Stop doing this

US domestic power is only 110 volts EMF.
It would take too long.

Hey get a coffee maker you fuck

No, because it takes approximately 5 hours to boil a cup of water using the weak ass electricity in America.

interesting considering I use an electric oven/ burner to boil my water in a pot with

There's a difference between convection and conduction, user.

I may be a mentally retarded child, but isn't voltage adjustable as long as you adjust the wattage proportionately? Why can't that be done for kettles?

The guy you're replying to is exaggerating. It is true that the standard wall outlet in the US supplies much less power than one in Europe, so using an electric kettle would take twice as long.

For other things it doens't matter. Our range/oven uses a 220V outlet just like Europe does. Or you can just use pic related and get boiling hot water instantly without the need to wait at all.

> tfw you live in a country with a chad 240v electrical grid and not a virgin 120v power spout

Being a nation addicted to tea probably spurred the requirement for it.

you can't adjust the wall voltage

The voltage is set at source, the electrical substation.
Voltage is the Electro Motive Force.
Think of it as pressure that causes electron flow.

Correct, you can't adjust it. But it's easy to install a 220V outlet.

I installed several in my property. A couple in the workshop for power tools and my welder, and one in the kitchen for my deep fryer.

I'm not sure why you'd bother just for an electric kettle though. The Japanese type, like , runs on 110 and works even faster than a Euro model because it keeps water hot 24-7. There is literally zero waiting.

>Our range/oven uses a 220V outlet just like Europe does.
Actually the kitchen ovens usually are connected to three-phase 230V outlets. Is it the same in the US or just an one phase 220V?

Europe uses 240 volt 3 Phase.
In the USA domestically it's 1 Phase, they use 3 Phase for industrial applications.

How do you install it?
I guess you had to fit a rectifier?

Interesting. I've only had experience with Denmark and England. Both of those were single phase.

Standard in the US for an oven is single phase 240. The current rating varies depending on the age of the house. Some old places only have a 40A breaker. Most newer construction has 60. Three-phase is very rare for residential applications in the US. It is standard for industrial though.

I don't have the attention span of a 4 year old, so I don't

all of this is ignoring the fact that gas ranges/ovens are better

>Claims to be mentally handicapped
>Invokes a modest intellectual conversation
>Veeky Forums

Hmm..

>all of this is ignoring the fact that gas ranges/ovens are better
IMO only half-true. While I love to cook with burners I really miss my electric oven. It's simply more versatile and has much finer temperature control.

Three phase 230V is pretty standard in central/western Europe, haven't seen a house or appartment built in the last 50 years without it.
But most ovens I've seen can work both with three or one phase, just with less power when connected to one.

>How do you install it?
Find your breaker panel. Add a 240V breaker to it in an empty slot (As opposed to 120V breaker). Run the correct size wire from the breaker to your outlet. Connect wire to outlet. 240V outlets have a different shape so you can't accidentally plug a 120V appliance into them (and vice versa).

>>rectifier
Hell no. A rectifier converts AC current to DC. It has nothing whatsoever to do with this.

>wake up 7 pm
>spend twenty minutes trying to vomit
>feel better, drink a few glasses of soda
>shitpost until 9 pm, hurry to the store before it closes for more soda and some snacks
>2 am go to mcdonalds for some mcchicken
>masturbate to some gay porn
>play some shitty videogame or watch some crappy anime
>look for someone to start shit online
>masturbate again
>8 am stores are open, go buy more snacks
>make dinner
>12 pm go to sleep
i should stop doing this

fair enough, though i do find that gas ovens come up to temp faster. guess it just comes down to personal preferences as far as that goes.

>i do find that gas ovens come up to temp faster
True, but the difference is negligible for me. What I find impossible to do with the gas oven are things like resting a bread dough at 70°C/158°F or baking certain cakes without hot air convection mode.

>It's simply more versatile
How so? Gas has the following advantages:
-much more powerful
-works with any shape of cookware, including round things like a wok
-instant source of flame for flambeing
-works with any type of cookware material
-works in the event of a power outage
-faster response to temperature adjustments
-much easier to visualize the heat output by looking at the size of the flame

What exactly do you find more versatile about electric?

>>finer temperature control
Sounds like the valves were worn out in your gas stove. I normally find the opposite to be true. Electric works by switching on/off. Gas works by adjusting the size of the flame and thus is usually has better control.

The only advantage electric has is that the flat-top electric stoves are easier to clean.

here
I was talking mainly about the range top. I agree that for the oven itself electric works better.

just want to add, I'm a beaner, but we use the same 115V as burgers, I have a ceramic electric kettle and it boils water in about a minute, I don't know why people says it takes too long in america, but since they ban stuff like kinder eggs they are probably getting kettles cucked from factory to avoid burn victims.

Then we are in full agreement. Don't know if there are more sophisticated gas ovens with e.g. automated temperature control but I doubt even these are useable for low temperature uses.

or they fill it to the brim when only needing some water

that could be it, I usually just heat 2 cups and its boiling quite quickly, a lot faster than the microwave or stove top.

it would heat if up even faster if you'd put the kettle in the microwave

>I'm a beaner
Opinion discarded

and then put the microwave onto the stove top

ok

Western europeans too, because they are extremely fast.

Are you my grandma? She's burned holes in the bottom of at least 2 pans doing that

Takes like 30 seconds, I use one all the time

I am afraid they do...

>the weak ass electricity in America.

lol what the fuck is this shit, do yurotards actually believe this

induction kettle when?

