We only run 120v here, so it takes forever to heat up a decent amount of water. Plus, we drink a lot of hot drinks. We prob go through two to three liters a day.

You can leave it on all the time or have it shut off after it reaches temp. It doesn't really use much energy either way because they are so well insulated. Mine has vacuum insulation that can keep the water to temp for about half a day, and if you want to bring it back to temp you just have to reheat it a few degrees. The vast amount of energy used to bring water to a boil in the beginning of the heat cycle.

It can be turned off after boiling, but it also has much better thermal insulation, so the water will stay hot for much longer than in an ordinary kettle

For me it's the sign of ultimate home luxury. You can spend 1.5k to move your kettle into your faucet, the ultimate thing that is as unnecessary as it is cool, as cost-ineffective as it is weirdly efficient.

I have been angry that they aren't available in the US since I found out about them. My integrated hot water tap only gets to like 85°C

Ugh. A web"app" that only shows everything else until i lower my browsers guards. And entirely ignores prefers-reduced-motion but has flickering issues instead. Great. Web dev failed the job successfully.

Every hot drink, every time you boil anything.

My kettle was $200 specifically for good pour over 🤷‍♂️

I take it you don't make pasta often?

It's for families of tea/hot water drinkers who drink many small cups throughout the day.

Depends on your electric output and how often you do hot beverages/noodles . But we prob use about two to three liters a day, which would take quite a bit of time with 120v.

Also, you can get some that only run like a hundred bucks.

I mean this is a premium brand with added import mark ups. But yeah, pretty standard in most homes in Korea, China and Japan at least.

East Asia is cold as fuck in the winter time and typically drink a lot more hot beverages and soup/noodles than westerners. Plus, Japan where these things are absolutely everywhere only uses 100 volt in their power grid, so a kettle would take even longer than in the US.

Nah, mine actually has a specific setting for pour overs.