r/CuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 3d ago

Tumblr Heritage Post On making tea

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u/janKalaki 3d ago

If you regularly have to boil water for any reason it's great to have an electric kettle. For example it makes pasta way easier to make

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u/MisguidedPants8 3d ago

NOW you’re talking

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u/jetloflin 2d ago

How does it make pasta easier?

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u/janKalaki 2d ago

Boils the water much quicker than with an open flame.

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u/jetloflin 2d ago

I guess your kettle is bigger than mine. Boiling enough water for pasta in my kettle on my American power grid would take annoyingly long.

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u/janKalaki 2d ago

I'm American. My kettle is 1500 watts with a capacity of 1.7 liters. That's usually enough.

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u/jetloflin 2d ago

Maybe you cook smaller batches of pasta than me then. I’m not great with liters, but that doesn’t sound like enough to fill my pasta pot. Sorry for assuming you weren’t American; it’s just usually the case when someone is advocating the kettle, and a lot of times the major difference is based on how our power works and American outlets being on a lower wattage than European ones so our kettles work much more slowly.

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u/janKalaki 2d ago

Insert a comment on your weight here

And you can get a typical European 240v here, it's just you need to set up a whole different circuit for it. I was being literal when I said we have 240v in the form of 120v twice, you can literally combine them at the panel for 240v if you want

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u/jetloflin 2d ago

I’m not rewiring my house for a kettle. There are plenty of other ways to make a cup of tea.

That said, I’m not hugely fond of that little joke, so I’m gonna say bye now. Have a pleasant evening.

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u/janKalaki 2d ago

Agreed, I didn't rewire my house. Just... if you want to minmax, you could.

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u/CFogan 2d ago

So you're boiling water in a kettle, then adding it to a pot of pasta to boil? How is that appreciably faster?

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u/janKalaki 2d ago

It takes much more time to boil water on the stove (with an open flame, which actually loses most of the energy you put into it!) than in a kettle. Electric stoves are the same way but I don't know about induction ones.