On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 2:08:53 AM UTC-4, wrote:

Not just the UK, I have one. It's 120V, about 1500 watts. It's perfect for
making coffee, tea, cocoa. I also use it when I'm going to boil water for something
like making spaghetti. I put half the water in a pot on the stove, half in
the electric kettle. Gets to boiling water in half the time.

They will correct you. The US caps anything with a 5-15 plug on it at
1440 watts but those 230v kettles are over 2kw and they go FAST.

Not sure who the "they" is. I just looked at the tag on the Breville electric
kettle sitting here. It says 1500W, right next to the UL listing. Would I prefer
that our homes used 240V instead of 120V so some small number of
appliances like this could benefit? Sure, but I don't think that's going to
happen.


The main "burners" on my stove are 2.6KW. If you cover the pot, it
boils the 3 or 4 quarts of water for spaghetti pretty fast. You do
need pans that contact the heat well. (slick top stove and flat bottom
pans)

And it gets there much faster with half in the electric kettle, which adds
another 1.5KW to the process.