• @Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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    1314 days ago

    This is 100% a meme. There’s a kettle in the lower left corner of the picture, place awkwardly in front of the second frier drawer. and the cup would be scaldingly hot upon removing it from the air frier.

  • ✺roguetrick✺
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    5314 days ago

    Really though, so many Americans would have their cooking lives enriched by an electric kettle.

    • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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      My parents told me, “be careful the heating elements catch fire, there’s little to no safety mechanism, you can’t leave them alone!”

      It’s a kettle…

      People either don’t know they exist or have some weird thing with them. Gives me the same vibes as cultures that don’t sleep with the fans on lol.

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        Well they aren’t wrong. They just come from a time with a lot less consumer safety. And we’re headed back with fake UL stuff being sold in stores. We kind of grew up in a golden age of consumer safety. We even made jokes about “don’t use grandma’s extension cord”.

      • @Woht24@lemmy.world
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        Not sleeping with the fan on is a way to save face, at least in Asian cultures. In which it’s basically the families out to admit their loved one committed suicide.

        They say if you have a fan on in the night and the door closes, it creates a vortex and somehow sucks out all the oxygen.

    • @srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      413 days ago

      Not Usonian but I’ve never understood the electrical kettle, I just use the microwave for infusions and the like. And for everything else cooking related the stove.

      Am I missing something?

      • @iii@mander.xyz
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        1613 days ago

        I prefer kettle as a microwave is slower, and turns ceramic cups into lava.

      • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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        For me it’s just quick and accurate. Every tool for a job. I can make a cup quickly, to the temp I need (green/black teas, coffees etc.)

        No guessing of temps or times. No need to ramp up the stove and burn all that energy.

      • @Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Yes, kettles are more efficient at boiling water vs a microwave. On top of that, you don’t need to guess the time it’s going to take, it just goes until the internal temperature sensor reads 100degs and it shuts itself off with a little ‘clunk’.

        • @srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          313 days ago

          Thanks for the enlightening, now I understand.

          Still microwave for me since while I do enjoy infusions I don’t make them that much to justify the expense and the extra stuff laying around.

          • @Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            413 days ago

            No worries, thanks for listening! As with all these things the efficiency bonus is slight, so unless you’re a heavy user it likely won’t represent a saving vs. the energy taken to make the kettle in the first place. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

            Out of my own curiosity… what’s an infusion?

            • @srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              113 days ago

              An infusion is, according to WordRefence, an herbal tea (tho technically speaking coffe is an infusion too). This might be just me being pedantic but in Spanish everyone says tea too and they could be preparing ginger or whatever other plant instead.

              Sorry for the rambling. 😅

          • @Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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            You can probably find a second hand kettle for 5$ bucks. But if you don’t use it often, it might take too much space for its use.

            But you already have the microwave, so unless your electricity is expensive, it doesn’t really make a difference.

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            I just use boiling water for so much dehydrated shit in addition to making French press coffee or iced tea. Stuffing, instant noodles, oatmeal, whatever. Sometimes I also kickstart boiling water and then pour it into a pot. They’re just so much faster than regular stoves because of the way the heating element is placed.

        • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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          Interjecting with some slight pedantry, but only because I think it’s interesting.

          There may be some kettles that just switch off at 100C, but those would be pretty terrible kettles, as they could only boil water at sea level. Go up to 10,000 ft. of elevation, or put something in them that boils at a lower temp than water, and that kettle would just keep running until all the liquid is evaporated.

          Most kettles (I think, this is totally based purely on anecdotal evidence, I haven’t actually gone out and examined most kettles) detect the presence of boiling in general, rather than a particular temperature. This allows them to work on a variety of liquids at a variety of pressures (or elevations). They do this with some clever piping and a bi-metallic strip. Basically some of the vapor of whatever liquid you’re boiling is directed through some piping down to the bottom of the kettle, where it passes over a bi-metallic strip and heats it up. Once the strip heats up enough (to a temp much less than the boiling point of water or most other household liquids you find yourself in need of boiling), it buckles, and does electrical circuitry things that end up turning off the heating element.

          There’s a Steve Mould video on the topic with a much better explanation that’s super interesting, for those of you into nerdy sciency type stuff: https://youtu.be/VzqN4Cn8r3U

            • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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              I imagine it’s a combination of a thermometer plus the bi-metallic switch mechanism to prevent the kettle from boiling dry, with the assumption that you’ll generally just be boiling water near sea level in them. I wonder if the nicer ones have like a calibration mode or something where you can adjust the temperature setting for different altitudes though 🤔

    • @Venator@lemmy.nz
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      I think most electric kettles are a bit slower there due to normal outlets only being 110V, but not all kitchens have 20A outlets(probably most do nowadays?), so the kettles made for the USA market tend to be 1.6KW so they can run off a 15A outlet if needed, whereas ones made for 240V countries tend to be 2KW.

