American Reacts to British Kitchens vs. American Kitchens
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2023
- As an American I know absolutely nothing about British kitchens, which is exactly why I am very excited today to learn about 5 differences between kitchens in Britian compared to kitchens in America. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I just wanted to come here as a brit to say that most of us definitely do rinse the soap off the dishes!
Double dip: wash in a bowl of soapy water, then empty the bowl and refill it with clean water and put all the dishes through it
I've had this conversation on YT before - I never have, nor met anyone in the UK who bothers to wash off the soap. I would only do it if it was a huge amount on a plate or something. It's never done me any harm 😅
I have never known anyone who does not rinse soap off cutlery or crockery and I am 75 yrs young.
Agree with you. I always rinse my dishes etc, otherwise, you get that horrible soapy taste on food and drink.
I use the electric kettle and rise them in the rack with boiled water help sterilisation.
The 'garbage disposal' is not allowed in most of the rest of the world as waste food is recycled separately instead of clogging the sewerage system.
That's a bit gross mate, recycling used food lol
@@sholtodepuma - I see what you did there... LOL! 😎
Several areas of the UK have banned 'garbage disposal units' because water processing is a lot more costly and creates the issues you mention.
@@sholtodepuma It's correct, though I think you are trying to be funny. The food is either rotted down to may soil or used in methane generators to make gas then rotted down.
"not allowed in most of the rest of the world" I don't think is correct. Maybe in most of Europe that might be true. Disposals are common here in New Zealand too.
Every Aussie household has an electric kettle too! Kettles boil water, teapots are for pouring freshly made tea. Teapots don’t go on the stove, they’re usually porcelain. Also, Australia being a mostly arid continent, we can’t afford to waste water, so we can’t let the water run either. Garbage disposals did exist in Australia for several years but were soon banned because the cost of cleaning the water was too expensive.
And the Aussies have vegimite which is just like marmite to pop in their boiled eggs too. Very tasty.
@@anitavisram8346 please don't compare Vegimite to God's food.
Electric jug here in nz.
Yeah, I am scratching my head in total bewilderment.. Is Tyler taking the piss or what ?
I am an Aussie in my 60's and we have had kettles since before I was born.. So I am wondering... is he saying he has truely never seen an electric kettle. My head cant rationalise that statement.🤔
@@Lance_Arn It seems to depend on the state you live in over there, because some Americans I follow, do own a kettle or rather an electric jug. Kettles are more for the stovetop and whistle when they boil. I actually own an electric jug and two kettles, one kettle is microwave safe and the other is for the stove, but both have whistles. One young fellow boils water on the stove in a saucepan to make his instant coffee!
The crucial advantage of an electric kettle is that it switches itself off when it reaches boiling point. English people can leave their kettles to boil and not worry about getting waylayed and letting it boil dry.
To have hot water for whatever purpose, tea and coffee making and so on, it is much more sensible to
use an electric kettle for providing these amounts. Ready in minutes !
@@marycarver1542Better for descaling as well. Growing up we had a stove kettle our mam refused to buy an electric. Said it costs too much to run. But she spent as much on kettles. The whistle used to come off it would get lost. So we would put it on go and do something and forget about it.
No Tyler, we don't fill the sink with hot water and wait for it to cool down....that's what the cold tap is for 😄👌
Mixer taps universal in UK kitchens no separate cold tap unless it's very old or retro.
@@ebbonfly or Council property 😅
My mums home is a new build and it has separated taps through the home .
@@sarahdon3165 How weird.
There is one reason for filling the sink with hot water and letting it cool down (a bit). If you're soaking really horribly burnt on and fatty/crusty residues that's the way to go, as long as you remember to go back to finish your washing up around 30 minutes later.
A teapot is a totally different thing to a kettle. You put tea (loose or bags) in a teapot and then add boiling water that has been boiled in the kettle. The tea brews/mashes (depending on what part of Britain you are in) in the pot and is poured into the cup when it is ready.
teapots are also made of china or clay(I also have a glass one) and there are metal ones too)so it would be a bad idea to put them on a hot stove. The first prototype of modern jug plastic electric kettles that is the most commonly used came out in 1979 until then most still used stove top kettles but electric kettles did exist but were a bit cumbersome and pricey
i was just writing the same, teapot is NOT the same as a kettle...
In short; kettle is the boiling vessel, tea pot is the brewing vessel.
@@MsKaz1000 I'm 70. In my experience a non-electric kettle was only ever used on a gas hob, an open fire or a coal fired range. I grew up in a home with an electric cooker, so we always had a chrome electric kettle. It had to be turned off manually. I think it was the late 1970s when Russell Hobbs brought out the automatic kettle, but you still had to unplug it to carry it to another part of the kitchen. I think the type we use now where we lift the kettle off a base came out late 80s or early 90s.
I feel that most people don't use teapots these days. We just put a teabag in a mug, and add hot water and milk.
The kettle is used any time you need boiling water such as for gravey granules, instant noodles, packet soup / sauces, and of course tea.
Hi Tyler, I live in South Africa which was formerly a British colony when I was born. My mom was American and my dad South African. So I know what it's like on both sides of the Atlantic. Yes, we have electric kettles and stove top kettles. We drink tea AND coffee here in equal amounts. Coffee from a French Press beats coffee from a coffee filter machine any day. Our electric kettle is glass and switches off automatically when it boils. When I was growing up, I and my sister's used to fight over who would wash the dishes in the sink and who would dry them. And we had a double sink, so yes, the dishes were rinsed. We throw food scraps in the waste bin. Our hot water heaters we call "geysers". We currently have a dishwasher machine in our kitchen, but it stands next to the washing machine. And we usually have lots of sun, so we dry our clothes on a washing line outside. We do have a clothes dryer, but it's only used when it's raining. Our water flows out of the tap too. We call the cooker top the stove, and we bake cakes underneath in the oven. How's that for a lesson....😂
Load shedding
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide Not so bad at the moment. 👍
Yes, the top of the oven is normally called to hob or the stove, & the bottom part the oven. But in general can be called the cooker. You bake & roast in the oven & fry on the stove or hob.
Haha well done
I always rinse off the soap as do others
8:25 The most common reason that people dry stuff on a clothes line outside despite having a washer/dryer, is that a) it is far cheaper, b) it tends to result in fresher clothes, and c) they don't want to add humidity to the house (the UK is already humid). Our electricity costs something like $0.40/kWh, whereas the sun is free.
"whereas the sun is free" Given its rarity, it should cost a fortune.
😂😂😂😂
I love doing it because the smell of air dried clothes is amazing, there's nothing like getting into bed with fresh covers that have been air dried, it's so nice.
The wind helps.
@@stevetaylor8698 🤣🤣🤣👌
I imagine every house in the UK has an electric kettle ....... they replaced stove top kettles decades ago
Although smart people still own a stove top kettle in case of a power cut (assuming they also have a gas hob)!
@@andybaker2456oh yessss! 👍🏻 but - when your gas hob has an electric ignition - it’s hunt the box of matches time! 😵💫🙄
My mum recently replaced our electric kettle with a stove top one 😂. In her defence tho the induction hob she uses is faster than the old kettle was
@@andybaker2456 or just boil in a pan if the don’t have one ☝️
We have always had disposal systems too ! This commentator needs to pay
a long visit and update himself !
