British Couple Reacts to 4 Ways British and American Houses Are Very Different
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99.99% of the time I don't need to boil water. The rest of the time, the Microwave works just fine. No kettle required, of either kind. Have a Coffee Maker for coffee...
@H how is that toxic 😂
Goonies is a classic, and she will love it. I was raised in a 100 year old farm house, and now I own a ranch. I put a glass of water in the microwave and hit 2 minutes and hot water. Haven't used a kettle in 20 plus years.
Actually the house power grid has an automatic safety system built in so you plug something in it stays on but it doesn’t drain you dry. Basically you draw enough power to charge something or keep it on but not enough to overload it. If any overload happens the plug immediately cuts and the ground wire activates draining power to zero until you reset that plug. It’s a massive safety measure that everyone vote for. It saves energy better plus most electrical things use the energy star system which controls energy use so you save money each money on the bill. Japan uses something similar but it’s more an extra battery kicking in if a device needs a boost then switches back to storing energy until needed. The problem with the British switch system is you really aren’t saving much on your bill. Run the mythbusters energy test where you calculate the power lost when switching something off. Our tests showed that power loss was so tiny that it really didn’t matter if you switched it on or off minus a single light bulb. They repeated the experiment with the British plugs and found you lose more power on those plugs than anything out there. It proved right as numbers don’t lie.
i believe the reason most people in the US does not have a kettle would probably be attributed to the fact that not many people drink hot tea. However, you will be hard pressed to find a house that does not have a coffee maker.
You are correct sir/ma'am. I don't personally drink coffee, but EVERYONE in my family does. I drink tea because it's less bitter especially if you add honey.
Way more than 10% of us have a kettle.
I don't drink coffee and I don't have a coffee maker. I'm middle aged so it's not like I'm a kid either.
Just don't like hot drinks except for hot chocolate and I only drink that a couple times a year.
Don't know where you live, but it's not so much the case in the Mountain West. Coffee and tea are less a thing there than anywhere else. Plenty of houses have coffee makers, but in some areas I can go to many houses and not run into any.
@@jsjazz12 10% is how many have an electric kettle. A stove top kettle would have to be more like 75-80%. It would be more like 95% according to what I've seen, but America has a lot of variation around the country as far as what's normal.
growing up in Canada, my parents had a plug in kettle for years and years, until they got a microwave, then the kettle got shuffled to back of the cupboard. microwave was quicker to boil water or make coffee or tea
I used to use the microwave to heat water to make hot tea. (And reheat my hot tea!) I think it weakened my favorite mugs…at least one handle came loose & a few mugs cracked. Now I heat the water in a pot on the stovetop. I use a YETI cup, so my hot tea stays hot longer.
I would not have survived my mother finding out I used a microwave for tea. I do use a microwave sometimes now that I live on my own but I still have 3 kettles that I also use. I think my mom secretly made tea in the microwave while we were still asleep. It was always the kettle after we woke up.
I use my electric kettle to boil water for coffee, cooking vegetables, rinsing cooked rice etc. It's far quicker than heating on the hob or in the microwave for anything except tiny quantities.
I’m kind of shocked Lawrence didn’t mention the Spanish influenced houses you can find throughout the entire western half of the US where way more homes have stucco on the outside than wood or brick.
The Goonies is a classic movie. It spans all age groups. Everyone can relate to this movie.
hi whiteowl i have never seen the goonies either as well as ET i never seen that either....
@@henrym5534 Watch both and you will not be disappointed. They are both great.
It was OK, but I didn't like it enough to want to watch it again, even though I did see it a second time. Don't know what it is that I don't like about it other than a culmination of things.
I lived in Astoria, Oregon when the Goonies was filmed. I saw most of the actors and a few scenes being shot. It's worth watching at any age. Astoria was also the filming location for Short Circuit, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy, The Ring II, and a few others. Hollywood loved that town in the 80's.
They're not the only ones. If I could snap my fingers and be a kid there in the 80s, I'd do it in a second.
