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Originally Posted by ApK
Assuming you're right, that might suggest it wasn't a tea thing where and when you grew up, but perhaps not in all of Canada, which does look to lean more than the US toward tea on the tea/coffee scale.
The 'multiple factors' I mention might also include how people prefer to make their coffee. Maybe people in places where they tend to like French presses and poor-over buy more kettles than those that skew toward automatic drip and percolators, which have been the dominant methods in most of the US. I have no idea how Canadians make their coffee.
By the way, what were the kettles mostly used for where and when you grew up? |
Making coffee, instant coffee if worse came to worst, dissolving things like gelatin, making stock, anytime hot water was needed as it's faster than heating water on a stove top.
Googled tea consumption in Canada vs USA; it's 264 cups/person/year vs 216 cups/person/year.
I'm sure you are right regarding multiple factors. When and how electric kettles were introduced into the market probably also played a factor.
Back when electric kettles were an expensive appliance, they were always a popular wedding gift.