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What are your favourite and/or most used kitchen items? (beehaw.org)

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For me, it would probably have to be my Bialetti moka pot and Dualit toaster. I make a pot of coffee and toast almost every morning. I also hope to replace my old pans with a cast iron one soon, and I look forward to using that a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

US electrical is weird.

We have 240v mains in basically every house (a very small percentage have 480v, which is normally reserved only for industrial buildings).

However, that 240v gets split at our local transformers into two 120v phases, separated by 180° phase. This allows either 120 or 240v (120+120) in our homes.

So yeah, most plugs including those in our kitchens are 120v.

However! A 120v electric kettle still blows out any other heating method, especially gas, gas is soooo slow. Some high-power induction stoves can keep up, because they can dump boatloads of power into a kettle and are really efficient, and honestly even small induction hobs like mine aren't much slower (5 mins instead of 3). But an electric kettle is like $25 and uses less power. They're so useful!