Lol, no we don’t. We just don’t drink tea. Unless you’re in the south n it’s more sugar water than tea.
Southerners are actually 2/3 hummingbird
I have an electric kettle, AND I season my food, lol
This isn’t true, Americans make tea by boiling a stovetop kettle pouring that into a pitcher with 5 teabags adding 1-3 cups of sugar after about 3 minutes and then filling that pitcher to the top with hot tap water. And then pouring that over ice after about 5 minutes
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Ever made sun tea? Kinda granola and time consuming but it’s yummy.
Nah not granola imo. I always thought it was poverty tea, use the sun don’t run up the electric bill
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Electric kettles have been available at every American
supermarketsuperstore for literal decades.Yes they aren’t ubiquitous here in the way they are in the UK and elsewhere, but they’re absolutely not a rarity at all.
Sincerely, somebody who has been using an electric kettle for almost two decades.
edit: wrong word. I meant places like Walmart, not places like Safeway.
The people that don’t have kettles don’t drink tea. Pretty much everyone I know who drinks plenty of tea have kettles, and everyone knows that they’re an option.
Well considered it was only 5 days ago that I made this comment, you successfully clocked me as a tea drinker and you might be on to something with your theory.
Curious if you have any insight as to why Americans in movies always boil water on the stove top? Australian here and we use electric Kettles. I assumed it was a 120 vs 240V thing.
Again, ubiquity. Especially since the vast majority of Americans who make coffee at home do so in drip coffee machines, there just isn’t a lot the typical American is needs to heat up hot water for, so to most people an electric kettle is a non-mandatory item. Even most American tea drinkers honestly aren’t daily tea drinkers (myself included), so for many the benefit of having extra counter space beats out the benefit of having convenient hot water, and a stovetop kettle can most easily be put away in the back of a cabinet somewhere.
Interesting, I like this take. Where as we boil water multiple times a day. Americans use that bench space for their dripulator.
I never once saw an electric kettle until I was an adult. Then again, I’m from Idaho.
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Just recently I learned about different temperatures for different teas and coffee. Now I know why my coffee was coming out burnt tasting, and why my green tea didn’t taste right.
Often burnt coffee taste is from people leaving the coffee on the hot plate for way too long.
If I have a little extra time I’ll run water through the coffee maker without any grounds if that’s somehow better?
Britain, do you really want to compare appliances?
I could put most of your fridges in my fridge.
I could put the whole bayuex tapestry in my washing machine.
I don’t even know if y’all can fit scrooge’s Christmas bird in your ovens.
I’m kidding around but the one thing y’all definitely have is better kettles that’s for damn sure.
It just tells us that you’re obese.
No, it doesn’t.
Having a small fridge and going to the grocery very often vs having a large fridge and going less frequently tells you nothing about calories consumed.
Making better kettles is easier when your entire electric grid is optimised for it.
Seriously, 220 volts will just always get you a faster boil than 120. It’s physics.
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With our standard 240/16A you’d get 11’000 W, that water will boil itself just thinking about that much power
Also, it uses much less copper, and there are fewer resistance losses
Most kettles in the UK are 3,000W.
We have 240 in kitchens but don’t use it for counter top stuff
We have 400V/16A, three phases, in kitchens for the proper stuff. That’s 19kW, if I remember correctly. Your strong power is like our standard power (240V/16A).
not a kitchen appliance plug, but 38.4kW(400*32*3) standard one. I love living in Europe.
Here in the UK you can have 240V x 32A with three phases. That’s how you get domestic 22kW chargers for EVs, lol. Regular single phase kitchen wiring is 240V x 32A giving us 7kW hobs.
And it’s 2 phase
Are the things you listed supposed to be positives? It’s so weird to me that Americans like everything to be gigantic.
My parents were like that when I was a kid, always going for the heavier, bigger and uglier option.
Taught me to value minimalism and compactness the painful way.
Yes, I’d like to be able to keep a longer run of groceries on hand. I’d like to be able.to wash curtains or duvets. I’d like to be able to easily cook the main course of a popular holiday.
I have a 20 minute drive to a grocery that has everything I need, so I want to do it less frequently. I use my duvet every night so it needs to be cleaned weekly.
Appliances are to do things. I want to do more things more easily.
Fridges store food. I don’t want my appetite to dictate the size of my fridge, but the freshness of vegetables and such.
Washing machines wash things. I want to be able to wash all the things I regularly use without any loss of performance.
You can’t tell me, that all things being equal, you’d prefer a smaller washer. Or that you want to think / guess about the available space in your fridge if you’re at the store and looking at a purchase at the grocery. “Hmm I want this for a meal, but I don’t think I have space for it” is not and ideal statement.
