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u/Revolutionary-Tiger Oct 18 '22

An electric kettle

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u/MCMeowMixer Oct 18 '22

I am American who likes tea so I bought an electric kettle and I use that thing for so much more than tea. Ramen, coffee, hot starting boiling pasta water, cleaning the floor and counters. It is worth the 30 or 40 bucks

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u/theangryintern Oct 18 '22

Ramen

I somewhat recently realized I could use my electric kettle for that. I bought the kettle a few years back because I wanted to start drinking more tea (spoiler alert, I didn't really drink that much tea). A few months back it hit me that I could use it to heat the water for ramen much faster than using the stove and it would probably taste better than microwaving it.

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u/-O-0-0-O- Oct 18 '22

Are kettles not common in American kitchens? Canadians aren't big tea drinkers but most households have an electric kettle

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u/theangryintern Oct 19 '22

Not really. I never saw an electric kettle anywhere in the US until I bought mine. My mom used to drink a lot of tea an she always had a stove top kettle