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.
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.
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.