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Once introduced, it's hard to downplay the usefulness of an electric kettle.
by bmitc 4y ago
Once introduced, it's hard to downplay the usefulness of an electric kettle.
- killjoywashere 4y agoI'm American and learned about electric kettles during trips to Asia. They are definitely handy, even at 110V. We make our daily coffee in a French press, so the electric kettle is a no-brainer.
- rad_gruchalski 4y ago> We make our daily coffee in a French press Moka pots are much better. Your French press will start letting the coffee powder through at some point. I use these: https://www.rommelsbacher.de/en/coffee-tea-co/espresso-makers/espresso-kocher-eko-364-e.html https://www.rommelsbacher.de/en/coffee-tea-co/espresso-maker....
- vineyardmike 4y agoI don’t like to force things on people, but I usually buy people Moka pots. Moka pots ARE better but they make a different coffee. Moka pots are an espresso machine substitute more than a French press substitute. I do recommend it though. Lots more options for coffee drinks.
- kenneth 4y agoYou can't compare a moka pot with a french press, they are fundamentally different things that make different styles of coffee. Espresso and coffee are not identical. Personally I find french press too grainy, so at home I use aeropress, but when out prefer a properly done pour over filtered coffee. Black of course.
- christophilus 4y agoAgreed. Someone gave us ours as a wedding gift. I thought, “Great. More clutter I don’t need.” I use it daily for tea and coffee (Aeropress). And now, thanks to this thread, I may use it to speed up my pasta water boiling.
- wintermutestwin 4y agoWhile traveling through Europe, most AirBnBs had electric kettles and they all had gross scale deposits in them so I ended up boiling water in a pot.
- ErikCorry 4y agoIt's calcium. It won't hurt you, and you can't taste it.
- stavros 4y agoWill it also make my bones stronger? Where does it come from? Was it in the water to begin with?
- eru 4y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water
- drdrey 4y agoYes it was in the water to begin with, that’s what hard water is.
- stavros 4y agoAhh right, hard water, thanks.
- bobbylarrybobby 4y agoDon’t know about your bones but all tap water has some minerals in it.
- stephen_g 4y agoGood thing too, because if you drink demineralised water it pulls electrolytes out of your cells (I think by osmosis) and eventually you also end up with decreasing bone density.
- dopidopHN 4y agoIt’s part of my bug out bag. You can cook with that thing and one bowl.
- vel0city 4y agoI have a pretty nice electric kettle. You can set it to a number of common tea temperatures and it'll hold that temp for up to a half hour. I got it as a wedding gift. I use it about weekly. If it broke tonight I don't know that I'd bother replacing it tomorrow. I'd probably go a while before I got another kettle. It might even take someone gifting me one before I bother getting one. Sure, it's marginally faster boiling water than my stove. It's about as fast as my microwave (which is insane at 1650W). It's definitely more efficient, but the break even on that is measured in years probably for even a cheap kettle and decades for this fancy one I have. I just don't really drink many hot drinks and my microwave does just about as good of a job for getting things hot. https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/tea_kettles/cpk-17p1/ https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/tea_kettles/cp...