The kettle is the first thing brought to a new home and the last thing to leave

Somebody send this man a damn kettle, it was like watching a remote tribe see lighter for the first time 😂😂

Austrian here. We are not a "tea culture" country, but every household has an electric kettle.

Not only in Britain but also in Europe

When they said that 95% of homes had a kettle I thought that was a bit low

I'm Canadian and I have never seen a home without an electric kettle :) Also the thing that you put on your stove and sing when the water boil is a kettle, not a tea pot :) Tea pot are where we put the hot water in to make tea.

As an Australian, I don't know anyone who doesn't own a kettle, be it electric or stove top for gas stoves. I use it: coffee, tea, hot Milo (chocolate), instant soup, cooking spaghetti, I put 6 mm (1/4") of water on the boil and put fill the kettle and boil it and poor the boiling water into the sauce pan. The 1 litre in the kettle always boils before the 14" in the sauce pan.

From The Netherlands here. I don't know anyone over here who doesn't own an electrical kettle. I use it every day. Tea, things like cup a soup, noodles. I could go on. How different countries can be huh. So interesting that you guys don't have them. Great video

You know how the US has more guns than people? Well the UK has more kettles than people, given the number in hotels, work, etc.

In Australia I would say 99 out of 100 households use a kettle to boil their water for a cuppa.

Every British home has a kettle. If you find out somebody you know doesn't have a kettle, it means they need one and you buy one for them.

American living in England for 3 years now. 2 things I haven't seen mentioned: 1. Not every Brit likes tea (most do, but not all). Some of them might use the kettle for instant coffee or a French press sort of thing. 2. It's customary to offer tea or coffee to anybody when they come to your home: guests, plumbers, electricians, internet person, etc. You always offer a "hot drink". Even if you don't like tea or coffee, it's good to have a kettle to offer any guests in your home.

Does it boil water? Mate, that's literally it's one job.

I don't know ANYONE who doesn't have a kettle 🤔🤣🤣🤣

I'm from Finland. I'd say that most people here own an electric kettle. But we aren't big fans of tea. We are statistically the biggest coffee drinkers in the world, but tea is not that popular. It's just that electric kettles can be used for so much more: -I make coffee with a french press. The fastest way to boil water for it is with an electric kettle. -cocoa, instant coffee, any kind of hot drink that is sold as a powder? Electric kettle. -Instant noodles? Electric kettle. -Any kind of dehydrated soup or other food (like the stuff that Knorr makes)? Electric kettle. -Instant oatmeal? There are several ways to make it and I prefer the microwave, but one option is to put the dry flakes in a bowl and pour boiling water on them. Electric kettle. There are so many uses for it, I couldn't live without one.

It's not just a tea culture thing either - I don't drink tea or coffee, but a kettle was still one of the first things I bought when I moved into my first flat. I can't imagine a house without one! If you don't like hot drinks then you can use it to help make ramen! Or soup in a cup! And if, like me, your hot water isn't automatic, you have to turn the water heater on to get any, you can just boil the kettle for much easier hot water to do the washing up after dinner. It's so much quicker than boiling water on a stove or a hob. And easier. Just fill it up, flick it on, and it'll click itself off once it's boiled - takes about a minute. Somebody get this man a kettle, it'll change his life.

If your cooking pasta, you can boil the water in the kettle first, pour boiling water in the saucepan, turn on the stove, bring water back to the boil within seconds and then add your pasta….it cuts your cooking time down considerably. 😄

Electric kettels are very popular not only in UK we use them all-over Europe ....

I cannot imagine how you could possibly get by without a kettle. Absolutely mad. They're pretty popular across Europe, tbh.

Honestly i couldn't imagine anyone in Europe not having electric ketle :d 12:50 - it depends on amount of water, but in general it takes about 1 minute

Very popular in Canada too. My Mom loves her new see-through blue kettle. I don’t remember how long we’ve had kettles, for at least 35 years ( since we’ve used the stove top kettle). You’re missing out. Coffee, tea, heating water for baking, cooking anything with water (adding hot water, like instant noodles). It’s a VERY QUICK method of heating water. Once you’ve actually used an electric kettle, you’ll never want to go back. Everyone I know ( in Canada ) has a kettle, it must be our British ancestors. This reminds me, I need a coffee refill, time to put the kettle back on!! be back in a jiff.

