On: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

[baby]

wat?

[JustSomeNobody → baby]

meaning you can use it with an electric range or a gas one or logs on a fire or ...

[bkjelden → JustSomeNobody]

A proper electric tea kettle will heat water way faster than placing a regular tea kettle on an electric stovetop.

Electric tea kettles are a single-task device, but they do that one task so exceedingly well a lot of people own one.

[antisthenes → bkjelden]

Not in the United States, they don't.

You're artificially limited to 1920W(cont. or 2400W short term) on a 20amp circuit and most kettles will barely do 1600W for safety reasons and legacy (houses with old wiring).

It takes an obnoxious amount of time to boil water using an electric kettle in the US. When I go back to EU to visit relatives, I am already drinking tea by the time the kettle boils in the US.

[james_a_craig → antisthenes]

UK kettles can be 3500W, which makes quite a difference. Our kettles are massively better than stovetops.

[singingfish → bkjelden]

Nah, my induction cooktop using 2.2KW (medium hob on boost) does better than a 2.4KW jug kettle.