Half of those are like 800W and take forever to heat. The other half are at least 1500W so they only take three-ever, but that's still way too long for me when I'm grumpy in the morning.

Anyway, long story short I have a 3000W kettle attached to a NEMA 6-20R in my kitchen.

We have them in kitchens that need to serve a large number of people - big offices, big hotel breakfast areas, transport lounges, etc.

But a standard kitchen, I think it's like someone else said in this thread: The time it takes to boil a 240V kettle isn't much more than the time it takes to get the mug ready, so there's no real benefit to going through the extra structural work to fit a boiling water tap.

Also I think most "boiling water" taps are actually like 95°C, not boiling, so if you're a black tea snob that isn't acceptable.

The first one I've seen that actually provides the water at a high enough temperature to make tea immediately from the tap is the quooker. I have a different one (quooker isn't available in the US 😢), but it maxes out at about 85°C, so for black tea (which is what I tend to drink) I still have to put it in the kettle to get the rest of the way. For most people in countries with 240V electricity, the difference compared to just using the kettle isn't really worth it.

Plenty of non-tea-drinking countries have kettles pretty much ubiquitously. It's mostly just North America that doesn't have them because the advantage over a stovetop kettle is greatly reduced due to only getting 1500W (rather than 3000W) out of the plugs.

Of course... I solved that for myself by putting a NEMA 6-20R in my kitchen and importing a 3 kW kettle.

Talk like that will get you beaten up in much of the world (probs just the UK)

But you can save all that kettle space for something else. Might i recommend a toaster? You could have tea and toast!

No? My electric kettle takes like 3-4 minutes to boil the same volume I can boil in 1.5-2 on the stove. Hell I can get enough for one cup of tea boiling in like, 1 minute.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Every hot drink, every time you boil anything.

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 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.

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.

it's legitimately good for camping

I just get PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR trying to connect to kbin.melroy.org at all.

Let's make it even MORE complicated. Let's make the kettle a heat pump powered by a bank of supercapacitors!

You do know that capacitors can hold charge, even while unplugged, don't you?

Im not sure what you are responding too exactly, I mentioned that the temp settings are a good thing. I have no idea why you mentioned boiling water at a lower temp....