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I got a terrible electric kettle. (Pic related). I don't need anyone to tell me how bad it is, I am already well aware.

So before I fucking throw this shit away and get a REAL kettle....

What can I "cook" using it other than hot drinks?

I am thinking soup mixes that you can pour hot water over? Anyone got good recommendations? (inb4 ramen- no thanks) I want to find the best soups, dehydrated foods, whatever. So that I can justify getting an expensive kettle that actually keeps the water hot.

>> No.5855508

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with an electric kettle? Britfag tea addict here, an electric kettle is much faster than a stove top model.

>> No.5855517 [DELETED] 
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>>5855508
Think he just means that type of electric kettle is shit and he's looking for a better electric kettle.

>mfw ukip

>> No.5855528

>>5855157

What's so bad about it? Doesn't it heat up the water you put in there up to its boiling point?

>> No.5855594

Zojirushi, expensive but good value. You will keep it for years. Target sells them in the US.

>> No.5855620

>>5855528
I think he wants one of those keetle that "hold" the temperature of the water. usually for tea and stuff like that. Instead of one that brings water to a boil then turns off (allowing water to cool afterward)

>> No.5856008
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5856008

Mine is good and cheap, I recommend.

>> No.5856027
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>>5855157
>mfw plastic kettles

Also OP, you could make tea. I also use my kettle to boil the water for pastas, rices, and shit like that because it's way faster than waiting for the stove to reach boiling point.

If you some some shitty prepackaged instant shit I guess there's stuff like Pot Noodle which is pretty popular, though I don't tend to eat that sort of stuff so I can't vouch for them compared to tohers.

>> No.5856036

>>5855528
>>5855508
heats it up, then just shuts off and has ZERO insulation. So within 10 min I have lukewarm water again. The point (to me) of getting one was to have hot water constantly available, not to have to make hot water every time I wanted it. Also it's somehow RIGHT HANDED so it's awkward as fuck to use as a lefty.
>>5855594
Target? Thx bud. That's the kind my office had.
>>5855620
yes exactly

>> No.5856039

>>5856036
Can't you just heat water on your stove?

>> No.5856041

>>5856039
Fuck off stovefag, adults are talking

>> No.5856042

>>5856039
Have fun waiting half an hour to make a cup of tea.

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>>5855157
I bought this one from Amazon about a year ago. Works great, has several preset temperatures you can use and will keep the water warm at whatever temp you have selected.

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>>5856042
>his stove doesn't boil a kettle in 4 minutes
do you live in uzbekistan or something

>>5856036
what you're describing is called a hot water pot, they start at like $100

>> No.5856054

>>5856052
Why would I put my kettle on the stove? That'd probably ruin the element.

>> No.5856058

>>5856052
>>5856054
>having an electric stove

>> No.5856060

>>5856058
I meant the element in my kettle, hon.

>> No.5856064

>>5856060
kettles don't have elements, that would be an electric kettle.

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>>5856060
>hon

>> No.5856066

>>5856065

Would you prefer judge?

>> No.5856067
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5856067

Shit kettle thread? I got one of those. $12 Wally World special with extra BPA and Chinese lead

I need one of these >>5856049

>> No.5856068

>>5856064
No one I know (or in my country) uses a stove top kettle so the generic term kettle always refers to an eletric one.

>> No.5856070

>>5856067
Shit kettles aren't so bad. A year or so ago I bought a fancy expensive kettle and after 6 months it started tripping my breakers, so now I just use some shit kettle and it's not given me any trouble dispite accidently dry heating it like twice.

>> No.5856072

>>5856068
you're a shut-in browsing the ramen board of a japanese porno enthusiast website.
the people you know are a tiny, irrelevant sample size.

>> No.5856077

>>5856072
No, hon. Not just people I know but in my whole country. Stove top kettles just aren't a thing because normal kettles are so much faster, probably because we have a higher mains voltage and aren't living in the stone age.

>> No.5856080

>>5856077

American here. I travel often for work and literally every other country in the world has these magical electric kettles in the hotels, except America. Well ok I don't remember seeing any in Canada or Central America. But yeah, it's weird how they're everywhere but here in burgerland.

>> No.5856084

>>5856080
I assume an electric kettle is more useful for people who drink tea on a daily basis.

