Can't have cheaper tea imports undercutting the smugglers can we? Not like America's founding incident is a myth where the henchmen of an illegal drug smuggling ring destroy competitors products under the guise of patriotism. A country ruled by tycoons and special interest groups then and always.
Native Arizonan been using an electric kettle to heat up water for a French Press for the past five years when I found out it was a third of the cost of using a Keurig and tastes better than a drip or perculator process. Daughters does use it for her tea.
Most Americans don't have electric kettles, because we don't drink hot tea often enough to buy a special purpose appliance we have to store. Now, we do drink coffee on the regular, and so most of us tend to have coffee makers on the counter. So, if we need hot water in a hurry, we use the microwave. And a few of us have electric kettles- I have one (even though I've only used it two or three times in the year and a half I've owned it). It's really no more surprising than wondering why Americans in Southern states generally have AC, but many Europeans do not. I mean, I don't even live in the Deep South (barely in the South, actually - Maryland is 10 miles to the north), but we can expect about a week every summer above 35°C, with nearly 100% humidity.
You are projecting your own experience and habits onto all Americans. It’s a big country. Not everyone lives like you. I am American. I drink tea every day, and I always have. I have-wait for it-a nice, old fashioned copper kettle. It was new when I bought it about 20 years ago. I put it on the stove and I boil water. I boil water for all kinds of things, including all kinds of teas…and other things. I use the kettle. I also drink coffee, but I don’t use a coffee maker because I think they make boring, often weak coffee. I use a Moka pot, and I put it-surprise!-on the stove.
@ 1. Electric kettles are very popular in the UK because they boil water VERY fast, especially because they have 240V electricity. 2. Not everyone owns a microwave. 3. Inconvenient and awkward at best to boil enough water in a microwave to fill a teapot. 4. I’m no expert, but my guess is that boiling x amount of water in a microwave uses more energy than an electric kettle. Electricity costs more in the UK than in the US.
@odietamo9376 Yeah I guess if you didn't have a microwave already an electric kettle would make sense. But at least where I live more people have microwaves than don't, and it seems if you needed to boil more than a cup a normal kettle would be easiest.
We drink cold drinks more often than hot over here (and almost always put ice cubes in them, something I've heard blows your minds). We also have 120V power which is enough lower to cause electric kettles to work about 30% slower then yours.
@@Xiuhtec “We drink…”? Speak for yourself. Not everyone has your habits and preferences. I drink hot drinks more often than cold ones. However, you’re right about 120V and electric kettles taking longer to boil water, which is probably one of the reasons they have never really taken off here. I have a nice copper kettle which I put on my gas stove, and what do you know, it boils water just fine.
in America, we just put a pod in the keurig and push a button, and it puts our hot beverage right in the cup. or if we want to get all old fashioned, we put a kettle on the hob.
50s? Electric Kettles have been around since the 1890s. Modern versions with 'automatic turn-off on boil', became popular in the 1960s. Education lacking for you? How sad. 😢
We do have those in the US. Most people here just use a microwave or have a kettle for the stove. And then there those elitists who have a Keurig or Cappuccino/Espresso machine.
What most people don't realize is that electric kettles in the UK (and most other nations) use about %200 the voltage that we use in the US. Electric kettles are almost twice as fast to boil water in the UK than the US. The US was electrified earlier than almost all of the rest of the world. Thomas Edison tried to push DC electricity because Nicola Tesla had the patents on AC electricity. Therefore, Telsa reduced the voltage level to make people less afraid of AC. Well over 100 years later, the US still uses 120v AC for most household appliances (we don't do change very well). Thank you, Thomas Edison, you a$$hat! 🤬
We do have those. You know why I prefer using the stove instead of a electric kettle? Because when we have a power outage I can still make coffee, tea or even something to eat with a gas stove and a tea kettle .
I drink ice tea. You get a pot and boil water. Throw in a fist full of tea bags and let them go for five minutes or more. Then remove the bags and pour in as much sugar as the water can handle. Dilute the tea in a larger container to taste.
I am only speaking for myself, not the rest of America. I don't drink tea enough to be sold on this technology. I've maybe had 6 cups of tea last year, more than half were while I was out. I've got coffee makers and refrigerators in several rooms of my house, for convenience. If you want tea at my house, the best I can offer is kettle heated water and probably stale tea. I'd treat it like alcohol as I don't drink that either... If you want it, bring your own... I won't judge. ...the coffee is ready and fresh, help yourself.
