted to eyeball everything that would work just fine. I'm trying to use the exact measurements so I know exactly how my tea is going to come out. I did find a tea kettle that's actually going to work for me. Most of the old tea kettles don't allow you to only boil one cup of water at a time because of the old coil method. Apparently one of the electric tea kettles I'm looking at allows you to add just one cup. I noticed you said use a little more water. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me. I'm a very anal person and I like to take precise measurements of how much tea versus how much water I'm putting in. I also use a timer. I don't go by how the color of the tea looks. This way I know exactly how to make the tea that I want to my perfection. The last thing I wanted to add is that it takes my tea kettle on a gas stove, exactly 4 minutes to boil one cup of water. The electric head I'm looking at takes 50 seconds. 3 minutes is really not a lot of time. I don't like a lot of stuff on my countertop I live a very minimalistic life. I make tea three times a day at least so I can leave my kettle on the stove but electric one would have to be in the countertop which takes up space and would be an eyesore because at the moment I don't have much counter space. Once I move and I do have more counter space I will then look for a nice tea kettle to leave on my countertop.
Also, if I forgot about the water boiling, an electric kettle just turns off, and a stovetop kettle burns. I burned a lot of stovetop kettles when I was a kid. Electric is the way to go.
"We don't drink tea all that much" I nod in agreement, while sipping my coffee which I brewed in a french press, using an electric kettle to boil water.
Exactly! Pour over coffee, even with stove top espresso machines we're supposed to put hot water in the bottom to do it properly, and of course using the hot water to warm the cups and the teapots. I have a 30+ year old stove top, so I use it for pasta water & ramen as well.
Now I'm wondering, how muricans make coffee if it doesn't involve boiling water in a kettle. Since I suspect they don't do it properly in a cezve, I'm drawing blanks.
I bought one 10 years ago for, I wanna say, like €19. It's been great. But last month it started leaking through the plastic screen on the side with the measures on it. So now I bought a new one. For €17. A Tomado TWK1701B. It says it will go to 2200 Watt, but I don't know. It boils a liter of water in 3:10, or 100 seconds, on my 230V connection. I will be back here reporting on it in 10 years.
The thing that makes kettles so convenient for me is when boiling food, its so much faster to boil 2L in the kettle before putting it in the pan, and then use the hob to keep it at a simmer. As opposed to going from cold on the hob.(i dont have an induction hob) On a side note, british tanks have a specific water boiling device. Wheras american ones dont. Just an interesting fact that i learnt from a video
British Army ration packs are in the form of boil in the bag meals, so they can be prepared and eaten within the tank, thanks to the BV (boiling vessel). It's not just about the tea (plus the tea within the ration packs is atrocious)
Well, the original Vickers machine guns were valued by the Tommies more for the ability to boil water for tea than for accuracy, especially over long ranges. That hot water was a luxury in the trenches, especially as you otherwise only had a very poor ration heater to use.
That Boiling vessel also came about because soldiers were literally getting out of the tanks to make a cuppa and were shot, so much safer to not leave the vehicle
As someone who had a newborn last year I can tell you that having a kettle that can boil and then maintain a constant temperature is hugely helpful. I don't have to wait minutes (which if very helpful when you baby is crying) for the water to heat up and plus I get the extra benefit of having the water "sterilized".
As someone raised on 240V kettles for making a brew, I was perfectly fine like that until I heard about the hot water dispensers mentioned at the end of the video. I bought one last Christmas and can say walking up to the machine, pushing a button then just holding whatever receptacle I need filling under the machine until it's full is an experience. A full cup of boiling hot water in less than 10 seconds is more joyous than it has any right to be.
@@hazy33 Can't say I've got proper figures mor time to figure it out right now but as said in the video, they're about 700W machines, take about 40 minutes to boil from cold and well insulated as far as I can tell because I only refill it once in the evening and I've never seen it reboil during the day.
@@MsJubjubbird Still better than a kettle if you have a family that has several cuppas a day. Like I said above, it's insulated enough that it only boils once
@@daggern15 they are good for workplaces, where people are constantly getting them. But for our family- and we love tea, it isn't worth it, especially as it needs more maintenance and they do actually boil several times in the day
I would say that stove tops are slower because they have to heat the pot to get the water hot. The electric ones have the instantly hot aluminum thing inside the kettle. So the heat source is in the water, and aluminum heats faster than stainless steel or aluminum clad stainless. I use my electric kettle every day. Love it! Ive had it for years. I shouldn't comment before the video is done because he just confirmed my theory. 😊
After watching this video I went out and bought my wife the lowest priced (cheapest) electric kettle I could find at Walmart. She likes her coffee from French Press carafes. So this has been a godsend. It works for anything that needs hot water and we use it all the time. Thank you for this vid. It was great.
Man… how do people screw up French press setups so badly? It’s $100 to do it properly. Much cheaper than a coffee machine, better results, and lasts forever. An adjustable hand grinder, a kettle with temperature control settings, and a carafe. That’s it. Boiling water burns the hell out of the coffee. It should be about 200F. The cheapest kettles have no temperature setting. And god help you if you’re using pre-ground coffee. It’s too fine to be filtered properly by a French press. So gross.
I remember I moved in with a roommate and they had an electric kettle, couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of this wonderful thing that boils water in 2 minutes, then he moved 2 years later and I had to go back to stove boiling before I bought an electric kettle.
Hi Technology Connections, I asked for an electric kettle for my birthday based on this video. The electric kettle boiled water for my coffee much faster than my gas stove. I plan to use the electric kettle for all my water-boiling needs, so thank you for bringing this appliance to my attention.
I just did a test with my own electric kettle here in Sweden. It's a really cheap one and quite slow compared to others and it still brought one litre to a boil in 3 minutes.
Here in USA I don't even have to wait 3 minutes to get hot water to make my tea. My 5 gallon jug water dispenser has a Hot water option so I always have near-boiling hot water on tap whenever I need it. And these kinds of hot/cold water dispensers are quite common in USA.
@@KingNekroeuropeans also have water dispensers, although nobody has near boiling water in them. it's usually around 60°C max. having that high temp available at all times seems wasteful.
In Australia, every house, every hotel room, every office, everywhere has electric kettles. They are a staple of everyday life. We use them mainly to make tea and coffee. First time I traveled to the US I was blown away by the lack of them. It is so so weird.
Every hotel room I've ever been in in the U.S. had a kettle. They just have some extra parts and are called "coffee makers." As a non-coffee-drinker, it never fails to -disgust- impress me how nearly every business in America caters to caffeine addiction. Hotels, offices, car dealerships and maintenance, virtually anywhere that serves food, and even a lot of grocery and retail stores have some kind of coffee available, to say nothing of all the dedicated coffee shops. The only place I can think of that _never_ has coffee is dentists offices. Even some doctors' waiting rooms I've been in had free coffee.
You did a review on electric tea kettles. I bought one for my wife and can’t believe we’ve been using the glass electric stove top all these years. The new one has blue lights while it’s on and automatically turns off when done, adding failsafe operation too. We recommended it to our friend who is deaf and would never hear the whistle on a stovetop kettle.
I've been using electric kettles in breakrooms for years, seems every office I've worked in has had one, and a few private clients have had them, too. It's definitely something on my personal wish list, so I was surprised to hear it's not common in the US.
Many water coolers have a hot tap, and most break rooms have a coffee machine. The old glass pot has been replaced by the single-serve style which can just spit out hot water.
When we worked in physical offices in the US, I’d say just 1 out of 10 people drank tea. Most drank coffee, some drank soda, and the smallest number drank tea. The people who made tea at work was always zero. They bought it somewhere else and brought it in a to-go cup.
living in Fiji, I would recommend an electric kettle over stove any day of the week. Except not the one in the thumbnail. I would advice to always use the fully stainless steel ones. You can taste the plastic in the water in the plastic ones on the first sip.
When I had to use an old plastic electric kettle on a trip I poured 1,5 litres of water and only drank the top litre. The sink can drink the flaky plastic and water stone at the bottom.
@@flatearthancap362 what about the ceramic electric jugs? With the heating element sitting in the water and the ceramic construction acting as a heat insulator to keep the heat inside the jug, they heat up fast and hold the heat for longer. (Just NEVER let the heating element get exposed to air or they will burn out in a fraction of a second.)
20:36, this is exactly what I do ... sometimes even twice if I need a lot of water. We do have a gas stove, but we also have a solar roof, saves energy, saves time, but you also get the heat control of a gas stove for cooking!
The guy in this video acts like the only thing you can boil water for is tea, like coffee doesn't exist, or hot chocolate or jelly. I'm sure there are a LOT of things I've used my kettle for, just never thought about it and never assumed American's just wouldn't have them in their homes.
I just did the same test with my UK electric kettle. Came to boil at 2:10 secs. Another things to mention is they're not only useful for making hot beverages. Due to their speed they're great for preheating water to put in a pan for boiling potatoes, eggs etc when time is in short supply; or providing hot water to add to cold if for any reason your plumbing needs fixing and you have no hot water. I've had baths using this method in the past when our boiler went down
I always put cold tap water in to my electric kettle and I will always fill it all the way to the Max 1.7 Litre level and it still boils in only 2.5 minutes
@@username40000 I can't answer for anyone alse, but when I use mine I hardly ever actually know the measurement I need, so I kinda eyeball it, and go a bit higher than that, just to be sure I do have enough, so I usually do end up getting more than I needed.
@@thatmarchingarrow That's normal and I've no issues with it at all, I'd be the same. But I don't see why people will always boil a completely full kettle if they're only going ot use a fraction of it. It just aint right!
My partner and I will boil (electric) kettles of water for each other when the other one takes a hot bath, to give them a top-up when the bath starts to cool down
We bought one from Amazon (Comfee brand) about 1-1/2 years ago, and use it almost everyday in Texas. Either tea or boiling water for Ramens or other foods instead of boiling a large pot on the gas stove for small portions….it works great and even my 10 year old can use it!
I grew up with manuel brewed coffee and we always used our electric kettle to heat the water to pour onto the coffee powder. I still use this method today because it's way cleaner than a coffee machine, considering how often you have to clean those things, and for me the taste is way better. And because it boils water so quick, the electric kettle is great for cooking pasta type dishes. Just heat up the water in the kettle, pour it into your pot for your pasta and then turn on the stove. Saves so much energy and time
@@chexmixkitty my children boil the water in the kettle, put the ramen in a ceramic bowl and pour the water over it and then put a plate on top to let it “cook”. We don’t even use the stove or microwave at all as 123MeisterEder suggested.
@@123MeisterEder French press is also good, but requires a tiny bit cleaning. I've always done french press or pour-over, it's just as quick as a machine - but doesn't take up valuable space on the kitchen counters. A kettle is smaller, faster and can do far more.
Hi from the UK. Interesting stuff..my electric kettle here is 2500-3000W (230-240V supply). (Of course!) I use it a lot for making tea (and for making instant coffee)-but, like you, I also use it for boiling water for cooking pasta etc on the hob. Here, we have gas burners, electric hotplate or induction hobs. Most domestic ovens are electric (some large 'range'-style cookers may have gas ovens). Interestingly, I have some low voltage 120V 'mains' power tools that I use with a transformer (intended for construction site use).
I’m in Canada. Everyone I know with a kettle uses a dedicated electric kettle, despite us sharing the US’s 120v system. Mind you, everyone I know also has an electric stovetop too.
I live in Canada too and use the dedicated kettle. The sheer fact it can just set to a temp and hold for 30min is a bonus for my busy self/family. I have an induction range which can boil 250mL of water in like 30s on its boost mode.
Can't afford the kettles because of all the guns. Incidentally, bright pink magazine bolt action (possibly with a stripper clip capacity) in 30-06 are now available for the 7 year old girl in your life... And I am NOT kidding.. I loathe Inbredistan.
yea i'm used to seeing electric ones. My issue with them is cleaning, especially where the water is a bit harder the heating element gets limescale buildups or whatever. Honestly i chose to get the stovetop one cuz it kinda reminded me of old-timey.
I have an induction cooktop here in Australia and I thought I'd do a test run to see how long it took. The cooktop is rated for 3200W of continuous power on one "heating element", and boiling 1 litre of water took 2 minutes and 18 seconds.
Quite sure a the 3200w Induction will beat the 2000w Kettle. There is a lower limit on the Australasia residential power and induction is shockingly efficient. I guess it majorly helps to have the appropriate closed lid pot being used.
@@mickenzie5863 arround 45 meter above sea level, but he is using a cook top. He may be losing power, also how good is the boiler? Can it handle 3200w? My catle is from Philips with a plastic body
As a southerner, I beg to differ. We drink a lot of tea. We just tend to make a full pitcher's worth of iced sweet tea. We put it in the fridge so we make it less often. We're not normally fresh hot tea people. A lot of people also don't know how to make tea properly. A lot of people boil the water with the tea bags in the water instead of steeping it AFTER it's already hot. With that said, I've been trying to figure out an alternative to heating my water. So I'm glad I came across this video.
I live in europe, and just tested my electric kettle, which is very cheap and old. It took 2:30 minutes for it to boil 1 litre. I have now gained new appreciation for my appliance, i use it daily for cooking edit: mine also has adjustable temperature, great for teas
Just tested mine and it took 3 minutes and 8 seconds to boil the same amount that was used in the video (I also own sodastream). Mine is some cheap one too, but it's one of the fastest I've seen.
@@MultiCanis I have a rapid boiling Hobbs Luna you should look into it, it isnt that expensive either, i think 1L took around 2 minutes and 24 seconds :)
“Don't fill it to the rim” - yeah, that's a common problem-that-shouldn't-really-be-one. At our office's tea-kitchen we have a big kettle, and I often notice people doing this: *1.* empty any warm water that was in the kettle into the sink *2.* fill the kettle with, like, 2 litres of cold water *3.* use 200 ml of that for a cup of tea. We're approaching gas-stove levels of inefficiency there...
at one of my older jobs, we had this hot wand thing that looked like a metal stick, you sat it in the cup and it boiled your water. I liked that thing but it was old, I surely would not buy it with kids in the house... i dont even think they sell that anymore, but it was great cause no one wasted water.