A teapot is for brewing the tea, a kettle is for brewing water. Most people don't regularly drink loose tea(which would be traditionally brewed in a tea pot), but instead use tea bags and pour hot water directly into a cup. And yes, this is so basic for us Brits it does feel like explaining how to put on shoes or what a toilet seat is for 😅 But as I am currently teaching the art of good tea to my Italian in-laws you are forgiven! Turns out, we are all different!
A kettle is for boiling water, not brewing water
In Canada, we have electric kettles as well. I used to take electric kettles (and tea) as gifts to my relatives in New York because they kept forgetting to plug them in and instead accidently burned them on the range burner. A Tea Pot is what you put the hot water and tea bag into to make the tea.(Not put on the stove). And I have a washer/dryer combination as well and my dryer part is not rubbish, just takes a longer time.
Laundry- we are legally forbidden to have power outlets in the bathroom, our houses usually don't have space for a dedicated laundry room, so the kitchen is the usual option. It has power outlets, running water, can share a drain with the kitchen sink, and usually on the same floor as the front door so easier on the delivery team. Generally you wouldn't put the dirty laundry on your counter tops where food is prepared. Most of us have laundry baskets to carry it about in.
I always laughed at the assertion that doing laundry in the kitchen is somehow unhygienic. Are those not just the very same clothes you were WEARING in the kitchen before they wound up in the laundry?! ; )
Obviously you can have shaver sockets but you can also have power sockets if your bathroom is large enough. They have to be installed a minimum of three metres from a shower unit or bath. That would preclude most British bathrooms of course.
@@ElgynsToy It's not the T-shirts and cargo pants I'd be worried about, it's the family's undergarments being thrown around where the food is prepared that's the gross part. Especially during certain times of the month (I live with three females).
@@bencodykirk Ah yes. Us filthy women with our unholy monthly cycles... My man, it's just a bit of uterus. Besides, nobody's out here smearing their dirty undercrackers all over the counter tops xD You carry your laundry in in a basket, and you load it into the machine. Job done.
@@ElgynsToy Not in my kitchen.
I remember some American woman made a travel vlog about staying in a UK AirB&B and went on about how should couldn't find anything to boil water in. She was delusional obviously, every British house has the means to boil water almost instantly.
Presumably there was a kettle but she failed to realise what it was
Isn’t it absolutely insane to think that Americans find it incredibly strange to own a kettle?
She must have been a bit thick!
That American tourist probably didn't know what the kettle provided was for!
Resident of the Scottish Highlands here. This was so amusing and yes true. Electric kettles are in every kitchen, a tea pot is a ceramic or metal, or glass pot with a spout that you add loose leaf tea orvtea bags to and then fill with water that was boiled in the kettle. Depending on the Tea pot you can then add to the hob and bring it up to a boil again for a stronger brew. Yes we having washing machines in the kitchen, usually close to the kitchen sink so they can be plumbed in. We dry our clothes outside, or on clothes horses ( racks) pulley maids ( a drying rack in the ceiling space that uses ropes and pulleys) or in a tumble dryer ( which is also usually in the kitchen if you've got the space)
No garbage disposal but our sink plugs have a way to collect food bits that can then be put in the bin ( a drain catcher device) my kitchen has a single mixer tap ( no spray hose, i want one) but the bathroom sinks have hot and cold taps
Egg cups there is always at least one in the back of the kitchen cupboard ( i have 4 that look like ducks???) He's right boiled egg with runny yolk add a sprinkle of salt and some real butter to melt into the yolk and dip toast soldier into it is the best breakfast. Ive not had it in years and now want it.
Dishes get washed in a dishwasher or as he said a sink full of soapy water. They are either dried with a towel or left to air dry on a dish rack. When i grew up we rinsed the soap suds off using a jug of water to pour over , but ive observed that the soap suds slide off when the dishes are put in the rack. Whether rinsed or not ive never tasted soap on any clean dishes/cutlery
A stove top kettle and teapots 🫖 are two competely different things here in the UK. We have teapots 🫖 also, but they are normally made of pottery or china.
I once not knowing any better tried to heat water on the stove with a teapot. Not the best result!
@@mikeg2306please tell me what happened 😂😂
A kettle is for boiling water, while a teapot is for steeping and serving tea. Kettles heat water quickly, while teapots are designed with infusers or strainers to hold tea leaves while steeping.
Boil water in a kettle, place a teabag in a teapot, pour the hot water over the teabag, let it steep for the recommended time, then pour the brewed tea into a mug through a strainer built into the spout. Add sweeteners, milk or lemon if desired, and enjoy your cup of tea.
Something not mentioned was that in a lot of UK homes, we have a plastic washing-up bowl in the kitchen sink that we do the washing up in. The reason being that lots of homes don't have space for a double sink so you'd rinse off the dishes into the sink at the side of the plastic bowl. And yes, most of us do rinse stuff after washing, not sure what he was going on about there.
The British narrator seems to think we’re all just plain stupid. 😂😂😂😂😂
He’s wrong we have mixer taps and dishwashers.
yeah I've lived in both and have never not rinsed dishes. I did a lot of washing up as a child in England. I did go to Walmart one time and ask for a washing up bowl (our kitchen was being rebuilt) and they had no clue what I was talking about. It took 5 clerks and google images to figure it out and they didn't really know what it was called but one older lady called it a dish pan.
@@OneMinuteSewing I wash my dishes in dish pan. The plug in the sink isn't as secure as it should be. I was very few dishes by hand though.
To be honest, I've gotten rid of the plastic bowl. I just wash the dishes in the he full sink and then pull the plug and rinse when done, then clean the sink. I always thought the plastic bowl was a bit gross
I spent about a week in Scotland and we had the craziest washing machine,we were lucky to wash two pair of jeans and drying took waay to long so if it warmed up I hung damp jeans up stairs so that helped. The electric kettle mom and I loved tea hot oatmeal this thing was nice. Now I have an electric kettle that brews black herbal oolong tea, so I have learned new things. When we had family parties in older houses we washed dishes by hand some of my relatives never had washing machines so you pitched in and got it done. I love from across the pond, the humor alone is worth it😂
As a Brit I loved this video, thankyou SO much. I was genuinely laughing so hard that I cried a bit. Also, my girlfriend is american and has never commented on my electric kettle, I can only assume she thinks it is weirdy English witchcraft. Also, also, in your wonderful reaction to egg cups you missed that we dip "soldiers" into them and eat them. In US you treat your veterans with the respect they have earned and deserve.
😂😂😂😂
Yes most of these sorts of videos are awful and full of nasty sterotypes. But this man seems genuine and nice. The videos he makes are respectful to both US and the UK, which is lovely.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dying here 😂😂😂😂😂😂
What a fun video, I'm not British, but my husband is; we no longer live in Britain, but garbage disposals are generally not a thing in Europe. Many people dry their clothes on a line or a rack, especially when it's warm outside. We have a washer-dryer combo (and the dryer is actually good) in the bathroom. And every house has a kettle, I am yet to meet anyone who doesn't have one whether it's for tea or coffee :)
Even if you don't drink tea or coffee, a kettle would be used if guests come round. 'I'll put the kettle on' is one of the first lines of any British host.
@@billyhills9933 Its also generally can be much faster to get boiled water for cooking etc than from a lot of hobs.
