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You savages have to wait for hot water? Why not join all of East Asia in the future and get yourself one of these? Four liters of perfectly temped hot water anytime you want..... I honestly don't know how people who drink a lot of hot beverages live without them.
Sounds like it uses electricity all day and night long instead of just while bringing the water to a boil.
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.
But then you have this small container of boiling water constantly in contact with a metal or plastic containment vessel, absorbing who knows what contaminates due the higher temperatures.
I mean, my electric kettle boils water in like 45s, so it's really not a big deal. I drink pour over coffee, so I just start the kettle and by the time I'm done setting up my coffee it's done.
I wouldn't even have that if it hadn't been gifted to my wife for her business before she closed it. My microwave is perfectly capable of boiling water without having yet another single purpose device cluttering up the kitchen.
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.
In Denmark there's also this thing that is just built-in boiling water in your faucet - in addition to your cold and warm water.
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 live in a house with 4 other tea drinkers; our instant hot water tap has paid for itself 20x over lol
How has it paid for itself? Or are you just saying you really enjoy it? Very casual tea enjoyer here.
not having to buy a new kettle every few years for one :D
fewer fights about who's putting the kettle on lol
I'm glad you like it, but a kettle is about $20, I can't imagine that's anything near "paying for itself." I love my tea, but I'm a broke bitch, those words mean different things.
yeah I get that about you. good luck tho
Oh, I'm a bit crazy about my teas, half of the time I drink greens, and the boiling water is too hot for it
Pour in some cold water first. Takes a bit to find the right mixture ratio, but you can get the temperature you want consistently
good luck!
It's definitely a luxury if you're doing it on its own. If you're remodeling a kitchen or building a new house, it's more like a rounding error.
Source: just remodeled my kitchen.
Ugh. A web"app" that only shows everything else until i lower my browsers guards. And entirely ignores
prefers-reduced-motionbut has flickering issues instead. Great. Web dev failed the job successfully.I have been angry that they aren't available in the US since I found out about them. My integrated hot water tap only gets to like 85°C
I'm sceptical this is popular in East Asia where apartments are small and wages are low. All of these are more than 200USD
I mean this is a premium brand with added import mark ups. But yeah, pretty standard in most homes in Korea, China and Japan at least.
East Asia is cold as fuck in the winter time and typically drink a lot more hot beverages and soup/noodles than westerners. Plus, Japan where these things are absolutely everywhere only uses 100 volt in their power grid, so a kettle would take even longer than in the US.
300$ to save maybe s few minutes a day??
Every hot drink, every time you boil anything.
My kettle was $200 specifically for good pour over 🤷♂️
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.
Makes more sense then. I’m on 230V so boiling water for one cup is a matter of maybe a minute or so
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.
Still need a kettle to pour a proper pour over.
Nah, mine actually has a specific setting for pour overs.
I promise you it's not the same as a stagg. I'm no it saying it's required but I promise you my kettle is more precise.
Works for my uses. You can set a precise temp and it has a setting where the nozzle mimics a gooseneck kettle. But tbh I don't do a lot of pour overs, I usually just use my French press.
Congrats. You value speed, I value quality pour over. I'm simply explaining, since you possibly can't conceive, why someone might have a device like that and go with a classic kettle.
Lol, I don't know why you're so butt hurt. I never said it was superior for pour overs, or that I couldn't understand why someone would buy your favored contraption. I just said it suits my purposes.
And I gave you an answer because you lack the account to think before comments.
Lol, I think you may have a problem with reading comprehension.
Because this is obviously better.