My 1st real job after high school in 1976, we had an electric kettle in our break room. It was shaped like a kettle you might put on a stove, not like a coffee pot, like that one. If you filled it, you would wait nearly 15 minutes for it to boil. For that reason, I've never owned one.
Darling electric kettles are not that unknown in America. In Anerican homes using natural gas for utilities like stoves is commonly used. That being said for Christmas I gave considered buying electric kettle as a gift for heating coffee, tea. Have lovely day
We use an electric kettle in my household. It's perfect for heating water for tea, coffee, oatmeal, and even instant ramen noodles. To be fair, we also watch a lot of BBC...so definitely the exception not the rule.
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If you're only serving yourself, boiling up half a liter to pour yourself a 250ml cup is waste of energy. The microwave in that case is much more efficient, as you heat up specifically one cup, and it gets heated up faster because microwave superheats the water (that's why you gotta stir it). There is very little wasted energy. One another hand, if you need to heat up a liter or more for cooking or multiple tea servings or pourover coffee, kettle does it most efficiently.
I guess I'm one of the few Americans that actually owns one of these 😂 I love my electric kettle! My family doesn't drink much coffee but we actually do like hot tea, particularly in winter months! Electric kettles are great for boiling large amounts of water at once for several reasons: -Don't have to worry about leaving your stove unattended -Don't have to hear the annoying whistle of a classic kettle -Most have an automatic shutoff so even if you forget about it no harm done! Saves time too especially when making multiple cups of tea, also works great for heating water for instant noodles. My fellow Americans, trust the Brits on this one. Get yourself an electric kettle!
Ma'am a Texan here, just so you know in America natural gas is more commonly used for utilities, that's why household appliances stoves etc. It's just the way we do things. Even though in recent years there has been a trend to use more electric home appliances. I've considered buying electric kettles as Christmas gifts for family, friends who enjoy a mix of coffee, tea at different times for drinks. 2 In Southern US using term ma'am is being considered old fashioned. Being taught growing up manners ma'am was meant to be respectful term when talking to a woman. It's more a Southern US way of doing things, it's being used less often in recent uears Ma'am if your still single looking for dating, and in future we can talk about serious choices. How about a chat?
We both say it. British used to put the kettle on for tea while Americans put the kettle on for coffee. Both are losing their popularity in their respective countries. While a coffee maker is still an electric kettle, you're still more likely to find stove top kettles in America than in Britain.
I live in the U.S. We don't have anything like that at all. That kettle is absolutely amazing! Imagine the technology that goes into something like that. I would see if I could order one, but even if I got it, I don't think the plug would fit into a U.S. outlet.
Why do we need hot water? We drink iced tea especially if your in the south. For those who like it we have coffee pots or k cups. Could use it for hot chocolate but microwave works and has more functionality.
i am so glad you are so easily entertained by something so simple, so how often do you have to charge up the battery or batteries my dear....and microwaves are much faster.
Phoebe, we do have electric kettles in America. Some people have them, but they are not ubiquitous like they are in the UK. I think most Americans just boil water on the stove. I have a beautiful copper kettle which I use to boil water for tea-and I DO drink tea!-and for other things. It’s possible that electric kettles have never totally caught on here because, as other commenters have mentioned, the electricity is 120V, instead of 220V, so an electric kettle doesn’t boil water as quickly as you are used to. Many of the comments here are funny because they project their own experience and assume all Americans live like they do. “I just use a microwave.” (I don’t even own a microwave.) “I use a coffee maker.” (I don’t like coffee makers or the coffee they make. I make coffee with a Moka pot, on the stove.) “Every person I know DOES own an electric kettle in the US.” (Get real.)
We had electric kettles in the 1950’s and 1960’s then they came out with the electric coffee makers and we threw them away. We don’t drink tea like you Britt’s, we drink coffee.
Been using an electric kettle for more than 10 years now after switching to French Press coffee and moving on to pour overs as my preferred method of preparation.
Used on special occasions not something ubiquitous and most still like the real thing other issues would be hard water and overall nobody drinks tea everyday
I got a water cooler that dispenses hot and cold water. Instant hot tea all the time. Also use it for noodle soups. For iced tea, I'll steep it in a glass jar in the sun, then sweeten, then chill.
