My professor had one and I never understood the point. Then it broke, I took it home and fixed it (he bought a new one and gave it to me) and boy it changed my life, I'm team electric kettle for life
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Heh, pretty much every kitchen in the UK - in homes and in offices - has a kettle that can boil a litre of water in 3-4 minutes. You can buy them in the supermarket for around £20.
And then there's this beauty my wife treated me to a while back... https://www.sageappliances.com/en-gb/product/bke825?sku=SKE825BSS3GUK1
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Totally replaced by having an induction stove. Regular kettle boils in like 2 minutes, never really use the electric kettle anymore.
2 minutes on the induction stove? So like... Still slightly slower than the kettle?
No? My electric kettle takes like 3-4 minutes to boil the same volume I can boil in 1.5-2 on the stove. Hell I can get enough for one cup of tea boiling in like, 1 minute.
Are you in the US?
Sounds like a bad kettle.
But you can save all that kettle space for something else. Might i recommend a toaster? You could have tea and toast!
Not today, Satan!
How 'bout a muffin?
We don't like muffins 'round here! No muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, no hot cross buns, and definitely - no smeggin' flapjacks!
arnt these pretty shoddy designed, because of the gooseneck its easier to break.
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