My mom visited about 15 years ago, and said “there’s no way those kids rode their bikes that far” lol.. mom it’s a movie
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@@TheBeesleys99 we add a on/off switch it is called a surge protector it stops damage form surges, brown out and black outs and adds more outlets incase the room does not have enough of them.
On the kettle thing, you can also heat just water through your coffee machine and or microwave the water.
Yes but coffee machines should not boil water, generally brings it to about 95 C, which is not enough for good tea.
@@stephenlee5929 Okay so since you want to get all technical sir different coffee makers do different things and if you have a keruig like I do it can get it plenty hot enough for Tea's and other things. Also being "hot enough for a good tea" is your opinion! On top of that there is just not the need in most Americans houses as for we drink coffee most of the time. Good day sir...
@@JP-ur8eg Wow. You’re very passionate about this subject. Lol And I think the temperature for tea is more about proper steeping than preferred drinking temperature.
We say townhouse too. I feel like rowhouses is the older term and still used for older "terraced" homes, but if it's a new build they always call them townhouses or townhomes now.
12:10 it's odd that British houses don't have screens on the windows. With no AC and using the windows to let the breeze in, I would have thought that would be a given.
They were built to keep in the warm lol , old builds especially its just in recent yrs we have had heat waves into the 90s plus, we have one at the moment and it's bloody boiling in my flat 😓
As Laurence said, we (UK) don't really have the level of flying insects. As an alternative we use net curtains, they act as a (reasonable) screen when installed properly they need to be weighted , many are not. AC is not generally available, mainly, I think, due to cost and cost of install and maintenance I know it's cheap and simple to do, but not if very few people do it.
UK does not (normally) use ducted heating
A majority of Americans don’t really drink tea, they drink coffee therefore you will always see a coffee maker. I do drink tea so I have an electric kettle. Oh and the Goonies is an absolute American classic. One of my favorite movies. An absolute must see.
That's true I can't stand hot tea it's nasty but I love iced tea
I like hot tea.
@@saraheart2804 my daughter likes it as well but I can't stand it I can't even stand the smell of it
I don't drink either
In the US some people literally “move house”. The house is jacked up off the foundation and moved by truck to a new site. It’s not common, but people do it.
Re: Kettles (electric or other)...
Most Americans just don't drink tea as almost religiously as the U.K. or some other parts of the world. I do drink tea. However, I simply have a Keurig machine for both my coffee and one for hot water. The one for hot water is set at the max temperature and is used for things like tea and oatmeal. It's convenient and very fast. I did have an electric kettle that I purchased for my freshman year in college. However, it wasn't for tea but for ramen noodles -- and I never actually ate any while in college. So, by the time I went to graduate school, I had a like-new kettle that had never actually been used. After finishing grad school, I gave it to a friend who still needed another year.
You can just microwave a mug of water for tea/coffee. No spillage, timer.
In the summer I prefer to put a glass pitcher with water and tea bags outside and make sun tea so much easier and to me tastes better than anything else
No I disagree. Most Americans have a teapot even if it's just kitchen decor.
@@nochannel1q2321 Oh no, apparently some British people are Rtards who believe that microwaves somehow make water gross. It's like some kind of Kosher law, it makes no sense.
Two main reasons most don’t have plug in kettles here. 1) most people don’t drink tea 2) our voltage is lower, so it would still take longer to boil than on a higher voltage system like the uk.
I agree that he missed the common hime types. He hit the east coast, but those house styles are much less common everywhere else (except ranch style, thats all over)
Technology Connections did a great video on why America doesn’t really use electric kettles. Basically it’s down to the voltage difference making it take longer to boil water in America, the fact that basically every house in America had a coffee maker which can make hot water just as fast, or use the microwave. But over all those reasons the number one reason was that Americans don’t have the tea drinking culture of England. I actually have an electric kettle. The problem is I have to clean all the dust off it whenever I want to use it because it hasn’t been touched in months, or even years.