I’m going to guess it mostly has to do with Americans not really drinking all that much tea. We’re more coffee guys. But also, when it comes down to it, the convenience factor of electric kettles isn’t that great. You can always just use a stovetop kettle or a microwave with only slightly more effort or time.
Ever since I was a kid boiling water for my parents when we were camping, I have used a campfire or my stovetop to make tea or coffee. Guess I’m traditional, wot? Cheers, ducky!
Not to rain on the parade , but they are a common item for those that have a use for them . There is literally 10 different styles of electric kettles on amazon . The reason more people dont use them is because , since we arent as big of tea drinkers as your side of the pond , so the 2 most common use would be for coffee ( most americans already have some form of automatic coffee maker ) or ramen , and its just as easy to fill a saucepan with water as it is a kettle , so they kind of seem pointless for a lot of us . Ps , i will say you can look really cute when you get excited . Just sayin
If I need hot water quick, I'll just use my coffee maker without a coffee pod. Don't need just hot water often enough to warrant another device in my already device cluttered kitchen.
Well more American drink COFFEE than tea. So they have a COFFEE MAKER and make COFFEE. But to your point, most Americans use the microwave to heat water if they want it, since having a electric kettle cluttering up your counter for the 3 times a month you would need it is annoying. What most Americans don't realize though, is they can use there COFFEE MAKER to make hot water fast and efficiently too. Yeah, just do it how you make your coffee, but leave out the coffee and filter and just as fast, actually faster, you will have piping hot water to use. It does so for a fraction of the electricity when compared to a microwave too. But far faster and energy efficient would be to use a gas stove top and a old fashioned pan. My grandmother was a tea drinker. She used the electric kettle that "whistled" when the steam was up. But she still used a old fashioned ceramic tea kettle to steep her tea bags in.
Seriously? You can't actually believe we don't have/use these. For coffee...no. We keep our coffee warm. For Tea...yes. But here's what's going to flop your noggin, some of us are aware there are teas like elderflower which can be used medicinally. For the record, mine has glass sides, as I like my tea to cool a bit, but do have thermoses to keep things warm, but more importantly has a rinsable strainer, so if I wish to make blends I can mix very quickly.
Well, I’m American, too, and I don’t think I know anyone WITH an electric kettle. They are not that common in the US; some people have them, but it’s a minority. But guess what? I have a beautiful copper kettle, I fill it with water, put it on my nice gas stove, and-surprise!-the water boils just fine, which I then use to make tea. So I fear you are the one who is misinformed, along with many other commenters here. Actually, not so much misinformed as projecting your life and experiences and habits onto everyone. It’s a big country.
I guess that looks cool, but i like my old fashioned tea pot that you heat on the stove. Call me nostalgic. I bet you can get electric kettles over here. I don't shop for appliances very often.
We prefer our tea in harbors.
We prefer our tyrants in harbors too, but most of the time he's lounging in a beach chair at his oceanside Delaware home.
Can't have cheaper tea imports undercutting the smugglers can we? Not like America's founding incident is a myth where the henchmen of an illegal drug smuggling ring destroy competitors products under the guise of patriotism. A country ruled by tycoons and special interest groups then and always.
😂😂😂 Well done sir.
Well played! 😮
Bravo :D LOL
It’s a redhead witches trick. She actually put her finger in the water 😂❤😂❤
The sarcasm is strong with this one 😂 what mind blowing technology, thank you Princess Phoebe for blowing my.... mind.
Native Arizonan been using an electric kettle to heat up water for a French Press for the past five years when I found out it was a third of the cost of using a Keurig and tastes better than a drip or perculator process. Daughters does use it for her tea.
Not really I have a microwave😂😂😂😂😂
Cuz your bloody American 😆
Yup, this.
I don't have a microwave. I didn't know electric kettles existed until about a year ago, I do own a regular kettle
Ask a Brit how they feel about heating water in a microwave.
@@pan2990 We would be bloody mad
Most Americans don't have electric kettles, because we don't drink hot tea often enough to buy a special purpose appliance we have to store.
Now, we do drink coffee on the regular, and so most of us tend to have coffee makers on the counter. So, if we need hot water in a hurry, we use the microwave.