Brit here. Some people still use the whistler gas-top kettle, but they are basically antiques. In any case, the calorific value of your gas supply, combined with the gas pressure and the gas burner nozzle configuration (amount of orifices, ring size, orifice sizes, and directions of flames) will all make a very large difference to the boiling time. But whatever you do, you still lose a heck of a lot of energy around and past the kettle. Which was not a bad thing in British winters and draughty cold houses. That's why many Brits used to stay in the kitchen.
Really cool to see the difference between us Europeans and Americans. i had no idea electric kettles are not very common in the US and also that they use 120V. Thanks for the info!
@@stephenlee5929no we use 240v, however if I remember correctly using two 120 phases to get 240 is sometimes done in 120v countries since that's what get supplied to the houses (two 120v phase). Here in Sweden we usually have three 230v phases + neutral I think If we used 120v it would be physically impossible to get three phase 380v power
Europeans have one wire with 220V or 230V. It's in the U.S. where we have two wires at 120V. They add up to 240V. So you can touch either wire and earth and get just a 120V shock. The only way to get a 240V shock is to be dumb enough to touch two 120V wires at once.
As a computer and other tech enthusiast in Russia I've always noticed the switch for 120/230V on the back of the power units for desktop computers, which is always covered with a protective sticker that voids your warranty if you damage it. Although manuals say that you will void your warranty if you plug it into a non-grounded power socket, but we don't have them in our old houses (and I think even in those few newly built modern houses the "ground" contact is often not connected to anything inside the wall), so... yeah. But electric kettles is a must here. We drink tea all the time. Although our parents believe the plastic is toxic (and sometimes this can be true, because there are LOTS of cheap kettles - and other stuff - imported from China, which is made from cheap plastic that has awful and very strong "chemical" smell that never goes away, and were lots of cases when cheap plastic toys imported from China were found to be made of toxic materials) so older people still prefer stove-top metallic kettles.
"It's just that so few people know to want them" exactly this! I bought a pink one on Amazon a few years ago and immediately realized what I had been missing. I boil water in it for everything now, including coffee water, pasta water, etc, and it's so much faster than stovetop. In the case of pasta water, I boil it then pour it into a pot on the stovetop and it remains hot and boils again within seconds
If you wanna be really clutch, put half an inch of water into the pot and heat it at the same time. Saves you a whole minute or two, but you have to figure out the heat setting
@@RegsaGC exactly what I do every time I have to boil pasta, rice or eggs. Then you can use the gaz stove with a minimal setting only to maintain boiling (still trying to explain my wife that boiling water is boiling water and that nothing will cook faster with gaz at max setting).
I have a whole process when I'm making pasta, I turn on the hot water tap into the sink (to be used for washing the dishes after the meal), once it's running hot I fill the kettle and turn it on, then fire up the stovetop, and fill the pot once the kettle boils. I've never actually verified how much time this saves, but with the amount of pasta I like to eat it definitely adds up, especially since here in Oz we also have 240v.
@@UthacalthingTymbrimi generally you don't want to drink water from the hot tap, the inside of a water heater can get quite disgusting. Disregard if you have a tankless water heater.
"Many of you will find this kettle to be obnoxiously slow." - Yeah, I went and tested mine and it boiled 1l in pretty much 2 minutes flat. Though yeah, I didn't get it for Tea, more for ramen, other instant stuff and hot-water bottles.
As a German living in Germany, I haven't seen any household without an electric water boiler. Yes, we do drink tea, even the coffee lovers. With about 230Volt coming out of the power socket and devices that take up to 2.400 W/h in, there is hardly more than 1,5 minutes till hot water. So of course we ask our guests if they'd like a cup of coffee or tea, and most of them don't drink coffee at night, and the tea is not actually from the tea plant, but dried greens or fruit teas.
Both my wife and I were stationed overseas in England around 20 years ago. Since moving back to the US we have always had an electric kettle. It's just so convenient. It gets used primarily for tea and French press coffee (we can set our kettle's temp, which is nice), with the occasional ramen here and there. I also use it to cheat when bringing water to boil on the stove because it's just so much faster. For example, for pasta I'll start a cup or two of water on the range, then boil about 1.5 liters in the electric kettle and add that to the pot when it's finished. So much quicker.
Yeah, the tea only thing is a stupid reasoning, most just don't buy specific electric coffee machines and use the kettle to drink insta coffee. Though for grain on home consumers don't know the preference between capsule, other machines, French, Italian or more pour over styles in our country.
@@0Clewi0 Coffee Capsules and single cup teabags are annoying wasteful packaging that increase the price per cup for no real benefit. Instant coffee, regular coffee and regular tea is better to buy in 1 lb bags, keep in a reusable jar and dose with a spoon.
@@johndododoe1411 I'm not talking of what's better, I drink 0 coffe, but I see capsules are still sold on supermarkets, so I'm sure they're consumed, besides percolated coffee isn't popular at all.
The kettle with the adjustable temperature is awesome, I chose mine where the minimum temperature is around the one you need for dried yeast. Awesome for baking!
Yeast (dried or fresh) doesn't need a minimum temperature. Yes, many recipes call for warm water, but the yeast doesn't care. It just grows slightly slower at lower temperatures and the dough will go to room temp quickly anyhow when kneading. So save yourself some energy and don't spoil your yeast.
A part of your 22% energy loss is the conversion of water to vapor (and yes, some water turns to vapor below the boiling point). The heat vaporization of water is 2,260 J/g, so some energy floats out the top as water vapor. It would be interesting to measure the mass of the water before and after to see how much is lost to evaporation.
Hmmmmm... One could decrease the vaporisation by increasing the boiling point. And in order to do that, the pressure in the pot needs to be increased, preferably by sitting on the lid. I guess it's worth an experiment?
My wife and I lived with an off grid electrical system when my mother gave us an electric kettle. I thought it was ridiculous, but tried it. Best house gift ever, and I will never go back to wasting a burner on heating water for coffee or tea.
I also live off the grid and boil the jug except in the worse days of winter, I also like using my toaster. Also thinking off dumping excess solar into a hot water cylinder, think I can get maybe 8 months of the year of basically free hot water, otherwise it will be from gas.
@@paulm.8660 Like a fridge that pumps heat out of the refrigerated space on the inside, and dumps it into the room, or a mini-split system that pumps energy out of or into the house depending on the time of year, heat pump water heaters take heat out of the room and put it into the water in the tank. Rheem/Ruud are one brand that I have used, but there are others.
I bought a cheap one to test to see how much I would use it, and OMG, I LOVE IT! Next round, getting a better one. I don't know how I lived without one. I use it for my soups, softening the dogs' food ( have seniors), and my cup of ramen or any noodles to cook up in the pot. It saves so much time.
This is the way with tools. If you don't know if you'll use a tool, buy a cheap one. If you hardly use it, it will be adequate. If you use it a lot, it will wear out or break. But now you know you'll get value from an expensive one.
If I need a very fast cup of hot water I have 3 options: one is the electric kettle, second is our automatic coffee machine (the draw back is that I have to wait for start up sequence, maybe 40or 50 seconds) and option 3 is the water dispenser machine (cold/hot/ room temperature). The water dispenser is the fastest one as it has a tank full with really hot water, periodiocally heated.
Interesting to hear induction stoves described as the “new hotness”, when I live in East Asia where they are extremely common. And surprising too since they are arguably much more suitable for western style cooking. Also I still remember the shock when I realised American hotels don’t have an electic kettle in the room! But I made instant ramen with a coffee maker which was fun.
You sure you are Scottish if you don't drink tea!? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm Irish, dealing with the cold and wet means the kettle is constantly going for tea (drink about 3-4 cups a day + 1 or 2 coffees) and for filling the hot water bottle! Bliss!
@@MoniiChanTheUnicorn Isnt it interesting how when it come to tea everybody thinks about england while number one tea drinking country is Turkey and number two is Ireland. God bless my irish brothers and sisters we need to beat England much more XD They not eve close bruh yet again....
Thank you so much for an entertaining and informative video. The maths section was great and I never knew about the Joules/Watt relationship before. Now time to switch on my kettle and make a nice cuppa! Cheers
As an American tea drinker, I've used an electric kettle since I first discovered them. So much easier, for a large number of reasons - volume and safety being the top two.
@@piecesoftheheart9231 Yes, my (non-English) girlfriend at the time found the expression on my face hilarious! It was at this point I realised the relationship was doomed.
@@jonboy602 sounds about right. If you order "tea" in a restaurant here, a lot of them will assume you mean iced tea, unless you say "hot tea". You still need hot water to make good iced tea, though.
I use my eletric kettle 3 times a day, one for coffe and two times for tea after work, hell I use it in cooking aswell if I am feeling lazy waiting for the pot to boil, greatest invention.
I use a moka pot to make coffee, and I still run the water through the kettle before adding it to the pot. But then I'm Australian. We're weird in plenty of ways but not in the way of somehow not having heard of an electric kettle.
I live in the US and use an electric tea kettle once in the morning, then pour the boiling water into a Bunn Airpot so we can use the hot water all day without using additional electricity. 👍
Yeah, I lived in Japan for several years, and that sold me on electric kettles (and bidets lol), They're ridiculously better in terms of speed, convenience, and efficiency than using the stovetop or the microwave. Oh, and Japan is 100V, so there ya go.
Same here, but despite living here for 20+ years straight, I still can't bring myself to use those bidets. I do enjoy the warm seats (and you can choose the temperature!) and the noise button. The electric kettle is a marvel in practicality though.
@@chrisitzsimple4649 I would assume they should. The plugs are the same, albeit non-polarized, and most other Japanese-market stuff works in the US (though if they're grounded, you might need an adapter to screw the ground into). Not sure why you would want a Japanese one though. The US ones are cheap and work fine.
I've been cooking on an induction hob here in the UK since 1994...It's fantastic and MORE controllable than gas. You don't get the hot spots you get with gas hobs. They tend to heat more evenly over the base of the pan.
I think kettles are probably the most universal kitchen appliance in the UK. I’ve moved into flats that didn’t have a microwave or a freezer, but every single one had a kettle
Recently I went to a specialized camping accessories store and there I found a 12V (yes, twelve) kettle, the packaging literally said "boils 1 liter in 35 minutes". So you thought 120V is slow, huh?
I have a theory that instant coffee was so popular in the UK as we had kettles for tea and so we could use the same thing to make coffee. Growing up in the eighties I didn't really know there was anything other than instant coffee. When i first realised Americans have coffee makers I thought that sounded very posh and fancy!
Oh wow! I never though about how coffee makers were viewed elsewhere. I am an American that switched to tea a few years ago, and looking back, the coffee maker is just so ridiculous because once you use it for coffee for the first time, that's really all you can use it for after that. Getting hot but not boiling water with a slight coffee flavor for the rest of its useful life is not ...great. The Keurig was a revelation, but its also just disastrous on the environment. I much prefer my kettle which I use for everything, and yes, I also use it for instant coffee. If I really want a good cup of coffee, I can always use the kettle and whip out the French press.
Yeah, and even if we have a filter coffee maker, it's not used every day - and unless you are at home and drink endless cups, once a pot has been made for some time and the coffee is 'stewed' (as we call it), it tastes awful! Mine only got used when lots of visitors came around, as it freed up the kettle for the tea! Now I'm on my own, it's either good quality instant (Kenco) or I use a fresh coffee in a cafetiere (plunger-type coffee pot) - which still needs the kettle!
Don't they still make coffee bags that work just like tea bags? I'd think that would be the perfect thing for anyone who doesn't like instant and doesn't want to maintain a coffee maker. I, on the other hand, have always been fine with instant.
instant coffee took off over in asia for this vary reason. Culturally the act of brewing team is more similar to instant coffee than any other method of brewing coffee, so makes a certain about of sense. There have been reasonable drinkable instant coffees for a decade or more, at least far superior in quality than much of the brewed coffee many are used to.
"It's because we don't drink tea every day." Yup. The moment my wife became a daily tea drinker we got a pretty decent electric kettle with a timer, temp setting, the whole shebang. Didn't cost too much and made her morning tea much easier to make.
Me an my partner both started drinking tea after I realized daily coffee was giving me health problems, and I love my kettle. It's not even fancy, just a boily-poury-thingy. I use it for tea and ramen and hot cocoa and my hot water bottle and sanitizing stuff. It's just a great appliance.
@Samuel Blackwood Careful, sir. "Tea is a big NO for those who suffer from kidney stones. This is because tea has very high oxalate content and oxalic acid aid in the forming of kidney stones. So, does tea cause kidney stones? The answer is yes, drinking too much tea can lead to the formation of kidney stones." A coworker who drank tea a lot got them in his bladder. Unique pain from ultrasonic treatment, he said.
@@bansheedearg I say "tea", but most of what I drink is fruit/herbal infusions in hot water, like apple cinnamon, peppermint, rose hips, or citrus peels. (And that same article you're quoting says that *green* tea doesn't have this effect, only black tea. Well, and "iced tea" by which I assume they mean iced black tea.) Black tea is part of my rotation, mostly in the mornings for the caffeine, but where nutrition is concerned it's usually unhealthy to consume a lot of any one thing regardless of what it is.
Growing up in the USA we heated our house with wood burning stoves. One upstairs, one downstairs. Kettles were on both to add moisture to the air. As a bonus, there was always hot water for all needs. At least for 7 months a year.
My family also did this. We lived in an old house with a large wood burning cast iron stove. The stock pot full of steaming water was essential during the winter time. I miss those days. It used to smell so good in the house. I love the smell of burning wood.
I worked in an office where there was a “boiling water” dispenser that wasn’t actually hot enough for tea, so people would heat their water in the microwaves. It didn’t take very long for a superheated water explosion to happen. No one was hurt, but it was quite a shock to the person it happened to.
I didn't know it's possible, if you don't want it. Prove me if i'm wrong, but to overheat water, you need a distilled water, which isn't as easy to get as tap water. Tap water has lots of minerals (often intentionally. Afaik Norway or Iceland used "soft" water [without minerals], and they started to suffer from heart diseases, so then they intentionally added calcium, and other minerals to the water) so regular tap water should boil without any problem, especially if you put a teabag inside before boiling
@@redve390 I guess that preheating the water removes dissolved gasses, removing nucleation points for the boiling to start. I have once made a water explosion in a slightly different way. By boiling water in a cup in the microwave; forgetting about it, so that half the water had boiled over; refilling the cup with half cold water; then boil it again in the microwave oven. I guess that the cold water cool down the walls of the cup, while the hot water was in the middle, allowing it to be super heated, without touching the nucleation points on the walls. I have never been able to recreate it, so it was a fluke accident.
