S. Worthen | Weblog

I'm pretty sure electric kettles are not uncommon in Canada and I would guess the Northern US (if nothing else for making stuff like instant hot chocolate and instant coffee).

What's strange to me is that the kettle that keeps a couple of litres of water on boil for you seems ubiquitous in Asia (and among immigrants from there) but the Brits I know boil there water up as needed. My parents are ex-pats and they instantly converted to Asian way of doing things when they discovered it.

Personally I find coffee way to bitter to drink, so I stick to (relatively weak) tea. I also don't go in much for caffeine though, I'm often too lazy to make it and too cheap to buy it or other caffeine sources. In principle you can make tea as strong as coffee by adding more tea bags/leaves, also I just checked different varieties of tea have different caffeine content.