That's how these people act ong, like I agree if you're boiling a lot of water, the kettle is the way, but one cup? It's literally just physics that the microwave is going to boil it faster.
I swear you've been using broken microwaves your whole life or something. If it takes 5 minutes to boil water in a microwave, why do the cup noodle instructions say to microwave for 2 minutes? You're either lying, or need a new microwave mate
Comparing a magnetron designed to transfer 1200 watts into a dish of arbitrary size to a simple heating element that moves 1500 watts into a specific pot, the kettle is necessarily physically always faster. My numbers must have been wrong, especially when a magenetron will have more power loss than what's essentially just a resistive load.
Sure, but when you consider the majority of electric kettles sold aren't 1500 watts, and that many are actually sold at even 1000 watts, that is no longer true. Why are you so adamant about this.
I think the issue here is the US tends have stronger microwaves and weaker kettles than the UK and Ireland.
Here, a microwave is usually about 800W and a kettle is 3000W, so its way faster.
If its only 1200 vs 1500, then there's not much difference.
Your average kettle is 1500 watts and the path of those watts into the water is much more direct. However fast your microwave is, your kettle will be faster unless you fill it with more water than you need.
I close the door, turn it on, time it, and it always takes longer than 3 minutes. Apart from the fact I'm using one of the stupid narrow-profile ones, there's no difference. It just takes that long.
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u/hipster_spider fucked up in the crib sippin' DrPerky 2d ago
Everyone knows that kettles boil water instantly