Submitted 3 hours ago by Twig@sopuli.xyz to britishproblems@feddit.uk
cross-posted from: …blahaj.zone/…/i-m-in-a-hotel-in-america-with-no-…
Wtf do I do? I’m only here for one night thank fuck but it’s still very hard.
Yup, welcome to the US.
(I’m Danish, we have kettles, obviously - I just watched a YT video about how Americans don’t just days ago - the poor bastards)
Because of lower voltage in the US, total available power of a wall socket is lower. So kettles take forever.
I think it’s 50% this, and 50% “boiling water repeatedly all day is simply less important to them”.
They do, but they’re smaller and not as ubiquitous.
Sure, it feels a bit odd … but what’s the issue? It will boil the water.
I THINK they may be exaggerating, for effect and self-deprecation. They may have been looking forward to the ritual of preparing tea and having a cuppa as a bit of normalcy at the end of a day of travelling and not even that very simple ritual is possible in its usual form.
Fair. But it still beats having to boil water on stove!
If you want your tea to actually be drinkable and not taste like just bitter water, you don’t use boiling water. A proper electric kettle allows you to set the water temperature to 85, 90 or 95°C.
Never seen one of those. All the electric kettles I’ve ever seen just turn off once the water is boiling.
There’s no tiny coffee machine in there? Put water in with no filter/grounds and it should heat up just right
And taste like a decade of old, burnt, low grade hotel coffee.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
If you ask the front deak, they may supply you with an electric kettle.