Recently kettles have become more common but like your kettle most American home will have a coffee pot/maker
The Goonies is my favorite childhood movie, and I've seen it no less than a 1000 times. I'm aging....as gracefully as possible.
When Lawrence was talking about closets, it reminded me that here, in America, all bedrooms have to have a closet. A room that doesn’t have a closet is maybe an office, or a den/library, or a playroom for kids, but it isn’t considered to be a bedroom. If someone sells a house, they cannot consider a room without a closet to be a “bedroom”. That’s why all our bedrooms have built-in closets.
When they’re talking about tea kettles, we don’t drink tea nearly as much as the English do....we drink coffee a lot more, and that usually requires an electric coffee pot, which would be similar to their electric kettle.
When they were talking about moving, they call it “moving house”. Here, we simply call it moving. Of course, we also have the saying, “moving house”, except we mean that we’re actually moving the whole house. We disconnect it from the water line, sewer line, gas line, electric line, cable line, phone line,etc.,then jack it up (using supports under the house), put wheels under it, and move it to somewhere else, then reverse the procedure to set it down and start living in it.
We have the washer and dryer combos too. They are typically in very small houses and dorms. Having washer and dryer separately is better if one stops working you can still use the other. If the combination one breaks you Can't wash or dry.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen in the States a single machine that both washes clothes and also dries them - I’ve only seen them abroad. What I have seen here is the combined stack unit of a washer and dryer - much more common.
My wife bought one a few years ago. I thought it would be cool, but it doesn't 'dry' like a pure dryer unit. We went back to two units but if my place was 1k sq ft I get the need to combine then.
@@pacmanc8103 yeah I've seen the Washer that looks like a dryer at Home Depot and the coin Laundry but not both.
@@jasonwest3093 Hi, the real problem with combined washer/dryer is the capacity.
The wash capacity is about twice the dryer capacity,
so you either, only half fill the washer, and run a wash/dry cycle (this works),
fill the washer then half empty, dry the remainder, when finished take that out and replace with the half you washed earlier,
or what many people do is load the washer not quite to capacity, then run wash/dry cycle, dryer doesn't work well because it is overloaded.
As you say they are OK if you have a space problem, in the UK we often dry by hanging washing to dry, in this circumstance a washer/drier can work for those items which need to be tumble dried..
Also washer/driers are more expensive and less reliable.
Most American's have no need for an electric kettle because there's no circumstances where they need to boil water. They're not generally making tea. They have a coffee maker for the heating of water, for the making of coffee. Instant noodles are not a popular thing, except for children, and college students. I do have a kettle, however I have not had any need to use it for almost four years. That's just not a thing you do. Because you don't need to. Ever.
As far as plug sockets go, our voltage is 115v AC, 220v AC for electric stoves and clothing dryers. We do have block off plastic covers for any accessible sockets to protect children, and now we have some that have built in block offs...As far as kettles go, they really aren't a thing so much anymore. We do have coffee makers for our coffee, and they do make tea pouches that can be used in our coffee makers. We also have Keurig machines that allow you to make 1 cup at a time of either coffee or tea.
I got rid of the stove top kettle & went to a combo coffee maker with separate reservoir for heating water. A godsend for an American coffee and tea drinker.
I've noticed that both the U.K. and Japan have multi storey apartments (flats) which have entrances to each unit on the outside. Instead of having a main entrance, interior stairs or elevator and an interior hallway (see The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.) Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who) Iggsie Unwin (Kingsmen: The Secret Service) and every police drama "council estate" have exposed catwalks to the front doors and stairs partially or fully exposed five or more floors up.
Clearing six, eight, ten inches of snow several times each winter would kill people.
Nice reaction! I grew up in Virginia with a large colonial (and often Georgian) influence on the architecture. Yet, the "colonial" architecture is also "Georgian" -- as they are from the same period. So, you'll see the wooden "Colonial" houses in the same areas as the more expected red brick Georgian homes and buildings too.
