I’ve owned an electric kettle for over a decade.
They aren’t ubiquitous here, but go into any Walmart or Target and you’ll find them there.
The real reason they aren’t ubiquitous in America is the majority of Americans aren’t daily tea drinkers and most (notice pedants I said most and not all) American coffee drinker use drip coffee machines or Keurigs instead of a French press, so for most Americans there simply isn’t a regularly enough need for hot water so as to justify an electric kettle.
That’s it. That’s the whole reason.
Same reason tea drinkers don’t use coffee pots. :)
But if the dude wants his mind blown, he needs to boil that water on an induction stovetop.
You didn’t watch the video, did you? He does test it.
ITT: People thinking Alec would forget some obvious thing and not have made entire videos about each possible tangent.
I don’t get it. I text my wife something like “Technology Connections just put up a one hour video about dishwashers” and it’s the first thing on our watch list that night. Do other people not do this?
I do
My wife rolls her eyes and walks away cuz she doesn’t care but her life is about to get 1% more efficient as I force change on our house
(His video on dishwashers actually got me to change her fucking behaviour around it and now our dishwasher works properly thank fuuuuuck)
Although i like things that are simple and just work, dont fix it if it aint broken, and hate over-engineered technology… It still is funny to me that if we want to heat things up, we do it by running current through a piece of metal. Isnt there a more efficient way? I guess not or we would be using it.
Induction stoves and microwaves are improvements for certain scenarios.
I rarely use all four elements on my stove at the same time so 99% of the time the kettle is sitting on an unused element instead of taking up counter space like an electric kettle would.
It you put the electric kettle on your stove it doesn’t take up counter space.
If I turn on the wrong burner?
Right now, that just heats up a kettle that’s designed to be heated up by an element underneath it.
If I have an electric kettle on that burner? I got a melted kettle and possibly a fire.
Important safety tip: One of the most common causes of fire in the home is people putting stuff on the stove that isn’t meant to be there.
