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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do any of these actually get to boiling?

My foreign-born/tea-raised husband is convinced that the ones in this country do not, for liability reasons, so refuses to go the electric route.[/quote]

I don't think it's liability reasons but if your husband is from the UK, their voltage is much higher than ours.[/quote]

Hadn't thought of that, but you're right. So much whining from his family about [b]not-hot-enough tea if they order out over here![/b][/quote]

Oh yes that is true but not because our kettles don’t boil or our voltage is somewhat inadequate. It is just because despite being ultimately derivative of a british colony the US somehow is not a tea drinking culture. I am a tea drinker and it is just a noticeable cultural thing. In tea drinking cultures, (like when I travel to UK, Australia, NZ, much of western Europe even though not british) you can get a decent cuppa anywhere. Not so in the US. It is not unusual when I travel within the US for the option for tea to simply be hot water out of the coffee machine! It is not only not hot enough but also generally not taste-neutral either - it is weird hot-to-tepid, slightly-burnt-coffee-flavored water. Makes for a poor cup of tea. [/quote]

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