@@redve390 some people have a thing for bottled water and some bottled water seems to be filtered too good. =) so I would expect the super heated water to happen to those. I once had water instantly boil after I put the teabag in (after microwaving it of course), I guess it was due to the water being too soft in that area. =)
I have to say, I'm not a tea drinker (or even a coffee drinker), but I get so much use out of an electric kettle, it feels bizarre to me to say that just cause you don't drink tea it's not something you'd want. If you're doing instant ramen, or making hot chocolate, or porridge, or you just want some warm water, an electric kettle serves you well.
Or even boiling potato's, put a bit of water in the pot and the rest in the kettle and let the kettle do the heavy lifting to get the water up to temperature
In my family, when we make instant ramen it's like 3 packets at once. Doing it on the stove in a single pot feels like much less hassle than boiling water in a kettle and then pouring it over 3 different bowls, covering them, mixing them in, etc. We also tend to mix in some veggies or an egg or cheese slices (I'm Indian; we do strange things to instant ramen) - which is also easier in a pan, vs in 3 bowls. Hot chocolate usually involves melting actual chocolate, and heating up milk - neither of which is particularly convenient in a kettle. Especially cleaning it after boiling milk in it. It's a lot less hassle to just throw whatever water-to-milk ratio you like and broken up chocolate into a pot. Porridge isn't all that common - but it usually involves milk _or_ spices. Neither of which I particularly want to clean from inside a kettle either. Also, I would make them < once a week, even with all 3 combined. It's just not worth the space on my counter top for that ... The only folks in India who have a kettle are people who regularly drink warm water (tea involves heating up milk and spice; so most tea drinkers don't use a kettle either) or people who live in dorms that don't allow cooking equipment.
@@whydoineedanameiwillneverp7790most people don’t make a bunch of ramen together. Also if you cook pasta at all, or use hot water in any of your cooking like making stews or blanching vegetables or whatever, a kettle is the easiest way to get the water up to temperature.
I was gifted an induction cooktop for building a kitchen for the owners of a high end kitchen appliance distributor. This was when induction was pretty much unknown. I used to impress my clients demonstrating the fast performance boiling a kettle with a piece of paper between the kettle and element. It was an impressive demonstration with the kettle boiling faster than the electric one without burning the paper.
That would be because the cooker is running at 240v for a guess? My kettle is still faster than my induction cooker, as we have 240v to the kettles here.
YES PLEASE to an 'indoor Air Quality' episode! I recently bought a CO2 sensor and am fascinated about the health implications of good/bad indoor air quality. Thanks!
@@Craxin01 crikey it's just a bit of co2 and water vapor, nothing to get worried about. I mean you live in a house with other animals that are all outputting co2 too. it's part of oxidation.
@@KairuHakubi No, it's not "just" a bit of CO2. Gas stovetops output carbon monoxide into your home. You should NEVER use a gas stove without a carbon monoxide detector in your kitchen. You really, really should always run a stove hood fan that vents to the outdoors. Gas stoves and ovens also introduce nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde into your home. Seriously. You need to run a hood that vents fumes outside literally every single time you cook with gas.
@@DonOblivious uh.. no. not unless your gas vents are clogged or there's something else super wrong with your burner. the carbon monoxide output is beyond minimal. This all sounds like california hooey.
I've had the same110v electric kettle for 20 years, and kids/teens love using it to cook. I use filtered water only. Plus I have a gas stove! It's just easier to fill 1 cup in the electric kettle. And I've never owned a coffee pot. I'm in Nevada!
I’m Indian American and when you said electric kettles aren’t common in the US I was totally shocked. Even in college every classmate I knew had an electric kettle- so I just assumed everyone had one? But really intriguing to learn about how different things are!
@@Sara-L ???? How in the HECK is this an infomercial?!?! I have no idea what you’re intending to say and maybe you should reply to every comment on this video then instead of JUST mine.
I never had seen one till I was an adult and left the states. I have lived and visited multiple states. I had only seen coffee specific electric kettles. Before I boiled water in microwaves or on the stovetop.
@@ruthgroves509 ramen literally got me through college (not just cause the food on campus tasted awful and was super expensive)- electric kettles+ramen=perfection!
I'm from the UK, England, but spent 2 years living in the US. When getting there, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't surprised to find virtually nobody used electric kettles. And being used to a whopping 3 kilowatt kettle at home, which took less than 4 minutes to boil a 'FULL 1.7 litre of water, well, the 7 minutes to boil 1 litre (or Liter for you guys) on their stove top and traditional kettle all but drove me mental. I did notice though, that apart from me, nobody really used a kettle anyway, as nobody really drank tea. Thus began the comments from my friends "oh, are you having a nice spot of tea darling" (said in a Downton Abbey brand of English). So you know what they say; "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!", so I switched to coffee, and after say a year of drinking coffee instead, it answered a lifelong mystery for me. Which was... 'Why are our American cousins so darn happy and flamboyant compared to your average Brit?' The answer now was obvious, because I too found myself in the same condition. You're all stoked and high on the effects of caffeine!!! 🤣😂☕
*Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 6th 1774)* "I believe I forgot to tell you one anecdote: When I first came to this house it was late in the afternoon, and I had ridden 35 miles at least. _"Madam"_ said I to Mrs. Huston, _"Is it lawfull for a weary traveller to refresh himself with a dish of tea provided it has been honestly smuggled, or paid no duties?"_ "No sir, said she, _"We have renounced all tea in this place. I cant make tea, but he make you coffee."_ Accordingly I have drank Coffee every afternoon since, and have borne it very well. *Tea must be universally renounced. I must be weaned, and the sooner, the better."* There is an argument that can be made, _historically,_ that coffee over here actually has palpable patriotic values. There are a ton of letters and observations made from the revolution concerning coffee. The founding fathers drank the stuff day in and day out, and at one point basically substituted tea completely with it for years. I'm convinced it impacted them when it came to their work. So you're not too far off with your coffee observation, but I would suggest that it actually is something deeper and culturally relevant. As for the kettles. This whole video has been a learning experience. Picked-up an electric one several years ago, never gave it a second thought. I have seen them in other places I've visited, but I will agree they're not everywhere. Maybe they have more adoption and purchases in different parts of the country?
"high on effects of caffeine"???...no There's this thing called chemical tolerance. If you consume it all the time, you barely notice the effects, so you need more. Who gets "high" on caffeine?.. talk about being a lightweight.
I don’t get the difference between 4 and 7 minutes: both are “walking away to do something else while you wait” time spans. I lived in the UK for 16 years, had a kettle when I moved back to Germany, but fairly quickly put it away - I prefer having fewer items on the countertops, and boiling water in a little milk pot on the stove works fine for me. It’s an induction stove to be fair, but I don’t think that’s it: I think it’s the milk pot that solves it. The size and the handle make it comfortable to pour the hot water - don’t really care how long it takes to boil.
@@peterbelanger4094 I agree. I started drinking coffee only recently (like 6 years ago, or so). I can't say I am "happier" or "high on caffeine" now, compared to before. It may have a very short-term effect, but people claiming to need coffee to wake up in the morning are just lying to themselves, imo. Want to wake up in the morning? Ride a bike to work. There's nothing that wakes you up better than having a -20 degrees celsius gust of wind blowing in your face. And after that, you REALLY need coffee (or tea) to warm you up again. :D
@@mm9773 I kinda get what you mean, but my routine is put on some water to boil, go take a leak, and when I come back in approx 3 minutes its finished. If it took 7 minutes it wouldn't be done when I came back. Not the end of the world, but it's a convenience I'm all too used to.
@@necroseus what a strange comment. You make an assumption based on no information and then choose to use your self-generated negative story to compel you to make a negative comment. I'm sorry you're having a hard time. But there is no need to rub it all over internet strangers. Good luck out there.
@@stevenjacobs2750 I did do that, yes. I suppose this comment was is pretty bad taste, sorry about that. I was trying to be funny while also commenting on my dislike of these types of kennels due to chemical leeching. Rereading it, I realize that this was pretty directly an insult to a nice gift you've given :I. Whoops Have a good day, I promise I'm not derranged xD
After visiting Japan we discovered countertop on-demand hot water boilers (we call it a Zojirushi but that's just the brand name). It keeps your water at or near boiling until you need it. To avoid being too wasteful, there's a timer so you just run it during waking hours. But I can tell you, having water at 195F on-demand is absolutely fantastic. I will never go back.
I'm in Ukraine, and having a boiler is how you get hot water, generally... at least in my city most people installed them in 2000s because hot water was both expensive, and not that hot, and often didn't work. So our TAPS have 90+ degree hot water, from the boiler. Big ones 60-100 liters for bathroom, generally, and sometimes smaller ones for kitchen. Oh and the one I have keeps water warm enough for hot bath even after 2 days of no electricity as I learned when russians destroyed a power station near my city with a long range cruise missile.
My Asian friends tell me about this and I want one so bad. We have a kettle but it’s not good at keeping the water hot/warm for a long time and I often boil large amounts of water for the morning.
I remember the first time that I used an induction stove with "Boost" to boil water: it was so fast that I was literally scared. It felt like the bottom of the pan had opened up a portal directly to hell and was being heated by the joyous warmth of pure sin. ;-)
After watching this video back in June, I actually bought that "hunk of plastic" Walmart Mainstays kettle and honestly, it's been a real handy thing in the kitchen. Hot water for instant coffee, instant noodles, disinfecting sponges and what-have-you, it's pretty easy to set it, let it run, and then come back when you hear the "click" of the switch reset. Haven't noticed the time it takes for the water to boil, mainly because I leave it and then come back. And with this "heatwave" we've been having since late June, it's nice to not need to heat up the whole kitchen to make some ramen when it's 105F (~41C) outside.
@@therewasoldcringe That face when Liberia, Myanmar and the United States are still the only countries in the world stubborn enough to only use freedom units as the official unit of measurement 😐
plastic kettles are nice but water gets contaminated with plastic starting at 30°C (86F°). Imagine the cocktails of chemicals in the boiling water are 100°C (212°F). There are kettles with metal tank but the ones that are only plastic are a big no.
@@V.D.22 Doesn't it depend on type of plastic? It's not a PET bottle that will melt at 100 °C. In Europe there are plenty of plastic kettles adn I never heard that they are bad for your health. The added benefit is better insulation so less heat is required to boil the water compared to metal one and you won't get burned as easily.
@@jan.tichavsky it's true, the danger of BPA and phtalates being released from 30°C and up is for PET. Other plastics are more durable, but I still don't trust them. They are still plastics made from petroleum and other chemicals that are released gradually as the temperatures rise. From what I read, plastic should not touch hot foods or fat foods.
Hey! I deleted a couple of things from this script which I shouldn't have. I've made a follow-up video on Connextras which includes them and more! Here's a link, but you can also expand this comment for a quick run-down.
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*Coffee makers.* That's what we use. And since they'll make hot water, too (so long as you don't put coffee in them) many people will also use them for making other hot beverages. Some coffee makers are better than others for that, though. I would imagine that as soon as the percolator became popular, we got hooked on coffee and never went back. Also;
Microwaves. That also works! It seems to offend the more British among you (and some other folks get freaked out by the slim possibility of superheated water) but if you want a single cup of tea, nuking a mug full of water for about two minutes will in fact bring it to a boil. Energy is energy, and water is water!
While it works in a pinch using a microwave to boil water makes tea taste odd, thats why people get "offended" by the idea.
I do t get how this can be unless there is something in the water it’s just heated. That said coffee maker water tastes like coffee and is rarely above 80c. Okay for green in a pinch but I’m a tea snob.
So, I did some cursory googling (love verbifying nouns) and, take this with a grain of salt, as my source is a "Slate" article but:
"The longer water boils, the more dissolved oxygen it loses-and tea experts say that dissolved oxygen is crucial for a bright and refreshing brew."
As well as:
"Microwaved water can also be taken to several degrees above boiling if heated for too long (which is impossible in a kettle, because the metallic surface prevents overheating). Such ultra-hot water destroys desired aromatic compounds and elicits an excess of astringent, bitter notes by overcooking the leaves"
So...maybe microwaving water MAY have an effect on the taste of tea, but it looks more dependent on the temperature.
Something to keep in mind, maybe 🤔
The sass in this one was a delight.
And my desire to rid myself of a gas burner has only gotten higher. Not the point of the video, I know, but I was already sold on kettles.
"slim possibility of superheated water" .. yep, might be a slim chance, but it's happened to me once, so I avoid the chance of a second water bomb now. It's not fun.
Kettles may theoretically be faster, but I usually just boil a large pot of water on the stove top,and then freeze it for later use.
This made me lol.
Perfect.
That is sooo American!
Nice.
Genious..
For me as a German, those stove-top kettles look like an antique relic, something you might find at your grandma's house, while electric kettles are the modern equivalent.
its also shocking to me that most american households only have 1500w per plug compared to 3500w for most of our german/european households
I'm actually beginning to view electric kettles as old-fashioned since I have a boiling water tap 😀 (a Quooker).
@@MogTheLynxUnfortunately that's the downside of running on 120V.
and the best is the sestence: "Induction stoves are the new hotness"
As a Brit', Stovetop (or Hob) Kettles are a reassuring back up, for whenever the electric one isn't working.
After all: you can boil a Hob Kettle on basically anything that's hot, yet if there's a power failure or the device is due for de-limescaling, the E-Kettle isn't much use.
If anythings worth doing, it's worth having several ways of doing it 😉 .
I haven't had tea in years, still use my electric kettle all the time for cup noodles and coffee and because i'm too lazy to wait for a saucepan to boil water for pasta so I put pre-boiled water.
It's not lazy, it's sensible if it means you're using less energy overall.
Pour over coffee, I needed a quicker way to do slow coffee.
Exactly! I drink tea maybe once a month, yet use the kettle to preheat water for so many things in the kitchen! Making pour-over coffee, cooking pasta, steaming dumplings, heating up hot dogs (you can guess where I'm from). All of that uses hot water.
I feel like everyone failed to realise how much cheaper 1kW of gas is (or rather was) than a 1kW of electrical energy... According to data i found online, in the city i live in, in January 2022 the cost of boiling water would be similar, even with that huge loss of energy when we boil water with gas.