Also: I live in a very wealthy community where the cost of living is astronomically high. The average rent in our area is very near the highest rate in the nation. Yet, my sister lives in another state. She has an amazing and humongous brick mansion on a nice estate with a mortgage that is lower than the rent for a modest apartment in our area. So, this is one reason why you see mansions in one area of the nation that are less expensive than renting an apartment in other areas.
I have both a stovetop kettle and an electric kettle. I love my electric kettle because I can set the water temperature, the steep time and it has an magnetic basket that automatically raises and lowers the tea leaves in the water if I am making a kettle of tea instead of a cup. Sometimes I do use the stovetop kettle. There’s something comforting about hearing it whistling in the kitchen on a winter day.
We have microwaves to heat water quickly for tea or hot chocolate (1 minute), or many use the function for a single cup of hot water on their coffee maker (about 1 minute depending on the size chosen). Although they probably sell them here, I’ve never seen an electric kettle in person. I’ve never had a stovetop kettle either.
Another difference in housing terminology is that what you call a garden we call a yard and what you call a veggie/vegetable patch we call a garden. 🤗👍
Yep, (brit here) what do you call, what we call a yard, an area often at the back of a house or block, normally small, often paved or concrete, no cultivatable ground..
It has many uses, store bikes, store tools, store garbage cans (rubbish bins) , maybe have plants in pots, it usually has access points for utilities(gas, water, power) . Its normally in row houses, or the centre of a tenement (block of flats) .
We don't boil water...we have an instant hot water dispenser...just turn the tap and Bob's your uncle, instant cup of tea
I've actually seen a full size house moving on the bed of a some sort of flat bed semi on the highway.
In Missouri. Our house was built in 1968 as a 1600sqft 2 story 3 bedroom 1 bath farmhouse. It's now a 2432sqft 4 bedroom 3 bath with full finished basement and 2-car oversized garage attached. The houses around ours range between 1100sqft to 3700sqft with each property having between 2 acres up to 20 acres lots.
My house could fit inside your house....
The “American dream house” depends on region. For instance, if I lived in New Mexico/Arizona I would not dream of having a house built for say Michigan/Wisconsin.
here in MA its what we call a McMansion, don't know the real name that is a slang term used, they are huge and my opinion ugly
I was born and raised in Oregon, where the Goonies movie was made, and I've never seen it. You're not the only one, Millie.
We frequently call a kettle a tea pot. Everyone I grew up with, including my family and myself have always had one. We also have the kettle/teapot that plugs in. Cannot live without my tea!
He... did show the average American house.
Basically everything is some derivative of Cape Cod or ranch outside of specific local variants.
Most Americans and this is very important... DRINK COFFEE! lol I actually own an electric kettle, but I barely use it because I don't drink tea much at all.
Both sets of my grandparents were scots Irish. We drink tea prepared with a stove top kettle. It's a tradition and therapeutic. Grandma always said it was bad luck to put an empty kettle on the stove.
re electric pots to heat water...we just use a microwave to heat the water in the mug...however, we drink coffee and the equivalent is a coffee maker, so Mr. Coffee vs kettle. Love you guys!!
I think that the English have electric kettles for their tea because they are tea drinkers and prefer their tea be done a "certain way" (proper cup of tea) -- but here in the USA we are coffee drinkers, so we have coffee makers, not tea kettles in our kitchens. Love your videos!!
I own several old style tea kettles with the whistle in the spout but most of the time I use the coffee maker to make hot water. Hot water goes into a thermos where it is dispensed into cups. We have hard water with lots of minerals. It tends to clog appliances where it is subject to constant heat. So make hot water then move to a thermos to lessen the cleaning in the coffee maker. It still needs to be done but can be delayed to once a month.
Just an FYI, I was in Target the other day and they actually do have electric kettles there. Also, a very basic coffee maker accomplishes the same goal of simply heating water.
