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They don’t work as quickly because a standard appliance circuit is lower powered. Mine is still pretty fast though.
The bigger reason is just that they weren’t common until the last few years. Everyone just used a teapot on the stove if they wanted tea, but more likely a coffeemaker for the more common hot drink
They're still not common
Are kettle and teapot switched around in US English or something?
Not from my experience. Kettle is the thing you heat the water in. Teapot is what you'd serve tea out of. Northeast US.
So in cafes and restaurants you get kettles at your table to heat water for tea, and at home you put teapots on the stove to cook tea?
Or were the people I was replying to getting the two confused?
Could be either, since I don’t drink tea, but I’ve always known a teapot as the unpowered thing you put on a stove, oftentimes something fancy. Since I’ve seen things you plug in to make water hot, they’re always called a kettle (double checks Amazon). Some fancy China or whatever thing you put on a table is what grandma used for guests and we’d never have such a thing
Stovetop kettles are the og and existed for centuries before electric kettles. They're all just called kettles though and the heat source modifer is rarely mentioned.
I believe they were confused, but I don't doubt if there are differences between the US and other countries in regards to tea drinking, preparation, and serving standards.