Years ago i thought about how when i was a kid we didn't use electric kettle because it was more expensive than boiling water with gas, my parents counted that. Which led me to point, what a failure, or just screwing people over with bills that is. burning gas in gas power plant is surely way efficient than burning it yourself, yet... here we are >.<
i hope my comment makes sence, i can try to explain if someone didn't get it :v
@@KulegaRycha I’ve read that like 6 times and still have no idea what your trying to say lol.
Found myself with a few dull moments to spare, so thought I’d time ours (UK). Rolling boil in 2.02. No one asked for this information, but here it is anyway. Another enjoyable watch, thanks!
Ours is probably about the same . Salford uk
Did the same, around 2m near London.
American here I had an expensive kettle that would boil the water in the same amount of time. It was really cool because it was clear glass and had a pretty blue light that shined up into the kettle. It lasted 4 months and stopped working. I bought a cheap black plastic Black and Decker kettle for $19 it takes close to 4 minutes to boil but I've had it for 6 years. I use it for tea, French press coffee, instant mashed potatoes, Stove Top Stuffing, ramen noodles, instant soups, hot chocolate and for hot holiday drinks. BTW I have had an electric kettle since my first year of college in 1978.
@@lennybuttz2162 I have one of those made by Sunbeam, been using it for the last 7 plus years.
Hah, same. Kinda had to check just to be certain but yeah, the math checks out since UK has twice as many volts.
For those wondering, being a European, owning a kettle, a sodastream, and an induction stove top, I thought I'd repeat the experiment with those.
Here are the numbers for reaching boiling point for a sodastream worth of water:
240V kettle: 2:13
3 phase induction stove top at max setting: 2:38
So in fact, a 240-land kettle is still faster than an induction stove top. I suspect not all those 3 phases are pumped into the stovetops themselves, but are rather used for the stove part.
Australian here also 240V, SMEG kettle rated 2000-2400W
905g water when filled just above the line of our sidastream bottle.
Time to the start of a rolling boil
2:42
I'm going to try to remember to do this when the sun is up and my solar panels are producing as I'm convinced they pull up the voltage...
Did you put a lid on the pot you put on your induction stove?
Our induction stove is 3200W per burner on a 32A 230v supply. It’s pretty quick. I’m going to measure it because it’s notably faster than our old kettle was!
I can't speak for how the power distribution is in combined ovens and cooktops, but if they are connected separately, the oven will be single-phase while the cooktop is three-phase.
My induction cooker in boost mode beats a 240V SMEG kettle if none of the rest of the cooker is in use, but only by a few seconds. I expect a cheaper kettle that doesn't have variable temperature features might win.
I went to Europe about 8 years ago. All of the hotels had electric kettles with instant coffee and tea. When I came home to Montana, I went to Walmart and purchased an electric kettle. I was amazed at how fast they boil water compared to a stove-top kettle. I have one at work and one at home, excellent tool!
Sure it is induction? I see no reason to push electronic energy in a magnetic field to induct a circular current in a fixed boiler setting
I would guess it’s a resistor with a cover.
@@DrMarcArnoldBach You're probably correct. It likely has an element under the plate. *Edited my original comment. :)
And they sell portable ones. Silicon tops that fold for traveling.
Same. One at home, one at work. So convenient and fast.
Welcome to the future
This man literally watched water boil for us several times. He’s truly a man of the people
He is a man of the people, truly a communist.
And we watched him to it for our entertainment!
I just let it boil away and just pour water in the pot to rehydrate it.
Next he'll watch paint dry
“They” 🤣 just kidding
Great presentation of energy and calculations. I have a Breville 240V / 2400W electric Kettle here in Australia where is Power input measured at 2440W. It boils 1L water from 20 DegC measured to 100 DegC in 2 min 32 Sec (152 sec). Calculated works out to 137.2 Sec. So only about 15 sec loss of efficiency in heating up the element plate in the bottom and the plastic casing. Power used calculates to 93Wh. This particular kettle has 5 selectable temperatures from 80 to 100Deg C for Green Tea, White Tea, Dolong, Coffee and Black Tea. A great Kettle.
I'm Australian. Our main use of an electric kettle is not for making tea. It's just for boiling water. It can be used for everything. If you need to cook some pasta and are in a rush then just boil the water in the kettle before moving it to a pot on the stove, and so on.
Also, love your videos :)
I was thinking about that during this like hmm this damn doo hickey might make great pasta
@@carsonwilliamsjust makes the heating the water much quicker. Doesn't cook pasta. Probably 3 to 4 times quicker to heat up water, most kettles can boil up to half a gallon. Cheap ones cost $10 Australian. So maybe $7 US.
Doing the same :)
What a waste of time.
We're, here in Russia, cook sausages in them, someone's even cooking an entire soup (mainly a students)
I remember in college somebody had a "tea wand"- which was basically just the heating element from an electric kettle on a wall plug. You just stuck it in a mug and plugged it in. The water was hot almost instantly.
And yes- that means it was both a fire and an electrocution hazard at the same time.
Great video as always.
We use those in labs in college to heat up water.
The great thing about something working super fast is you're not tempted to leave it unattended.
I've seen these in 12v version with cigarette port on it. No overheat protection nor fuse! Lovely 👌
I remember ladies at work had those, back in the '70s. The company provided coffee, in big industrial coffee pots ... but some wanted something a little more, um, "refined" I guess.
I used to have one of those! It was very convenient, and small enough to be portable, allowing me to have hot coffee or instant soup anywhere with an electrical outlet.
“More power to them.” This is the kind of humour I come to this channel for.
The absolute deadpan delivery almost convinced me it wasn't an intentional joke. And then he just let it steep for a good few seconds.
I laughed so hard when that happened... Like... More than anyone should've.
@@metonymic896 LET IT STEEP I see you, that was good
I literately let out an exasperated gasp out through my nose.
I personally laughed so hard at the "One fun thing about this universe" part.
Here in the UK, and probably also in Europe, a new-ish kitchen gadget is a boiling water outlet by the kitchen sink. It works by using an in-line element that instantly heats water when you turn on the tap. It is efficient as it only boils exactly the amount of water you want to use. It also keeps the kitchen cooler. They are expensive to install, but with energy costs spiralling, they will probably pay for themselves over a year or two, not to mention the time saving.
Interesting. They must draw a hellacious amount of power. Any idea?
@@gsadow . Apparently they are easy to install, only need a convenient power outlet and can heat the 3 litre insulated tank in about 10 minutes from 240Volts. If you just draw one cup of water, the tank refills so it is ready within seconds. The most well-known brand is Quooker, which is Dutch.
I imagine the biggest advantage is that you don't have to boil a kettle for hot drinks,
cooking pasta, etc., so they are time saving.
And also you only use enough energy to heat the exact amount of water you need,
@@curmudgeon1933 Here's a novel thought...just boil the amount of water you need for a brew.
@@bp8339 . Having an electric kettle, that is what I do. In houses or offices with many people making hot drinks at different times, it might make sense to install one so for speed and convenience the kettle wasn't being constantly filled, heated, then 15 minutes later, had to be heated from cold...it was just an alternative option.
In our old apartment we had replaced a standard electric cooktop with an induction one (here in Ireland it's not considered that new of a hotness), and it was *phenomenal*. Ridiculously fast and remarkably easier-to-clean than its visually-identical predecessor (presumably because it doesn't get as hot itself). We have since moved to a house with a gas cooktop (and no electric point suitable for an induction one... yet...) and we miss the induction one dearly. I also vote for content about induction cooktops ^_^
I have an induction cooktop in my little apartment (not even a proper stove, just a single cooktop for one pot or pan) and it is almost frightening how quickly it heats a pot or pan.
Yess! In my student housing in the Netherlands i had to share my kitchen with 13 others. So naturally I opted for making a kitchen top in my room with the induction top from ikea! Honestly so much better than gas and less dangerous and easily cleaned!
My fiancee was irish national and loved induction stoves. I personally prefer gas and we had many a heated discussion over who was wrong (she was). 😇
Please oh please. Induction cooktops are great
Induction (not regular resistive-heating glass ceramic first shown in the video, but the good second one!) is absolutely the way to go, it should be practically mandatory for everyone to get it - it's just so good. As a European as well, I've had induction cooktops for several years and I couldn't go back to anything else.
I just can't imagine living without an electric kettle, and still don't understand how people in US can even live without it. It's not just for tea, also coffee, hot chocolate, instant noodles, instant oats, home bubble tea, for cleaning dishes (or softening hardened food in pot/pan, softening old mugs), for cooking pasta (add boiling water to the pot is quicker than waiting for the stove), etc. I can boil a litre in 1 min 40 seconds. It's just incredibly useful and versatile. The thought that I'd have to wait around 6 minutes for a stove kettle that doesn't even turn auto off is mind numbingly ridiculous.
we have a smaller version in the USA we use quite a lot called a HOT SHOT. It quickly boils enough water for a large cup of coffee, instant soup tea, or instant oats, etc.
We have electric kettles. I have two, actually, plus a regular stovetop one (gooseneck for pourover coffee). I suppose most Americans don’t drink tea, but plenty of us do.
@@dewilew2137 I think more and more Americans are "slowly" switching to tea. Coffee is getting too rough for my stomach. I like Red Rose and Yorkshire
Imagine one day they discover Metric system… everything being N * 10 larger / smaller easy to use, calculate and name
:-D when i moved into flat (i'm living in now) i purchased nice red (:-D) stovetop kettle. Used it (may be) 3 times? :-D Just was not worth the waiting. I excused myself from my old electric kettle and plugged it back in ASAP. :-)
Here in Germany we have at least one electric kettle in every household. And not only that, we have them in every hotel room, office, break rooms at work, literally everywhere. And it is very common knowledge that these things not just bring water to a boil faster than anything you can put on a stove but that they save a lot of energy.
Pretty much the same here in Australia 🇦🇺
As someone living in middle America I don't think I've ever seen a kettle electric or the metal one 😂now coffee/espresso makers Is a different story.
As in the same in Ireland
Same in Israel we have 2 (useful in the winter)
We have a puck coffee machine that also acts a hot water dispenser. In my experience American offices have some form of electric hot water dispenser. It’s homes that are the problem in my experience. I use a kettle in my home.
As German I use the kettle each day for tea and instant coffee but as well for nuddle water, potato's water. It is much faster then using the pot. Later on ongoing cooking as usual with pot. Our 230v net of course has much more power, 2000W is the standard size.
You mean Noodle
@@stephensnell5707 Why correct someone's spelling when you clearly know that they are not a native English speaker to begin with? He wrote "As a German".
You speak English because it's the only language you understand, and we Europeans speak English because it's the only language that you understand.
Don't be that nitpicking dude going "Well *Ackchyually*" (And yes that is spelled "Actually", I just needed to make that clear as you might think that it's not purposefully misspelled...)
English here... glad you mentioned using the kettle to fill a pot to then boil for pasta etc. Yes we do drink tea... but... we use the kettle just as much for getting water hot for cooking and then transferring to a pan.
You have already paid to heat
Your water fill the kettle with
Hot water from the tap boils
In halve the time.
@@dennisfraser6896 Remind me never to have a shower at your house.
@@dennisfraser6896 I’m expat living in China…, ukk. Never. Not even back home in UK would 8 drink tap water without boiling. Sorry. I use a kettle every day for drinking and cooking. Fast and efficient.
@@dennisfraser6896 Only if you have a hot water tank.
@@honey23b2 this! I live in Australia, yes the tap water is safe to drink here but how could you tolerate the taste? Cold boiled water just tastes much better.
After a couple weeks in the UK I immediately added one of these to my kitchen when I got home. I also gave up coffee which jacked up my stomach and am now a yorkshire gold fanboy. Couldn't imagine not having an electric Kettle handy now.
Such a perfectly balanced comment.
@@zierlyn today we are going to exploit the boiling point of water!
My wife would be proud of you... She swears by Yorkshire Tea. I'm more a traitor to the UK as I drink coffee.
Yorkshire Tea is very very good, did you ever try Rington's Tea from a little further north? It is my favourite, but I am biased as I come from there. :)
It was funny how he talked about cooking and cleaning with hot water. If you're English, there is only one use for a kettle and that's making a cup of tea. I make about ten cups a day and if it took 8 minutes rather than 2 to boil a kettle that would waste an hour a day.
12:29 - The Blue LEDs are very handy for my mostly deaf father whenever he’s making tea, couldn’t hear a whistle to save his life but he can see when the LEDs turn off.
his complaint is with the blue part, not the light part (it's come up in previous videos). Blue light is harsh and especially annoying in the dark, which is why it's poorly suited for small screens/indicator lights that stay on overnight. In the kettle, it's (probably) purely an aesthetic annoyance
well, in EU, they sell pretty cheap electric kettles in Lidl with different colors for different temperatures too.
50°C is green
70°C blue
80°C purple
90°C lime
100°C red
If he's already looking at the kettle, I think he can tell the water's boiling.
If he's not looking at the kettle, the LEDs aren't going to help.
also the kettles turn off when the water is boiling automatically
Lights as indicators in addition to sound certainly make tools more inclusive, but I do think there's a more elegant way to do it that isn't harsh to the eyes. Blue LEDs are just unpleasant when used like this. For a kettle without specific temperatures that just boils, I think a cyan LED for for heating and red for ready would be better than the one shown in this video.
Enjoyable video. I’m from Australia, where just about every house has a kettle…I went to the US for the first time in 2023 (East coast), and again this year (West coast), and I was perplexed by the lack of kettles in homes and stores. I rarely drink tea, but I do make my own espresso with a portable espresso maker, for which I need to boil water, so I bought my own kettle whilst there. Espresso, or lack thereof, is another US oddity, as most people over there seem to drink drip filter coffee, whereas I would suggest espresso based drinks are by far the most popular caffeine beverages here in Australia.
Thank you! I'm a Water Boil any% speedrunner and I was really frustrated with the lack of routing comparisons. Implementing this in future runs!
LOL checkedd your profile and you are an actual speed runner 😆
Wouldn’t it be the Boil% category of the game “water?” I’ve been running the Freeze% category for awhile now and implementing a BLJ from the sink to the freezer is my newest time save - set a PB with that trick!
I'd suggest this method, and in a vacuum chamber. I haven't seen any RTA attempts, but good luck with runs!
Underrated comment.
