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You sure? Germany is a (shit) coffee country and everybody has had electric kettles since the 90s.
by rando14775 4y ago
You sure? Germany is a (shit) coffee country and everybody has had electric kettles since the 90s.
- fuckstick 4y agoWhat do they use the kettles for? For most non tea drinking households in the US there is no essential use for a kettle. They do sell them here, people buy them, they are usually tea drinkers.
- BurningFrog 4y agoTo perhaps state the obvious, I use mine mainly for coffee. And the occasional tea cup.
- vel0city 4y agoHonestly it seems more likely for an American household to have a Keurig machine (or hell, even multiple Keurigs) than to have any kind of kettle.
- fein 4y agoYou're on target here. I have become the dumping ground for misbehaving keurigs from family and have managed to make most of them work or frankenstein parts between them. I hate the machines and wish this never happened. I was happy with a french press. Curse my urge to not waste things.
- yunwal 4y agoLast sentence is ironic because keurigs waste so much plastic if you use them daily.
- BurningFrog 4y agoIt feels like much plastic since you touch each one, but it's a very tiny amount if you weigh your monthly usage.
- piva00 4y ago> I was happy with a french press. Curse my urge to not waste things. I don't understand this sentence, I would much rather waste some ground coffee beans and water than plastic.
- BurningFrog 4y agoWith a French Press, you don't have to buy and throw away a constant stream of paper filters.
- joezydeco 4y agoA Keurig machine is just an electric kettle with an electric pump inside of it.
- fuckstick 4y agoCan it be used like a kettle - ie can it rapidly heat up a quart of water without a coffee residue taste? No, it cannot. Just because they both heat water doesn’t make them similar.
- gmllama 4y agoPretty much. I used my keurig this way for a few years until i realized I'm really not using pods and am only using it for hot water to make tea (via normal steeping). If you brew coffee and then use it for something right after I don't recall there being much coffee taste, but you could probably run a small cup setting to flush things in the pod area a bit if needed. I've since switched to a Zojirushi water boiler which I adore, especially after learning my keurig wasn't getting hot enough to really brew the tea well.
- joezydeco 4y agoI used to use my Senseo to make ramen so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- vel0city 4y agoI strongly disagree. With a kettle, the whole volume of water is being heated at once and is a uniform temperature. A Keurig or drip coffee maker is only heating a small volume of water at a time. By the time you process a whole liter of water the first bit will have already cooled off a lot. It's a very different process and potentially a very different outcome.
- joezydeco 4y agoIf you're making a single cup (~250mL) why do you need to heat 1000mL of water?
- fuckstick 4y agoOk exactly - in addition to keurigs /nespressos etc mentioned (which I will refuse to buy) - for years the predominant coffee making apparatus in the US has been the automatic drip coffee maker. French press, pour over, chemx are all niche.
- heffer 4y agoGerman in Canada here. I used mine to cook water for pasta as it's usually faster and more efficient than my electric cooktop. Bought one in Canada and it's close to useless for that purpose. My German kettle would bring 1.7L of tap water to a rolling boil in about 4 minutes. My Canadian one needs about 10 minutes to achieve the same.
- Iwan-Zotow 4y ago> there is no essential use for a kettle electric kettle french press for coffee tea kettle for tea
- dragonwriter 4y agoTea. French press coffee. Instant coffee, hot cider, hot chocolate, etc. Heating water for instant soups, etc.
- doublesocket 4y agoIt was weird how before that they only ever had wall mounted Wasserkocher (water boiler) and then en-masse discovered kettles.
- vel0city 4y agoLots of Americans drink kind of shit coffee as well, they just largely drink it from drip coffee makers. Alternative brewing methods like french press, aero press, pour over, etc. is starting to become more popular but is definitely still not a predominant way of doing it. And even then, the really bougie people will just have an instant boiler tap in their kitchen instead of taking up counter space with something that takes longer to get hot water.
- p1necone 4y agoIn my experience drip coffee in a halfway decent machine from halfway decent beans is miles better than most/all instant. Just because drip coffee is convenient doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. The beans you use are more important than the brewing method - if you use a giant tub of stale Folgers it probably won't be great. But grind you own decent beans and a drip machine can be fantastic.
- nuclearnice3 4y agoRecommend any particular beans?
- p1necone 4y agoI doubt we live in the same place so I won't recommend anything specific. But I would find local roasters and try to buy beans that were roasted in the last couple of days. Freshness makes a pretty big difference. Finding specific ones you really like will take a bit of trial and error. Single origin if you want interesting/specific flavours, blends if you want something a bit more consistent.
- piva00 4y agoDrip coffee is pretty good, good taste and caffeine content while being pretty simple to brew, a decent machine is cheap as well. It's just a method, the beans you use are what actually count.
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