At 01:40 PM 1/4/01 -0500, mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:
Steve Mynott wrote:
Ken Brown <k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk> writes:
On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles for boiling water.
Can anyone confirm whether this is true?
I have never seen an electric kettle for boiling water for tea.
That's because Real Americans don't drink tea - we have electric coffeemakers. The Mr. Coffee machine got most people to switch over from percolators to drip-filter coffee, though some people still drink (yecch!) instant coffee. Other than tea and instant soups or similar things, most foods that require boiling water involve cooking them in pots, which you do on the stovetop. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639