This little nugget of knowledge has just been picked up on Twitter and people are losing their minds over it.
It’s stunning to us because we were colonised by the Brits who love nothing more than a cup of tea (or a Spice Girls reunion). So to a certain extent we have adopted the tradition of flicking the button on the kettle for a nice cuppa. As such the concept of not having a kettle seems terribly quaint to us.
There are delightful tales doing the rounds about Americans picking up an electric kettle when they’re in a foreign country, not understanding how it works, and putting it on the stove to heat it up (thus melting the bottom).
Part of the reason electric kettles are such a rarity in the US is that most of the population drinks coffee instead of tea, and the heating element for coffee is often combined in those drip coffee machines they tend to use at home.
You know those contraptions you always see in TV sitcoms?
This is all fair enough, but how do they boil water for life’s other necessities (such as hot water bottles and making jelly)?
Apparently stovetop kettles are the norm, or they boil the water in the microwave. Which many people find profoundly shocking.
Source: Common kitchen item Americans don’t have
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