And a few of us have electric kettles- I have one (even though I've only used it two or three times in the year and a half I've owned it).
It's really no more surprising than wondering why Americans in Southern states generally have AC, but many Europeans do not. I mean, I don't even live in the Deep South (barely in the South, actually - Maryland is 10 miles to the north), but we can expect about a week every summer above 35°C, with nearly 100% humidity.
You are projecting your own experience and habits onto all Americans. It’s a big country. Not everyone lives like you. I am American. I drink tea every day, and I always have. I have-wait for it-a nice, old fashioned copper kettle. It was new when I bought it about 20 years ago. I put it on the stove and I boil water. I boil water for all kinds of things, including all kinds of teas…and other things. I use the kettle. I also drink coffee, but I don’t use a coffee maker because I think they make boring, often weak coffee. I use a Moka pot, and I put it-surprise!-on the stove.
You really said hot water in the microwave like that's a normal thing to do
@tomahawk3645 Why would anyone buy an electric kettle when you probably already have a microwave that works.
@ 1. Electric kettles are very popular in the UK because they boil water VERY fast, especially because they have 240V electricity. 2. Not everyone owns a microwave. 3. Inconvenient and awkward at best to boil enough water in a microwave to fill a teapot. 4. I’m no expert, but my guess is that boiling x amount of water in a microwave uses more energy than an electric kettle. Electricity costs more in the UK than in the US.
@odietamo9376 Yeah I guess if you didn't have a microwave already an electric kettle would make sense. But at least where I live more people have microwaves than don't, and it seems if you needed to boil more than a cup a normal kettle would be easiest.
Us Americans do know about Electric kettles and and use them sometimes
Most don't have one.
Hey, that is old technology. In the 50s and 60s we used a object called, a percalator. Which is also electric. The percalator was used to brew coffee
We drink cold drinks more often than hot over here (and almost always put ice cubes in them, something I've heard blows your minds). We also have 120V power which is enough lower to cause electric kettles to work about 30% slower then yours.
@@Xiuhtec “We drink…”? Speak for yourself. Not everyone has your habits and preferences. I drink hot drinks more often than cold ones. However, you’re right about 120V and electric kettles taking longer to boil water, which is probably one of the reasons they have never really taken off here. I have a nice copper kettle which I put on my gas stove, and what do you know, it boils water just fine.
Maybe in the Southern States but the further North you go the more hot drinks are consumed so...
in America, we just put a pod in the keurig and push a button, and it puts our hot beverage right in the cup. or if we want to get all old fashioned, we put a kettle on the hob.
Love the sarcasm 👍
A 50s throwback. How quaint. 😊
I'm not sure a electric coffee percolator is exactly the same thing, but related.😉
50s? Electric Kettles have been around since the 1890s. Modern versions with 'automatic turn-off on boil', became popular in the 1960s. Education lacking for you? How sad. 😢
How many cups of ginger tea must be brewed and consumed before the electric kettle generates a genie who can grant me a wish for a ginger?
We do have those in the US. Most people here just use a microwave or have a kettle for the stove. And then there those elitists who have a Keurig or Cappuccino/Espresso machine.
Can you demonstrate this tech again at 0:50? As a former colony member, I'd like to see it again for clarification. 😂
Phoebe is so amazing.i love her. Always make me laugh
What most people don't realize is that electric kettles in the UK (and most other nations) use about %200 the voltage that we use in the US.
Electric kettles are almost twice as fast to boil water in the UK than the US.
The US was electrified earlier than almost all of the rest of the world. Thomas Edison tried to push DC electricity because Nicola Tesla had the patents on AC electricity. Therefore, Telsa reduced the voltage level to make people less afraid of AC. Well over 100 years later, the US still uses 120v AC for most household appliances (we don't do change very well).
Thank you, Thomas Edison, you a$$hat! 🤬
You should get a Jetboil. Blows away the electric kettle. And can be used anywhere.
We do have those. You know why I prefer using the stove instead of a electric kettle? Because when we have a power outage I can still make coffee, tea or even something to eat with a gas stove and a tea kettle .
