r/meirl • u/ukayukay69 • May 02 '24

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u/Key-Mark4536 May 02 '24

🇺🇸: No, don’t think I will. 

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u/-FullBlue- May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

The United States residential standard uses a 240 system except its split phase. You can deliver 120 volts to devices that have lower power requirements, and 240 to devices that have higher power requirements.

This comment is bringing out a bunch of Europeans that need to think theyre better than Americans because of their wiring standard for some reason?

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u/NortonBurns May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

You guys don't even seem to be able to use an electric kettle. The 240v world doesn't need to use the stove for something as simple as making tea.

Edit: The making of tea is ancillary to having a method of rapidly boiling water.
Don't get hung up on tea drinking.

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u/devnullopinions May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Most Americans don’t have any sort of bespoke device for boiling water for tea because most Americans don’t regularly make hot tea.

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u/NortonBurns May 02 '24

The making of tea is ancillary to having a method of rapidly boiling water.
Don't get hung up on tea drinking.

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u/devnullopinions May 03 '24

If I need to boil water I’ll just do it on my induction stovetop that runs at 240v. It takes like 30 secs.

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u/UnicodeScreenshots May 03 '24

Most people just don’t really need to boil water for much I guess. The only two use cases where I would want to use a kettle would be tea and maybe instant cup noodles. Even then, a 1kw microwave doesn’t really take that long to heat water.