@@RickyT15 ding ding ding we have a winner 😂 I don’t drink hot drinks often but still a kettle was the first thing I bought when I moved out. What would I offer guests and how would I cook without one 😂 I don’t understand how Americans don’t even know what a kettle is. Or an egg cup. 🤦♀️🤷♀️🤣
@@RickyT15it’s cheaper too
@@billyhills9933 Or Irish
"I'm just a typical, average American". "What's a kettle?" 😆 I think I use mine like 10 times a day - it seems so strange to me that a whole country just doesn't have them! Growing up in the 80's, a stove-top kettle was just what you used to make tea during a power outage.
Yes,we called them camping kettles because we used one on a camping stove. Took ages to boil.
Apparently they don't use egg cups either!
@@Lily_The_Pink972 They don't even eat boiled eggs!
@@saxon-mt5by They do but only for sandwiches and salads.
@@RickyT15 oh they're missing out on those soft yolks! 🤤
We’ve had mixer taps for decades now mostly with sprays. Most people have double sinks but we rejected garbage disposal back in the 60’s and 70’s. The reason being that they were forever getting clogged up and we would at great expense call a plumber! My washing machine, tumble drier and dishwasher is the ‘utility’ room next door to the kitchen. In the summer I love putting my laundry on a drying line in the back garden. The smell after ironing is blissful especially the bed sheets and bath towels.
I didn't realise Americans call a stove top kettle a teapot 😂. In the UK, a teapot is the vessel you pour the tea out of once it's brewed. Teapots in the UK ceramic usually, and they look like this 🫖.
I think a lot of UK houses have those taps with the spray hose nowadays.
Great video, thank you 😊
As an American, I can say that a stove top kettle is always called a kettle. A tea pot is not a kettle. Don’t know if this guy is being theatrically naive or is just plain naive, but he clearly doesn’t know his tea pot from his kettle.
Bless you, Tyler- no, no one has stove top kettles anymore, they plug into the wall, been a thing since the 60s. Boil your water in the kettle, get the mugs out, one teabag per mug, pour water, allow to brew, remove bags, add milk and sugar as required, easy. The teapot is entirely optional and usually reserved for actual sit down meals or fancier occasions. Tea goes in the teapot, add boiling water, allow to brew then pour from the pot into the cups.
Alternatively, which many of us still do, is put the kettle on,
heat the teapot with hot or warm water, than put proper tea leaves
in¬! Leave to stand for a few minutes, then pour into cup adding
milk last, a very small amount, or not at all, adding sugar if you absolutely must!
I do, bought recently because its cheaper to boil the kettle from our bottled gas than the electric kettle.
We have an emergency stove top kettle in case of power cuts or breakdown of electric kettle. Also very good for camping.
@@barbarahayden5602 same 🙂
Tea just tastes better when brewed in a pot.
Watching Tyler reacting to this reminds me of the old Smash adverts where the cute aliens laugh at humans for peeling and boiling potatoes to make mash! He's so naive over some things, makes me laugh. But I'm sure he's a lovely chap really😊
Soft boiled eggs are not just for breakfast ...!! They are also a tea time treat 😃❤️
Soft boiled eggs, a little salt, buttered toasty soldiers to dip - bliss at any time. Truly the epitome of comfort food.
I see a lot of homes in my profession, not many these have twin taps, it’s all mixer taps. Our kettles are very rapid boil, and literally boil within 2 mins or less, we need our cups of tea! As for tap hose lots of new builds have them, or renovated homes. We have our washing machines in the kitchen in most cases as our homes are smaller. We are a small island, land is premium, costs more, most new build homes have utility rooms with washer dryer in.
I know more people with two taps than a mixer tap . I’m in north east England .
A cooker is what I’d specifically call a freestanding oven/hob combo, whereas, an integrated oven, I’d only call it an oven
Yeah, if the oven/grill unit is separate, it's oven and the other bit is hob, if together it's cooker, I suppose because it has all cooking methods in one.
@@davebirch1976 The hob is the cooktop or the stove in Americanese.
Mate I've always just used cooker to mean hob or stove.
Americans call a cooker a "range".
@@bencodykirk what we call a grill Americans call a broiler (which doesn't make sense as it sounds similar to boiler 😆) and what they call a grill we call a barbecue.
For the majority of my adult life (I'm in my 50's) I'd only had a stove-top teapot. But I rapidly fell in love with electric kettles when travelling in the UK. My girlfriend (now wife) bought me an electric kettle a number of years ago - I love that thing! So fast & convenient!
You had a stove top kettle, not a teapot.
I remember visiting a friend in the US and wanted to make a cup of coffee. I couldn't find the " kettle " so used a small saucepan. The coffee, Han an oily sheen to it! I mentioned it to my friend when she came back from work....she told me that was what she used, for when she had a cold and and needed to steam her sinuses with Vick! Yes , I drunk the coffee!😊
The “cooker” refers to the whole appliance, meaning the hob and the oven. In Australia the appliance is generally referred to as the stove.
same in your mother country!
A tea pot is the thing you make the tea in. You put loose tea or tea bags in the pot and put boiling water in to make multiple cups rather than putting a tea bag in each cup. The kettle is just for boiling the water. Most people have electric kettles. They turn themselves off once they boil.
Usually a teabag in a mug & teabags/tea leaves in a teapot when using teacups. 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
My UK parents (in their 70s) don't think the dishes have been washed properly unless they have been immersed in water. They think it's unhygienic. They also don't rinse the dishes under clean water. I feel like many people my generation (late GenX) and younger, combine the two methods by rinsing the soap of the dishes in clean water after immersing them. You don't taste the soap, but younger generations think it's not really good for you to have traces of soap on your dishes.
There is a specific order to wash things in (basically cleanest to dirtiest) to make best use of the sink full of water. Most British households also use a plastic basin in the sink and they fill that instead of the entire sink. This means you use less water, if you only have one sink as many do, it means you can empty things between the sink and basin before washing, it also protects the more delicate dishes from contact with the sink while washing, as the plastic is less likely to cause damage.
I find the habit of not rinsing in clean water HORRIBLE! However many of us
use dishwashers today. If find it necessary to wash in the kitchen sink for
whatever reason I always finish up holding the dishes etc. under hot running
water AND I am in the seventies, so it is not an age thing !
And during the inevitable hosepipe ban you empty the water onto the garden, veges/flowers or grass depending on choice.
@@marycarver1542absolutely right, it is not an age thing at all, I always rinse my dishes.
Not an age thing at all, my mum (86) and I always rinse off dishes 😊
Even when I was a scout, we would have 2-3 basins to wash dishes:
1. Water to remove grime.
2. Soapy water to clean.
3. Water to rinse.
Main (historic) reason for the washing machine is in the kitchen very close to the sink is due to piping - you only need one water pipe to feed both. Even allowing for less space in the average UK house (and therefore less likely to have a spare laundry room), the cost to extend pipes wasn't worth it.
The historic reason for a lack of mixer taps on sinks is the way hot water was heated. Hot water was boiled separately and held in insoluted heater tanks until used. Hot water tanks is a potential breading grounds for bacteria. Hence, hot and cold water had separate taps so that any residue hot water couldn't contaminate cold drinking water.
