Electric Kettles

[Alan Olsen]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:

> Great Topic!
> 
> Steve Mynott wrote:
> 
> > Ken Brown <k.brown at 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.

It is false. I have an electric kettle for boiling water. It gets used for
tea fairly often. (Or it did, until I bought a new tea kettle.)

Why some people believe these urban myths...
 
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