You have just united the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom blind rage. Congratulations.
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This is probably just bait but I can't help myself. A pot of water and a stove would do it in less time and you won't have to deal with a burning mug.
But the warm mug helps keep the drink warm. Doesn't everyone drink their tea/coffee with oven mitts?
Shout out to Asian water boilers and warmers.
Hot water on demand, no fuss.
Asian? I mean, I know they exist in Asia, as I lived in SK and JP when I was younger, but we've had them in Australia for as long as I can remember, and I'm in my 40s. Westinghouse, Breville and Philips all offer countertop models, and nowadays you can also get them installed directly into the kitchen sink/counter as part of a water filtration system. (Most people prefer a kettle at home, though - they're cheaper and less fuss to repair/replace.)
Like infrastructure designed for providing hot water (>75C) directly to the kitchen?
Damn, that's amazing.
We only got saunas.
This is as dumb as people 'marinating' diet coke by leaving it in the fridge. Can't level with this level of absurdity.
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Really though, so many Americans would have their cooking lives enriched by an electric kettle.
My parents told me, "be careful the heating elements catch fire, there's little to no safety mechanism, you can't leave them alone!"
It's a kettle...
People either don't know they exist or have some weird thing with them. Gives me the same vibes as cultures that don't sleep with the fans on lol.
Well they aren't wrong. They just come from a time with a lot less consumer safety. And we're headed back with fake UL stuff being sold in stores. We kind of grew up in a golden age of consumer safety. We even made jokes about "don't use grandma's extension cord".
Not sleeping with the fan on is a way to save face, at least in Asian cultures. In which it's basically the families out to admit their loved one committed suicide.
They say if you have a fan on in the night and the door closes, it creates a vortex and somehow sucks out all the oxygen.
My weird thing with them is a lack of counter space
I think most electric kettles are a bit slower there due to normal outlets only being 110V, but not all kitchens have 20A outlets(probably most do nowadays?), so the kettles made for the USA market tend to be 1.6KW so they can run off a 15A outlet if needed, whereas ones made for 240V countries tend to be 2KW.
Should still be way faster to use a kettle than an air fryer though as I'd assume the air frier would likely be limited to 1.6KW too?
If all you need is one single mug of hot water, a microwave is the way to go.
American kettles are a lot faster than anything else Americans have access to, except a microwave. That does a mug of water in one minute. As a trade off it seriously degrades the mug over time.
We also just don't really need to boil large quantities of water all at once.
120V is the American outlet. Japan uses electric kettles just fine at 100V. I think the reason they arnt super prevalent is cultural. Not speed.
The air fryer either superheats or melts the mug, depending on its material. You either scald your hands picking it up like you would grab it from the microwave, or you burn your house down.
or you burn your house down.
Probably only if your mugs are made of wood 😂
Or plastic
That's not a mug, that's a cup 😂
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Americans will do anything other than buy an electric kettle.
American here breaking stereotypes i have two electric kettles. A bright orange secura and a nice gooseneck
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"The downside is that the mug is also 180°C now."
10 minutes to boil a cup of water? How is that considered good in any way?
it's sarcasm.
Air fryers suck at boiling water. They're basically anti-microwaves. Everything a microwave is good at, they suck at, and vice versa.
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Somebody had been considering what could be worse than microwave tea.
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