Originally Posted By: Brangdon
(I live in the UK. I gather Americans have a different attitude to kettles on account of their mains power being less.)


Huh? Do you mean a lower voltage? I expect the reason electric kettles are less common here is that most homes have gas cooktops, which work very nicely to boil water for tea. High wattage electric kettles apparently used to be hard to find in the USA, but that's no longer the case.