On 5/30/2014 1:34 PM, sf wrote:

> Those electric kettles are easy to get used to when you're traveling.
> I don't own one, but due to comments I've seen here in the past - I
> don't think the electric kettles we buy here in the USA would heat
> water as fast as those in Europe and China do.
>

You're right, they don't - but they're still faster than a stovetop
kettle. We had a five day power outage last year, and I had to use my
stovetop kettle - it seemed to take forever, compared to the electric one.