• NigelFrobisher
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    9 months ago

    I’m British and was shocked to learn that other countries don’t even have 3000W electric kettles.

    • Caiman86@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Our typical US 120V household outlets can’t pull that much power. Most electric kettles here draw about 1.5 kW.

      Could run a 240V circuit (or tap into the oven/range 240V circuit I suppose) and use an imported UK kettle. I’ve heard of people here actually doing this, but I can live with the slower boil times 😄