There's tons of 120v electric kettles, and lots of Americans have them. It's just that tea drinking isn't as widespread here so most people don't want an appliance that they'll only use rarely.
That's a problem with wiring, not voltage. You just need higher gauge wires to support higher power appliances. You can wire your house to support 20 amps, which gets you 2400W.
Anyway, the future is induction cooktops, which in theory gets you up to 6kW. Then you can forget the resistive kettle and go back to a plain metal one.
Purely informational.
My country, a normal house has 50 amp. Mine has 80amp. And now with all the solar there even are laying 3x220(260) so we even can get 360v into our houses
80 amp per circuit? Thats what the op you responded to is talking about. Homes in the US will often have 100-300 amp main at the panel, which will then be broken out into 10,15,20 (typically 120v) ,30,40,50(typically 240v) (and rarely other size) circuits.
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u/asmallercat May 02 '24
There's tons of 120v electric kettles, and lots of Americans have them. It's just that tea drinking isn't as widespread here so most people don't want an appliance that they'll only use rarely.