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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I was under the impression that the relative paucity/uncommonness of electric kettles in Nth America was related to the 110 volts making them less useful?
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Ours seems to work fine. I assumed the US/UK difference was because Americans are more into coffee. Does the voltage make a difference? Or did it in the past, 'cuz ours seem seem to work just fine.
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Originally Posted by Tarana
I'm switching from a cheap electric kettle (my brother's) to a Hot Shot. Water is ready in under 2 minutes for 1 cup of tea or cocoa.
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Our Hot Shot lives on our counter and is used almost every day. Our kettle (and also the Breville Tea Maker) live on the shelf below and get grabbed when needed.
The only problem with the Hot Shot is the horrific lack of quality the company who bought the brand applied to their 'updated' design. As I've said elsewhere, my mom's original Hotshot lasted for over a decade of daily use. We have gone through three of the newer ones in the last few years because of the poorly designed, fragile dispense button connection. They are cheap enough to replace, but it sucks that they are made so cheaply as to be disposable.
When they work, they work wonderfully well, so we'll replace them as they break, since our plans to get a true insta-hot water system installed were thwarted--see a previous rant. I think it's a lot quicker than two minutes to do a single cup (which is about half capacity).