I'd suggest a propane or oxy-aceteline torch in a "pot" made of tungsten.
It's expensive as all get out, but that's the cost of holding a world record.
I have a kettle, but use it for stuff like coffee, pasta, ramen, hot dogs Etc. basically it gets to the boil far quicker than on a stove.
Yeah i wanna know how americans make coffiee since i use a kettle for it too
@@saen2755 Coffee machines. A Mr. Coffee style one is fairly traditional. Keurig style is the new way.
aren't you a known racist Larry?
If I need a big pot of boiling water, I put 1/4 of the water in the pot on the electric stove - max heat. Then I boil the other 3/4 in the electric kettle.
excuse me. hot dogs? wouldn't that make the kettle taste odd from the hot dog water. even if you pour it out i would still think it would leave a lasting taste
Dude from Germany here! Never thought of someone not having an electric kettle out there, boiling small portions of water using a stove is something you will usually never do here (needs more power and time). Boiling water with a kettle takes just up to an minute (230V mains voltage)
yeah same here (netherlands). Never realized the usa does not have this in every home. Now I know and I know why :) Great video.
I don’t hardly ever need to boil water. I think the difference is that in the USA we don’t have a spot of hot tea as a daily normal thing. I drink iced tea which I make in a larger quantity at a time. Coffeemakers take care if the coffee brewing. Microwave can heat a cup of water very quickly as well. Just different social customs.
in hungary everybody have kettle but nobody use it. and to make a cup of hot water we use microwave.
@@denmar355 It is not just tea. Even if you are just cooking things (noodles or potatoes), many people here start with this kettle, because it is almost instant hot. And a microwave is not as fast as this one. A microwave is good for a cup. If you do more, it's wasted energy and time.
You also forgot that Americans cook less than in Europe - so neither they need tea nor boiling water for cooking XD
I got gifted a cheap Walmart electric kettle from my aunt when I moved to college. The. Best. Thing I have ever owned. I made styrofoam cup ramen in my dorm so often, and with no coffee pot, I made tea for everyone who came over. It’s so convenient to set it to heat and do other things. After I’ve got my cup of tea and the an hour later water has cooled, I pour it into my water filter jug in the fridge. It’s boiled water and I don’t feel wasteful of a resource I pay for.
Unhealthy
“Got Gifted”
I had some UK and Australian friends give me a hard time about the "archaic" way I boiled water in a pot if I wanted to make a cup of pour-over coffee or tea. After singing the praises of the simplicity of the electric kettle, I decided I'd get one for myself. My only issue is that I didn't make the decision to buy one sooner. It's SO easy and convenient! Boil the perfect amount of water for a hot beverage in about 2 minutes? Yes please! I got mine last fall and have used it almost every single day since. Plus it's great for certain foods that need boiling water. In less than 10 minutes, I can make a pot of couscous using the amount of water needed.
If you're even remotely on the fence, let me be the voice that pushes you to get one. You won't regret it!
as an aussie i couldn't imagine waiting 10mins to make instant coffee.
@blackmancer - Invariably failed the comprehension test, have you?
@@firstnamelastname2416 My small Breville kettle can boil a cup of water in less than a minute, INCOMPREHENSIBLE!!
These days i have super powerful induction stove, but before when i had old cast iron stove top with 2400W burners, i used to boil water in kettle and make rice, pasta, couscous with it. it cuts 8-10mins off from preparing time. A lot compared to the fact that it takes 8-9 mins to make spaghetti when the water is boiling.
@blackmancer - The plot yet thickens. '. . . certain foods that need boiling water. In less than 10 minutes, I can make a pot of couscous . . .' - meaning, with the water which has already been boiled; thus pouring the boiling water into the bowl with couscous: after which the couscous absorbs the water in the bowl, or is further cooked in the 'pot' which is being mentioned. Australia is not for the weak-minded, though: I have cousins living in Perth, Melbourne and the Outback, as well as quite a few immigrant acquaintances.
As a human person myself I found this video very useful, because I do boil water on regular basis from time to time! Thank you for your great video!
Name checks out 😂
"on a regular basis" & "from time to time" seems to me to be opposite phrases . ..
Perhaps pedantry us my downfall...or your phraseology us unbalanced. ?! 🤔
@brigidsingleton1596 That is intentional to add comedic effect. That being said irregular events could occur on regular time intervals. For example rain rains seemingly irregularly, but if you look at a bigger picture there is certain periods and conditions when it is likely to occur
Sounds like something a non human person would say I would know because I am real human person
I'm an avid tea drinker and I've been using electric kettles for 2 years. Absolute game changer. I started with a cheap aluminum version that only has an on switch with automatic shut off, but graduated to a 1.7 liter, variable temperature. If I'm traveling in North America, the cheap one goes with me - otherwise, it lives at my office. Several coworkers appreciate that we have the kettle, I hear it going all day long - and nearly everyone ended up buying their own electric kettle at home.
My trip to the UK last year was amazing - kettles everywhere.
Oh yes, if you went around to someone's house here and they told you that they didn't have a kettle you'd think they were very strange!
Im not sure if this is meant to be funny but it made me laugh anyway 😂
@@WraithOfMan "we ask them politely yet firmly to leave"
No kettle in a British house? This is how we spot spies. Dead giveaway.
@@Geth270 I honestly think I’d end up ringing the police in fear of my life
I’m an American but I’ve used an electric kettle for years. I lived in London in 1977 and saw electric kettles there and fell in love with them. I got one a few years later when I got my own apartment in 1981.
As someone from a tea-drinking country I must say that the speed is a good benefit, but the main from switching from stovetop kettle. When each member your family drinks tea 4-6 times a day, one of your stove burners is almost always occupied by the kettle. So it's just more convinient to have all four burners at your service whenever you need, no matter when someone wants to have a cup of tea. Especialy during family gatherings - the stove is occupied with pans and pots.
It takes me 4 minutes to boil a cup of water with my stove kettle. Also I use loose tea in a glass kettle that I have to steep. I ha e to use 1 tablespoon of loose leaf tea for one cup of water tablespoon of loose leaf tea for 8 oz of water. I still have not found to precisely, pour one cup from a kettle into my steeping kettle. But what I do is take one cup fill it up with my water. Pour that into my tea kettle on the stove and then when it boils pour that into my steeping kettle. I get the perfect amount each time. If you're doing tea bags then yes an electric kettle would work just fine.
@@flextefitness4954 I don't understand how you came to your last conclusion. People around the world drinks tea differently. My parents had a small tea shop in the 90s, so we tried a lot of different tea and loose tea is much better in general. So we used to make loose tea most of the time. In a teapot you will have a tea brewing, a small portion of which you add to the cup and then mix with hot water from the kettle. In this case there is no difference between stovetop kettle of an electric one. And if you use teabag it doesn't affect much, you just need less water, because you brew tea already in a cup (BTW, you can brew loose the directly in the cwp too, and brew teabags in a teapot - a lot of different options and it doesn't connected much with type of kettle. You just need a boiled water, no mater how you boil it)
@@alpienari Thanks for this response. It is very hard to explain what I'm saying just by typing it. The instructions on my tea say 8 oz of water to 1 tbsp of tea. So yes, if I wanted to eyeball everything that would work just fine. I'm trying to use the exact measurements so I know exactly how my tea is going to come out. I did find a tea kettle that's actually going to work for me. Most of the old tea kettles don't allow you to only boil one cup of water at a time because of the old coil method. Apparently one of the electric tea kettles I'm looking at allows you to add just one cup. I noticed you said use a little more water. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me. I'm a very anal person and I like to take precise measurements of how much tea versus how much water I'm putting in. I also use a timer. I don't go by how the color of the tea looks. This way I know exactly how to make the tea that I want to my perfection. The last thing I wanted to add is that it takes my tea kettle on a gas stove, exactly 4 minutes to boil one cup of water. The electric head I'm looking at takes 50 seconds. 3 minutes is really not a lot of time. I don't like a lot of stuff on my countertop I live a very minimalistic life. I make tea three times a day at least so I can leave my kettle on the stove but electric one would have to be in the countertop which takes up space and would be an eyesore because at the moment I don't have much counter space. Once I move and I do have more counter space I will then look for a nice tea kettle to leave on my countertop.
Also, if I forgot about the water boiling, an electric kettle just turns off, and a stovetop kettle burns.
I burned a lot of stovetop kettles when I was a kid.
Electric is the way to go.
@@tango2642 yep, the same 😅 Mom bought a kettle after my brother burned our stovetop one twice in one week.
"We don't drink tea all that much"
I nod in agreement, while sipping my coffee which I brewed in a french press, using an electric kettle to boil water.
The right way to boil water is of course with a pulsejet kettle : ua-cam.com/video/-fDM9Eb16Do/v-deo.html
YES! We do too. Perfect for a french press or an Aero press!
Exactly! Pour over coffee, even with stove top espresso machines we're supposed to put hot water in the bottom to do it properly, and of course using the hot water to warm the cups and the teapots. I have a 30+ year old stove top, so I use it for pasta water & ramen as well.
One more here for French press... and considering we had a whole show about coffee it is strange our dear host didn't consider it...
Now I'm wondering, how muricans make coffee if it doesn't involve boiling water in a kettle.
Since I suspect they don't do it properly in a cezve, I'm drawing blanks.
I bought an embarrassingly cheap electric kettle almost 12 years ago. It has been the single best value of any appliance I have owned in my life.
I bought one 10 years ago for, I wanna say, like €19. It's been great. But last month it started leaking through the plastic screen on the side with the measures on it. So now I bought a new one. For €17. A Tomado TWK1701B. It says it will go to 2200 Watt, but I don't know. It boils a liter of water in 3:10, or 100 seconds, on my 230V connection. I will be back here reporting on it in 10 years.
@@rijden-nu I'll be here waiting for that report
@@Chlooy Don't hold your breath. No really, don't.
When you have an item you use that frequently for that amount of time, it's almost like losing a friend when it dies.
@@malcolmhaig3709 Well... A cheap friend, and an easily replaceable friend. But let's be honest - aren't most friends like that?
I put water in the kettle, switch it on and wait for it to boil. I find this to be the best way.
The thing that makes kettles so convenient for me is when boiling food, its so much faster to boil 2L in the kettle before putting it in the pan, and then use the hob to keep it at a simmer. As opposed to going from cold on the hob.(i dont have an induction hob)
On a side note, british tanks have a specific water boiling device. Wheras american ones dont. Just an interesting fact that i learnt from a video
British Army ration packs are in the form of boil in the bag meals, so they can be prepared and eaten within the tank, thanks to the BV (boiling vessel). It's not just about the tea (plus the tea within the ration packs is atrocious)
Well, the original Vickers machine guns were valued by the Tommies more for the ability to boil water for tea than for accuracy, especially over long ranges. That hot water was a luxury in the trenches, especially as you otherwise only had a very poor ration heater to use.
That Boiling vessel also came about because soldiers were literally getting out of the tanks to make a cuppa and were shot, so much safer to not leave the vehicle
@@Nimmo1492 But the tea definitely plays a large part, doesn't it?
wait until you get a (boiling) hot water tap in the kitchen - it is the most fantastic non essential thing in the kitchen!
As someone who had a newborn last year I can tell you that having a kettle that can boil and then maintain a constant temperature is hugely helpful. I don't have to wait minutes (which if very helpful when you baby is crying) for the water to heat up and plus I get the extra benefit of having the water "sterilized".
I bought an electric kettle a few years ago and rarely used it, but it really put in work after my son was born. Best way to heat water for formula!
As someone raised on 240V kettles for making a brew, I was perfectly fine like that until I heard about the hot water dispensers mentioned at the end of the video. I bought one last Christmas and can say walking up to the machine, pushing a button then just holding whatever receptacle I need filling under the machine until it's full is an experience. A full cup of boiling hot water in less than 10 seconds is more joyous than it has any right to be.
Do you know how much energy that consumes in comparison to a kettle? I don't it's a genuine question.
@@hazy33 Can't say I've got proper figures mor time to figure it out right now but as said in the video, they're about 700W machines, take about 40 minutes to boil from cold and well insulated as far as I can tell because I only refill it once in the evening and I've never seen it reboil during the day.
would chew up your power though
@@MsJubjubbird Still better than a kettle if you have a family that has several cuppas a day. Like I said above, it's insulated enough that it only boils once
@@daggern15 they are good for workplaces, where people are constantly getting them. But for our family- and we love tea, it isn't worth it, especially as it needs more maintenance and they do actually boil several times in the day
I would say that stove tops are slower because they have to heat the pot to get the water hot. The electric ones have the instantly hot aluminum thing inside the kettle. So the heat source is in the water, and aluminum heats faster than stainless steel or aluminum clad stainless. I use my electric kettle every day. Love it! Ive had it for years. I shouldn't comment before the video is done because he just confirmed my theory. 😊
After watching this video I went out and bought my wife the lowest priced (cheapest) electric kettle I could find at Walmart. She likes her coffee from French Press carafes. So this has been a godsend. It works for anything that needs hot water and we use it all the time. Thank you for this vid. It was great.
You are married and old enough NOT to know about kettles?? How the f did u get married?
Man… how do people screw up French press setups so badly? It’s $100 to do it properly. Much cheaper than a coffee machine, better results, and lasts forever. An adjustable hand grinder, a kettle with temperature control settings, and a carafe. That’s it. Boiling water burns the hell out of the coffee. It should be about 200F. The cheapest kettles have no temperature setting. And god help you if you’re using pre-ground coffee. It’s too fine to be filtered properly by a French press. So gross.
Get your wife the slightly nicer $35 Walmart kettle with the French press setting… smh
Does it have temperature control? Because you don't make coffee with boiling water.
@@Romy--- No Temp control. Now that we have proof of concept, I'll start looking for better ones.
I remember I moved in with a roommate and they had an electric kettle, couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of this wonderful thing that boils water in 2 minutes, then he moved 2 years later and I had to go back to stove boiling before I bought an electric kettle.
well such a major investement of at least 15$ demands a very careful thinking over.
@@5Andysalive 🙃the 1st I ever bought cost less than 6$
🤣🤣
sounds like a romantic novel
Carl...
You probably never heard of "electric showers" either?
Amazingly I spent 25 minutes watching a kettle boil and it kept me interested the whole time. Well done.
Alec is better at 1.75x speed.