Kettles are not just a British thing. I grew up with them in South Africa, and have always had one in all the 33+ years of living in the Netherlands. An electric kettle is a very normal thing in NL and, I daresay, most of Europe. Not just to make tea (in NL (herbal) tea without milk is the norm), but also for cafetiéres, cup a soup, warming baby's bottle, anything that needs a quick bit of boiled water instead of waiting for a cooking pot with water to boil. It always feels like forever.

I'm in my eighth decade and I can't recall ever not having a kettle. Tea, coffee, cocoa, Oxo, Ribena, soup, etc. can all be made by using an electric kettle. I was amazed at the figure of 95% as I don't know anyone without an electric kettle.

We use kettles for hot beverages (tea, coffee, hot chocolate, hot malted drinks like Horlicks) and things like gravy, custard, and jelly (jello). Can't think of more things right now. We drink hot drinks at any time of day.

I donˋt know a single German who doesnˋt have a kettle.

*NOT JUST TEA* Tyler!! Boiling a kettle (usually from one cupful to six or eight cupfuls, you choose how much water to heat according to your need) the boiled water can be used to make tea in a cup (or s teapot) or coffee, or to pour over spaghetti / pasta, or any other hot drink, like Bovril / Marmite, Cuppa Soups, (instant soups) Noodles, hot chocolate etc. *NOT JUST TEA* And kettles which whistle on the stove are _NOT_ called "tea kettles", they're just called 'kettles' ...the stoves / hobs being either gas-powered, or using electric rings, or induction plates. We can buy an electric kettle for as little as £5 from any supermarket... Naturally, expensive kettles are also available!! Electric kettles don't (usually, but apparently some do, or so I've learned from a comment on this thread) _whistle_ ...but they do prevent burned-out kettles because they switch themselves off once they've reached boiling point, which usually takes about 1 minute. (Our electric is between 220v - 240v. I _think_ American electric is only between 110v - 120v?).

You boil water in the kettle to make tea, coffee, hot chocolate, boil the water to pour into saucepan for veggies as it cuts down on the time needed to wait for the water to boil, for cooking pasta etc.

Growing up in Yorkshire we only had a kettle that sat on the gas stove when needed. But when I went to university in 1966, and lived in a self-catering hall of residence (US dormitory, I think,), we had electric kettles and I've never been without one since. It isn't just for making hot drinks, anywhere you need boiling water such as for hot drinks or cooking vegetables, there it is. Bear in mind that our voltage is higher than yours, so it boils very quickly.

Most hotels and b&bs will have a kettle in your room. There's usually a supply of t bags and instant coffee provided as well.

Once and for all, a 'tea pot' specifically is not a kettle, you dont put a teapot on a stove, OR YOU MAY DIE. A tea pot is typically ceramic and where you put hot water and tea into, and dispense/pour tea from at the table into each cup as needed.

The power surge thing is true, coinciding with commercial breaks. It is an essential part of the kitchen, it really surprises me that you don't have them. You need properly boiling water for tea, but this is by no means their only use. I should think almost every household and workplace has one, even those without a kitchen. Of course we don't boil more than we need, its much quicker not to do so. I drink coffee mostly and the kettle has normally boiled before I've sorted out the pre ground beans. Boiling a mugful takes well under a minute, much quicker than a microwave.

Used to be metal kettles with whistles on them, that let you know as the water boiled and gave off steam. Some people still prefer these, but they really need a wood-fired hob or a gas hob / burner to work. If the house has electricity only, or both, the electric kettle is the first choice today.

The things that go on a stove and whistle is called a kettle. A tea pot does not go anywhere near a stove.

Just slip across the border into Canada, and you can take advantage of this newfangled technology.

It's not just UK. Most homes in Canada also have a kettle. Tea, instant coffee, hot chocolate etc or any hot drink can be made we it and we also you when hot water is needed for other things too. Boiling in a kettle is much faster than a pot on the stove and if you get the electric ones with the automatic shut off you don't have to watch it. It is not just for tea though. Anything you need hot water in 2 to 3 minutes. You can even use foor cleaning

Instant coffee, ramen, pot noodles, tea, cleaning, filling a mop bucket with hot water, rapidly heating water to save time before putting on the stove

Oh God has my life really come to this on a Saturday afternoon - watching an American watching an electric kettle boil. Ah to hell with it I'll stick on the kettle.😃😄

Whilst living overseas I met lots of Americans. One lady who invited a few of us to her house was asking me about making tea for us Brits. She had no kettle so I offered to take mine along to help. Microwave is a big no, no. So after the event I got home and realised I had left the kettle behind. 😫 I called her to say I would be right back to collect it. She was gobsmacked that it was so important and used daily. She also learned what a fortnight was and what Fanny means in the UK. I am sure she retells this education to the amusement of her fellow Americans. 😄

We have had them for as long as I can remember here in Norway, I'm 52. And I don't drink tea. :) But for instant coffee, instant nudels...and instant soup. I have three, used one like 10 min ago actually.

