Electric Kettles Suck

Okay, so sure electric kettles are far more energy efficient, heat water faster (except maybe in countries with crappy 110V power supplies), and automatically shut themselves off when they've boiled, making them more convenient and safer, but they are not an aesthetically pleasing as old-fashioned stove-top kettles.

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Comments

[SoarBird]

You are an electric kettle~

[VitalSpark]

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r00d

[SoarBird]

4411147 heheheh

[Shadow rift]

Truth be told, I just use the good ol' fashioned put water in a pot and heat it up.

[Sir Kuljurk]

countries with crappy 110V power supplies

As an IT professional, you're triggering me so hard right now.

[VitalSpark]

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It barely counts as electricity.
Rubbing a balloon against a cat is a better source of electricity.

[Sir Kuljurk]

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A 110V power supply is not the right thing, though. Most power supplies aren't rated for either 110 or 220, they're rated for both. It's the amount of power delivered to the outlet that changes.

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The 115 on that switch means it accepts roughly 115 volts of AC power (power fluctuates by about 10-20 volts in an alternating current, so the exact number isn't that precise), and it can be swapped to 230 for European outlets. If you have the switch set wrong in the US, it simply won't turn on; if you have it set wrong in Europe, you run the risk of ruining your power supply.

A lot of modern power supplies, especially laptop AC adapters, support auto-switching between the two voltages, thereby removing the potential of PEBKAC. So, when you say a country has a crappy 110V power supply, that's a factually incorrect statement; most power supplies support both voltages. You should be calling American power infrastructure crappy.

[VitalSpark]

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I'm not talking about the power supply units of computers. (I thought this would be obvious, given that the topic of the blog post is kettles.) I'm talking about the power supplied by mains electricity.

[Sir Kuljurk]

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Kettles don't use power supplies, they use AC adapters. Alternating current can travel long distances very quickly and reliably, but it will either not work on or fry most appliances. You need to get a converter at the end that will change the power from alternating current to direct current, which is what both power supplies and AC adapters do--one is just a fully integrated power system, whereas the other is more modular and supports a greater variety of uses per unit. So, don't blame the AC adapter/power supply on the appliance, blame American infrastructure.

You said:

crappy 110V power supplies

That's factually incorrect.

[VitalSpark]

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The American Infrastructure is the power supply — it is the thing that supplies the power. I don't know how I can make it any clearer that I'm not talking about PSUs.

[jackplanet88]

Sleepy Panda productions? How many films are in the works?

[Sir Kuljurk]

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+a+power+supply%3F

[VitalSpark]

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+the+power+supply+in+the+USA%3F

[Sir Kuljurk]

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Based on your search results, you're more correctly referring to the mains voltage. It's not called the power supply.

[VitalSpark]

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The Google results show that some people call it a power supply. Ergo, it is called a power supply.

[Sir Kuljurk]

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The Google results show that the power mains are called the wrong thing surprisingly frequently from people who like to call things by the wrong name. Google is educating you by showing you that you're calling it the wrong shit, so you're sticking to your incorrect name and telling me that my correction on what a power supply is is somehow not factually sound due to misappropriation of a term.

I like you.

[Sleepy Panda]

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You guys are both nerds.

I ship it.

[VitalSpark]

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Was my blog post unequivocal enough for you?

[Sir Kuljurk]

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What would our baby look like?

[Sleepy Panda]

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No idea. You two look nothing alike.