I fucking do as do all my neighbors. Greetings from Brooklyn
Hi Technology Connections, I asked for an electric kettle for my birthday based on this video. The electric kettle boiled water for my coffee much faster than my gas stove. I plan to use the electric kettle for all my water-boiling needs, so thank you for bringing this appliance to my attention.
Once you get used to things like bringing water to the boil for pasta and such, you'll wonder how on earth you managed before. =P
@@mindofwaves4470no. Refer to the percolator video on this channel, or the coffee drip video.
@@joeysabey6019 saves maybe 10 minutes daily if you think about that
I just did a test with my own electric kettle here in Sweden. It's a really cheap one and quite slow compared to others and it still brought one litre to a boil in 3 minutes.
Here in USA I don't even have to wait 3 minutes to get hot water to make my tea. My 5 gallon jug water dispenser has a Hot water option so I always have near-boiling hot water on tap whenever I need it. And these kinds of hot/cold water dispensers are quite common in USA.
@@KingNekro I had one in the house as a teen it was great. I miss it
@@KingNekroeuropeans also have water dispensers, although nobody has near boiling water in them. it's usually around 60°C max. having that high temp available at all times seems wasteful.
@@iamanti8367 Whatever the temperature is, it's plenty hot enough to make Tea/Ramen/etc
In Australia, every house, every hotel room, every office, everywhere has electric kettles. They are a staple of everyday life. We use them mainly to make tea and coffee. First time I traveled to the US I was blown away by the lack of them. It is so so weird.
Every hotel room I've ever been in in the U.S. had a kettle. They just have some extra parts and are called "coffee makers."
As a non-coffee-drinker, it never fails to -disgust- impress me how nearly every business in America caters to caffeine addiction. Hotels, offices, car dealerships and maintenance, virtually anywhere that serves food, and even a lot of grocery and retail stores have some kind of coffee available, to say nothing of all the dedicated coffee shops. The only place I can think of that _never_ has coffee is dentists offices. Even some doctors' waiting rooms I've been in had free coffee.
Never would go down there so I will use my stove. 73
@@Bacteriophagebs why do you care?
I learned to boil eggs in an electric kettle while in Australia - needs must. Aussies are very practical people.
The Coffee Peculator concept wasn't well received in Australia. It was introduced in the 70s and disappeared in the 80s!
You did a review on electric tea kettles. I bought one for my wife and can’t believe we’ve been using the glass electric stove top all these years. The new one has blue lights while it’s on and automatically turns off when done, adding failsafe operation too. We recommended it to our friend who is deaf and would never hear the whistle on a stovetop kettle.
I've been using electric kettles in breakrooms for years, seems every office I've worked in has had one, and a few private clients have had them, too. It's definitely something on my personal wish list, so I was surprised to hear it's not common in the US.
what they’re like $20 make your wish come true today lol
Vinemaple.
Why don't you fix your broken rooms first before buying a kettle?
Many water coolers have a hot tap, and most break rooms have a coffee machine. The old glass pot has been replaced by the single-serve style which can just spit out hot water.
When we worked in physical offices in the US, I’d say just 1 out of 10 people drank tea. Most drank coffee, some drank soda, and the smallest number drank tea.
The people who made tea at work was always zero. They bought it somewhere else and brought it in a to-go cup.
@@johnmaurer3097 They *bought* tea?
heat pumps, rice cookers, toasters, kettles, reusable hand warmers
this channel is really good at telling us how to heat things
I am very happy for that, because I get cold easily and need as much heat as I can get 😂
It's a hot topic!!!
I don't think I like this theme; it makes my blood boil!
j/k
And cool things too. We know all about the refrigeration cycle!
living in Fiji, I would recommend an electric kettle over stove any day of the week. Except not the one in the thumbnail. I would advice to always use the fully stainless steel ones. You can taste the plastic in the water in the plastic ones on the first sip.
When I had to use an old plastic electric kettle on a trip I poured 1,5 litres of water and only drank the top litre. The sink can drink the flaky plastic and water stone at the bottom.
There are glass ones. I don't like the oops-it-dropped-and-shattered-effect, but the water will never taste like plasic or iron.
I came to say the same thing. Though glass ones are even better.
@@flatearthancap362 what about the ceramic electric jugs? With the heating element sitting in the water and the ceramic construction acting as a heat insulator to keep the heat inside the jug, they heat up fast and hold the heat for longer. (Just NEVER let the heating element get exposed to air or they will burn out in a fraction of a second.)
Well if I'm to choose I'd rather have plastic kettle than the iron one 😂 ideally you would want to have the glass type.
20:36, this is exactly what I do ... sometimes even twice if I need a lot of water. We do have a gas stove, but we also have a solar roof, saves energy, saves time, but you also get the heat control of a gas stove for cooking!
As a brit I can't fathom a house without an electric kettle. It's an incredibly common house warming gift.
The guy in this video acts like the only thing you can boil water for is tea, like coffee doesn't exist, or hot chocolate or jelly. I'm sure there are a LOT of things I've used my kettle for, just never thought about it and never assumed American's just wouldn't have them in their homes.
I'd walk in an American home and shout where's the fricking kettle ? Then where do you keep your 37 cups ? No , that's not a lot 😀..
You have to remember USA is mostly horrendously under developed
do you guys have coffeemakers in your house though
@@Death-999 coffee you have a coffee maker for and chocolate milk? Real chocolate milk is made with milk not water.
I just did the same test with my UK electric kettle. Came to boil at 2:10 secs.
Another things to mention is they're not only useful for making hot beverages. Due to their speed they're great for preheating water to put in a pan for boiling potatoes, eggs etc when time is in short supply; or providing hot water to add to cold if for any reason your plumbing needs fixing and you have no hot water. I've had baths using this method in the past when our boiler went down
I always put cold tap water in to my electric kettle and I will always fill it all the way to the Max 1.7 Litre level and it still boils in only 2.5 minutes
Do you always boil more than you're going to use?
@@username40000
I can't answer for anyone alse, but when I use mine I hardly ever actually know the measurement I need, so I kinda eyeball it, and go a bit higher than that, just to be sure I do have enough, so I usually do end up getting more than I needed.
@@thatmarchingarrow That's normal and I've no issues with it at all, I'd be the same. But I don't see why people will always boil a completely full kettle if they're only going ot use a fraction of it. It just aint right!
My partner and I will boil (electric) kettles of water for each other when the other one takes a hot bath, to give them a top-up when the bath starts to cool down
We bought one from Amazon (Comfee brand) about 1-1/2 years ago, and use it almost everyday in Texas. Either tea or boiling water for Ramens or other foods instead of boiling a large pot on the gas stove for small portions….it works great and even my 10 year old can use it!
I grew up with manuel brewed coffee and we always used our electric kettle to heat the water to pour onto the coffee powder. I still use this method today because it's way cleaner than a coffee machine, considering how often you have to clean those things, and for me the taste is way better. And because it boils water so quick, the electric kettle is great for cooking pasta type dishes. Just heat up the water in the kettle, pour it into your pot for your pasta and then turn on the stove. Saves so much energy and time
I might have to pick one up because I eat a lot of ramen lol
@@chexmixkitty my children boil the water in the kettle, put the ramen in a ceramic bowl and pour the water over it and then put a plate on top to let it “cook”. We don’t even use the stove or microwave at all as 123MeisterEder suggested.
Funny if you live in Europe where this is daily business for several decades now…
@@123MeisterEder French press is also good, but requires a tiny bit cleaning. I've always done french press or pour-over, it's just as quick as a machine - but doesn't take up valuable space on the kitchen counters. A kettle is smaller, faster and can do far more.
Hi from the UK. Interesting stuff..my electric kettle here is 2500-3000W (230-240V supply). (Of course!) I use it a lot for making tea (and for making instant coffee)-but, like you, I also use it for boiling water for cooking pasta etc on the hob. Here, we have gas burners, electric hotplate or induction hobs. Most domestic ovens are electric (some large 'range'-style cookers may have gas ovens). Interestingly, I have some low voltage 120V 'mains' power tools that I use with a transformer (intended for construction site use).
I’m in Canada. Everyone I know with a kettle uses a dedicated electric kettle, despite us sharing the US’s 120v system. Mind you, everyone I know also has an electric stovetop too.
I was wondering, I have always used them and I thought everyone else did too.
I live in Canada too and use the dedicated kettle. The sheer fact it can just set to a temp and hold for 30min is a bonus for my busy self/family. I have an induction range which can boil 250mL of water in like 30s on its boost mode.
I'm a Canadian, and I always thought stove top kettles were old-timey. I had no idea electric ones were so rare just a few hours south.
I think the electric ones are probably common in Canada. It's what I'm used to in any case.
Can't afford the kettles because of all the guns. Incidentally, bright pink magazine bolt action (possibly with a stripper clip capacity) in 30-06 are now available for the 7 year old girl in your life... And I am NOT kidding..
I loathe Inbredistan.
...a few decades south 🙄
Also Canadian, literally everyone I know owns an electric kettle.
yea i'm used to seeing electric ones. My issue with them is cleaning, especially where the water is a bit harder the heating element gets limescale buildups or whatever. Honestly i chose to get the stovetop one cuz it kinda reminded me of old-timey.
I have an induction cooktop here in Australia and I thought I'd do a test run to see how long it took. The cooktop is rated for 3200W of continuous power on one "heating element", and boiling 1 litre of water took 2 minutes and 18 seconds.
Quite sure a the 3200w Induction will beat the 2000w Kettle. There is a lower limit on the Australasia residential power and induction is shockingly efficient. I guess it majorly helps to have the appropriate closed lid pot being used.
Did the same in a 2200w catle and it took 2:25 for a liter
@@rui518 I'll bet you live at a higher altitude than Mr. Keyboard does. Comparisons are really only valid at the same elevation.
@@mickenzie5863 Plenty of other variables at play as well.
@@mickenzie5863 arround 45 meter above sea level, but he is using a cook top. He may be losing power, also how good is the boiler? Can it handle 3200w?
My catle is from Philips with a plastic body
As a southerner, I beg to differ. We drink a lot of tea. We just tend to make a full pitcher's worth of iced sweet tea. We put it in the fridge so we make it less often. We're not normally fresh hot tea people. A lot of people also don't know how to make tea properly. A lot of people boil the water with the tea bags in the water instead of steeping it AFTER it's already hot. With that said, I've been trying to figure out an alternative to heating my water. So I'm glad I came across this video.
I have a real love/hate relationship with you using math and logic to rewrite my literally ALL of my misconceptions. Keep doing it, please.
Great comment. To rethink based in factual evidence, is only for the braves.
I live in europe, and just tested my electric kettle, which is very cheap and old. It took 2:30 minutes for it to boil 1 litre. I have now gained new appreciation for my appliance, i use it daily for cooking
edit: mine also has adjustable temperature, great for teas
Just tested mine and it took 3 minutes and 8 seconds to boil the same amount that was used in the video (I also own sodastream). Mine is some cheap one too, but it's one of the fastest I've seen.
@@MultiCanis I have a rapid boiling Hobbs Luna you should look into it, it isnt that expensive either, i think 1L took around 2 minutes and 24 seconds :)
Same but it took me about 5 Minutes to boil 1,5L 😅
*liter
@@taffyadam6031 litre is right, since liter is actually just the American way to way spell that word ;)
“Don't fill it to the rim” - yeah, that's a common problem-that-shouldn't-really-be-one. At our office's tea-kitchen we have a big kettle, and I often notice people doing this: *1.* empty any warm water that was in the kettle into the sink *2.* fill the kettle with, like, 2 litres of cold water *3.* use 200 ml of that for a cup of tea.
We're approaching gas-stove levels of inefficiency there...
people dumb
Wtf are they emptying it?
at one of my older jobs, we had this hot wand thing that looked like a metal stick, you sat it in the cup and it boiled your water. I liked that thing but it was old, I surely would not buy it with kids in the house... i dont even think they sell that anymore, but it was great cause no one wasted water.
@Armament Armed Arm Exactly..... It's just the element from the cheap kettle...on a power lead.
OK...BUT! Don't walk away and forget it!!!!
@@pomaranczowaszarlotka Exactly. Just a complete waste of energy (and water).
I see people doing it all the time. It makes my blood boil!
Brit here. Some people still use the whistler gas-top kettle, but they are basically antiques. In any case, the calorific value of your gas supply, combined with the gas pressure and the gas burner nozzle configuration (amount of orifices, ring size, orifice sizes, and directions of flames) will all make a very large difference to the boiling time. But whatever you do, you still lose a heck of a lot of energy around and past the kettle. Which was not a bad thing in British winters and draughty cold houses. That's why many Brits used to stay in the kitchen.
Really cool to see the difference between us Europeans and Americans. i had no idea electric kettles are not very common in the US and also that they use 120V. Thanks for the info!
I believe us Europeans also use 120 V its just we use 2 of them.
@@stephenlee5929no we use 240v, however if I remember correctly using two 120 phases to get 240 is sometimes done in 120v countries since that's what get supplied to the houses (two 120v phase).
Here in Sweden we usually have three 230v phases + neutral I think
If we used 120v it would be physically impossible to get three phase 380v power
Europeans have one wire with 220V or 230V. It's in the U.S. where we have two wires at 120V. They add up to 240V. So you can touch either wire and earth and get just a 120V shock. The only way to get a 240V shock is to be dumb enough to touch two 120V wires at once.
As a computer and other tech enthusiast in Russia I've always noticed the switch for 120/230V on the back of the power units for desktop computers, which is always covered with a protective sticker that voids your warranty if you damage it.
Although manuals say that you will void your warranty if you plug it into a non-grounded power socket, but we don't have them in our old houses (and I think even in those few newly built modern houses the "ground" contact is often not connected to anything inside the wall), so... yeah.
But electric kettles is a must here. We drink tea all the time.
Although our parents believe the plastic is toxic (and sometimes this can be true, because there are LOTS of cheap kettles - and other stuff - imported from China, which is made from cheap plastic that has awful and very strong "chemical" smell that never goes away, and were lots of cases when cheap plastic toys imported from China were found to be made of toxic materials) so older people still prefer stove-top metallic kettles.
@@8546Ken In Europe we have 3 wires weith 230V. Phase to phase would be 400V
"It's just that so few people know to want them" exactly this! I bought a pink one on Amazon a few years ago and immediately realized what I had been missing. I boil water in it for everything now, including coffee water, pasta water, etc, and it's so much faster than stovetop. In the case of pasta water, I boil it then pour it into a pot on the stovetop and it remains hot and boils again within seconds
If you wanna be really clutch, put half an inch of water into the pot and heat it at the same time.