And the lack of garbage disposal in the sink is down to the fact we'd put them in food waste recycling to be put into composter... Much more environmentally friendly and less likely to have broken plumbing
Here's something else that will blow your mind. Most British fridges don't have icemakers and are usually smaller. Many times they are under the kitchen worktop.
Don’t say that, it will blow his mind that many households in the UK don’t have the “America style fridge freezer.”
Very few British homes have space such as a laundry/ utility room so having a washing machine in the kitchen is very common indeed and having a dryer next to the machine or a combined one is usual too.
If you’re only making tea for yourself then you can pour the hot water into a mug with a tea bag but if making tea or coffee for a number of people then you pour the water from the kettle into a teapot with multiple tea bags or loose tea leaves and let them brew for five minutes before pouring the drink into the mugs or cups.
Almost all new Apartments built have the washing machine in the utility closet. Id say itd be in the kitchen in older homes
Most of us have mixer taps these days. This guy has not lived in the UK
for many years! However, many of us prefer separate taps, as our water
systems mean we can safely drink cold water from the tap!
@@marycarver1542 that's true we have evolved from the Backwards country he must of lived in lol we even have tap that boils water and cold water also sparkling water it's called quooker tap. 😊
@@ng.simontm Yea most newer homes have it moved out of the kitchen and its becoming less common.
@@RickyT15 yea that’s what I thought
Hi Tyler,
I do have a separate laundry, with both a washing machine and a tumble dryer. However, it is downstairs so that if the weather is warm enough I hang it out in the garden to dry on the rotary dryer. This saves energy. We Brits are much more energy conscious and recycle just about everything! Some food waste can be composted and added to flowerbeds, the remaining bits of bone etc gets collected by the dustmen (garbage disposal team) and recycled at a special site.
However, I do have a sprayer tap and I do rinse items I have hand washed.
I always take these videos with a pinch of salt, as bot everything he said was accurate😅
Tea pots in England are ceramic and look similar to the stove top kettle you’re used to, and are more old fashioned. For a teapot, you’d boil the water separately, usually on the stove, fill the teapot with loose leaf tea and the boiling water, allow it to brew, and then pour through a small tea sieve into cups. We have stove top kettles, they’re just uncommon. Nowadays every household would have an electric kettle.
Many of our houses are hundreds of years old, and being a small island with a large population, our houses got really tiny. In the victorian era especially, staircases got dangerously steep to allow more houses to be built in a given space. So we don’t have dedicated laundry rooms. Since theres water piping in the kitchen already for the sink, it makes sense for an extra outlet to be there for the washing machine. The video talks about combined washer/drier machines. I’ve never personally seen one. Most houses have two machines, a washer and drier, but its not uncommon for a house to have just a washer. In those instances we hang our washing from a clothes line outside or on a clothes horse or airer inside.
I’d say about half pf all homes have dishwashers now. But when we do hand wash dishes we put them in hot soapy water, but most of us do rinse them so they don’t taste soapy, letting the water just run off is more old fashioned. Water stains or water marks are visible marks left by dried droplets of water if you live in a hard water area. You may be used to finding them on the glass in your shower. Its another old timey thing for us, but water marks on glass or cutlery was a big no no. Allowing the soapy water to just run off prevents water marks.
Newer houses have mixer taps, and people with disposable income may have a plumber come in an swap their taps for one mixer tap.
We don’t have garbage disposal in the sink. That honestly confused me in films for years before it was explained. We have bins. Like a tub with a lid and a bag inside. Thats where we put our waste. Any food left on plates is scraped into the bin.
‘Cooker’ for oven sounds silly until you realise you also use ‘toaster’. A toaster toasts bread so its a toaster, logical right? Its the same for the cooker. It cooks.
Here in Australia we follow British acts, utensils names in the kitchen. When I was young we used to put the kettle on the gas stove (hotplates) to boil it. We also call the oven the stove at times as they were and still are one unit. We now have the electric kettle which makes it easier to boil the water to make tea, either in a teapot or teabags, or instant coffee. I have two (2) sinks in my kitchen, one to wash the plates and cups after a meal, the second sink is full of clean water so as to rinse the soap off the washed items. We also don't have 'garbage disposal' in the sinks as well. Most Australian houses/units have separate laundry rooms which have the washing machines and clothes dryers mostly used on rainy days, some laundries may have a toilet in there as well. Putting hard or soft boiled eggs into eggcups, we mostly ate the eggs using an egg spoon, and tea towels is easiest to explain if you googled it. We also the follow the British in many other things where again it would be easier to explain if you googled them.
When I was looking at furnished flats to rent, every kitchen had a kettle, toaster and a microwave oven. Sometimes it looked like they were all bought in bulk at some sort of landlord's provision shop.
Note that the lower voltage in US kitchens would mean an electric kettle would boil slower.
We do have Electric kettles in the US, you can get them at Walmart, no one buys them, As they would take too long for the water to heat up, We either microwave the water or use our coffee maker to boil water.
Our outlets are 240 volts here in the US, they are separated into two 120 volts, the bigger appliances will us all 240 volts, things that are smaller will use only 120 volts.
@@marydavis5234 Mary, you have the same mains voltage as Canada, and I've been to Canada where the vast majority of people do use electric kettles. Yeah, they do take longer to boil -- but it's not that bad. 3 minutes to boil 400ml. It works for Canadians just fine, so why haven't Americans caught on?
Plus, you just said you have 240v outlets. Problem solved, you can boil lots of water at UK speeds! I think it's just a case of "haven't caught on" over there.
@@Hirotoro4692 Maybe it's just bc we don't care, or, we don't just do something just bc Britain says so?🙄
Always rinse off the soap from dishes
As a Brit, I would never leave the soap on dishes. I always dry them with a towel right away
I have a two drawer dishwasher. I wash most of my China, glasses and cups by hand and use the top dishwasher drawer as a draining rack. 😁
The towel doesn't get rid of the toxins.
You don't just leave the shampo in your hair either and only towel dry it.
Yes cant beat wiping clean dishes with a damp cloth breading germs.
I bought my last house 4 years ago and it had an oven and I've never used it. I brought with me a combination microwave/oven/grill that did most of what I wanted but quickly bought an air fryer to increase capacity and efficiency. I have since retired the air fryer (it lives in the loft as an emergency backup) and replaced it with a halogen model and mainly use the combination oven as a microwave. I considered replacing the oven with a condensing clothes drier but eventually settled on a smaller venting drier which lives in a spare room and vents into a box of cold water to reduce humidity in the room and actually mostly eliminates it altogether. It's worth saying that this arrangement suits me since I live alone and so have smaller requirements in those areas. This is what my life has come to - discussing kitchen appliances. As an old man of 73 I can't help feeling a little disappointed in myself.
i only found out recently that Americans dont use kettles and i couldnt believe it! infact one American said when asked well how do you make tea and she said, we sometimes microwave the water.......................whatttttt???!! im still in shock. i think its extremely rare not to find a kettle in any Brits home, its usually the first thing we buy for our kitchens lol along with tea bags ofcourse. These small differences between the two countries i find so fascinating 😁 p.s my dryer is awesome and washes clothes well too you know
A Kettle and a Tea Pot are completely different things. A Kettle boils the water, the tea-pot is what the tea is made in!
