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  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dear god, I won’t even look at a kettle that’s less than 2200w.

    In fact ours gets so much use I just ordered one that I can shout at across the room to switch on

    • RVAtom@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is where the 120 volt power makes it a little worse for us Americans. 2200w would be 18 amps, easily taking most of the power on a breaker.

      If kettles ever got more popular in the US maybe they could put 240v outlets in kitchens for kettles, but that would be a huge change.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      At 110V that’s a 20A kettle. So you aren’t getting that high of wattage kettle in the US. Most standard US residential breakers are only 20A (some are only 15A) and they aren’t designed to continuously run near the max amperage so the biggest we can run on a “normal” circuit is probably around a 1760W kettle but it would also have to be the only thing running on that circuit at the time.

      • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Unless you run a dedicated 220v circuit to your kitchen or tap the kettle into an electric car charger 🧏

        (Don’t do this)