I rather have the old fashioned kettle that whistles when it's ready... 🍵 ☕.... I was just thinking of one the other day for hot teas
I drink ice tea. You get a pot and boil water. Throw in a fist full of tea bags and let them go for five minutes or more. Then remove the bags and pour in as much sugar as the water can handle. Dilute the tea in a larger container to taste.
Use one everyday for my French Press coffee. ☕️
Here in Texas.
I am only speaking for myself, not the rest of America. I don't drink tea enough to be sold on this technology. I've maybe had 6 cups of tea last year, more than half were while I was out. I've got coffee makers and refrigerators in several rooms of my house, for convenience. If you want tea at my house, the best I can offer is kettle heated water and probably stale tea. I'd treat it like alcohol as I don't drink that either... If you want it, bring your own... I won't judge. ...the coffee is ready and fresh, help yourself.
Let me think, Mr. Coffee machines, same style of tech, been around since the 1960s, at least in the USA.😉
My 1st real job after high school in 1976, we had an electric kettle in our break room. It was shaped like a kettle you might put on a stove, not like a coffee pot, like that one. If you filled it, you would wait nearly 15 minutes for it to boil. For that reason, I've never owned one.
We like the non electric ones so it keeps the women in our lives somewhat sharp and not lazy in their day to day tasks
Darling electric kettles are not that unknown in America. In Anerican homes using natural gas for utilities like stoves is commonly used. That being said for Christmas I gave considered buying electric kettle as a gift for heating coffee, tea.
Have lovely day
I’m an American, in America, that uses an electric kettle daily! 🇺🇸
We use an electric kettle in my household. It's perfect for heating water for tea, coffee, oatmeal, and even instant ramen noodles.
To be fair, we also watch a lot of BBC...so definitely the exception not the rule.
If you're only serving yourself, boiling up half a liter to pour yourself a 250ml cup is waste of energy.
The microwave in that case is much more efficient, as you heat up specifically one cup, and it gets heated up faster because microwave superheats the water (that's why you gotta stir it). There is very little wasted energy.
One another hand, if you need to heat up a liter or more for cooking or multiple tea servings or pourover coffee, kettle does it most efficiently.
I guess I'm one of the few Americans that actually owns one of these 😂 I love my electric kettle! My family doesn't drink much coffee but we actually do like hot tea, particularly in winter months! Electric kettles are great for boiling large amounts of water at once for several reasons:
-Don't have to worry about leaving your stove unattended
-Don't have to hear the annoying whistle of a classic kettle
-Most have an automatic shutoff so even if you forget about it no harm done!
Saves time too especially when making multiple cups of tea, also works great for heating water for instant noodles.
My fellow Americans, trust the Brits on this one. Get yourself an electric kettle!
Elon Musk is already working on this. The first kettles exploded, one had a critical meltdown with a devastating impact.
Ma'am a Texan here, just so you know in America natural gas is more commonly used for utilities, that's why household appliances stoves etc. It's just the way we do things. Even though in recent years there has been a trend to use more electric home appliances. I've considered buying electric kettles as Christmas gifts for family, friends who enjoy a mix of coffee, tea at different times for drinks. 2 In Southern US using term ma'am is being considered old fashioned. Being taught growing up manners ma'am was meant to be respectful term when talking to a woman. It's more a Southern US way of doing things, it's being used less often in recent uears
Ma'am if your still single looking for dating, and in future we can talk about serious choices. How about a chat?
Americans tend to have stove top kettles that whistle win they're ready. This is why we say "put the kettle on" and not "turn the kettle on."
@@vintagethrifter2114 brits say put the kettle on
We both say it. British used to put the kettle on for tea while Americans put the kettle on for coffee. Both are losing their popularity in their respective countries. While a coffee maker is still an electric kettle, you're still more likely to find stove top kettles in America than in Britain.
Electric kettles heat water more quickly.
Hey Babeh, , "Come to Butthead". 😂😂
I do use an electric kettle. I make my coffee in an aeropress, and I heat the water in the electric kettle.
I am Indian and i just boil water on a gas stove. I make both tea and coffee on it. I think electric kettle is good for trips.
When in the USA we went searching the whole of LA for an electric kettle. We found 1. True story.
in high end American homes, they just turn a tap to get boiling hot water. the kettle is pernanently installed under the kitchen sink.
