Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Miss Caphat]

Do Brits really find it so hard to make boiling water anyway?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Yick! Get it away!

Omnomnom. It can be lovely. Some are gloopy nastiness, though.

I currently use Monin syrup in place of sugar in my coffee, along with hazelnut milk. The monin syrups are very nice, not at all sickly or 'fake' like some syrups you can get. When I make cold press coffee in the summer, I make my own chocolate syrup to go in it. A big jar of it will last ages kept in the fridge.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Do Brits really find it so hard to make boiling water anyway?

No, cos we all have kettles!

 

[Orang Utan]

Do Brits really find it so hard to make boiling water anyway?

No, because we have kettles

 

[fishfinger]

Should all be Kelvins.

Kelvins are just a silly way of expressing Celsius. I bet that Kelvin geezer was just jealous of Celsius and thought I want my own temperature system but as I'm so unimaginative, I'll just add 273 to the Celsius scale.

 

[xenon]

Do Brits really find it so hard to make boiling water anyway?

No. We have electric kettles...

 

[Vintage Paw]

Do Brits really find it so hard to make boiling water anyway?

Oh come on. As an American you should understand what it's like to find convenient and time-saving methods for everyday things. Using a kettle is far quicker (for us with our voltage system) than boiling a pan of water on the stove (or using a stove-top kettle, etc.). If you don't need to boil water very often, then it may not be something you care about. But if you're boiling water regularly, an electric kettle can cut down on the time it takes and make a nice difference to things.

I use my kettle to boil water for cooking vegetables, or anything that requires boiled water in cooking. I use it for coffee. For hot chocolate (when not using all milk). My kettle gets used several times a day and saves me quite a bit of time compared with having to do that each time on the stove.

 

[xenon]

 

[littlebabyjesus]

No. We have electric kettles...

Keep up at the back!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Omnomnom. It can be lovely. Some are gloopy nastiness, though.

I currently use Monin syrup in place of sugar in my coffee, along with hazelnut milk. The monin syrups are very nice, not at all sickly or 'fake' like some syrups you can get. When I make cold press coffee in the summer, I make my own chocolate syrup to go in it. A big jar of it will last ages kept in the fridge.

<shudder>
Sugar of any kind in coffee is an abomination. (Although I've been know to use ground up cocoa nibs in my coffee. )

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Sugar of any kind in coffee is an abomination.

Agreed. Likewise tea.

 

[gosub]

when I had my boat, I just used to leave my coffeepot and kettle on top of the wood burner

 

[fishfinger]

Agreed. Likewise tea.

Why would you put tea in your coffee?

 

[Vintage Paw]

<shudder>
Sugar of any kind in coffee is an abomination. (Although I've been know to use ground up cocoa nibs in my coffee. )

I'm afraid I have quite the addiction to sugar. I've managed to reduce the amount I use, but I have been unable to cut it out entirely.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I had real trouble getting coffee without sugar in Cuba. They have really nice coffee, but always add sugar. If you ask for no sugar, they will often start explaining how it's bitter without it and will make you ill, and will put some in anyway to save you from yourself.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Agreed. Likewise tea.

Sugar in tea is even worse than in coffee.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Sugar in tea is even worse than in coffee.

Makes it a totally different - and horrible - drink.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I had real trouble getting coffee without sugar in Cuba. They have really nice coffee, but always add sugar. If you ask for no sugar, they will often start explaining how it's bitter without it and will make you ill, and will put some in anyway to save you from yourself.

I'll take the risk.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Jesus Christ! It just goes on and on! We don't need kettles of fucking boiling water so we don't make them! How hard is that to understand? And if we do need them for pasta or whatever in which case we'd be cooking it in a pot anyway! Why would we buy an extra appliance for that since you have to cook it in a pot after the water boils?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Jesus Christ! It just goes on and on! We don't need kettles of fucking boiling water so we don't make them! How hard is that to understand? And if we do need them for pasta or whatever in which case we'd be cooking it in a pot anyway! Why would we buy an extra appliance for that since you have to cook it in a pot after the water boils?

Aw, you really feel strongly about this, don't you duck?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Jesus Christ! It just goes on and on! We don't need kettles of fucking boiling water so we don't make them! How hard is that to understand? And if we do need them for pasta or whatever in which case we'd be cooking it in a pot anyway! Why would we buy an extra appliance for that since you have to cook it in a pot after the water boils?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'll take the risk.

If you get the chance!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

If you get the chance!

I'm unlikely to any time soon since Americans can't technically travel there. Some people swing through another country, but I'm just a regular person. Regular people get in trouble for things like that.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm unlikely to any time soon since Americans can't technically travel there.

Will be able to very soon, I think. But you can always go via Canada. They don't stamp your passport if you're from the US.

 

[Spymaster]

We don't need kettles of fucking boiling water so we don't make them!

You DO need them. You just don't realise!

 

[xenon]

Jesus Christ! It just goes on and on! We don't need kettles of fucking boiling water so we don't make them! How hard is that to understand? And if we do need them for pasta or whatever in which case we'd be cooking it in a pot anyway! Why would we buy an extra appliance for that since you have to cook it in a pot after the water boils?

Because tea, 240v, we use rapid boiling water for loads of stuff. Eggs, instant noodles, cleaning.

 

[gosub]

I had real trouble getting coffee without sugar in Cuba. They have really nice coffee, but always add sugar. If you ask for no sugar, they will often start explaining how it's bitter without it and will make you ill, and will put some in anyway to save you from yourself.

Only problem I had with coffee in Cuba was if they brought you an Americano, which I don't really like normally, but in Cuba I suspect is made deliberately awful for propaganda purposes. Cafe con leche seemed much the same as Spanish coffee, a good thing

 

[skyscraper101]

I had real trouble getting coffee without sugar in Cuba. They have really nice coffee, but always add sugar. If you ask for no sugar, they will often start explaining how it's bitter without it and will make you ill, and will put some in anyway to save you from yourself.

Brazilians do this too. In the land of coffee

 

[gosub]

Because tea, 240v, we use rapid boiling water for loads of stuff. Eggs, instant noodles, cleaning.

and babies, they need lots of hot water. I've seen it on the telly, must start em on drinking tea early

 

[maomao]

Jesus Christ! It just goes on and on! We don't need kettles of fucking boiling water so we don't make them! How hard is that to understand? And if we do need them for pasta or whatever in which case we'd be cooking it in a pot anyway! Why would we buy an extra appliance for that since you have to cook it in a pot after the water boils?

Takes me about 7 or 8 minutes to bring the water in the pasta pan to boil on my gas hob. Takes a couple of minutes to boil 3 and a half pints of water and pour it into a pan. If you want to spend your whole life waiting around for pans to boil that's your business.