• @Vespair@lemm.ee
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      166 months ago

      Americans who drink hot tea have them (source: have had one for like 20 years).

      Americans in general are just more hot coffee cold tea people. Exceptions abound of course, but in generalities.

        • @Vespair@lemm.ee
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          126 months ago

          We have replaced your American passport with Vietnamese to better accommodate your beverage preferences, please enjoy your new citizenship.

    • @BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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      146 months ago

      There is literally a kettle on the left lower side of the image (likely deliberately as it seems awkward having it in front of the air fryer like that)

    • @janNatan@lemmy.ml
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      66 months ago

      I’ve heard electric kettles are slower here because of the limits of our electrical system. I do have a kettle for the stove, though. I also rarely drink tea.

      • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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        46 months ago

        my electric kettle takes maybe 20 seconds to get to boiling water here in the USA

      • @nixcamic@lemmy.world
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        36 months ago

        My friends just put a euro style 220 outlet on their counter and ordered a kettle online. Since they were building the house new it was basically no different than buying a 110v kettle.

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            You just run 220 from the panel to it. Almost every US house has 220 outlets for the dryer and stove anyhow. All you’re doing is using a different shaped plug, and like, wires are wires, they fit into a euro plug the same as they fit into a NEMA plug.

          • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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            36 months ago

            American wiring is center-tapped ~240V; typical 120V outlets are from line on either side of the tap to the neutral, while dryers, stoves, etc. are 240V line to line. So they would have wired it like a stove, but then put in a euro style plug instead of a stove plug

    • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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      56 months ago

      We have an electric kettle, husband uses it for instant coffee; before we got together he used the microwave to boil water. The kids use it for tea. I use it for hot water for Moka pot, boiling water for grits, whatever needs hot water.

      Electric kettle, microwave, and coffee grinder are the only appliances that live on the kitchen counter, all the other things are in the pantry.

    • @ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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      56 months ago

      There’s literally the handle of an electric kettle on the left side.

      No this is something far worse: someone in the UK whom has strayed from the light and committed heresy!

      May the Tea Gods have mercy upon them, for I shall have none!

    • @bunchberry@lemmy.world
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      36 months ago

      I am an American and i own an electric kettle and use it frequently. I switched to an electric kettle after accidentally turning my microwave into a smoke bomb when I put instant ramen in there and forgot to add the water. Now I only make instant ramen with hot water from a kettle or on the stove.