/ck/ - Food & Cooking

What's even funnier is telling them about how I boil water for hot cocoa or tea by putting the water in the microwave. bongs really do everything the hard and slow way

>>15668836
British “people” are incredibly stupid. Pay no attention to them, they can’t speak American properly anyways without using that idiotic “slangy wangy”.

>>15668836
>>15668849
bongs / yuros have double the voltage in their homes because they didn't have electricity until after WW2, so electric kettles work faster over there

>>15668836
Yeah we do. Why not? It's a lot faster. The pan is still on the heat for that time so the water stays boiling when poured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uyJpjNvhaY

>>15668836
I use the time the water is heating up to prepare everything else

>>15668836
i wish i was a toothless angloid

The kettle has an auto off, I don't want to be in the middle of some other prep and have to go to the stove to stop water on max heat from boiling over

>>15668836
I'm American and I just use a regular kettle on the stove for coffee and tea, but for pasta I'd obviously just heat up a pot of water.

>>15668882
The British use electric kettles, not stove kettles.

>>15668836
No, we boil water on the stove too. She's just a retard

>>15668856
I really do not think that's correct

>>15668856
We had electricity before WW2 you American Schwein. How did you think we could build the Panzers so fast?

>>15668836
I don’t understand, so brits just pour in hot water and hope for the best?

>>15668836
Wait to modern bongs just boil water in a kettle , pour it into a pot and call it a day?

Electric kettles really have to be the most useless unitaskers in the kitchen.

>>15669077
that's right, they just wing it and it turns out fine. cope, seethe and dilate.

>>15668836
boiling water in a kettle is much, much faster than boiling on the stove

>>15668882
Buy an electric kettle. They're like $20 for a basic one. So much easier than having to heat up a whole burner.

how big are kettles? seems unlikely one kettle is enough to boil a decent amount of pasta

i used an electric kettle in my college dorm room
but the rest of the time i just use a teapot or pot of water for tea or noodles

>>15669245
they fill half the pot up with normal sink water and use the heated water from the kettle to fill the rest of the pot up

>>15668856
gigakek

>>15668856
So you are saying you stayed in the past? Seems very American.

>>15669245
Figure around 1.5L, or 3 water bottles.
Not enough to fill a pot, but cold tap water to full boil in 4 minutes is typical.

I am in US, I have a small one - 500mL - and it's cold water to boiling in about a minute. Sits next to the sink. Got it back in my Cup Noodle days, now useful for Jello, tea or instant cocoa for the kids. Fill with water, hit start, get other stuff, clicks done, pour into cup. Absolutely useless for a larger quantity of liquid, but it is faster and more convenient than the microwave.

>>15668851
Fuck off, septic.

>>15669065
So that's why they broke down at the gates of Moscow in the winter of '41, the all-electric panzers got too cold just like the windmills in Texas.

>>15669093
Why would I want to buy an extra device and plug it into the outlet to heat water when I already own pots, gas for my gas burner costs essentially nothing, and I'm not going to cook the pasta inside of a kettle?

>>15669081
Kettle boils a lot of water in around 2 mins. Boil water into the kettle, then transfer to pot when it has boiled, and turn the gas on to keep it on a rolling boil. From there, you boil/cook as normal.

It just saves 10min of boiling enough water to cook with.

>>15668836
The best is using one of those thermopots.
You have hot water as soon as you want it.
One of my friends has it and it's extremely comfy when I visit him. I should get one.

where do you people come from? how about you have this retarded conversation in the twitter thread.

>>15670459
posting twitter screenshots should be a bannable offense

Not putting the noodles in the kettle
>ngmi

>>15668836
Why would you use a kettle to "boil" water for pasta? Does he cook the pasta in a kettle like a caveman too?

>>15668836
My sketty requires 4qts of boiling water
Obviously I dont own a fucking kettle that big, who the fuck does
I boil the goddamn water in the pot like the goddamn box instructions say to
Fuck britbongs

>>15671483
Because it's faster than the stove
Were you not listening, anon?

>>15668836
electric kettles are based. they boil so fast

>>15671803
Why are you making enough spaghetti for 800 dudes

>>15670373
>It just saves 10min of boiling enough water to cook with
How shit is your stove that it takes 10 minutes to boil a pot of water?

>>15671825
The kettle will stop heating once it reaches boiling point so how are you gonna cook the pasta with that?

>>15672143
By moving the boiling water into a hot pan

>>15672143
Holy shit americans are stupid lmao

>>15672151
Then why not just use the pan in the first place? Why have to go through all the trouble of heating water in batches if it's all gonna go in the pan anyway? Nobody I know uses a kettle to boil water for pasta and I live in Italy.

>>15672194
I'm not even american, but keep believing that if it makes you feel better.

