wait do americans really not have kettles? i thought that was a joke…how do you make tea??
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we don’t make tea lolwhat about instant coffee??also what if you have to boil a load of water for pasta? it’s so much faster when you use the kettle first
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I heard tales that they microwave the water like barbariansI swear you guys are fucking with me now! why would you microwave water when you can just use a cheap little kettle??I have an electric kettle and I hardly ever get it out of the cupboard. It was like $20. I used it in undergrad when I didn’t have a microwave or stove.
Pasta: stove
Everything else including tea: microwave.
Coffee: coffee maker.
Occassionally I’ll decide I want French press coffee and I’ll get it out for that. But I feel like it takes longer than the microwave which takes 2 minutes.
an electric kettle does not take longer than 2 mins…water boils faster than in a saucepan…and microwaving water is just so bizarre…coffee makers sound like hassle…idk it’s just so alien to me I use the kettle for everything
I am american and I use a kettle. One you sit on the stove. I mean I use it for tea and making instant ramen mostly. But like My whole family makes sure to have a kettle of some sort. Like most Black Americans I know have a kettle too. I hate using my microwave to heat water, mostly cause it doesn’t stay as hot as kettle boiled water.
Also I use a kettle to boil water to wash dish.
I’ve only ever seen stovetop kettles in youtube videos and on posh people’s agas
My flat mate has one of those coffee things that’s half kettle half coffee maker that goes on the electric hob, but we also have 3 electric kettles in our flat! We’re from the uk tho so idk if that counts, but I am honestly so confused that anyone would use the microwave because every time I’ve tried to use one to heat a drink it’s never worked????
Being a Hispanic American, we own kettles mostly for making tea and instant coffee, but like when we don’t use it we just get a pot with a curved lip and use that.
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savaein said: They don’t have kettles because the voltage/wattage/whatever there is different, so they are slower than a stove or microwave. So sad for them!
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inner-ecosystem said:
honestly at my house we have a teapot but we never use it? we just use a keriug for tea or microwave water for hot chocolate. red-light-lover said: No one I’ve ever met uses a microwave to boil water for tea 😒😒😒 we just use a pot or pan on the stove, but if you’re the kind of person who drinks tea you’ll have a kettle
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preach said: what is this oh my god i thought kettles were common place i’m once again disappointed in my fellow americans
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freyka said: I heard tales that they microwave the water like barbarians
ratbasher said: yeah idk what’s up with that… we use kettles in canada???