Re:The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
by 0xbadcafebee on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:19PM
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Our electric kettles work just fine on 110VAC. We're just isolated from the rest of the world so external cultural changes don't take hold. We still use Imperial measurements and serve half-pints of beer. Same reason Japan has an "old" World Wide Web; it works fine for them, and their culture doesn't change easily.
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Re:The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
by Turing_Machine on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:23PM
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It depends on whether taking more than twice as long to heat the water is "just fine" for your use case.
Me, I use the high output burner on the gas range and a traditional kettle.
Note that other European and Asian kitchen gadgets have had no trouble making inroads in the United States. While some people obviously do have electric kettles here, they're far, far from being the ubiquitous thing they are in British kitchens.