      Should still be way faster to use a kettle than an air fryer though as I’d assume the air frier would likely be limited to 1.6KW too?

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        American kettles are a lot faster than anything else Americans have access to, except a microwave. That does a mug of water in one minute. As a trade off it seriously degrades the mug over time.

      • @usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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        120V is the American outlet. Japan uses electric kettles just fine at 100V. I think the reason they arnt super prevalent is cultural. Not speed.

  • @AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
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    612 days ago

    This is probably just bait but I can’t help myself. A pot of water and a stove would do it in less time and you won’t have to deal with a burning mug.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      But the warm mug helps keep the drink warm. Doesn’t everyone drink their tea/coffee with oven mitts?

  • @toddestan@lemmy.world
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    2014 days ago

    Boiling a mug of water by blowing hot air on it is going to take a while. My guess is if someone was to try this (which I don’t recommend) it’s going to take longer than 10-12 minutes.

  • @Bosht@lemmy.world
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    713 days ago

    This is as dumb as people ‘marinating’ diet coke by leaving it in the fridge. Can’t level with this level of absurdity.

  • Toes♀
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    614 days ago

    Oh using stuff not rated for those conditions could be an easy way to end up with glass in your eyes.

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      “Do you have any visual impairments?”
      “Yes, I have glass.”
      “You mean glasses?”
      “Well, actually…”

    • GHiLA
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      5314 days ago

      it’s sarcasm.

      Air fryers suck at boiling water. They’re basically anti-microwaves. Everything a microwave is good at, they suck at, and vice versa.

      • @iii@mander.xyz
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        413 days ago

        My microwave is bad at walking a dog. Schould I buy an airfryer? Especially in winter, I would like a machine for that.

        • GHiLA
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          You’re attempting to automate pet ownership?

          We’re kinda skipping the whole point, like people that grind in RuneScape?

        • GHiLA
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          I put microwavable things in my microwave halfway, then in my air fryer to finish.

          Perfect for little pot pies. Gets the top crispy.

          • @dan@upvote.au
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            That’s because it is basically a convection oven

            Technically it’s closer to an impingement oven than a convection oven. I’m surprised Alec didn’t mention impingement ovens at all in the video.

          • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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            114 days ago

            My full size oven has a convection feature that does the same thing my airfryer does but at a much slower speed since it has to warm up for about 5 minutes first so yeah the airfryer works faster but has a smaller capacity than most toaster ovens as well as all full size ones

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    1014 days ago

    Least redundant air fryer usage.

    • @itslola@lemmy.world
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      Asian? I mean, I know they exist in Asia, as I lived in SK and JP when I was younger, but we’ve had them in Australia for as long as I can remember, and I’m in my 40s. Westinghouse, Breville and Philips all offer countertop models, and nowadays you can also get them installed directly into the kitchen sink/counter as part of a water filtration system. (Most people prefer a kettle at home, though - they’re cheaper and less fuss to repair/replace.)

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      113 days ago

      Like infrastructure designed for providing hot water (>75C) directly to the kitchen?

      Damn, that’s amazing.

      We only got saunas.

  • @Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6814 days ago

    Okay this is a shitpost, but ffs don’t try this. That’s a small electric fan-forced oven. There’s a nonzero chance the airflow will splash water all over the inside, which is absolutely not liquid proof. Water + electricity == bad.

    • Obinice
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      Not liquid proof? How can you cook moist things in there then? Or things like chickens or beef joints etc that drip so much liquids?

    • Bob
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      Are you sure about the waterproofing? You can usually steam in an oven.

      • burgersc12
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        Yeah, its basically just a heating element with a fan, there should be nothing to break even if exposed to liquids.

      • @perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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        Got an air fryer here with a steamer mode, so that definitely doesn’t have moisture-sensitive electronics inside the cooking part!

        • @dan@upvote.au
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          Probably depends on how fancy the air fryer is.

          I’ve got a small, cheap air dryer. I think it was maybe $25 when I got it? It’s just got two settings - a knob to set the temperature and another knob to set a timer (analog timer that makes a ding noise when it’s done)

          Inside it’s just a heating element like the ones you’d see on an old-school stove top, and a big fan to blow the hot air downwards. I doubt there’s any electronics in it - it’s probably just basic electrics. I don’t think the heating element would like being splashed with a liquid.

    • GladiusB
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      I see your point. But how the hell is the mug not going to be hot either and you are able to just lift it out?