My professor had one and I never understood the point. Then it broke, I took it home and fixed it (he bought a new one and gave it to me) and boy it changed my life, I'm team electric kettle for life
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Can you explain why its better than those electric hot water making thingys?
Kettle owner here. They're extremely efficient at heating water, often boiling a full load in under 8 minutes. Some models can be set to heat water at specific temperatures as well, making them a necessity for brewing different kinds of tea at their optimal conditions. Green tea for instance works best around 180F while black tea at 212F.
boiling a full load in under 8 minutes
Chuckles in 240V
8 minutes
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Yep. Have been using them for years, and just recently got a small gooseneck one. A lot of mornings I can just press a button, and in about 5 min I can come back and open a ramen cup just barely, and the water gets in without spilling. Also very nice for having tea whenever you want, and even sorta stirring honey or whatnot while pouring.
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It is a electric hot water making thingy. I am the confuse
Yes that is a kettle an electric hot water Tingo
I much prefer this kind of kettle, because I can see the damn water instead of having to peek at a small crack of transparent plastic. Plus glass kettles are quieter, metal ones really liven up the whole apartment with the noise.
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Like the ones embedded in the sink perimeter? If so, those always tasted terrible to me; descaling them is a pain. I can't bring it over to my brewing setup. All the ones I used had a fixed temperature that was too hot for delicate teas and too cold for light roast beans. Also, for making a proper pour over coffee, you need a scale to precisely gauge how much water you're putting through the beans.
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Heh, pretty much every kitchen in the UK - in homes and in offices - has a kettle that can boil a litre of water in 3-4 minutes. You can buy them in the supermarket for around £20.
And then there's this beauty my wife treated me to a while back... https://www.sageappliances.com/en-gb/product/bke825?sku=SKE825BSS3GUK1
It’s weird seeing that branded as Sage - I’m so used to seeing it as Breville here in Australia.
Had that one for ages (a decade or so?), before it finally gave up the ghost. I replaced it with the glass version, and that’s been kicking on for a few good years now.
Literally hard for me to consider any other brands of kitchen appliances, honestly - Breville is my default pick now, whenever possible.
gave up the ghost
It's funny hearing that phrase in English. It's a very common saying in German. Do you happen to know if it was translated or is it already common in Australia?
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Electric Kettles are not ubiquitous here in the US the same way they are in the UK, but every Walmart, Target, or similar store in America has at least one electric kettle available for purchase on the shelf right now. They're not rare here.
Half of those are like 800W and take forever to heat. The other half are at least 1500W so they only take three-ever, but that's still way too long for me when I'm grumpy in the morning.
Anyway, long story short I have a 3000W kettle attached to a NEMA 6-20R in my kitchen.
My wife is a tea lover. Years ago I got her a hot water tap, it changed her life. Is there a reason tea loving countries don't embrace them?
We have them in kitchens that need to serve a large number of people - big offices, big hotel breakfast areas, transport lounges, etc.
But a standard kitchen, I think it's like someone else said in this thread: The time it takes to boil a 240V kettle isn't much more than the time it takes to get the mug ready, so there's no real benefit to going through the extra structural work to fit a boiling water tap.
Also I think most "boiling water" taps are actually like 95°C, not boiling, so if you're a black tea snob that isn't acceptable.
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I have few luxuries in my life, but one of them is a Grundig 3000 watt electric kettle (Grundig Red Sense WK 6330 to be precise).
Totally replaced by having an induction stove. Regular kettle boils in like 2 minutes, never really use the electric kettle anymore.
2 minutes on the induction stove? So like... Still slightly slower than the kettle?
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You savages have to wait for hot water? Why not join all of East Asia in the future and get yourself one of these? Four liters of perfectly temped hot water anytime you want..... I honestly don't know how people who drink a lot of hot beverages live without them.
I mean, my electric kettle boils water in like 45s, so it's really not a big deal. I drink pour over coffee, so I just start the kettle and by the time I'm done setting up my coffee it's done.
I wouldn't even have that if it hadn't been gifted to my wife for her business before she closed it. My microwave is perfectly capable of boiling water without having yet another single purpose device cluttering up the kitchen.
We only run 120v here, so it takes forever to heat up a decent amount of water. Plus, we drink a lot of hot drinks. We prob go through two to three liters a day.
Sounds like it uses electricity all day and night long instead of just while bringing the water to a boil.
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In Denmark there's also this thing that is just built-in boiling water in your faucet - in addition to your cold and warm water.
For me it's the sign of ultimate home luxury. You can spend 1.5k to move your kettle into your faucet, the ultimate thing that is as unnecessary as it is cool, as cost-ineffective as it is weirdly efficient.
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I'm sceptical this is popular in East Asia where apartments are small and wages are low. All of these are more than 200USD
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YOU CAN PRY MY CHARCOAL TEA KETTLE OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS
Bro is the 2000 era diesel pickup owner equivalent of the kettle world and I see nothing wrong
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