>>15668849
>water boils faster in kettle
>transfer said water to a pan
>save time and money
>this is the hard way in this yanks eyes
ngmi anon

>>15672455
Because the kettle is faster. Weren't you listening, anon?
>batches
You don't need more than two litres of water to cook anything unless your household is some third world 30 person ghetto.

>>15672472
I guess brits are really starved of time if they can't wait a couple of minutes for a pan to boil water.

Don't worry nigel if you start working 50 hours a week you might be able to afford a tv license after you pay for all the pakis' welfare.

>>15668836
why does everyone hate burgers so much? what is it in particular that we stand out everywhere including this korean kimchi fermenting forum? pls no make fun of me even though free speech is a thing cause I'm a little bitch pretty please :(

>>15672505
too much reasons fellow burger, but to list a few /ck/ related reasons, fast food junk is shilled to oblivion by congressmen and lobbyists and ad marketing, and hardly any agriculture subsidies go into fruits and vegetables which you clearly need more of. your heart disease rates among other diseases are sky high

>>15672486
>can't
Why would I? The kettle is right there, and conveniently takes zero attention after I hit the button.

>>15668836
No. A pot can be used for many different things. An electric kettle is just a shitty unitasker

>>15668856
americans have lower voltage because the average american is too stupid to be trusted with 220v and they'd end up burning down their plywood shacks or worse. Consequently americans can't have nice consumer electronics such as modern electric kettles, and most probably don't know the taste of any tea besides Earl Grey because they destroy the aromatics with scalding water.

>electric kettle saves time
Fuck right off. Use that extra time to prepare a proper sauce or side dish. Or does the twitter retard from OP's pic just slop on a spoonful of canned tomato sauce, or a can of baked beans, or whatever other godforsaken tripe the British underclass puts on pasta?

>>15672651
I dont need a sauce for my tea

brits didn’t have electricity until the 1940s? lol

What the fuck type of stoves do you guys have over there in euroland where boiling water in a pot is too slow? Literally takes minutes. Not once in my life did I ever think "boy, I sure do with I could boil this water in two minutes instead of three"

Basically, British people use instant coffee or tea, so an electric kettle is ideal for them. They also use it for instant gravy on their Sunday roast dinners. Using an electric kettle to jumpstart the boiling process is very sensible in that situation.

>>15672705
Conventional electric stoves usually have quite a lot of thermal inertia.

>>15672651
Why deliberately divide your attention? The kettle has an auto off, and again, it's right there and takes no extra effort and is also faster.

>>15668849
>water
>for hot cocoa
beneath contempt

>buying a unitasker
Do bongs really?

>>15672834
>pour water out of a round pot five times a day, each time wasting energy by heating the stove and the pot
>or
>£20 kettle
gee

>>15672857
What the fuck are you boiling water five times a day for? Don't you have a job or something?

>>15672865
Such is my efficiency, I can imbibe liquids even as I work

>>15672895
Then it doesn't really sound like you work for a living.

>>15672904
If the american education system has left you flipping burgers or tossing parcels, I feel bad for you, anon - but those of us who can are working from home right now.

>>15672917
Yeah because roads can be repaired from home, packages can be delivered from home, meat can be butchered from home, trees can be cut down from home. Sorry about my inferior education, I had no idea.

>>15672958
get a better job nigger. not everyone is doing government slaving jobs and I don't even know what job you work but it can't be good considering the shit you mentioned here so far

>>15672865
Tea ain't as strong as coffee. Gotta drink more.

>>15668865
pretty much this right here.

>>15668836
brits are subhumans. Every time I hear them talk about food like they know anything I cringe. Their whining about americans is all projection
t. Italian

>>15672865
hot drinks you fucking idiot

Do bongs really cook pasta in a tea kettle? It's like college kids making ramen in a coffee pot because they're too poor to actually afford a stove or microwave.

>>15673759
No

>>15671410
it would get rid of 70% of discussions and the site would be 100% better off

>>15668875
Why not just look over and watch it every few minutes?

why would a kettle boil water more quickly than a pan? i guess i could see like a few seconds faster because there's less headspace, but that seems pretty minor. i don't get it.

>>15672603
Americans have common sense electric control. No civilian has a legitimate need for 220 volts.

>>15668875
Use a bigger pot you idiot. Water with nothing in it literally cannot boil over unless you fill it all the way up.

this thread is fucking baffling

I jacked the electric kettle from work when they shut down the office and made everybody wfh.
I use it now instead of the micro for tea.
Picrel is the only thing I micro now.

>>15668849
>water
>cocoa
Just put some milk in a pan Jesus Christ it’s not hard

>>15668836
Wait, do brits cook all their pasta like they’re making a cup o noodles? Just pour the boiling water over the pasta and let it steep? Sounds weird.