Saves you a whole minute or two, but you have to figure out the heat setting
@@RegsaGC exactly what I do every time I have to boil pasta, rice or eggs.
Then you can use the gaz stove with a minimal setting only to maintain boiling (still trying to explain my wife that boiling water is boiling water and that nothing will cook faster with gaz at max setting).
the rare clever American. Almost as rare as the clever Brit.
I have a whole process when I'm making pasta, I turn on the hot water tap into the sink (to be used for washing the dishes after the meal), once it's running hot I fill the kettle and turn it on, then fire up the stovetop, and fill the pot once the kettle boils. I've never actually verified how much time this saves, but with the amount of pasta I like to eat it definitely adds up, especially since here in Oz we also have 240v.
@@UthacalthingTymbrimi generally you don't want to drink water from the hot tap, the inside of a water heater can get quite disgusting. Disregard if you have a tankless water heater.
"Many of you will find this kettle to be obnoxiously slow." - Yeah, I went and tested mine and it boiled 1l in pretty much 2 minutes flat.
Though yeah, I didn't get it for Tea, more for ramen, other instant stuff and hot-water bottles.
As a German living in Germany, I haven't seen any household without an electric water boiler. Yes, we do drink tea, even the coffee lovers.
With about 230Volt coming out of the power socket and devices that take up to 2.400 W/h in, there is hardly more than 1,5 minutes till hot water.
So of course we ask our guests if they'd like a cup of coffee or tea, and most of them don't drink coffee at night, and the tea is not actually from the tea plant, but dried greens or fruit teas.
Both my wife and I were stationed overseas in England around 20 years ago. Since moving back to the US we have always had an electric kettle. It's just so convenient. It gets used primarily for tea and French press coffee (we can set our kettle's temp, which is nice), with the occasional ramen here and there. I also use it to cheat when bringing water to boil on the stove because it's just so much faster. For example, for pasta I'll start a cup or two of water on the range, then boil about 1.5 liters in the electric kettle and add that to the pot when it's finished. So much quicker.
being stationed in Japan and seeing everyone on 100V using electric kettles made me wonder why this wasn't common in the U.S. with our "powerful" 120V
Yeah, the tea only thing is a stupid reasoning, most just don't buy specific electric coffee machines and use the kettle to drink insta coffee.
Though for grain on home consumers don't know the preference between capsule, other machines, French, Italian or more pour over styles in our country.
@@0Clewi0 Coffee Capsules and single cup teabags are annoying wasteful packaging that increase the price per cup for no real benefit. Instant coffee, regular coffee and regular tea is better to buy in 1 lb bags, keep in a reusable jar and dose with a spoon.
@@johndododoe1411 I'm not talking of what's better, I drink 0 coffe, but I see capsules are still sold on supermarkets, so I'm sure they're consumed, besides percolated coffee isn't popular at all.
The kettle with the adjustable temperature is awesome, I chose mine where the minimum temperature is around the one you need for dried yeast. Awesome for baking!
Yeast (dried or fresh) doesn't need a minimum temperature. Yes, many recipes call for warm water, but the yeast doesn't care. It just grows slightly slower at lower temperatures and the dough will go to room temp quickly anyhow when kneading. So save yourself some energy and don't spoil your yeast.
Isnt the instant pot yoghurt mode about the same temp?
I just tested this in the UK. My Daewoo kettle boiled a litre of water in 2:12, but it reached a roaring boil in 2 minutes flat.
How long is that in American minutes?
@@Logovanni 2 foot six.
I can do it in 1 min 20sec
@@stevebishop1161 You personally? Is that by holding it in your mouth?
So there is fat chance that Daewoo kettle goes from 0 to 100 faster than Daewoo cars xD
Everyday we larn something new. Today I learned that energy is energy, and water is water. Excellent video
A part of your 22% energy loss is the conversion of water to vapor (and yes, some water turns to vapor below the boiling point). The heat vaporization of water is 2,260 J/g, so some energy floats out the top as water vapor. It would be interesting to measure the mass of the water before and after to see how much is lost to evaporation.
Just do it!
Hmmmmm... One could decrease the vaporisation by increasing the boiling point. And in order to do that, the pressure in the pot needs to be increased, preferably by sitting on the lid. I guess it's worth an experiment?
@@hrvojebartulovic7870 pressure cooker ;)
My wife and I lived with an off grid electrical system when my mother gave us an electric kettle. I thought it was ridiculous, but tried it. Best house gift ever, and I will never go back to wasting a burner on heating water for coffee or tea.
I also live off the grid and boil the jug except in the worse days of winter, I also like using my toaster. Also thinking off dumping excess solar into a hot water cylinder, think I can get maybe 8 months of the year of basically free hot water, otherwise it will be from gas.
@@jaredturner4089
The heat pump water heaters are fantastic. Very low power use.
Heat pump water heater you say?
@@paulm.8660
Like a fridge that pumps heat out of the refrigerated space on the inside, and dumps it into the room, or a mini-split system that pumps energy out of or into the house depending on the time of year, heat pump water heaters take heat out of the room and put it into the water in the tank. Rheem/Ruud are one brand that I have used, but there are others.
I don’t know any Americans personally, but if I did, I’d now know exactly what to buy them for their birthday 🥳
I bought a cheap one to test to see how much I would use it, and OMG, I LOVE IT! Next round, getting a better one. I don't know how I lived without one. I use it for my soups, softening the dogs' food ( have seniors), and my cup of ramen or any noodles to cook up in the pot. It saves so much time.
This is the way with tools. If you don't know if you'll use a tool, buy a cheap one. If you hardly use it, it will be adequate. If you use it a lot, it will wear out or break. But now you know you'll get value from an expensive one.
I use mine for my dogs too! In addition to my pour-over coffee, tea, and other periodic items such as oatmeal
I recommend you get a Hamilton Beach.
I often will adjust the water content of soups and stews with a barely-filled kettle. It’s very handy for that.
If I need a very fast cup of hot water I have 3 options: one is the electric kettle, second is our automatic coffee machine (the draw back is that I have to wait for start up sequence, maybe 40or 50 seconds) and option 3 is the water dispenser machine (cold/hot/ room temperature). The water dispenser is the fastest one as it has a tank full with really hot water, periodiocally heated.
Interesting to hear induction stoves described as the “new hotness”, when I live in East Asia where they are extremely common. And surprising too since they are arguably much more suitable for western style cooking.
Also I still remember the shock when I realised American hotels don’t have an electic kettle in the room! But I made instant ramen with a coffee maker which was fun.
No kettle in their hotel rooms? I'm Canadian and this is really useful to know in case I'm over the border. Ty
places where induction stoves are popular and places where hotpot is popular would be the same spots
@@Gun5hip nope just a crummy single cup coffee maker or a keurig type one in fancier hotels
had to go downstairs for hot water
What kind of poor third world country doesn't have kettles in hotel rooms?
I'm Scottish, don't drink tea or coffee and I still have a kettle 😆. They're just handy for hot water bottles, cuppa soups, pasta etc
You sure you are Scottish if you don't drink tea!? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm Irish, dealing with the cold and wet means the kettle is constantly going for tea (drink about 3-4 cups a day + 1 or 2 coffees) and for filling the hot water bottle! Bliss!
They’re incredible for boiling eggs
I know you said etc but do pot noodles not get an honourable mention ?
@@MoniiChanTheUnicorn Isnt it interesting how when it come to tea everybody thinks about england while number one tea drinking country is Turkey and number two is Ireland. God bless my irish brothers and sisters we need to beat England much more XD They not eve close bruh yet again....
Do you Scottish people say hello or ‘ello
Thank you so much for an entertaining and informative video. The maths section was great and I never knew about the Joules/Watt relationship before. Now time to switch on my kettle and make a nice cuppa! Cheers
As an American tea drinker, I've used an electric kettle since I first discovered them. So much easier, for a large number of reasons - volume and safety being the top two.
I ended up drinking some American tea in a restaurant once. It was cold and someone had put ice cubes in it! Never again.
@@jonboy602
Sounds like you ordered “sweet tea” 😂 We have hot options and cold options… but we mostly love our iced tea!
@@piecesoftheheart9231 Yes, my (non-English) girlfriend at the time found the expression on my face hilarious! It was at this point I realised the relationship was doomed.
@@jonboy602 sounds about right. If you order "tea" in a restaurant here, a lot of them will assume you mean iced tea, unless you say "hot tea". You still need hot water to make good iced tea, though.
@@piecesoftheheart9231 I love my iced tea but hate sweet tea...I think sweet tea's more of a Southern thing
I use my eletric kettle 3 times a day, one for coffe and two times for tea after work, hell I use it in cooking aswell if I am feeling lazy waiting for the pot to boil, greatest invention.
I use my electric kettle...and they AREN'T NOISY
I've lived 50 years without using an electric kettle and hopefully I'll live 50 more without having one!
Use it for cooking pasta and rice faster too.
I use a moka pot to make coffee, and I still run the water through the kettle before adding it to the pot. But then I'm Australian. We're weird in plenty of ways but not in the way of somehow not having heard of an electric kettle.
I live in the US and use an electric tea kettle once in the morning, then pour the boiling water into a Bunn Airpot so we can use the hot water all day without using additional electricity. 👍
Yeah, I lived in Japan for several years, and that sold me on electric kettles (and bidets lol), They're ridiculously better in terms of speed, convenience, and efficiency than using the stovetop or the microwave. Oh, and Japan is 100V, so there ya go.
Same here, but despite living here for 20+ years straight, I still can't bring myself to use those bidets. I do enjoy the warm seats (and you can choose the temperature!) and the noise button.
The electric kettle is a marvel in practicality though.
Do the Japanese kettles work in the USA?
@@chrisitzsimple4649 I would assume they should. The plugs are the same, albeit non-polarized, and most other Japanese-market stuff works in the US (though if they're grounded, you might need an adapter to screw the ground into).
Not sure why you would want a Japanese one though. The US ones are cheap and work fine.
I've been cooking on an induction hob here in the UK since 1994...It's fantastic and MORE controllable than gas. You don't get the hot spots you get with gas hobs. They tend to heat more evenly over the base of the pan.
I think kettles are probably the most universal kitchen appliance in the UK. I’ve moved into flats that didn’t have a microwave or a freezer, but every single one had a kettle
I cant imagine a kitchen without a kettle. And I dont even drink tea.
Most hotel rooms in Ireland have a mini one too (maybe hidden in a cupboard)
@@Qlicky I've never walked into anyone's house and seen them have a kettle before. But I'm American. But every single one has a coffee maker.
That seems strange to me since a kettle is very portable!
Recently I went to a specialized camping accessories store and there I found a 12V (yes, twelve) kettle, the packaging literally said "boils 1 liter in 35 minutes". So you thought 120V is slow, huh?
At that point just make a fire.
you just need more amps.
Yeah, the main thing here is electrical power, which is the same. So time should also be the same
@@5Andysalive it's all about the amps really
Where are you getting electricity while camping? That doesn't sound like camping.
I have a theory that instant coffee was so popular in the UK as we had kettles for tea and so we could use the same thing to make coffee. Growing up in the eighties I didn't really know there was anything other than instant coffee. When i first realised Americans have coffee makers I thought that sounded very posh and fancy!
Oh wow! I never though about how coffee makers were viewed elsewhere. I am an American that switched to tea a few years ago, and looking back, the coffee maker is just so ridiculous because once you use it for coffee for the first time, that's really all you can use it for after that. Getting hot but not boiling water with a slight coffee flavor for the rest of its useful life is not ...great. The Keurig was a revelation, but its also just disastrous on the environment. I much prefer my kettle which I use for everything, and yes, I also use it for instant coffee. If I really want a good cup of coffee, I can always use the kettle and whip out the French press.
@@aquiamorgan2416 Keurig pods may be wasteful, but there's plenty of reusable pods, that are sold in many stores.
Yeah, and even if we have a filter coffee maker, it's not used every day - and unless you are at home and drink endless cups, once a pot has been made for some time and the coffee is 'stewed' (as we call it), it tastes awful! Mine only got used when lots of visitors came around, as it freed up the kettle for the tea! Now I'm on my own, it's either good quality instant (Kenco) or I use a fresh coffee in a cafetiere (plunger-type coffee pot) - which still needs the kettle!
Don't they still make coffee bags that work just like tea bags? I'd think that would be the perfect thing for anyone who doesn't like instant and doesn't want to maintain a coffee maker. I, on the other hand, have always been fine with instant.
instant coffee took off over in asia for this vary reason. Culturally the act of brewing team is more similar to instant coffee than any other method of brewing coffee, so makes a certain about of sense. There have been reasonable drinkable instant coffees for a decade or more, at least far superior in quality than much of the brewed coffee many are used to.
Nothing more enjoyable than staring out of the window while the kettle boils for that first cuppa of the day.
"It's because we don't drink tea every day."
Yup. The moment my wife became a daily tea drinker we got a pretty decent electric kettle with a timer, temp setting, the whole shebang. Didn't cost too much and made her morning tea much easier to make.
Me an my partner both started drinking tea after I realized daily coffee was giving me health problems, and I love my kettle. It's not even fancy, just a boily-poury-thingy. I use it for tea and ramen and hot cocoa and my hot water bottle and sanitizing stuff. It's just a great appliance.
Get an under sink instant hot water dispenser. Tea in seconds instead of minutes.
@Samuel Blackwood Careful, sir. "Tea is a big NO for those who suffer from kidney stones. This is because tea has very high oxalate content and oxalic acid aid in the forming of kidney stones. So, does tea cause kidney stones? The answer is yes, drinking too much tea can lead to the formation of kidney stones." A coworker who drank tea a lot got them in his bladder. Unique pain from ultrasonic treatment, he said.
@@bansheedearg This is good to know. Thanks for commenting.
@@bansheedearg I say "tea", but most of what I drink is fruit/herbal infusions in hot water, like apple cinnamon, peppermint, rose hips, or citrus peels. (And that same article you're quoting says that *green* tea doesn't have this effect, only black tea. Well, and "iced tea" by which I assume they mean iced black tea.) Black tea is part of my rotation, mostly in the mornings for the caffeine, but where nutrition is concerned it's usually unhealthy to consume a lot of any one thing regardless of what it is.