I live in the US and know lots of people that have electric kettles. I dont have one personally, mine is a stove top kettle-just because it's so pretty! And I would NEVER use the same appliance for my tea and coffee like I have read in other comments. It makes the tea have a coffee flavor. I love coffee, but not in my tea.
Where I live, there are lots of farmhouses (which is what I live in).
I love having a separate washer and dryer. Having 5 boys, I appreciate being able to throw another load in to wash while the other load is drying. It takes up more space, but saves time in my day.
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Most Americans don’t drink tea so we don’t need kettles. We have coffee makers because we mainly drink coffee.
Growing up we had the plug in kettle. Camping I have one that goes on the fire. Also in the house we have a tea pot/kettle that goes on the the stove
Many of my friends have a reverse osmosis water system at their kitchen sink, that also has hot water on demand. People generally use their Keurig for hot water, the microwave, or a traditional kettle.
Kettles aren't used here in the state but more than once or twice a week. Very few people are steady tea drinkers. Very few I happen to be.i have a kettle. I don't drink coffee at all. I don't have a coffee maker. I go to a friend's house , I always bring my tea bags because they will likely not have any. I don't keep coffee. Kettles are not needed in most homes
You HAVE to watch it!! Its great! Goonies Never Die!
Los Angeles is chock full of architectural variety. Every style Laurence mentioned (on both of his lists), plus Mexican mission-inspired "Southwestern" stucco structures of all kinds, "Craftsman style" bungalows, and many many more.
I make tea in a coffee maker with tea bags 1 gallon at a time. It's so much easier. We tend to drink COLD tea and not hot.
I've used an electric kettle for years. The problem initially was the length of time it would take to heat the water. My newer kettle is much faster than my first. A simple way to ensure your mobile phone is charging is to make sure your charging sound is selected on. Most have this option so it chimes when the charger is first connected.
We either use the microwave to boil water or the Keurig (coffee maker) that can do hot water for tea or you can buy the pods of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, apple cider, etc. All available to work with the Keurig system.
I use a hot water dispenser that is plugged in and the water is always hot. It’s used a lot in Japan and it’s sold here too. It’s insulated so it doesn’t use up a ton of energy. So, no waiting for hot water. You just press a button anytime and you have hot water that’s just about boiling temperature.
Tea is the only thing I drink, all day, every day. In fact, my husband and I drink so much ICED tea that I have a very large container with a spout that is kept in the refrigerator. When I make that tea, I use our coffee pot. I put the gallon sized tea bag where the coffee goes and let the hot water do it's magic. It works great and I don't have to wait on boiling water or have a separate tea pot. Not to mention, they don't make tea pots big enough. 🙂 On the pictures of the houses, the American houses he showed are from the 1980's and earlier. I live in Texas, and most of our houses don't look anything like that anymore.
My favorite is the "Craftsman Bungalow" a great style.
The Goonies was filled in Astoria, Oregon. Was one of my daughter’s favorite movies. We live a couple of hrs from Astoria. kindergarten Cop was also made in Astoria. It’s on the way to the coast.
No kettle. Never boil water ever unless it’s for pasta. Pod type coffee makers take 30 seconds for a cup.
Yes! Absolutely she needs to watch The Goonies 😂 It is a wonderful movie guaranteed to make you laugh 😂 As to tea kettles, mine lives on the stove (no electric kettle) and of course I have a coffee maker. Both electric and a French press. Since giving up soda I drink quite a lot of tea. Earl Grey is my current favorite 😊
The two slot outlet is only in older buildings built before 1960-1962.
Ungrounded.
We did have the option for a single appliance for laundry, but it was explained that one device would be less efficient than two that specialise.
Props to you just for getting the Goonies reference. I think over here the electric kettle is generally replaced by the coffee maker.
