• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    LOL, we has 2 and have never used them. One is at camp, where we have a gennie, and we sold the other at the flea market.

    The only hot drinks we make are coffe and we have 3 machines for that. If we need hot water to cook, we heat it on the stove top. I just can’t see why we would want one. Am I missing out?

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      2 months ago

      They’re faster than the stovetop by a lot over here, so if you’re boiling a lot of water multiple times a day (for tea, coffee, ramen, and whatever else) they’re super convenient.

      If you’re not making many hot drinks (or have better machines for that) I’m not sure how much use they are.

      As for cooking, I know for myself, when I make something like rice, I boil the water in kettle first, and it definitely saves me a couple minutes. A few minutes doesn’t sound like much, but it all adds up. Another commenter says that they’re actually not that much slower over there, so it might be worth timing one compared to stove top?

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        2 months ago

        They’re significantly faster than boiling water on the stove here in the US too.

        I have an electric kettle because I’m a tea drinker. Not gonna lie though, it did take a while before I realized I could just generally boil water in the thing. One day, looking directly at the kettle while I filled a pot with water, the dusty light bulb in my head finally lit up. 😅

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        2 months ago

        A lot of things are faster than me.

        In my defense, my left leg hasn’t been as good since I took a tumble off my bike into a gutter outside of Fuzhou a few years back.