this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
392 points (98.5% liked)
Asklemmy
43939 readers
585 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Seconding an electric kettle, even a cheap one was a game changer over not having one at all. Crazy how 99.99% of people I know as an American don't own one
Boiling water is only for pasta to Americans
And coffee, though we usually have a dedicated machine for that.
I wonder if they're more popular now. I took this in a Walmart in California. https://imgur.com/d5ae1Po Although about half of those are not electric!
Most Americans don't drink tea. The only things that I know they are used for are tea and instant noodles.
Don't let the pour over coffee crowd hear you. You'll be done for. A proper gooseneck kettle is like top 3 priority.
And if we do drink tea it's frequently iced, so timeliness of the boiling isn't a huge concern.