A kettle is not just for hot drinks. I use it for cooking pasta, noodles, eggs, or making soup for instance.

I had a friend in the army and he said during Desert Storm, the US Troops could always be found huddled around the UKs Challenger 2 Tanks because it was the only place the US troops could always get hot water to make coffee and heat ration packs. The UK have boiling vessels (kettles) built into their Main Battle Tanks for cooking and making tea.

You can use a kettle to make tea, but you don't need to be a tea person to own a kettle. It's just a default UK kitchen gadget. Like a toaster, or can opener. If I had to fill a kitchen I'd pick up a kettle before I'd pick up a microwave just because it's more useful.

Hi I live in the Uk... I'm 55 and had a kettle all my life. It take just 3mins to boil a whole kettle of water. We use it to boil water for tea & coffee. Also to boil water to cook vegetables faster on the hob. As a child we would also boil water in the kettle to fill up a bowl for washing in .

My neighbour invited my wife for a cup of tea one day, and my wife was shocked, SHOCKED that our neighbour was boiling the water in a pan on the hob. She found it very odd and was the first thing she said when she got home. "What the hell? They didn't own a kettle!". I'm originally from Sweden so didn't find it jaw droppingly odd per se, but I have been indoctrinated into the British and Irish way: must have kettle above any other kitchen appliance. And unlike those from my home country, I shun coffee and am now very much a tea drinker and completely understand the obsession of a good brew.

Kettle usually takes about 1 minute depending how much waters put in.

Breaking: The only person on the planet that didn't know a kettle could boil water learns that a kettle boils water.

I think the main reason electric kettles are not common in the US is because you have 110v electric. With 240v electric, the kettle at around 3000w would be 12A, so within the capacity of our outlets. On 110v that would be 27A and more than your outlets could supply!! :) :)

Kettles are very common in Canada. Also, Tyler, in the USA the item you put on the stove to boil water is still called a kettle, not a teapot. A teapot is what is used to make the tea by putting either loose tea or a tea bag in it and adding the boiled water from the kettle. To answer your question regarding how hot the water needs to be to make tea, it must be boiling. One heats the pot with some hot water, drains it, places the tea in the pot and then the pot is taken to the kettle (not the kettle to the teapot) and the boiling water is poured into the teapot to infuse the tea. If taking milk with your tea, the milk (absolutely never cream) must be poured into the empty cup and then the tea is added. That order prevents the milk from scalding and changing the taste of the tea. Chimo

In the UK most homes have 2 kettles, in case one breaks 😂

One thing she didn't mention was the difference in voltage between the US & the UK. In America, the standard is around 120V. In the UK it's 230V, so Electric Kettles boil much quicker. It only takes 3 mins to get boiling water over here, it would probably take at least double that in the states.

I am Australian. We got our first electric jug over sixty years ago. Jugs don't seem to be as popular now as they were. Now electric kettles are for more common. The current unit has a sight gauge so you can see the water level. Elements were originally wound on a porcelain frame so it was accesible. Now the element is in a metal tube and fully insulated. It is nearly time the US moved into the second half of the twentieth century.

Boils enough water for 2 mugs in less than 1 minute - didn’t realise how magical it was ( for the last 40 years of my life)until I watched this - shocking to see the amazement of someone from a country so technically advanced in military terms that it can decimate entire countries quicker than boil water🤔

I'm from Australia, and probably about 99% of households have an electric kettle, even people like me who don't drink tea or coffee have them.

I just used mine to make my morning coffee. I am Canadian. We use them here all the time too.

Gotta have a kettle! Most Brits have multiple hot drinks per day. It’s a lovely sociable thing too - if anyone comes to visit you make them a cuppa…someone has bad news you make a cuppa…someone has good news, you chat about it with a cuppa 😄

You wondered how quick they are?Some have a 3 KW heating element and can boil enough for a cuppa in 50 seconds. We even keep a spare. Whenever a kitchen gets remodelled, most folk typically change the kettle (and toaster of course) to match the style or colour of their new surroundings. We then store the old kettle in the new kettle’s box (can’t imagine how we would cope if it suddenly stopped working). Then take it up to the loft (attic) for a decade until you come across it when saving the next one.