>omg murricans don’t own kettles??!
Most Americans don’t drink tea daily and have zero practical use for one; those of us who do absolutely own electric kettles.
I love mine, but I wouldn’t own it for the sole purpose of boiling water which then goes into a pot on the stove for further boiling.

>>15668849
First. Gross. Water doesn't go in hot chocolate and two I'll never go back to the microwave after finding a reliable electric kettle and I'm in the US

The average bong can't even afford a stove.

>>15672603
Yo Muhammad, literally every house in the US has both 120 and 240v.

>>15674279
How does the ramen drip through the basket?

>>15669093
What is easier than boiling water? It’s literal a phrase in America that something is “as easy as boiling water”

>>15668836
British "cuisine"

>>15674716
>that hog is a 10/10 in Britain

>>15668836
>Do Americans really boil water meant for food on the appliance made for heating food up?
What a 'tard that man is. Not to mention this: >>15668865
If the rice is the first thing on the stove then it's done right around when everything else is.

>>15674129
Oh m8, the EU tried to make Bongs use low power vacuums. They cannot understand the joy of the 220v vacuum.

>>15672486
He's just mad that he cant afford to keep paying for his masturbation license dw it's just pent up frustration it'll go away once he gets paid and he renews it.

>be bong
>stove is too weak to actually boil water so you jury rig some kettle to your lethal powerlines
>make repeated trips across your house to pour lukewarm tea water into a large pot
Is the reason bong cooking sucks because they make every step this inefficient?

>>15668836
>boil water in electric kettle
>this removes the limescale and other heat sensitive chemicals and bacteria instead of having them seep into your pasta
Simple as, especially you Americans should do this with your estrogenated water supply.

>>15674302
you put it in the coffee pot

>>15669245
A serving of pasta is one ounce, if you eat more than that you're a fatass.

>>15676314
t. manlet

Nearly all homes have an electric kettle for making tea, coffee etc. You can use the hob for boiling a large pan of water, but it takes a long time to reach a roiling boil. Also most hobs have only one high powered burner which is in demand for another aspects of the meal so getting a hard boil going then moving it to one of the back burners is useful. Also having a thing of boiling water is useful when cooking. Want a bit for thinning a gravy? Don't need to add cold and stop the simmer. Want to steam some vegetables? Use boiling and you are steaming immediately. There is a reason why everybody owns them. Makes things like poached eggs much quicker too. Handy for the babies bottles as well.

>>15676364
>hob
Try speaking English

>>15674050
The efficiency of an element heating water directly instead of the pan. A lot of heat is wasted on a gas burner.

>>15670001
Go back to /vg/ you fucking degenerate.

>>15676364
serious answers are not required

>>15673301
How is the 3rd world going? Also is it true that unless you follow all the fussy rules around food there everybody will look down upon you as an uneducated peasant? It is kind of funny when your whole country is seen as pick pockets, bag snatchers, sexual predators, closeted homosexuals and illiterate donkey herders.

>>15669050
We did have electricity before WW2, that's just dumb, but we do also use 240v instead of 110v so yes the kettle really does boil much faster.

>>15674129
He says, slowly warming water in a pan on the stove.

>>15671887
electric stove :/

>>15674279
Coffee pots are an American thing because voltagelets can't boil water.

>>15668836
I am european but who the fuck boils water for pasta in kettle ?!?
Unless you are poorfag making instant noodles which should not be even considered pasta.
I boils like 5 litres minimum for spaghetti.
You use kettle because it has internal temperature sensor and cuts of when needed so you don't burn the fuck out of tea levaes or coffee.

>>15677298
>I boils like 5 litres minimum for spaghetti.
Why are you cooking whole kilograms of spaghetti at once? Or do you just enjoy killing the planet?

>>15674050
>why would a kettle boil water more quickly than a pan?
Kettles usually use an immersion heating element. Something like 90+% of the heating element is in contact with the water, the stuff you want to make hot.

Pans on a similarly sized burner will be in contact with about half the element - the top side. The bottom of the burner element gets hot too, but it's hard to get useful heat transfer from it.

>>15677333
Yes ? Some of us cook for other people than just ourselves.

>>15677341
Myself included, but I only cook for a household, while you seem to be cooking for your entire neighbourhood

>>15672603
Most burgers use 15A fuses so with 115V it's still up to 1725W. A lot of modern electric kettles in Europe have less power than that.

>>15668849
>>15668851
Seething Ameritards.

>>15672812
>>15674240
>>15674278
Not him, but growing up it was pretty normal for us to do half and half with kettle-boiled water and milk from the fridge.

These days though I just do it like a coffee. Mostly boiled water then top up with milk.

This is retarded unless you're making instant noodles or using a conduction heater, its main length of boiling water is heating up the pot not the water

>>15677495
We are all using conduction stoves. Gas stoves are a rarity here.