In an earlier video you were introduced to the tea cosy, egg cups introduce you to the egg cosy, to keep your boiled egg hot before you eat it.
Tyler, British houses are often much older so they have plumbing in the bathroom and the kitchen. Installing new pipes would be a major upheaval and too expensive to be practical. The houses also have a much smaller footprint so there’s no room for any extensions to be added. Make use of the plumbing that already exists.
older houses are much bigger than the boxy things currently being developed by greedy builders, and have
very generous sized gardens as a rule !
Teapots and kettles are totally different. You boil up the water in the kettle (you can have electric or stove top). Once the water is boiled you pour it into the teapot, which will have either teabags or tealeaves in it. You let it 'brew' for a while and pour it out.We also use the electric kettle to boil water for instant coffee
you may like the sound of a whistling kettle but if you go into your yard and get distracted by a neighbour or something else, your kettle on the hob will boil dry, where as our electric kettles automatically turnoff once it reaches boiling point
He forgot to mention plastic bowls in British kitchens. Instead of putting dishes straight into the sink, you run the hot water into the bowl. This cuts down on water and is a softer surface for glassware or delicate crockery.
I'm an Aussie and I too use a plastic 'bowl' inside my twice a big metal sink to cut down on water and is kinder on china and glass wear
Most South Africans have an electric kettle as well and we mostly make Instant Coffee (like Nescafé) and tea with it. We almost never used stovetop kettles. These days however,with our rolling blackouts, we do however boil water on our camping stoves during the blackouts to make our beverages.🇿🇦
We have kettles in Canada as well. We actually have 3 different sizes of kettles. The tea pot is what you pour the boiling water into. Always rinse the tea pot with the boiling water before putting the tea bags in. Canadians usually have the washing machine in the basement, along with the dryer. I have had to use the washer/ dryer in Ireland. We used to put our stuff in the dryer, but, it is better for the clothes. Canadians will also use the sink for the dishes. We have a mixer tap. Never had a garbage disposal except when on holiday in the US. It depends on the sink whether you have a sprayer. We always rinse the dishes, because the soap needs to be removed. Water stains. Canadians also have egg cups. We each got one for Easter. They are great. We say top but we call it doing the dishes and dry them with tea towel. It doesn’t make sense to call the oven the cooker, since the whole stove, top and oven are things that cook.
A tea pot is what you pur the hot water in to from the kettle. You brew tea in a tea pot with either tea bags or loose tea but if using loose tea you need a tea strainer as you poor from the tea pot to catch the loose tea so it doesn't end up in your cup. Also there's the tea cosy that goes on the tea pot to keep it warm. Just to be clear it is NOT normal to leave the soap on the plates we most definitely DO rinse before putting on the rack. A water stain is cause by lime scale due to the amount of limerock in the country so we get lime in water in most places which if you don't dry off will leave little rings behind when it drys, especially horrible when washing a car. Also we them cookers because an oven is just 1 part of the cooker, there's also the hob (or rings) and the grill so cooker encompasses them all.
We have be using electric kettles here in the U.K. since the year 1893.
My parents had a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink back in the early 1970s and we knew quite a few people who had one as they were popular at one time.
If you leave the plates to dry you usually rinse first. I don't know why he thinks that we don't.
I'm Canadian and we have electric kettles. When you said you would be hard to find one in USA I was shocked. We have an electric kettle in the kitchen, we have a solar camping kettle, we have an electric travel kettle (so we can boil water in hotel rooms when we travel - hotel coffee makers do not boil water) and we do have a stove top kettle so if the power goes out we can boil water on the gas stove. We have coffee in the morning (up until about 3pm) then tea for the remainder of day. Maybe that's just us? We also have egg cups, ours look like chickens...lol.
We have a higher voltage of electricity in the UK, so an electric kettle can boil a mug or two of water in about a minute. As other have said, this is not a teapot, which is something most people no longer use, unless they're my mum. Most just make a tea in a mug.
Have never related to the leaving the soap on dishes thing, but I guess it comes from filling the bowl with hot water then having nowhere to rinse them. I tend to use the running water technique, as I can't remember how many decades it's been since not having a mixer tap in the kitchen.
You misunderstood his point about washing up, you were agreeing with him without realising. WE call doing the dishes "washing up", where as you say that for washing yourself.
A "cooker" would be the word used for a stand alone stove and oven combo, where as we would generally call a built in separate oven or hob as an oven or hob.
220v supply is available in US. It is stepped down to 110 when it is installed within a property. Certain appliances - air conditioners for example - require higher voltage to function.
I make pot of tea each morning. The rest of the time I either use a one up brewing basket for the loose tea, or if the ad break isn’t long enough, a tea bag:)
@@shaunfarrell3834 You'd get on well with my mum, though I suspect her pot would be too weak for you if you sometimes use a bag in a cup!
I'm a pensioner. I've never lived in a house that didn't have a mixer tap, or faucet, at the kitchen sink. Even my mother insisted that we rinsed things in scalding hot water after washing up. It was good becasuse they quickly air dried and avoided the need to use the "tea" towel. I guess that Lost in the Pond Lawrence last lived in the UK back in the 1950s, in which case he looks good for his age. I must admit that separate hot and cold taps can still be occasionally found at wash basins in old bathrooms that have not been refurbished.
I don't have a mixer tap but I always rinse my plates and cutlery (silverware). I cannot stand the taste of dish soap on plates and cutlery. I have seen people have a second bowl of hot water for rinsing.
coucil houses still continue with the sepparte hot and cold taps but most private houses now has mixer taps, the main reason why americans do not have plug in kettles or are rare is becuse of their voltage we have 240v where as they are on 110v so what would take us a min to two mins too boil an electric kettle where as it could be double tripple the time too boil an electric kettle
That's posh! 😂
n Britain, the 'cooker' refers to the whole device while 'oven' refers only to the heated compartment where you roast meat or bake cakes. The bit on top where you heats pans to fry or boil is the 'hob'. The two sections are, in some kitchens, entirely separate and built into the cupboards and counter tops so you might have an oven and hob but no cooker as such.
Kettles are devices to boil water (unless you are referring to medieval times where kettle simply might be another name for a large cooking vessel or cauldron--hence 'a fine kettle of fish'). Teapots are the vessels used to prepare tea and are traditionally ceramic... hence the name.
To prepare a pot of tea, first bring the water to a rolling boil in the kettle, warm the empty tea pot by rinsing briefly with boiling water, add the tea (preferably loose leaves but tea bags if you must)--one teaspoon (hence the name...) per person plus 'one for the pot', then taking the teapot to the kettle, pour on the required amount of boiling water. Allow to brew to suit your taste then serve. Preheating the teapot and always taking the pot to the kettle are both intended to ensure the water is as close to boiling point as possible. Despite so-called experts recently presenting 'research' suggesting it would be better to be slightly off the boil not only did my High School cookery teacher tell us otherwise, more importantly my old granny taught me the same when she showed me how to brew a pot just as soon as I could safely handle the kettle--about 4 years old. By the time I was 8 I was walking the half mile home from school at lunchtime and making myself a cup of tea to drink with my sandwiches (our Headmistress disapproved of packed lunches so we either ate the terrible school meals or went home).
Electric kettles are ubiquitous. It is generally the first thing you buy when setting up home. They can come to the boil in a minute and modern designs allow you to safely heat only the volume required so saving both time and energy (= money!).