I was working in a house in 1995 in UK. The couple and their 8-9 yr old daughter only drank fruit juice or water. I had never seen a house without a kettle in my life and still have not apart from this one time! I'm 60 in may!!😅😅😅

I wouldn't say kettles are "popular" in Britain, I'd say that they are "Standard electrical items". You wouldn't describe your cooker or your TV, or even hot running water as "Popular". We, (and presumably the rest of Europe), have had kettles for God knows how long. I'm 59 and can't remember a time when we didn't have one. We had them millions of years before we had microwave ovens, or even personal computers. We even had electric kettles before KZfaq!

We use kettles for more than tea. We have instant coffee that just needs hot water and hot chocolate but other than drinks there’s also a whole range of snacks and meals that only need hot water. Pot noodles, cup of soups, you can get pasta pots that just need hot water. That’s why you find a kettle in most work place staff rooms along with a microwave for quick hot lunches as well as beverages. Also a lot of Americans seem to confuse kettles and tea pots. Tea pots do not heat water, you don’t put the tea pot on the “stove”. You heat the water in the kettle and fill the tea pot to brew your tea in. Handy if you have multiple people drinking tea and you don’t want to have to brew individual mugs of tea. Like how Americans make a pot of coffee.

A quick boil kettle can boil in under a minute. Tea , coffee, hot Chocolate, pot noodles and a whole host of other things can be done by boiling water quickly in a kettle .

'We heat our water on the stove'. Just like we did 300 years ago.

We only heat water in pans on a gas stove when there’s a power cut…

There is also a peak in electricity when people open their fridge at the same time in the interval of soccer games

We have electric kettles in canada as well. Pretty much in every home. Most department stores have almost a whole isle for a selection of electric kettles

Every home has at least one electric kettle and possibly an older one as a stand by.

The first thing I bought for my undergraduate dorm room in Louisville, KY, back in 1993 (in order to make tea, coffee or simple ramen or hot chocolate) was an electric kettle (I think from Walmart or Target). They have always existed in the U.S. as well! The fact that you think they don‘t only means you never were aware of them. Despite owning a coffee machine (now even a fancy one making cappuccino and caffelatte etc.), I would never dream of dispensing with my trusted water kettle. I even recently upgraded to get a fancy one from KitchenAid (yes, an American company!), in order to quickly boil noodle water, add boiling water to a soup or stew etc. before putting it on the pot on the stove (I am only now getting an induction stove and my ceran cookstove took rather long to bring water to a boil). Eletric cooktops also took longer as they first heat the cookware before heating the insides of the cookware (induction is different, more like a gas cook top)…. I hereby challenge you to go to Costco, Walmart, an electronics store or Target and ask the staff for an electric kettle and I am sure, they will have them. Amazon certainly sells them in the U.S. as well! My KA electric kettle will bring a quarter gallon of water from the faucet to a boil in about three minutes, smaller amounts (like for a single cup of tea) it takes less than a minute and since you only use it for water, there is nothing to clean (apart from possible staining from hard water once in a while)….

I am in Estonia, a coffee drinking country, and I do not know anyone without an electric kettle. :) It is just not for making tea, herbal teas, flu drinks but over here people mostly make coffee with it (with the in-cup purpose ground beans or the ground coffee used in the French pressure/strainer stamp pots; these are ground differently). One does not need a fancy machine (not meaning a drip machine or capsule machines: we have them but they are not that popular) to make a decent cup of coffee. More advanced kettles have precise temperature settings (e.g. coffee needs water to be a bit below the boiling point, so with a cheaper kettle you'll have to wait a bit for it cooling to the needed level). These electric kettles are also handy for getting boiling water for instant noodles, soup mixtures etc and also in cooking (you need to add hot water during the cooking process). It is fast (from seconds to max 2 minutes depending how much cold fresh water you put in the kettle), saves so much on electricity costs as electric stoves hog a lot of energy and even on a gas range top it takes longer to get water to boil, and microwave boiled water is weird (it reacts oddly and the taste is altered).

I knew a guy who worked at a power station, who told me about how once there was maintenance going on that meant that a large urban area was cut off from the main grid and had to be powered by one single power station. The Wimbledon tennis championship was also on that week, so they had to set up two TV screens to monitor when the big games were ending, so they'd know when to make the necessary adjustments to the equipment. (Long before computerisation.)

(Sweden) Everybody has one. Its not only for tea, also instant Coffee, instant Noodles, or just for heating up water quickly for use in other uses, ie cooking pasta or rice.