Arizona US here! We have a kettle and it is a life changer. It even makes using my moka pot easier! Boil the water first in kettle, add to moka pot, add grounds, and you have coffee in seconds! Much, much faster than boiling the water in the moka pot. The electric kettle boils water so fast, I'm still astonished. One day I hope they invent one that whistles, lol. One thing Lawrence forgot to mention is the size of furniture. It's much larger in the US. I'm married to a Brit, and I commented on the cute child-sized rocking chairs in their living room. My hubby-to-be said those were brought over from England. Homes there are so small the furniture is scaled to fit. In fact, he said their house in Walton would fit in their 2-car garage!! For a family of 7!!
I use a Coffee Maker for coffee, and for tea (which I very seldom drink) the microwave is the fastest option to boil water, faster than a kettle or a pot on the stovetop.
I was in a bar brawl in college and I still remember the thing that set it off was one guy telling another guy "I loved you in the goonies"
That last American house we live in now. Two stories. 6 bedrooms. White vinyl siding with black window shutters. 2400 sqft
In America we buy surge protectors to add more plugs and a off and on switch. So we can turn off the plugs when not using it.
Americans use the microwave to heat a mug of water for coffee or tea, and it's quicker. So why buy another appliance to clutter the counter.
i have a stove top kettle and an electric kettle our electric kettle is for when we travel it holds a half gallon out stove stop kettle whistles so we dont have to stay and watch it cheers
Yes, she must see The Goonies. For tea I use the microwave. A duplex is two places on top of each other, not side by side. The side by side ones are called twins here in the Philadelphia area.
A duplex is side by side in most places. two floors sometimes known as a bi-level duplex.
I totally agree with Millie, those are definitely not the most common American style homes. Especially throwing in the Tudor-style but not much more common modern American homes was an interesting choice
While many Americans drink tea, a tea kettle is not necessarily found in every household. We have both stove top and plug in type kettles, I guess it kind of depends on the individual's preference as to which one they own. Less common though is the tea pot. Most Americans that drink tea use tea bags and just put the bag and hot water directly into the cup. What you will find in most American households is a coffee pot. The majority of which now days are automatic brewers. I can't even remember the last time we used a stovetop coffee percolator. From time to time in our house we make coffee with a French press, but generally we use a Keurig K-cup coffee maker.
Never saw the Goonies. Wow!! He is right it's a classic. She will love it. Make her watch it.
Goonies is a must. Great movie.. lovelovelove ❤️🌸✌🏻
I'm 65 and I love the Goonies. It's a good movie for any age.
It's America...... you can get any kind of house you want, from a log cabin with a dirt floor, to an oppulant mansion.
We don't really do tea time. It is usually coffee in the morning. Also we have water Coolers that have a hot and cold spigot and the the water comes out close to boiling hot instantly taking the need away to really boil water. If not then a Pan on the stove, or a cup in the microwave is fine.
I would not be surprised to find out that a large number of US households do not boil water on a regular basis. Americans do not drink hot tea nearly as frequently or in the quantities that the British do. The hot beverage of choice in the mornings in the United States is often coffee; made in a drip coffee maker. While there are many other means of making coffee the drip coffee maker has been the ubiquitous countertop appliances since I was a child. This is so much so that any US hotel room that you rent will have a small crappy drip coffee maker. It will not however have an electric kettle.
I boil water plenty but just for cooking. Rice, pasta, etc. If I want hot water for a drink I have a Keurig that can do it for me, plus get me coffee. Before I owned that I'd just stick a glass of water in the microwave for hot chocolate or something or the very rare occasion I drank, usually only when sick.
Basically, most homes don't boil water unless it's part of a cooking process or the local water source is contaminated.
When I'm brewing iced tea, I literally just use hot water from the tap. I don't heat it up at all as the water tank already did that.
@@garyballard179 I’ve seen studies including one from the EPA that say not to drink or cook with water from your hot water heater. Hot water systems like tanks and boilers contain metallic parts that corrode as time goes by, contaminating the water. Hot water also dissolves contaminants in pipes faster than cold water. Considering that many homes have internal plumbing with some presence of lead, this can be a big deal.
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Depends on where you live, I guess. Most hot water heaters I've seen tend to be ceramic lined with PVC pipes, and most areas have replaced lead-lined and metal pipes (outside the east coast).
