Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Why don't Americans use electric kettles?" video.

  1. Us non-British people thinking Brits actually have "tea" dressed like 19th century dolls is a classic! XD
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  2. I'm in Ukraine, and having a boiler is how you get hot water, generally... at least in my city most people installed them in 2000s because hot water was both expensive, and not that hot, and often didn't work. So our TAPS have 90+ degree hot water, from the boiler. Big ones 60-100 liters for bathroom, generally, and sometimes smaller ones for kitchen. Oh and the one I have keeps water warm enough for hot bath even after 2 days of no electricity as I learned when russians destroyed a power station near my city with a long range cruise missile.
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  3. It can vary not only by region to region in the same country, but also by different sides of a building: the tap water in kitchen for me is hard (a lot of scale on teapots) but drinkable. One in the bathroom is way worse, and any new tap there starts looking like it's a cave wall really fast (and they break often). Citric acid, which fixes scaling in kitchen doesn't help in the bathroom. And water there tastes bad... What I am saying is just because country-wide it might be okay, you never know the state of plumbing and pipes in each place (or rivers or reservoirs it comes from).
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  4. It shouldn't matter on volts input but on wattage output of a device. 2KW kettle is using up twice as much energy as 1KW and 1.5 times 1500 Watt one.
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  5. What temperature do you mop floors at even? My boiler gives me extremely hot water that has steam evaporating from it so in order to not have things melt and hands burned, I have to mix the cold and hot water. Of course people without boilers or when there's power down have to boil it.
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  6.  @Myrius69  yeah the only problem is that if you have an old Soviet house it might not work well with more power. Mine has aluminium wire and using too much power leads to everything else turning off. I.e. if I use the coffeemaker in the same outlet as PC, my monitor turns off... And powerful electric devices like stuff for heating needs a separate outlet in general... Learned the hard way.
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  7. The safety feature can be literally life saving especially for old people who can be distracted or fall asleep and not noticing it boiling over and putting out the fire if you have a gas stove.
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  8. It can even vary by city district, some just have harder water, hell, water from my kitchen tap is more drinkable than one in the bathroom, and the latter has tap scale much worse... a light acid (like lemon acid or vinegar) descales it well to clean stuff, but to drink it? Filters, or boiling, are our only options.
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  9. Don't basically all coffee makers and even cezves you put on fire require cold water?
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  10. You get used to living without electric kettle or induction stove when a russian missile barrage and Iranian drone attacks destroy your power grid and you get like 2-3 hours of electricity a day. It's better now but I got used to the gas stove and... analog?.. kettle. I'll probably never use a non-electric device for cooking once we raze moscow and send russians beyond Urals, but as long as they plague Europe, good luck having warm food if you got induction stove.
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  11. Yeah the one thing analog old kettles have over electric ones and ONLY if you have a gas stove, is they're working during the season russians bomb your critical infrastructure. War crimes make it impossible to use coffee machines and electrical kettles for most of the winter.
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  12. We had those things called "kypiatylnyk", a giant spiral you plug into wall. Parents had to ask friends to borrow one to use when I was a kid and we had an accident leaving the district without gas for weeks... water it boils beats the water boiled by electric pan we had (didn't have electric kettles at the time, and ones with spirals instead of disc heating element suck).
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  13. You're just lucky UK doesn't bomb your electric grids every week in Ireland... I mean, they did horrible stuff but it seems russians are trying to cosplay 17th century Britain, and fail at it miserably. Still, RIP people with induction stoves wanting a tea for last 5 months or so.
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