It's not just tea. There's "cup-a-soup". It comes in sachets of dried powder, which you pour into a mug, pour on the kettle-boiled water and - hey presto - a mug full of hot soup. The "cup-a-soup" is a staple of illness. When folks ain't feeling so hot and can't manage to eat a substantial meal, you give the patient a "cup-a-soup" because it gives them at least some nutrition, in drinkable form, that's nice and light. And hot to warm you up on the inside. And then there's the student's favourite: "Pot Noodle". This is a plastic cup of dried powder and dried noodles - that comes in various flavours like chicken and mushroom, beef and tomato, plus some spicy "curry" varieties. Again, peel off the lid of the Pot Noodle, pour kettle-boiled water into the pot and then it hydrates those noodles, which swim in a flavoured soup. Students love it because it's cheap, simple and quick, but quite delicious. The chicken and mushroom comes with a small sachet of soy sauce, while the beef and tomato has some ketchup in a packet to spice it up. Then there's Bovril. You might have heard of Marmite - the yeast extract that people either adore or can't stand, and there's nothing in between those two - but there's another beef-flavoured variety called "Bovril". And you can make a nice beef drink with a spoon of Bovril in a mug of kattle-boiled water. Just stirring in the mug, it dissolves.

What you call teapots are not teapots to us but kettles. Teapots are used for preparing tea and commonly made of ceramics, you add the tea into the pot and then pour in water from your kettle. The tea will then be able to brew in the teapot. My kettle takes about 3.5 minutes to boil if full to the max. It has several preset buttons to select the temperature of your water as required. White tea, Green tea, black tea and coffee all brew best with water at different temperatures. The water is also used for making instance coffee or coffee with a cafetiere (French Press). Also, for adding boiled water to a saucepan when cooking vegetable or pasta as the water heats up so much quicker in a kettle. I must admit I do not know anyone personally who doesn't have an electric kettle. They can be pretty cheap from about $13 up to $200 depending on how fancy (using Tylers expression) you want your kettle to be.

Also, in every home in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, we have kettles. Although Australia is known for its best coffee, we are also have a big tea culture. I believe it is due to the fact that these countries run on 220 watts. Therefore, our kettles boil quickly. The USA runs on 110 watts.

I would say that more than 95% of New Zealand homes have one. Yes, they boil! And are essential for making tea, coffee etc. But also I will boil water in the kettle, then add it to food on the stove (e.g. vegetables) because it's way quicker than boiling the water on the stove. Most kettles now are cordless, i.e. the base has a cord and is plugged into the wall, and you lift the kettle off the base when you use it.

Just coincidently, I'm here in the UK, watching you, while having a cup of tea. I had no idea that you'd be talking about tea and kettles. I didn't look at the videos title, just like to see your reaction to things we Brits take for granted.

We as a household don't even drink tea and we always had a kettle and it is used daily. Making coffiee or having access to boiling water for cleaning or filling a pot to cook pasta etc (it's quicker than pre heating on the cooker (stovetop). A kettle is the item that boils water, whether on the stove or in an electric kettle. A teapot is what you pour your boiled water into, together with the tea bags or leaves to let it stew and become tea. Btw, we bought an electric kettle in target near Akron OH when we lived in the area. There wasnt a lot of choice though!

Only 95% I would have thought it would be minimum 99.99% of brits that own a kettle.

Kettles are not just for tea. If you need boiling water for something ....use the kettle. I know people who boil their eggs in a kettle ! If you are cooking pasta, boil the water in the kettle first. It will cook quicker. Only 95% !? I would think it's much higher. Kettles actually BOIL the water , unlike a microwave ! Tea HAS to be made with " rolling, boiling water" . Only boil enough water that you need. No need to fill the kettle to the top. A " tea pot " is what you actually make the tea in. The kettle only boils the water to put in the tea pot with the tea leaves/bags. A kettle only takes 2 or 3 minutes to boil in the UK because of our higher 230 voltage.

Im 50 and I've never been in anyones house that doesn't have a kettle!

Boils water quickly and safely, cutting out when finished. For tea, instant coffee, cleaning purposes, washing up if heating is off in the Summer. Convenient for any number of things.

Electric kettles are also used in most of Europe to make coffee. I'm British living in Spain and only drink coffee so boil the water in an electric kettle to make it. It's seems to be the Americans who are unusual.

We also use the kettle for other things too. It's used for hot water for cooking, hot water bottles and other hot drinks.