Growing up in the USA we heated our house with wood burning stoves. One upstairs, one downstairs. Kettles were on both to add moisture to the air. As a bonus, there was always hot water for all needs. At least for 7 months a year.
My family also did this. We lived in an old house with a large wood burning cast iron stove. The stock pot full of steaming water was essential during the winter time. I miss those days. It used to smell so good in the house. I love the smell of burning wood.
r u girl? marry me?@@rebeccajeane8287
Why do you want to add moisture to your house?
so you can take fish outside the tank and teach them about religion.@@MrStevo1080
@@MrStevo1080 The air gets dry during the winter, especially in your home.
I worked in an office where there was a “boiling water” dispenser that wasn’t actually hot enough for tea, so people would heat their water in the microwaves. It didn’t take very long for a superheated water explosion to happen. No one was hurt, but it was quite a shock to the person it happened to.
I didn't know it's possible, if you don't want it.
Prove me if i'm wrong, but to overheat water, you need a distilled water, which isn't as easy to get as tap water. Tap water has lots of minerals
(often intentionally. Afaik Norway or Iceland used "soft" water [without minerals], and they started to suffer from heart diseases, so then they intentionally added calcium, and other minerals to the water)
so regular tap water should boil without any problem, especially if you put a teabag inside before boiling
@@redve390 I guess that preheating the water removes dissolved gasses, removing nucleation points for the boiling to start.
I have once made a water explosion in a slightly different way. By boiling water in a cup in the microwave; forgetting about it, so that half the water had boiled over; refilling the cup with half cold water; then boil it again in the microwave oven. I guess that the cold water cool down the walls of the cup, while the hot water was in the middle, allowing it to be super heated, without touching the nucleation points on the walls. I have never been able to recreate it, so it was a fluke accident.
@@redve390 some people have a thing for bottled water and some bottled water seems to be filtered too good. =) so I would expect the super heated water to happen to those. I once had water instantly boil after I put the teabag in (after microwaving it of course), I guess it was due to the water being too soft in that area. =)
You can microwave a cup with a spoon to prevent the sudden boiling. No joke, metal spoon in microwave is safe.
The right way to boil water is of course with a pulsejet kettle : ua-cam.com/video/-fDM9Eb16Do/v-deo.html
6:36 I boil it for coffee
That's what i was gonna ask. Don't you make your own coffee,? Do they buy it from stores already brewed?
I boil it for instant noodles, coffee, tea, hot chocolate l, speed up heating up water for cooking on stove....yeah a lots of things
I assume americans dont drink coffee now. Hardly anyone i know touches tea. Everyone i know boils for coffee every morning.
Australia.
I have to say, I'm not a tea drinker (or even a coffee drinker), but I get so much use out of an electric kettle, it feels bizarre to me to say that just cause you don't drink tea it's not something you'd want. If you're doing instant ramen, or making hot chocolate, or porridge, or you just want some warm water, an electric kettle serves you well.
Or even boiling potato's, put a bit of water in the pot and the rest in the kettle and let the kettle do the heavy lifting to get the water up to temperature
In my family, when we make instant ramen it's like 3 packets at once. Doing it on the stove in a single pot feels like much less hassle than boiling water in a kettle and then pouring it over 3 different bowls, covering them, mixing them in, etc. We also tend to mix in some veggies or an egg or cheese slices (I'm Indian; we do strange things to instant ramen) - which is also easier in a pan, vs in 3 bowls.
Hot chocolate usually involves melting actual chocolate, and heating up milk - neither of which is particularly convenient in a kettle. Especially cleaning it after boiling milk in it. It's a lot less hassle to just throw whatever water-to-milk ratio you like and broken up chocolate into a pot.
Porridge isn't all that common - but it usually involves milk _or_ spices. Neither of which I particularly want to clean from inside a kettle either.
Also, I would make them < once a week, even with all 3 combined. It's just not worth the space on my counter top for that ...
The only folks in India who have a kettle are people who regularly drink warm water (tea involves heating up milk and spice; so most tea drinkers don't use a kettle either) or people who live in dorms that don't allow cooking equipment.
@@whydoineedanameiwillneverp7790most people don’t make a bunch of ramen together. Also if you cook pasta at all, or use hot water in any of your cooking like making stews or blanching vegetables or whatever, a kettle is the easiest way to get the water up to temperature.
I haven't yet found an electric kettle that wouldn't make the water smell and taste like some toxic chemical is getting leached into it.
No shit😂😂
I was gifted an induction cooktop for building a kitchen for the owners of a high end kitchen appliance distributor. This was when induction was pretty much unknown. I used to impress my clients demonstrating the fast performance boiling a kettle with a piece of paper between the kettle and element. It was an impressive demonstration with the kettle boiling faster than the electric one without burning the paper.
That would be because the cooker is running at 240v for a guess? My kettle is still faster than my induction cooker, as we have 240v to the kettles here.
YES PLEASE to an 'indoor Air Quality' episode! I recently bought a CO2 sensor and am fascinated about the health implications of good/bad indoor air quality. Thanks!
Never use a gas stove without a proper ventilator.
@@Craxin01 crikey it's just a bit of co2 and water vapor, nothing to get worried about. I mean you live in a house with other animals that are all outputting co2 too. it's part of oxidation.
Just buy a bunch of plants.
@@KairuHakubi No, it's not "just" a bit of CO2. Gas stovetops output carbon monoxide into your home. You should NEVER use a gas stove without a carbon monoxide detector in your kitchen. You really, really should always run a stove hood fan that vents to the outdoors. Gas stoves and ovens also introduce nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde into your home.
Seriously. You need to run a hood that vents fumes outside literally every single time you cook with gas.
@@DonOblivious uh.. no. not unless your gas vents are clogged or there's something else super wrong with your burner. the carbon monoxide output is beyond minimal. This all sounds like california hooey.
I've had the same110v electric kettle for 20 years, and kids/teens love using it to cook. I use filtered water only. Plus I have a gas stove! It's just easier to fill 1 cup in the electric kettle. And I've never owned a coffee pot. I'm in Nevada!
I’m Indian American and when you said electric kettles aren’t common in the US I was totally shocked. Even in college every classmate I knew had an electric kettle- so I just assumed everyone had one? But really intriguing to learn about how different things are!
It's just for clicks. In no way is every youtube video infomercial grounded in reality.
@@Sara-L ???? How in the HECK is this an infomercial?!?! I have no idea what you’re intending to say and maybe you should reply to every comment on this video then instead of JUST mine.
I never had seen one till I was an adult and left the states. I have lived and visited multiple states. I had only seen coffee specific electric kettles. Before I boiled water in microwaves or on the stovetop.
Ramen noodles?
@@ruthgroves509 ramen literally got me through college (not just cause the food on campus tasted awful and was super expensive)- electric kettles+ramen=perfection!
I'm from the UK, England, but spent 2 years living in the US. When getting there, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't surprised to find virtually nobody used electric kettles. And being used to a whopping 3 kilowatt kettle at home, which took less than 4 minutes to boil a 'FULL 1.7 litre of water, well, the 7 minutes to boil 1 litre (or Liter for you guys) on their stove top and traditional kettle all but drove me mental.
I did notice though, that apart from me, nobody really used a kettle anyway, as nobody really drank tea. Thus began the comments from my friends "oh, are you having a nice spot of tea darling" (said in a Downton Abbey brand of English).
So you know what they say; "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!", so I switched to coffee, and after say a year of drinking coffee instead, it answered a lifelong mystery for me. Which was... 'Why are our American cousins so darn happy and flamboyant compared to your average Brit?' The answer now was obvious, because I too found myself in the same condition. You're all stoked and high on the effects of caffeine!!! 🤣😂☕
*Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 6th 1774)*
"I believe I forgot to tell you one anecdote: When I first came to this house it was late in the afternoon, and I had ridden 35 miles at least. _"Madam"_ said I to Mrs. Huston, _"Is it lawfull for a weary traveller to refresh himself with a dish of tea provided it has been honestly smuggled, or paid no duties?"_
"No sir, said she, _"We have renounced all tea in this place. I cant make tea, but he make you coffee."_ Accordingly I have drank Coffee every afternoon since, and have borne it very well. *Tea must be universally renounced. I must be weaned, and the sooner, the better."*
There is an argument that can be made, _historically,_ that coffee over here actually has palpable patriotic values. There are a ton of letters and observations made from the revolution concerning coffee. The founding fathers drank the stuff day in and day out, and at one point basically substituted tea completely with it for years. I'm convinced it impacted them when it came to their work. So you're not too far off with your coffee observation, but I would suggest that it actually is something deeper and culturally relevant.
As for the kettles. This whole video has been a learning experience. Picked-up an electric one several years ago, never gave it a second thought. I have seen them in other places I've visited, but I will agree they're not everywhere. Maybe they have more adoption and purchases in different parts of the country?
"high on effects of caffeine"???...no There's this thing called chemical tolerance. If you consume it all the time, you barely notice the effects, so you need more.
Who gets "high" on caffeine?.. talk about being a lightweight.
I don’t get the difference between 4 and 7 minutes: both are “walking away to do something else while you wait” time spans. I lived in the UK for 16 years, had a kettle when I moved back to Germany, but fairly quickly put it away - I prefer having fewer items on the countertops, and boiling water in a little milk pot on the stove works fine for me. It’s an induction stove to be fair, but I don’t think that’s it: I think it’s the milk pot that solves it. The size and the handle make it comfortable to pour the hot water - don’t really care how long it takes to boil.
@@peterbelanger4094 I agree. I started drinking coffee only recently (like 6 years ago, or so). I can't say I am "happier" or "high on caffeine" now, compared to before. It may have a very short-term effect, but people claiming to need coffee to wake up in the morning are just lying to themselves, imo.
Want to wake up in the morning? Ride a bike to work. There's nothing that wakes you up better than having a -20 degrees celsius gust of wind blowing in your face. And after that, you REALLY need coffee (or tea) to warm you up again. :D
@@mm9773 I kinda get what you mean, but my routine is put on some water to boil, go take a leak, and when I come back in approx 3 minutes its finished. If it took 7 minutes it wouldn't be done when I came back. Not the end of the world, but it's a convenience I'm all too used to.
As an american it is deeply satisfying to gift nice electric kettles to my friends and family and help them come into the modern era.
Mmmm, I love boiling water in a *plastic* vessel. Great gift!
@@necroseus what a strange comment. You make an assumption based on no information and then choose to use your self-generated negative story to compel you to make a negative comment. I'm sorry you're having a hard time. But there is no need to rub it all over internet strangers. Good luck out there.
@@stevenjacobs2750 I did do that, yes. I suppose this comment was is pretty bad taste, sorry about that. I was trying to be funny while also commenting on my dislike of these types of kennels due to chemical leeching.
Rereading it, I realize that this was pretty directly an insult to a nice gift you've given :I. Whoops
Have a good day, I promise I'm not derranged xD
@@necroseus fwiw I only gift *nice* electric kettles that are stainless steel ;)
@@stevenjacobs2750 Ayyyy
"This side of the Atlantic" is also South America's side, where we have 220v and electric kettles are very common.
After visiting Japan we discovered countertop on-demand hot water boilers (we call it a Zojirushi but that's just the brand name). It keeps your water at or near boiling until you need it. To avoid being too wasteful, there's a timer so you just run it during waking hours. But I can tell you, having water at 195F on-demand is absolutely fantastic. I will never go back.
I'm in Ukraine, and having a boiler is how you get hot water, generally... at least in my city most people installed them in 2000s because hot water was both expensive, and not that hot, and often didn't work. So our TAPS have 90+ degree hot water, from the boiler. Big ones 60-100 liters for bathroom, generally, and sometimes smaller ones for kitchen. Oh and the one I have keeps water warm enough for hot bath even after 2 days of no electricity as I learned when russians destroyed a power station near my city with a long range cruise missile.
Zojirushi is my go to hot water maker and I use it like you doit is a great device.
Only the wealthy have those in the states lol
my zojirushi is the best, waiting for the water to reboil after the dreaded running dry is even faster than the stove T_T
My Asian friends tell me about this and I want one so bad. We have a kettle but it’s not good at keeping the water hot/warm for a long time and I often boil large amounts of water for the morning.
I remember the first time that I used an induction stove with "Boost" to boil water: it was so fast that I was literally scared. It felt like the bottom of the pan had opened up a portal directly to hell and was being heated by the joyous warmth of pure sin. ;-)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well. Maybe not joyous but more like heinous 😈
@@ProctorsGamble It can be both
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If you're doing it right.
After watching this video back in June, I actually bought that "hunk of plastic" Walmart Mainstays kettle and honestly, it's been a real handy thing in the kitchen. Hot water for instant coffee, instant noodles, disinfecting sponges and what-have-you, it's pretty easy to set it, let it run, and then come back when you hear the "click" of the switch reset. Haven't noticed the time it takes for the water to boil, mainly because I leave it and then come back.
And with this "heatwave" we've been having since late June, it's nice to not need to heat up the whole kitchen to make some ramen when it's 105F (~41C) outside.
Yes where I am it's normal for other use cases other than just tea, and yeah coffee with it
@@therewasoldcringe That face when Liberia, Myanmar and the United States are still the only countries in the world stubborn enough to only use freedom units as the official unit of measurement 😐
plastic kettles are nice but water gets contaminated with plastic starting at 30°C (86F°). Imagine the cocktails of chemicals in the boiling water are 100°C (212°F). There are kettles with metal tank but the ones that are only plastic are a big no.
@@V.D.22 Doesn't it depend on type of plastic? It's not a PET bottle that will melt at 100 °C. In Europe there are plenty of plastic kettles adn I never heard that they are bad for your health. The added benefit is better insulation so less heat is required to boil the water compared to metal one and you won't get burned as easily.
@@jan.tichavsky it's true, the danger of BPA and phtalates being released from 30°C and up is for PET. Other plastics are more durable, but I still don't trust them. They are still plastics made from petroleum and other chemicals that are released gradually as the temperatures rise. From what I read, plastic should not touch hot foods or fat foods.
Damn, you’ve dragged me down another rabbit hole! I’m 75 and don’t need to know all this but I can’t switch off! 🤣😂🤣😂🇬🇧🇬🇧