# Brits must have a kettle on the stovetop at all times...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698 "2017-11-25T19:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/61 "2017-11-29T19:36:45Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What’s your point? > > Licence is the noun; license is the verb. It was a wee joke about non-US spellings being wrong and weird. ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/62 "2017-11-29T20:14:07Z")
My wife (British -\> U.S. immigrant) is quite adamant that 110v American voltage just isn’t quick enough on the electric kettle compared to 220v British. I tell her she’s got watched pot syndrome, but she’s convinced this is just one more sign of America’s lack of civilization. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/63 "2017-11-29T21:01:05Z")
> [@squidfood](#): > > My wife (British -\> U.S. immigrant) is quite adamant that 110v American voltage just isn’t quick enough on the electric kettle compared to 220v British. I tell her she’s got watched pot syndrome, but she’s convinced this is just one more sign of America’s lack of civilization. This was dealt with at some length in the semi-notorious Egg Cup thread in CS. UK electric kettles draw a fair bit more power than their US equivalents. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/64 "2017-11-30T00:15:41Z")
in the us when making instant cocoa you use hot water we only add milk when using syrup or something like nestle quik Although theres an excellent cocoa on the back of the hersheys baking cocoa container that uses milk and other things … … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/65 "2017-11-30T00:29:10Z")
it was supposed to say cocoa recipe … ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/66 "2017-11-30T16:06:29Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > Although theres an excellent cocoa on the back of the hersheys baking cocoa container that uses milk and other things … … Yes! On snow days when I was a kid, after bro and I played in the snow, we’d come in and Mom would be making real hot chocolate in a saucepan, with milk, Hershey’s cocoa powder, and whatever other magic it called for. She’d butter white bread and fold it so that you could dip the bread in the cocoa and the butter would melt. Memories!! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/67 "2017-11-30T22:37:40Z")
American here, if I wanted an electric kettle I’d probably have to get it online. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698/68 "2017-11-30T23:50:34Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > American here, if I wanted an electric kettle I’d probably have to get it online. Likely could get one at WallyWorld; the local one here has them. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-must-have-a-kettle-on-the-stovetop-at-all-times/802698.md?page=3)