• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    American kettles are a lot faster than anything else Americans have access to, except a microwave. That does a mug of water in one minute. As a trade off it seriously degrades the mug over time.

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      2 months ago

      We also just don’t really need to boil large quantities of water all at once.