Outside of that, my water is run through a purifier before I drink it, because I live 100 ft outside the city and am not on the city's superior water system.
Ever hear of the Boston Tea Party? That turned us in to coffee drinkers. We have automatic coffee makers on our counter tops instead of electric tea kettles
You've got to watch Goonies!!! "Goonies never say die"
I am a tea drinker and I have a water fountian (Zero water) that gives hot and cold, simple drink away
I have an electric kettle, but I don't use it. I have a water cooler that also dispenses boiling water, i.e., hot water on demand. So when I want hot water for my tea, I put the cup in and push a button.
I have grown children and still live to watch The Goonies. It's a classic.
After she watches the movie. Come on over to Astoria Oregon. The jail, jeep, and Goonie house are all still there. Also Short Circuit and Kindergarten Cop were filmed there with a lot of the places available to visit.
I have a Keurig machine for coffee, and use it for hot water if I want tea. No need for a kettle.
I have a kettle. I don't use it much, mostly for noodles and hot coco. I don't drink tea or even coffee.
I do like the kettle as I don't have to carry a hot mug of water out of a microwave.
My parents have a wall mounted coffee machine that has instant hot water and fancy coffee.
I have an electric kettle, but I drink tea periodically, and periodically make coffee using a French press with my good coffee, and hot chocolate in the winter. But most of the time I use a Kurage to make coffee. Besides it takes just about the same time to boil it on my gas stovetop as it does in the electric kettle. (North America uses 120 volts as household power). Yeah I just leave chargers and appliances plugged in. Most energy star charges don't draw power or very little if left plugged in. And if you are worried about a power surge you plug it into a surge protector. Now they even make ones that you can have an electron wire into your power panel that protects the whole house.
we don't have kettle we use a coffee pot that can be used for tea. They can be set on timer to be ready when you get up.
off switches save power because if you have something plugged in, even if its not on it still takes power. phone chargers still use power if your phones not attached.
Most people who drink tea aren't usually drinking it hot. Most families in my area make sweet tea by the gallon. A stovetop kettle should not boil over unless you overfill it. We also have coffee makers and microwaves for when we want to heat small quantities of water quickly. An electric kettle would be redundant for many people.
Also in America, there are co-ops. Co-ops are like apartments and condos but it's a corporation, and the owner of a corporation owns shares in the corporation. So you own a certain amount of shares in the building. There are legal technicalities in the differences between co-ops and condos, but I haven't looked at them in years.
I have a tea kettle, use it mostly in the winter and make sun tea in the summer. I put the kettle on and go on about my business until the kettle whistles about a minute later. I'd post a picture of it but apparently you can't do that here.
*We don't need kettles in the US* because we aren't a tea-drinking nation. *We are in fact a coffee-drinking nation.* And so we have coffee makers that heat the water instantly for that specific purpose as it's brewing the coffee. Also, we don't need kettles since most American homes come standard with a microwave. And a microwave can boil a large mug of water in less than two minutes. And we can still buy stovetop kettles and we still have electric kettles that are sold here. So it's not like we don't have them. But since we don't drink hot tea, they just are not popular. And again because we have stove tops along with microwaves that do the same thing as an electric kettle, to begin with. 🙂 🍵☕
The microwave is my personal favorite way to boil or heat water. I can make hot water in just over a minute for things like Hot chocolate. Works perfectly every time. 😋
I'm one of those strange ducks in that I have never had coffee in my life ...... and I'm 65 years young. I can't get pass the smell of it when it brewed. Open the can or bag and I like the smell until you start to brew it. I do however like all kinds of tea, hot, cold, iced, black, green, herbal, so I do have an electric kettle. The nice thing about the electric kettle is I can keep my water hot between cups. Now back to the coffee. Before I retired, I was a middle school teacher and my teaching partner was a strange duck just like myself in that she too had never had a cup of coffee. We made a great team.