I live in the U.S. We don't have anything like that at all. That kettle is absolutely amazing! Imagine the technology that goes into something like that. I would see if I could order one, but even if I got it, I don't think the plug would fit into a U.S. outlet.
they sell them in most US kitchen stores. they don't have the wattage of the UK ones, though.
Americans thank you for this information.
We have had those in America. Tea consumption in the US isn't what it is in the UK, so not a huge market.
i love this ginger brit
Great satire🤣
Why do we need hot water? We drink iced tea especially if your in the south. For those who like it we have coffee pots or k cups. Could use it for hot chocolate but microwave works and has more functionality.
You use it for cooking too whenever you need hot water
@rawfish_8.3 microwave
i am so glad you are so easily entertained by something so simple, so how often do you have to charge up the battery or batteries my dear....and microwaves are much faster.
It's plugged in mate, no batteries
Phoebe, we do have electric kettles in America. Some people have them, but they are not ubiquitous like they are in the UK. I think most Americans just boil water on the stove. I have a beautiful copper kettle which I use to boil water for tea-and I DO drink tea!-and for other things. It’s possible that electric kettles have never totally caught on here because, as other commenters have mentioned, the electricity is 120V, instead of 220V, so an electric kettle doesn’t boil water as quickly as you are used to.
Many of the comments here are funny because they project their own experience and assume all Americans live like they do. “I just use a microwave.” (I don’t even own a microwave.) “I use a coffee maker.” (I don’t like coffee makers or the coffee they make. I make coffee with a Moka pot, on the stove.) “Every person I know DOES own an electric kettle in the US.” (Get real.)
Yeah, I have a stove and a kettle. And a microwave. And a keurig...
I found these things when I started traveling internationally. I love these things!
Take it easy Cheeto, I am almost 70 and I have one in my room, for Ramen and instant coffee . 🤣
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I'm good with turning on the gas stove to heat my water. Even works when the electric is out, which happens were I live from time to time.
Actually, I found out my coffee maker can do the same thing. Instead of coffee pods, I just let the hot water infuse my tea or noodles.
We had electric kettles in the 1950’s and 1960’s then they came out with the electric coffee makers and we threw them away. We don’t drink tea like you Britt’s, we drink coffee.
Making it sound like we just perfected the fusion reactor or something. 😝
I just use my water cooler which also spits out hot water.
Have used this many times over the years. Can’t say it’s new to me.
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We don't drink that much tea, except iced tea, which comes in a powder you mix with water
Electric kettle's are for tea and here in the US we drink coffee so our electric kettle is a coffee pot
American here. I have an electric kettle and an old fashion one you put on a stove to heat up.
Also, I am a redhead😘
Been using an electric kettle for more than 10 years now after switching to French Press coffee and moving on to pour overs as my preferred method of preparation.
Used on special occasions not something ubiquitous and most still like the real thing other issues would be hard water and overall nobody drinks tea everyday
I actually do have one. It's awesome. Much faster than using a stove.
I prefer clean burning propane and propane accessories to heat my water
LOL 😃
We have tea kettles, some of which are electric, most are used on the stove but that’s probably not a thing anymore over there I guess
Don't need no stinkin tea kettle for 'Merican Coffee.
But I do have an electric tea kettle too.
For when I want to make coffee in a French press. :D
I got a water cooler that dispenses hot and cold water. Instant hot tea all the time. Also use it for noodle soups.
For iced tea, I'll steep it in a glass jar in the sun, then sweeten, then chill.
I’m going to guess it mostly has to do with Americans not really drinking all that much tea. We’re more coffee guys.
But also, when it comes down to it, the convenience factor of electric kettles isn’t that great. You can always just use a stovetop kettle or a microwave with only slightly more effort or time.
Ever since I was a kid boiling water for my parents when we were camping, I have used a campfire or my stovetop to make tea or coffee.
Guess I’m traditional, wot?
Cheers, ducky!
Not to rain on the parade , but they are a common item for those that have a use for them . There is literally 10 different styles of electric kettles on amazon . The reason more people dont use them is because , since we arent as big of tea drinkers as your side of the pond , so the 2 most common use would be for coffee ( most americans already have some form of automatic coffee maker ) or ramen , and its just as easy to fill a saucepan with water as it is a kettle , so they kind of seem pointless for a lot of us .