Washing machines are usually in the kitchen for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the average age of housing stock is much older in the UK and many Victorian and early 20th century properties would only a single connection to the water supply and that would be in the kitchen. Bathrooms, for example, were retrofitted to older properties in many cases only in the mid-twentieth century. Both my parents (neither family being particularly poor) grew up bathing in tin baths that would be filled with kettles of hot water. Secondly, average property sizes are much smaller so dedicated laundry rooms (or 'utility' rooms as commonly termed here) are uncommon. Since electrical safety regulations essentially prohibit washing machines in bathrooms that leaves only the kitchen. Another difference that British viewers will have noticed is that the US (if television shoes are to be trusted) still uses top loading washing machines and dryers where in the UK they were seen as very old fashioned by the mid-sixties. Both washers and dryers are almost always front loading (which makes it much easier to install them beneath the kitchen work surfaces).
The phrase 'doing the dishes' is, at least in my experience, as common as 'washing up'. However, the liquid used to wash the dishes is not 'dish soap' but the equally descriptive 'washing up liquid'.
Waste disposal units are exceptionally rare; I've never come across one here in the UK or in any of the continental European countries in which I have worked, lived or travelled. Many UK water companies prohibit their use as they tend to clog the drainage systems--an unfortunate consequence of being pioneers in municipal sewage systems is that much of the network is Victorian and built with far smaller populations in mind.
The joy of an electric kettle is that it switches itself off when the water is boiled.
I have a utility room for my washer and separate dryer but I still hang washing outside when the weather is good, it's far better for the environment. Most of us have mixer taps in our kitchens now but generally we are discouraged from using running water for anything as often in the summer we have water shortages. Many of us also pay for our water by the litre and its surprising how much water you can use if you regularly keep the tap running.
A 'cooker' refers to a single appliance that all of your cooking would be carried out at. It consisted of an oven, generally at floor level, the hob above it where you would heat saucepans and a raised back that led to an eye-level grill where you would grill stuff and make toast and toast variants that you couldn't make in a toaster like cheese on toast.
You can still buy units like this but you're also likely to see hobs separated from ovens/grills, which would also be at a more useful height.
Also, Lost in the Pond has been US-side for a long time now. The current must-have in British kitchens is an air fryer.
You’re going to confuse him. We don’t call them hobs in the US. We just call them stoves. (My American phone didn’t even like me using the word hob and tried correcting it to job😂)
@@sopdox true enough, especially as the Americans call Grills Broilers. Ahh I see you're phone is trying to inflict the ubiquitious auto-uncorrect on you.
@@sopdox - see for me as a brit, stove makes me think of an all in one hob/oven/grill but is a word i associate with the ww2 generation (my great-gran would say the stove when talking about her cooker).
I could live quite happily if all my kitchen had was a slow cooker, an air fryer, an electric kettle, a toaster and a microwave. I rarely use the hob or oven.
You mean one of those massive plastic eyesores parked on the worktop that replicates your fan oven but needs more cleaning?
Every country has the ability to install sprayer hoses in the kitchen...while they were not common over 20 years ago, many houses have been renovated to include them and new builds already have them...also mixer taps are quite prevalent and most people who renovate will have...or already have replaced the separate taps with mixers.
Worth mentioning the above is true for the middle upper class who can actually afford to Reno their whole kitchen on a whim
@@Stettafire Our kitchen is still almost original to the house...(circa 1927) the kitchen hasn't been renovated but the sink has been updated and the taps have been changed a few times over the decades simply because they have worn out and needed complete replacing.
A sprayer head we don't have, but it is getting more common.
re: washing machines - we tend to use front-loaders. some are also combination wash & drier units. For small loads, you can set to wash then dry. for larger loads, I would 'wash' then split the drying load into 2 or 3, but I prefer to peg out the washing on a clothes airier and then take that outside. We mostly don't have the space for a separate laundry area.
we used to use stove-top kettles - and I still keep one 'just in case' there is a power cut (unlikely). Coffee Pot & Tea Pot - two kitchen items for preparing coffee or tea - usually different shapes.
electric kettles used to look like stove-top kettles but with an electric element. All the modern ones are more cylindrical, the element is covered, you lift them on and off the power connector and they auto cut-off when boiled. Sizes from 500ml (2 cups) to typically 1 500ml (6 cups).
The USA had the electric kettle first
Carpenter Electric Company, in the US, launched their electric kettle in 1891. Two years later, UK firm Crompton & Co released their own model. Both of these kettles featured a heating element housed in a separate compartment, and both took more than 10 minutes to boil.
We just never stopped using it
The reason sprayer hoses aren't popular is, because we don't have waste disposals in the sink, we can't just spray all the food bits down the drain or else it would block the pipes
I wonder whether that is why there is so much food waste in the u.s. In the u.k. we have to decide what to do with leftovers rather than out of sight,out of mind.
We have where I live a bag for newspapers cardboard a d one for plastics and a..bucketbforvwaste food
Even with mixer tapes we usually do the sink full thing.
Plus leaving the dishes with harder bits in hot water to soak as you clean the stuff on top is great time efficency. By the time you get to the bottom ones hopefully they've soaked through....weetabix is a big culprit here.
You do your glasses in a separate go with fresh water to stop them getting food wastes on them and then harder to clean. Plus r3ally hot hot water helps.
And yes we do rinse of the washing up liquid (soap) before we put it to dry
In the 80 s, we had a kettle for the stove too. Then in the 90s came the first electric kettles. In Germany we call them Wasserkocher ( water cooker) cause that's what they do 😂. The technique became better over time and so do the design of them. Now you get pretty stylish ones made of glass or stainless steel or the cheap ones made of plastic, but I don't recommend those cause over time you drink more and more plastic. The best are made of glass where the heating unit is below the cooker and not inside of it. They can not even just cook water, they also can bring it up to different temperatures! And they shut down by themselves when they reached the temperature you wanted. Look at Amazon. You will find a big variety of them. It's so common in Germany. Every household has one. We're not just using them for making our hot water for tea. It's also used for preparing water for coffee, for a French press or Turkish brew, for pre heating water for cooking noodles and stuff like that. Cause it cooks water much faster than a stove. I don't know anyone who is still using a normal kettle on a stove in Germany 😂😂
An electric kettle is a totally different thing to a teapot.
An electric kettle is just a vessel you use to quickly boil plain water in for many different uses, not only to boil water to make tea, but for instant coffee or any other purpose you need boiling water for. An electric kettle replaces trying to boil water in a pan or in a microwave (how they heat water in the US).
Once the water is boiled in the kettle you pour the boiling water into a teapot which is where you brew the tea. Teapots are used less nowadays than in the past because most of the tea consumed is in tea bags and the manufacturers now make 'one cup tea bags'. So you don't need a teapot anymore. You just boil the water in the kettle then pour the boiling water into your tea mug where you have your one cup tea bag waiting.
The most common place you will still find a teapot being used is if you go for a cup of tea at a tea shop. So if you are sitting down to eat sandwiches, scones and jam with a cup of tea then the tea will likely come in a teapot.
I always make tea in a pot, still. It may take a fraction longer - but the flavour is better.