Tyler it may be surprising quite a few Americans have kettles, but it maybe because I live in a very internationally diverse area within Atlanta that I see most... and they are readily available hundreds on Amazon or Best Buy, Costco, Walmart in the US. Recent data, about 87% of American households have a kettle, according to surveys and market research reports in the USA. However, what you might not know is the kettle in the US takes about 3 times longer to boil than the UK? The reason for this is the kettles sold in the US are actually the same as in the ones in the UK with the same heating element, however the 110V in the US results in the kettle taking 3 times longer, the same is with hair dryers, Hair tongs etc. Additionally, there five different temperatures for making different teas. 1. Delicate Teas 160F Camomile, Herbal Teas etc. 2. Green Tea 175F 3. White Tea 185F 4. Oolong Tea 190F 5. Black Tea 212F (Boiling Point 100c) Enjoy!

Everyone has a kettle... Tea is life and life is tea 😂

British tanks have a dedicated tea making station inside - tea is that important

Electric kettles have been around a long time, much longer than say digital watches. For me this is very much like listening to someone being amazed about digital watches.

I live in the UK and don't know anyone without an electric Kettle. It's one of the quickest and most efficient ways to boil water for tea, coffee and cooking. If I am cooking pasta I will fill the pan from a freshly boiled kettle so it only takes a moment to bring it back to boiling on the hob.

In the UK, I don't think I've ever met someone that doesn't have a kettle. Even forgetting tea, it's a much more efficient way of heating water for cooking purposes, like pasta. You boil the kettle then pour the water into the pan to keep going.

15:58 : Tyler: "Celsius - what ever that means..." Me: "Americans" 😂

Canada uses kettles, many, many choices in stores. Kettles are not just for tea.

A large kettle 1.5l boils in way less than 5mins. We use the boiled water for cooking as well as drinks i.e. rice, pasta, gravy. It takes longer to boil water on the hob for pasta, than it does to cook the pasta.

The Kettle is very popular in Canada which we use for Tea, Instant Coffee, Soups, Mr. Noodles, Japanese Noodle bowls.

I've never been into a UK kitchen and not seen a kettle. Tyler, you need a kettle, I hardly ever drink tea but I have coffee 3 to 6 times a day and mine takes a minute or so to boil.

Just to blow your mind with an unmentioned technical detail - the kettle itself generally doesn't have an electric cable attached. They're "cordless". There's a thin base unit that stays on the counter which is plugged in - and the kettle has contacts underneath and a kinda docking arrangement which lines it up and makes contact when you put it onto the base.

95% I think it could be more. I have 3, only one in use and two spare. In my son's house they have a rarely used kettle, his partner is Portuguese and they drink espresso coffee so have various coffee machines. It is so easy to boil water in a kettle it's quicker and safer. The kettle. It is just a jug that boils water. It is mostly used to make hot drinks such as tea, instant/filter coffee or hot chocolate, which is why you’ll find one in nearly all UK hotels. Thanks to the fact pretty much everyone owns a kettle, manufacturers also offer all sorts of convenience foods that just need added boiling water, including soup, desserts and flavoured ‘instant’ noodles, pasta and rice. While most people have an electric kettle, there are a few who choose a non-electric type that needs to be heated on their hob. While perhaps more stylish, these stove-top kettles are less popular because they take much longer boil the water, they are less energy efficient and it’s easy to forget to switch them off British electric kettles switch off automatically when they reach boiling point. Another item the 'Toaster'

We don’t really have a big tea culture in Norway either, but everyone owns an electric kettle to make coffee.

Here we go again ...... Tyler has no idea what a teapot is !

I've never seen someone look soo surprised at water boiling in a kettle.😂

Every house in Australia has the electric kettle which switches off when the water is boiled. We use the hot water for Tea, Coffee sometimes to put on wheetbix breakfase cereal.

Typical house sockets in the USA only have 1500 watts. This means that you can still boil water faster with electric kettles than kettles on the stove, but the advantage of electric kettles over kettles on the stove is not as great that an electric kettle is worthwhile. While in many other countries around the world the advantage of electric kettles (e.g. with 3000 watts) over kettles on stoves is so great that the purchase of electric kettles is worthwhile. In the USA, connections with more than 1500 watts are usually only available for stoves, washing machines and dryers.

Electric kettle is not popular, but a normal kitchen appliance. I do not drink tea, as I'm a coffee drinker. We also use the kettle to heat water for cooking, hot water bottle etc. The kettle on the cooker/stove that whistles is still a kettle. The teapot does not heat up, you put tea leaves or tea bags and then the hot water is called a teapot