'New York Times' Is Getting Dragged Hard After Seemingly Just Discovering Electric Tea Kettles Exist

\u201cThe New York Times, 2022\u201d

— Stefan Roberts (@Stefan Roberts) 1656494948

\u201cAmericans love to bang on about being the greatest country in the world yet they are just discovering kettles\u201d

— Josh Earl's 100% Hits Vol. Pod (@Josh Earl's 100% Hits Vol. Pod) 1656552552

\u201c@stefanroberts @ItsBouquet Watching an American make a cup of tea in the microwave is genuinely the most uncivilised thing I've ever seen. It affected me on a primal level, I was absolutely appalled. This absolute savage poured tap water into a mug which had a tea bag in it, and microwaved the lot. I... \ud83e\udee3\u201d

— Stefan Roberts (@Stefan Roberts) 1656494948

\u201c"an easy way to keep food cold without using an icebox. Consider the fridge"\u201d

— Heather/Masks \u2615 (@Heather/Masks \u2615) 1656679786

\u201cfair play the yanks spending the last 100 years trying to make coffee in their beloved tumble dryers\u201d

— Stan Account (@Stan Account) 1656513627

\u201cUsing the electric kettle to heat water has been a Top 5 item "how to save energy"-lists forever. Amazing how the NYT is discovering this just now.\u201d

— Officer Martinez (@Officer Martinez) 1656622091

\u201cyou got there eventually lads\u201d

— norespawns (@norespawns) 1656513978

\u201c@stefanroberts Can't believe I cancelled my NYT subscription last month. Now I'll never find out how to use an electric kettle. Let my story be a warning to you all.\u201d

— Stefan Roberts (@Stefan Roberts) 1656494948

\u201cCan I be clear that despite the NYT treating this as some weird anthropological discovery it is trivially easy to buy an electric kettle in America and has been for years.\u201d

— Alan Allport (@Alan Allport) 1656511358

\u201c@apiphile Don\u2019t worry, the NYT isn\u2019t all of us. My mother\u2019s had an electric kettle since the 90s. I don\u2019t have one because I have no room. But most of us know they exist.\u201d

— Cortney Scare-better (@Cortney Scare-better) 1656518601

\u201c@stefanroberts We had an electric kettle when I was growing up in Indiana...in the 1970s and 80s. WTF NYT\u201d

— Stefan Roberts (@Stefan Roberts) 1656494948

\u201c@HelpThe_Bear Especially funny from NYT. Because in a huge city like nyc, these kettles are more common than elsewhere \n\ntiny apartments and a stretched budget means that there\u2019s 10000s of people who use an electric kettle and microwave as their *only* kitchen appliances\u201d

— Fennec Sam \ud83e\udd8b\ud83e\udd4b\ud83c\udf55 (@Fennec Sam \ud83e\udd8b\ud83e\udd4b\ud83c\udf55) 1656605506

\u201cI stayed at a lovely cabin in rural Scotland with friends a couple years ago. The journey was stressful, so I went to make tea on arrival and put the electric kettle on the stove, quickly filling the place with plastic smoke. I'm the idiot the NYT writes these articles for.\u201d

— Monica Baumann \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Monica Baumann \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1656532418