Our electric kettles boil water very quickly and switch themselves off. How I love your videos. They are so amusing and very informative about the difference between us....fascinating. A big thank you for such interesting entertainment.
Aussie here, ex Brit. They are not side by side they are both kettles, one is heated on the stove one is electric and boils water very quickly. I asked my son why don't Americans have electric kettles, his reply was perhaps it is because of the electric current difference. In the UK in my childhood my mother had a "Teasmade" she totally loved it. In the morning it would boil water in a vessel once boiled it would pour the boiling water into a teapot and when the tea was made the alarm clock part of the machine would wake her up, waking her up to a fresh cup of tea.
A tea pot is a metal or ceramic jug with a lid, that you put freshly boiled water and tea bags or loose leaf if you're fancy to "brew" the tea, before sharing it into cups. Then you add milk/sugar/lemon as you like. Teapots don't heat water. They make tea hence the name 😂
the first thing I bought as a German undergraduate at UoL in Kentucky was an electronic kettle to make tea and Ramen in my dorm room. And that was in 1993… They exist and they have existed for a looooong time… even in the U.S. As a German tapping into the communal ecologically-minded psychology, we also often use electronic kettles to boil water fast before pouring it into pots when cooking (such as noodles or soups and such). You have boiling water much faster than heating it up on the stove, which makes it cheaper and faster to cook stuff…
Kettles aren't just useful for making tea and coffee quickly. I use mine often to boil water to put into a pot for boiling vegetables etc. Boiling it in the pot from cold takes an age to get to boiling point whereas with a kettle you an have boiling water within 2-3 minutes
I think because the American electric system is only 110v instead of the UK 230/240v system, electric kettles take longer to boil so perhaps that's why they're not as common.
I haven't seen a non-electric kettle since I was a kid (many years ago). As an ex-soldier I can confirm that even tanks in the British army have an electric kettle (known as a "boiling vessel").
It's also a space thing. You have to have the washing machine in the kitchen as there is usually no other place to put it
We use the work cooker because most kitchens here used to have a single appliance with a hob built onto the top of the oven. They often also had an eye level grill above the hob. So, one appliance did all your cooking, hence cooker. An oven is only one part. Now, we often have a hob built into the worktop with a separate oven underneath.
What we call a grill, US folk call a 'broiler'. They cook food over a grill, under a broiler.
@@wessexdruid7598 wrong, the broiler is the oven, it heats up from the top of the oven and it broils from the top, grilling in the US, is using an actual grill, that is outside.
@@marydavis5234 The point is, in the UK, our grills cook from the top, not just the bottom. (We can also use a grill pan, or grill plate/griddle.) In the US, you call that top-down heating broilling, not grilling. UK grills can be at eye level, as part of a standalone cooker - or part of a second, built-in, high-level or low-level oven.
What you call a grill, outside, we call a barbecue, gas or otherwise. *Neither of us is wrong - just different* . Just - please don't correct us on how to use our own language? In the UK, it would be a common term to 'put something _under_ the grill'.
We also now have instant electric kettles. No waiting for the whole kettle to boil, just put your cup on the built-in tray then push the button and it immediately dispenses a measured amount of water which it actually heats as it dispenses. We do have garbage disposals, but we call them pedal bins.
I have those near my kitchen and bar sinks. They’re called hot water on demand and they have their own little faucet.
@@cybersal7 nah what you appear to have is a water heater that keeps a pint or so of water boiling constantly below the worktop not as cheap to run as the one cup dispensers!
Pedal bins 😂
your stove-top kettle (or teakettle), is nostalgic. it's very traditional. Cool to play around with whilst on holiday but not convient for everyday life.
the electric kettle is a consequence of us enjoying a magnitude more tea, requiring magnitude more boiled water, and the electric kettle that turns it self OFF when it boils is a life saver.
No more forgetting you've turn the kettle on, and come back 20 minutes later into a steam filled kitchen.
A TEAPOT is something different.
When my daughter spent a year in America she lived in the hall of residence and she had a kettle but it was confiscated because it was considered dangerous. She was totally perplexed because guns were allowed! Also, mu kitchen tap is a mixer, but it will also dispense boiling hot water, so I don’t have a kettle!
“Guns were allowed.” Really? How classically American! In some states they practically hand you a gun when you cross the state line.
😅😅
The washing machines are usually in the kitchen in the UK because you only need one set of water points. The water feed for the washing machine is connected to the sink and the used water from both sink and washing machine is connected to one soil pipe out of the house. Houses are also typically smaller so it saves space not having a separate room for laundry.
And also why would you want to get your new clean clothes in the same room you poo? I don't want my clean laundry in there!! 😂
@@amiwalker6988Kitchen not bathroom :)
Many UK houses are small so the bathroom wouldn't fit a large appliance. Especially true for older (IE most) houses which had the bathroom fitted into the building retroactively.
I'm in the UK and I have a mixer tap with an extendable hose but no garbage disposal. We recycle a lot in the UK including the food waste which is picked up once a week and taken to a community compost heap. And let me tell you that heap is huge.
To us garbage disposals just sound weird. But it is what it is and what you are used to 🤔😁
Or we put food scraps in the compost heap reading for gardening.
Larger houses will probably have a separate room for the "white goods," ie washing machine, dryer, dish washer, fridge, freezer, etc. To conserve space you can buy a combined washer/dryer, but it's best to get the most expensive model (the advantage of having them separate is that you can do two things at once). We live in a small bungalow so the kitchen holds the dish washer and washer, with the fridge/freezer in the dining-room and freezer and dryer in the garage. Electric kettles boil the water which is then poured into the teapot, into which the tea has already been placed. These days it's common to place teabags into mugs and pour the hot water directly in.
In South Africa it's very very simular as the UK. Seeing that the Brittans had a big part in South Africa as we were part of them for many years.
I’m lucky enough to have a utility room but all my previous property’s dust so my washer/dryer was in the kitchen. Don’t why Laurence says they are rubbish! Mine is brilliant. I only use the dryer in the winter. Otherwise I use my washing line in my back garden. I have only one tap in my kitchen but in my bathroom the sinks have two. Hot & cold. I think my Nan during the war used a kettle that boiled in the stove! I can go through 5/6 cups of tea a day! I personally don’t have a dishwasher but many people do. I always rinse my dishes. The odd bit of info he gives is a bit old fashioned. I have an oven & a cooker top. My daughter had a free standing cooker. There’s nothing better than soft boiled eggs with soldiers! A staple breakfast fur many in the Uk. You can get lovely egg cups ceramic metal etc. waste disposal units are a bit lazy I think. We just scrape the food into a bin done do compost boxes. So put the remaining food into the compost box. Depending how green you are I suppose. X
So many British house are very old! The mod cons were not available then.
Of course, they are now updated. All NEW properties have the things
mentioned in this article, not necessarily an improvement in my opinion !
Tyler your total and absolute 'Americanism' makes these reactions so entertaining......you crack me up 🤣
A cooker houses an oven, hob & grill.
We usually have a mixer tap in the kitchen/bathroom, unless the property is very old, when it would have had a separate cold water tank in the loft for the bathroom (which wasn't drinking water), and the upstairs taps didn’t run on mains pressure. Most centrally heated homes nowadays have mains pressure water throughout, which can operate through a mixer tap, and is all safe to drink.
