Speaking to a friend from Ohio, and he was saying how they don't have kettles in the US of A ... I asked him how he boils water for coffee and he said he has a coffee machine, so what about tea I said ... they have ice tea! Ok ... so do Americans really not have kettles? Isn't the microwave pretty slow for boiling water?
Well we have a kettle around the house, but that's because we live with my in-laws, who are senior citizens. Kettles are mostly found around old people here.
We have Jolt/MD/Bawls cola and no kettles You have no Jolt/MD/Bawls but have kettles... and balance is restored... They are more of a novelty here in the States.. My wife likes hot tea but she uses the little bags right in the mug of hot water...
we actually have a cool cordless kettle, mainly cos my wife and I love real tea... We're tea snobs. It was a wedding gift from my parents, I believe they had to search high and low for it though.
Call me lame, but I'm a fan of kettles... (and I live in america) Unfortunately, I don't have one right now, but I don't have a wok yet either (and I want one of those soooo bad) My cooking utensils do consist mainly of normal pots, pans, gas stove (mmm.... tastes like burning) and a microwave. (oh and an oven... forget that sometimes, even though it's my fav to cook with) For now, I use a hot tea maker (by Mr. Coffee I think!) Anyone who wants to donate a kettle may email me for my address
But how do you get the water hot? To me kettles aren't exclusively for tea, but just generally making water 'boiling'.. surely you need to do that?
she just puts a pot on the stove... not as fast as a kettle but produces the same product.. that's if she has time.. If she doesn't she will microwave a mug of water. You can make water boil in a microwave if you put something like a straw or chopstick in the mug but she doesn't even do that, she just gets the water really hot. I have had several kettles before but frankly never used them, or at least not what they are for. In the house I grew up in, we had wood burning stoves for heat and kept old/heavy kettles on the stove full of water for humidity and to monitor how hot the stove was. Growing up my mother always used one but I never got in the habit of using it as a tool.
nah, it's all delivered... carrying stuff is for suckers... not saying it is they way it ought to be, just the way it is over here... I think it is the ritual of preparing tea that we have departed from, if you can't grab it from the fridge, we don't do it... lazy I guess..
We've got a kettle somewhere but don't use it. We've got one of those fancy Bunn coffee makers (yuk - I hate coffee) that always keeps the water in it hot so whenever they want hot water/tea/whatever they just put cold water in the top & hot instantly comes out.
no kettles????? we have six in my house. you cant do anything without kettle. tea, coffee, hot chocolate, rice, pasta, cup a soup, pot noodle, i could go on.
lin I think the filter stole your link... I figured out what the last word is: Hot water Ho t water ho t w a t er Sorry I had a little laugh at bits expense
Tea is far more popular over there than here. Guess its a result of the Tea Party? If we want to boil noodles, thats what big pots are for. I mean, really, whats the difference? Big pot, kettle, potatoe, potahtoe, its all the same. I link hot tea with the orient. Cant stand the stuff. If I want tea, its going to be iced tea, or sun tea, which gets iced eventually anyway. Nobody in my house drinks coffee, nasty swamp water. If we want hot chocolate, the water from the tap is more than hot enough.
I have never had one before. I don't know anyone that has. I thought they were made obsolete like 30 years ago Even my grandma does EVERYTHING with the microwave...
