Re: Electric Kettle?

On Dec 6, 9:54 pm, zxcvbob <zxcv...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sheldon wrote:
"Pete C." wrote:
Tracy wrote:

I saw in the small appliances thread that some use an electric kettle
instead of the traditional stove top type. �Just wondering why you
prefer the electric version. �I am thinking of getting one myself.
Brand recommendations?
Tracy
(who has gone through more stove top kettles than she can count on both
hands....)
In the UK where they can get 3,800 Watts + from their 240V outlets, the
countertop electric kettles are popular. The US versions which can only
get 1,800 Watts from the 120V outlets aren't nearly as useful.

That just means that the US kettles are far more efficient.  You don't
"get" watts... watts is energy *consumed*, not energy produced.

The old UK klunker kettles were made of metal, a fairly large mass of
thick metal... most of those 3,800 watts were consumed to heat the
kettle, not the water contained therein... why would any normal
brained person want to also heat three pounds of steel when all they
want to heat is one cup water.  The new modern plastic kettles consume
half as many watts to heat twice as much water in half the time.  I
don't know about yoose but I don't want to spend my money to heat
pots.  When I buy small electrical appliances I look for those that
can do the job with the lowest wattage rating.  The UK doesn't make
those old high wattage consuming klunker kettles anymore... those
things consumed all those watts because they were poorly designed,
they couldn't heat small quantites of water like one or two cups
efficiently, you had to fill the entire pot to fully submerge the
heater element, so naturally they consumed 3,800 watts because they
had to heat like 2 quarts of water in order to fully submerge the
heating element to function at their best efficiency.  Those old
klunkers were not fast all, they needed like 3-4 minutes to boil one
cup of water.  The new modern plastic units boil one cup of water in
one minute and very efficiently... the 1,500 watt rating is only for
boiling a full pot, one cup probabvly consumes less than 200 watts.

Sheldon

You do realize that almost everything you just said is wrong, don't you?

Bob

Naturally how you know this is why you explained it all... *** for
brains... I'm positive, absolutely 100pct positive that you never went
to school past 7th grade, you are dumber than a small cow flop.

Sheldon
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