Our washing machines are in the kitchen, as we have a different power voltage to the US, so electrical sockets (apart from a lower voltage shaver socket) aren't allowed in bathrooms, to prevent electrocution. There are also no oush light switches in bathrooms, because of the risk of electrocution. Instead there are pull switches, or switches on the wall outside the bathroom, assuming your jands will then be dry.
Sometimes a washing machine can be placed in a downstairs cloakroom/toilet, as it doesn't have a bath or shower, so the electrical regulations are different, and sockets are allowed as long as they are away from the wash-hand basin. A washing machine & all other kitchen appliances have isolator switches, to prevent electrocution. As mentioned, this is all because of the higher voltage, meani g there is a greater risk of electrocution.
Generally a cooker is a kitchen unit that is a combined oven, hob and grill (broiler). In the UK if those are separate in the kitchen they are still just hob, grill and oven, so only when they are merged into one unit is it a cooker.
Most if not all homes have had mixer taps in the kitchen since the 70s onwards. It's been that long since I have seen separate hot and cold taps. It has had a resurgence in recent years where some people like to have old style appliances in the kitchen for the cool factor, but septate hot and cold taps really isn't a thing anymore unless you are in a very old house that had not been updated, in which case the exact same would be true in the US, so I really can't understand why so many people keep pretending this is a thing when it actually is not at all. We do have washer/ dryers and actually they work perfectly. There is misinformation there as mostly they would be used by people who do not have gardens as line drying clothing is far superior as it smells fresher due to the fresh air. The UK is very small and far far more densely populated than the huge US, so it is normal for most peoples homes to be generically small, hence the need to had the washing machine in the kitchen. There simply isn't anywhere else to put it. Electric kettles are standard in every home in the UK. Again only those opting for niche retro styling was use a stove top kettle. A tea pot is not a kettle. Tea pots are usually ceramic but can also be mettle. You put your dried tea into the tea pot then pout hot or boiling water into it and allow it to steep, developing flavour.
I've not had soft boiled eggs for ages they are lovely with toasted soldiers or just buttered bread soldiers yum
You have to take into account that Great Britain is only as big as one of your smallest states. Yet London has as many people living there as the whole of that state. So our houses are alot smaller there as can't always have laundry rooms. When it comes to the electric kettle they boil water alot faster than those that need to sit on the stove/cooker.
Really incorrect Andrew. Get to know your geography of the US a bit better. That may be true of some states but not California in the greater LA area. Take NewYork for another example. Check it's area and population against that of London. The population density is considerably more than London.
The nearest state in the US in size to the UK is Oregon.... London is physically much larger than NYC, with a slightly larger population. The UK tends to have less, or lower, high-rise buildings, hence the difference in density.
@@scrappystocks what am saying is as the UK is alot smaller than America are house's are alot smaller than American houses hence why we don't laundry rooms. Also Oregon has a smaller population than the whole of the UK. Unsure where am wrong in my 1st comment.
@@scrappystocks John if you also actually check greater London is actually larger than New York with 37 boroughs where New York only has 7/8 boroughs. London also has a greater population.
Kitchen sinks in the UK now mostly do have mixer taps but we tend to fill the sink with hot water to: 1:save water instead of constantly running the tap, 2:soak the dishes in hot water to get stubborn food/baked on dirt off the dishes easier..the can soak while you do other things…
We have 2 sinks side by side, we have a mixer sprayer tap for doing the dishes. The other tap is called a QUOOKER it dispenses boiling hot water to use in making tea and adding to pans to get your veg, eggs etc to cook quicker when you’re cooking and you turn the dial and it changes for freezing cold for drinking. We also have our laundry upstairs on the top floor where the bedrooms are in a laundry, and we have an electric kettle ( kept in a box incase the hot tap conks out) 🤣
British domestic power supply is 230 volts, American half that 110V our electric kettles boil water fast. It’s also why we keep our power outlets and water separate a higher danger from electrocution, so no normal sockets in bathrooms.
If anyone was wondering. Tyler is a typical average American
I grew up with electric kettles in the 1960s but we also had a spare stove top kettle for gas stove. This was for power cuts. The early electric kettles were basic, and were more like a stove top kettle in design, but had an electric heating element suspended about 1/4 inch above the bottom of the kettle. These were inside the kettle and maybe every year you had to descale the kettle or replace the heating element.
In the 1970s elelctric kettles became tall and slim to make them more efficient, and a smaller heating element could be used to heat a tall column of water. Also the heating element was no longer in the body/tank of the kettle, but was fixed underneath to a smooth internal base plate, solving the problem of limescale built up.
The kettle is the container you boil water in (either electric, whistling kettle on the hob, or just a saucepan) before you put the boiling water on the tea in the teapot. Lots of people just use teabags in a mug, so they just need to put the boiling water from the kettle into the mig with the teabag already in it (definitely no milk at this point). Tea that is already brewed gets added to the milk, either by pouring the tea from a teapot into a cup, then adding milk to taste, or removing the teabag from the mug, then adding milk to taste. You never put milk in before the boiling water (or while the tea is brewing) as this reduces the temperature at a time when it is necessary for it to remain boiling hot. Tea is recommended to brew for 5 minutes before adding the milk, but generally 3 minutes is the optimum time for a balance between flavour & antioxidants. The longer it brews the more antioxidants there are, but there is a risk you will sacrifice flavour. Not long enough and the reverse happens.
A tea pot is not something you put on the stove. It is a vessel made of ceramic or silver.
15:10 some people collect egg cups, as does my mother and has almost 2000 of them. From all over europe, most in porcelain but also in silver, glass and even with gold. They come in all sorts of shapes and forms such as animals or household things or just with a flag or pretty flowers on them.
A kettle is used to boil water, a teapot is a vessel that tea is made in with the boiling water from the kettle, but not many people use teapots these days, I have several teapots but always make individual mugs of tea directly in the mug with a tea bag on which you pour boiling water from a kettle. Tea pots are usually used with what we know as 'loose-leaf' tea, which comes in quantities of around 1/4 pound so that the leaves are always fresh to use, a bit like fresh coffee grounds.
Ex American living in Australua for a long time: Much the same as the UK here, except usually we have separate laundry rooms, cupboards, or space in the bathroom unless there is a real squeeze. Some tiny apartments still don't have space & either the building provides a pay laundry or you need to find a laundromat. If you have a house or outdoor area theres usually a clothesline or Hills Hoist - most places it doesn't freeze here in winter. Rinsing dishes seems to have been optional here too early on but these days a double sink with mixer tap is more common. My theory on the prevalence of the kettle in UK: Post WW2 until at least the 70s water was usually heated by gas heaters which required you to insert coins to run. Or which only started heating the water when you turned on the tap. Stoves too were gas, coal or wood fired. So it was quicker & maybe cheaper to use an electric kettle. Or you lived in a room in a boarding house with no kitchen & shared bathroom facilities, but were allowed a kettle and maybe a non-pop toaster for your breakfast and "tea" (light evening meal; the midday meal was "dinner" & more substantial). My memories of the Mudwest US in the 60s & 70s were that laundries were in the basement with the furnace & hot water heater; there was a battered aluminium kettle to boil water on the stovetop since my father drank tea, not coffee (English grandparents & apparently his father & my mother went along with that. Teabags only, though, not steeped tea in a pot).