@@sydney4911 Yeah, with coffee you will either love it or hate it. I hear Marmite is a either love it or hate it type of experience as well.
There is basically no in-between like its ok, or I like it but it's not my favorite type of experience with these items.
It's a love or hate relationship I find.
Personally I loooove the smell of ground coffee beans and even the brewing smell. I love the taste too. So I drink 2 cups a day.
But my dad is the opposite. He loves the smell of coffee. But absolutely hates the taste of it. So he won't touch the stuff. 😅
“The Goonie’s”….YES! Such a classic, coming of age, yet fairytale meets treasure hunter, great for boys AND girls! As adults, we probably watch, “The Goonie’s,” 3-5 times a year. Yeah, not only is it a good show, it’s also iconic. LOL
We can use coffee makers and keurig machines to get hot water. You just run them, but without adding the coffee.
16:30. The Electric Tea Kettle in the UK is the equivalent of a US house having a Coffee Maker. I actually use my coffee maker AS a Kettle! You can pour the water in and just not have the coffee in the top section. Voila! Hot water for tea in 3-4 minutes!
That's great, but most coffee makers don't boil water, they heat it to output at about 90-95 C, which is good for coffee, but tea (English style) needs boiling water 100 C, OK it will drop to about 98 C by the time you pour it.
But I'm pleased it works for you.
That was a pretty good impression. Love the Goonies. And as someone who doesn't drink either tea or coffee regularly, I'm not sure why a person couldn't use a coffee maker to heat water for tea. And honestly, I don't think I've ever been in a house with a garbage disposal. But I've only ever heard town house.
About insects: twice when I was growing up we had infestations of flying ants. I don't know if they're actually ants or what they might really be. All I do know is they swarmed in through the wall and were just everywhere.
Going to go against the British thing of combining the washer/dryer. So if one messes up they both need to be replaced? Nah.
Those "flying ants" were probably termites.
Male ants of most species have wings, and fly out to find other anthills to mate with the queens. Genetic diversity.
Can Millie post what she thinks is the 'ideal' American house? She seems to have very strong opinions on the matter. Yet I have seen many examples of American homes in your videos, yet they don't seem to meet her criteria. 🤔
I agree, Millie talks about her American Dream House, but every video I've watched them do about houses, she says no to all of them LOL. I'm quite curious as to what type of house she means. If I'd hazard a guess, I think she may be referring to the 2000's generic suburban planned community cookie cutter type houses. I don't know though.
@TheBeesleys ...Yes, Millie has very strong opinions on the matter (and on some other things, lol), but particularly with something like one's ideal home or one's ideal mate, you want what will be pleasing, comfortable for your daily life, ideally meet most of your needs, and bring you joy. Millie, you go girl. You've a right to want the home you want and to be discerning about the details that will be most satisfying, and to put the work in to get what you want. You've already found the right man (and he's a keeper!).
As with human relationships, for a dream house there will be priorities and compromises, some things harder to work out than others. Whatever the housing, you together will both make it a home.
P.S.: I never got around to watching "The Goonies." But apparently I've missed out, and I shall have to correct that. As for you, Millie, it sounds like you should relent and watch "The Goonies" movie at some point soon, if only to please your better half who loves it.
P.P.S.: I do suggest you watch another movie... a great movie from the 1950s... a classic comedy called "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. It is a "must watch," should you ever have opportunity to have your dream home custom built, or have serious renovations done on a place of your own. I think you will both enjoy the "Mr. Blandings..." movie. Though some aspects of the film's era are dated, of course, being from the 50s... so much more in the movie is perfectly relatable today, as well as cautionary, entirely believable, AND hilarious.
We do have an electric kettle. My wife uses a pour-over coffee pot and we both drink tea. Additionally, where I'm from, "a set of kettles" means "a set of cookware". My equally American wife was very confused the first time she heard my mother say that.
No if you leave something plugged in the outlet it doesn't do anything it won't catch on fire and if it does anything it'll flip a breaker