I have a 20 minute drive to a grocery that has everything I need, so I want to do it less frequently.
Americans need giant fridges because their city planners suck at their jobs.
No, america is fucking big.
You would not build a rail/bus/hovercar between me and the grocery, even with europlanners.
Ultimately this does not address my later point: I never worry about if I have space to house a food item I want. When I lived in the UK, in a detached house with a “normal” kitchen, I often thought about the available space at home, while I’m standing in the store. That’s silly.
Lastly, in many densely populated areas (like Manhattan) you still get full sized fridges, so your euro-density-pubtransit argument again fails.
Many folks absolutely could walk/bike/train to a grocery, but you can be sure they have full sized fridges 99% of the time.
You shouldn’t need to catch the train to get to the grocery store. There should be one walking distance from your house. American city planners don’t allow grocery stores to be built in residential zones because they’re bad at their jobs.
There’s no grocery store by my house because there’s only 10 other houses by my house. Lol you have no clue what you’re talking about.
America is big and Europe is old.
The city planners put your house in the wrong place.
That’s the problem - I only have to walk 5 minutes for my groceries. There’s really no need to stock up on anything.
But then you are dependant on an errand several times per week
Do you just sit at home all the time? I just go to the shop when I’m returning home - pop in for a few minutes and continue on my way. Errands, lol.
I always found the concept of spending a day running errands weird and see many TV shows mention this. I guess it’s a 20 minute drive to everything.
If you’re british and lacking a tank, you can always use a gatling gun to heat the water instead
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It actually doesn’t make that big of difference. It is more likely Americans don’t have kettles because we drink more coffee and have drip coffee brewers instead.
We use a kettle here in the states and it’s just fine. But it’s mostly used for French press coffee.
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I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.
Could someone explain why it matters? Is microwaving water for tea akin to instant coffee or Keurig to snobby coffee drinkers? (I nuke water for tea, but when it comes to coffee I use distilled water, fresh beans, a scale and it’s kinda ritualistic)
At the end of the day, everything is just atoms moving at different wiggle rates, that’s the technical term. It doesn’t matter what makes them wiggle faster or slower.
No, it doesn’t actually matter as to the quality of the tea. Hot water is hot water. Assuming you don’t just microwave til it’s boiling, and instead get it to the proper temperature, there will be 0 difference.
A lot of electric kettles have fine temperature control, so it’s easier to dial in on an exact temperature. Brewing a lot of teas too hot will burn them and make them taste bitter. This is 100% a temperature thing, though, and what you use to make it hot has no impact.
It’s fairly inefficient and less convenient than a dedicated electric kettle, but no there’s nothing wrong with the results. I did pick up a cheap electric kettle recently and it’s nice, but doesn’t get a ton of use since I don’t drink that much tea.
No we don’t. We don’t drink tea at all
Why of course we do. But we drink Yankee tea, which is a super concentrate of all tea leaves ever created. It’s illegal in 36 countries and if you drink it you either meet god or you have a stroke. One of the two.
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“Tea is for the sea not for me”
You kid, but I really do find this stereotype of Americans fascinating in it’s persistence. Every supermarket I’ve been to in America during the last decade has a tea section that is double the size of the coffee section next to it. These stores wouldn’t be stocking like that if Americans weren’t buying a ton of tea, but yet the idea of America being a tea desert continues.
The difference in coffee varieties is a lot more nuanced than tea flavors so it makes more sense for tea to have more space even if it isn’t drunken as much. It depends a lot on what part of the country you’re in too.
People who drink a lot of tea just have kettles though… I don’t know where myth that US kettles are slow came from.
American kettles are slow because you use 120V mains.
My US kettle can boil water in the time it takes me to grind beans and rinse my v60 filter, so it’s fast enough for me
But coffee makers are nearly instant boil…
it’s not that they don’t drink tea, it’s that they drink it wrong
I bet it drives you nuts that we folks in the southern US like to drink our tea sweet as hell and ice cold.
That’s kind of ok actually, at least you’re not pretending it’s real tea.
(also it’s delicious, so you’ve got that going for you)
I do lie awake most nights thinking about it
I don’t ever drink tea
The British sent us Beatles and Monty Python, let them have this.
wait people make tea in the microwave? gross lol
Hot water is hot water.
But if you microwave fresh water in a clean cup you’re missing the flavor from the scale and other build-up in an infrequently cleaned kettle.
Microwaves are good for some tasks and bad for others. They’re generally fine for reheating food if you know how to use one, for example. Absolutely no difference between hot water that comes out of a microwave and any other method.
@johannesvanderwhales yeah for reheating food its fine.
wait people don’t understand how microwaves work? dumb lol
