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Once introduced, it's hard to downplay the usefulness of an electric kettle.
While traveling through Europe, most AirBnBs had electric kettles and they all had gross scale deposits in them so I ended up boiling water in a pot.
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A better way to save energy is to use an electric kettle to get the water up to boiling. This is about three times as energy-efficient as a gas hob. Combined with passive cooking it could save real money… Technology Connections on YouTube has a good video about how electric kettles are the superior way to boil water: https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c
Americans don't really do electric kettles, largely on account of using 110V mains, which limits power to around 1100W, making it a lot slower than ~2000W electric kettles in the 200+V world.
I do something similar to boil eggs: 1) Put eggs in pot, cover with water. 2) Put pot with lid on stove on full heat. 3) Wait for the water to boil, then turn off the heat. 4) Wait 6 minutes (for eggs with slightly soft interior) 5) Cover eggs with cold water, wait one minute, peel. Perfect eggs every time, and I am sure this saves a bunch of energy. They peel really well too.
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You sure? Germany is a (shit) coffee country and everybody has had electric kettles since the 90s.
Lots of Americans drink kind of shit coffee as well, they just largely drink it from drip coffee makers. Alternative brewing methods like french press, aero press, pour over, etc. is starting to become more popular but is definitely still not a predominant way of doing it. And even then, the really bougie people will just have an instant boiler tap in their kitchen instead of taking up counter space with something th…
Surprised no one's mentioned "one-pot pasta" recipes yet, where you cook veggies / sauce, and just drop raw pasta into the pot while the water is cooking off. The pasta comes out starchier since you're not throwing away the starch water, and it tastes great, but definitely "different" from a "real" Italian pasta dish. Still great though! Italians view this as sacrilege but it's great fwiw.
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> In the winter, the gas stove will be more efficient since all the heat that doesn't go into your food, heats up the room (heating is typically also based on gas in the Netherlands, so this is basically free energy). The efficiency loss of the electric kettle also gets converted into heat that heats up your home, energy doesn't just disappear.
Not the waste heat from the power plant.
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Honestly it seems more likely for an American household to have a Keurig machine (or hell, even multiple Keurigs) than to have any kind of kettle.
You're on target here. I have become the dumping ground for misbehaving keurigs from family and have managed to make most of them work or frankenstein parts between them. I hate the machines and wish this never happened. I was happy with a french press. Curse my urge to not waste things.
I don't understand this sentence, I would much rather waste some ground coffee beans and water than plastic.
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No it's not. The most efficient (and fastest) way is an induction hob with copper disc pan. Something that Technology Connections didn't include in his video. See some test here: https://youtu.be/EBlyuahlplI
Where's the energy loss from the kettle that's not present in your proposed method? Legit asking, I don't see it. Just heat radiating from the body of the kettle for longer cuz of longer time to make it boil?
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Americans don't really do electric kettles, largely on account of using 110V mains, which limits power to around 1100W, making it a lot slower than ~2000W electric kettles in the 200+V world.
Americans largely don't use electric kettles because Americans largely don't drink tea at home and thus don't use kettles as often as the rest of the world. Most households I know don't even own a kettle. Not a stovetop one, not an electric one. If you were to ask most Americans why they don't have an electric kettle at home they won't say "because I only have 120V outlets in the kitchen." They'll say it is because t…
I only went to an Airbnb once that didn't have a kettle, so I Amazon'd one and just left it there.