Ps , i will say you can look really cute when you get excited . Just sayin
I Actually Thought Brits Still Used Cauldrons And Shit
I have one. My mother got it for me. She is the only one that uses it when she comes here. I use the coffee maker.
Coffee makers do the same thing, if you dont put coffee in the filter part. I hope one day Ill be adopted by a redhead brit.
We have one, we take it camping and use it for coffee.
Like setting up a giant video projector 📽️ at Stone 🪨🪨🪨🪨 Henge and some tea 🍵☕ and a good movie 🍿🎥 while being in a cool place 😁
If I need hot water quick, I'll just use my coffee maker without a coffee pod. Don't need just hot water often enough to warrant another device in my already device cluttered kitchen.
Well more American drink COFFEE than tea. So they have a COFFEE MAKER and make COFFEE. But to your point, most Americans use the microwave to heat water if they want it, since having a electric kettle cluttering up your counter for the 3 times a month you would need it is annoying. What most Americans don't realize though, is they can use there COFFEE MAKER to make hot water fast and efficiently too. Yeah, just do it how you make your coffee, but leave out the coffee and filter and just as fast, actually faster, you will have piping hot water to use. It does so for a fraction of the electricity when compared to a microwave too. But far faster and energy efficient would be to use a gas stove top and a old fashioned pan.
My grandmother was a tea drinker. She used the electric kettle that "whistled" when the steam was up. But she still used a old fashioned ceramic tea kettle to steep her tea bags in.
I have 1, i use it to hard boil eggs mostly.. try it you'll never wait on a pot of water again
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A British friend of mine gives me grief for microwaving my water for tea 🍵☕.
Make this make sense.....
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I've never seen someone so hyped over boiled water, plus how does it fit in a coffee maker?
Phoebe can you send me a close up pic , description.
I could never mentally separate "tea" from "leaves and twigs in hot water".
Seriously? You can't actually believe we don't have/use these. For coffee...no. We keep our coffee warm. For Tea...yes.
But here's what's going to flop your noggin, some of us are aware there are teas like elderflower which can be used medicinally.
For the record, mine has glass sides, as I like my tea to cool a bit, but do have thermoses to keep things warm, but more importantly has a rinsable strainer, so if I wish to make blends I can mix very quickly.
I use nuclear decay to boil my water. Get with the times. Geez. 😂😂😂
I bought one 8 months ago. I am shocked that I didn’t have one before.
Here’s my buzz breakdown: start with 1979, following with 485, and finish strong at 6637. I'll be expecting it on
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I’m American. Live here in America. Don’t know anyone without an electric kettle…. You’ve been misinformed babes
Well, I’m American, too, and I don’t think I know anyone WITH an electric kettle. They are not that common in the US; some people have them, but it’s a minority. But guess what? I have a beautiful copper kettle, I fill it with water, put it on my nice gas stove, and-surprise!-the water boils just fine, which I then use to make tea. So I fear you are the one who is misinformed, along with many other commenters here. Actually, not so much misinformed as projecting your life and experiences and habits onto everyone. It’s a big country.
We have been using it in Italy for 15 years now
Phoebe is, of course, just taking a piss at y’all in all her posts🤦🏻.And making a living at it too! 🤭😉
Probaly has to do with Americans being avid brewed coffee drinkers!
Of course your gadgets would be to make tea😂
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its because we have coffee makers and stove kettles, of which Brits dont have
I guess that looks cool, but i like my old fashioned tea pot that you heat on the stove. Call me nostalgic. I bet you can get electric kettles over here. I don't shop for appliances very often.
What? No whistle like i get from a keytle in the stove. I’ll tell you what…. If their ain’t no whistle, that water just ain’t boiled.
I am American and actually own an electric kettle that I make southern sweet tea all the time with.
Every single day. Sometimes, 2 or 3 times a day.
I guess I’m not sure what the Breville thing I have that looks sort of similar is if none of us use electric kettles? 😂
We just don't drink a lot of tea here, mostly coffee and energy drinks.
Here’s my buzz breakdown: start with 1979, following with 485, and finish strong at 6637. I'll be expecting it on
\/\/A !!!!!
That's why we have stove top teapots to boil the water.
Totally. We should have never seceded from England.
Some muricans use them. I like a microwave. It's more useful. Plus you can get a cuppa hot in 2 to 3 minutes.