I mean I drink tea on a daily basis but maybe once my twenty year old stove top kettle stops functioning I'll invest in a decent electric kettle. Probably something made out of steel.

>> No.5856091

>>5856084

Maybe but I drink coffee every day at home with a hario v60. I suspect I would get use out of an electric kettle but it just seems like a thing for foreigners. I start looking at them online and then I see the stovetop version and I like it better, and then I click add to cart, and then I go wait a minute I've already got one.

>> No.5856099
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5856099

Use a replicator and specify the temperature you want your water.

>> No.5856110

>>5856084
>>5856080
they're also good for 1-cup drip coffee thing-ma-bobs. You can't buy these in the USA, since there's no way to make them easily. But basically it's a keurig without buying a keurig.

>> No.5856112

>>5856110
> 1-cup drip coffee thing-ma-bobs

You mean like a hario v60? If you think they're hard to buy in the USA, you've obviously never set foot in the USA.

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>>5856067

Nothing rivals that

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>>5856112

no like this, kind of. (pic semi-related, closest I could find)

Coffee's already in it, vacuum-sealed in a tiny bag. You open it and take out this little footie-thing that stands on your cup, pop it open to reveal the coffee. Pour your hot water on, wait, and then throw it away.

The disposable version basically. Keurig.

>> No.5856133

Put eggs in your kettle to hardboil them.
You can also cook frankfurters in this way, provided they fit in your container.

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>>5856130
>disposable

gross.

>> No.5856136

>>5856008
Nice action man figurine.

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>>5856134
Mine ain't no fancy Jap ceramic pour over but it does the job.

>> No.5856145

>>5856134
>decided to use my non-disposable coffee strainer thing for making "drinkable" san pedro
>my reasoning was that I'd be able to strain off all the high-density non-mescaline containing content
>in reality, all I did was lodge a layer of slime between the two filter sheet things, and create some sort of super vacuum seal around it
good thing I tried it with a tiny amount first, otherwise I would have been upset as fuck.

>> No.5856714

>>5856067

I have a similar one, I think it was 10 Euros. It's perfect for everything I want to do with it, which is to boil water.

>> No.5856733

>>5855157
>an expensive kettle that actually keeps the water hot.
u wot m8?
Its a kettle not a fucking thermos flask.
Its boiled for immediate consumption, not to be used later you twat.

>> No.5856776

>>5856099
Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

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39 responses and not a single one even acknowledges OP's question.

Never change /ck/.

>> No.5856929

>>5856733
This. If you want to keep water hot for cooking things, why not just boil water on the stove? Or boil the water in the kettle and then keep it hot on the stove?

>> No.5856931

>>5855157
When I was at boarding school, we cooked boiled eggs in kettles. You can also do it hotel rooms.

>> No.5856932

>>5856902
Tea is more important than boiled hot dogs

>> No.5856934

>>5856902
Because it's a stupid question. The point of an electric kettle is to give you convenient access to boiling water within a few minutes; mostly for use in hot drinks.

>> No.5856935
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5856935

Get one of these, you can actually cook stuff in this if you need to.
>>5856052
Or buy a $10 thermos.

>> No.5856958

>>5856036
That's why you have teapots. You poor the water in the teapot, get a cozy over the top, stays hot for ages.

>> No.5857151

>>5856934
Or just having boiling water on demand. I can't believe this thread is still active.

>> No.5857265

>>5856036
You use the hot water immediately, if you need it hot again you push the switch again and wait for it to get up to temp. Electric kettles, even ones like the one in the OP, are great if you drink a lot of tea.

>> No.5857267

>>5856008
I used to have that exact model, but in white. I have no idea where it got off to, but I probably still have it somewhere. I miss it.

>> No.5857441

>>5856145
Should have manned up and done and acid-base extraction to get the mescaline and other alkaloids out instead of trying to make cactus tea.

>> No.5859166

.

>> No.5859184

>>5857441
I hope you plan on using Sulfuric acid with retarded cooling.

>> No.5859239

>>5856036
Just put more water in it so it cools slower, or click it on again, after 10 minutes it shouldn't take over 20 seconds for it to heat back up to boiling point...

>> No.5859325

>>5856099
That thing regularly burns my pot roast, no thanks.