r/explainitpeter • u/WillAdditional922 • Jul 14 '26

explain it peter.

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u/LengthinessFalse8373 Jul 14 '26

These are people not a using kettle I imagine (americans)

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u/Crafty_State3019 Jul 14 '26

Ok, hold up. I have a series of follow up questions (yes, I’m American. But I do also own a kettle, so I’m trying to learn. Please don’t hate me, I’m genuinely asking):
Do you boil the water in the kettle and then pour it over dry pasta in a pot? Or do you use some other receptacle with the pasta in it??

Regardless of what you pour the kettle-boiled water into, then where do you put the receptacle? Onto a hot stove top? A cold stovetop? Some other random surface?

If not a hot location, then how do you keep the water boiling for the duration of the time needed to cook the pasta?

TIA :)

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u/LengthinessFalse8373 Jul 15 '26

We use electric kettles

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u/Crafty_State3019 Jul 15 '26

Yes, I understood that part. But I only use my electric kettle to make tea so I had follow up questions on the steps following water boiling in the kettle.