>renting spare room from good friend
>his wife is one of my bff
>their daughter is the best
>they go out to eat and catch a movie
>i want some tea
>put copper kettle on stove to heat water
>prep tea
>shoot heroin
>pass out
>family comes home to melted slag on stove
>GODSDAMINT user
>left the kettle on
>left the kettle on
>molten slag

It's true, you only have 110v going to your house, the rest of the planet uses 240v.

name 1 place in europe where they use 3 phases for domestic use.
protip: you can't

So? Our appliances run just fine, and are nicer than your crap.

It's cute how you believe that.

>wake up
>smoke pot
>put water in pot, put pot on stove
>forget what im doing
>im hungry
>fuck, the fuckin pot man

>you only have 110v going to your house
lol nope. It's delivered 240 and split at the load center.

>doesn't know volts from watts
>doesn't know what a transformer is
>it's cute how you believe that
lol

I feel like telling people on this board to perform electrical maintenance themselves is a bad idea. There is a thread on the front page where the OP can't even figure out how to make scrambled eggs.

I dont get it, why doesnt every house hold have a Thermo-pot, instant hot water any time of the day

one minute is too long? how severe is your ADHD exactly?

not even a minute. europeons don't get that voltage and wattage are two different things.

Do Americans really have to plan a few days ahead if they want hot water?

Unfortunately yes.

Yea and the difference in current draw between running your 3000 Watt Bonginator Tea-and-Crumpet-matron automatic with detachable marital aid on a 110VAC system as opposed to a 240VAC one is like 2 amps, aka nothing when my kitchen outlets are on a 40A breaker and I've never once had them trip running appliances.

>the rest of the planet
You mean all the people with less money than us? Yea I've heard of them.

Is having outlets that fry cellphones a good thing?

youtu.be/sgYJ3bqSkN8

>reddit spacing
kys

>>reddit spacing

that's called standard spacing you incredible fucking faggot

>the yuropoor uses footage of a city hundreds of miles away from me to try to justify his 2000 Yurogoybucks/month cardboard box in the road and the waves of immigration destroying his country.
Hmmm.

>reddit spacing
kys

People have been spacing their posts like that on Veeky Forums and all over the internet since forever you twat. There are plenty examples you can find easily on Google some of which predate reddit

Confirmed flyover

Would you prefer unreliable (if even existent) African electricity?

If nothing else, switch over to a 7 AM to midnight schedule that you're more in step with society.

Is that what Dr Dre uses?

>not having an instantaneous hot water dispenser
you're all plebs.

Why do you want boiled water for coffee? Just use the damn microwave.

Oh you! You little rascal you

Don't use our meme, sincerely, Veeky Forums

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Yes, Eurofag cunt. Are you against convenience or something? Your average working man doesn't have enough time to brew coffee in the morning without one.

>I've never written anything and don't know how to space my paragraphs
Fuck off faggot

This is some baby level shit.

>get home
>put water on stove
>drink 375ml of vodka
>plop down in chair and start lurking
>drunken stupor ensues
>fall asleep
>wake up to burning smell
>pot is now ruined

I've lost 3 pots this way in as many years.

No, higher Voltage means you can have the same Power (watts) with less Amperage and therefore smaller conductors. Other countries figured this out when they built their grids after the US was wired using 110

Typical US household usesSplit/Dual Phase power from the pole transformer. You get 240V phase to phase for your appliances and 120V from each phase to neutral for domestic fixtures

Bad phrasing. It's the Wattage that's adjustable as long as you change the Amperage. Though that means Americans use twice the amount of electricity when boiling a cup of water.

Paragraphs are indented not spaced you ignorant cunt.

This is a test.
Indenting doesn't work on 4chins.
End test.

here in germany houshold stoves use 3 phase

>Europeans pioneered and understood electricity 100 years ago
>"twice the amount of electricity" -Europeon, 2017
degenerate

It's voltage*amperage. The actual energy in an electron is in its motion. When you run half the voltage you're going to need twice the amount of electrons per second if you want the same output.

>need twice the amount of electrons
You get billed by the electron?

Use more line spacing next time. The lines appear to mix together without line spacing, like some weird kind of Reddit dyslexia.

In a roundabout way, yes, you are billed for the total amount of energy you consume.

>Boiling water for pasta
>Forget about it
>Come back to find aluminium slag from the handle on the cooktop
>Pot is smoking and warped
>Brother comes in
>Just stares at the pot
>Gives me this sad look
>"Just...you're lucky I love you"
>tfw this is the third time I've done this
>Nearly start crying trying to explain I set a timer, but my phone was on silent
>He just orders a new pot and doesn't speak to me for a hours

Yes. Your price will generally be x amount for every 1000 Watt hours.

post your tits

>Everything outside of Detroit is flyover
Confirmed fucking moron

>It's true, you only have 110v going to your house, the rest of the planet uses 240v.

That's not quite true. Homes in America have a "split 240V service". That means there is both 240 and 120. 240 is used for the oven, air conditioner, heater, and other major appliances. 120 is used for normal wall outlets.

>>Our appliances run just fine
Depends what you mean, really. Big stuff like the oven? Same as Europe. Small stuff that plugs into the normal wall outlet? No way. Not as powerful. You can easily see this for yourself. Look up something like an electric kettle on Amazon and compare the wattages. The Euro versions are typically much more power than than the NA versions.

>>doesn't know what a transformer is
Lol, that doesn't work either.
Normal US wall outlet is 120V on a 15A breaker (10A if you have an old or shitty house).
Normal Euro outlet is 240 on a 15. That's double the power available.

Yeah, you could theoretically get a step-up transformer. One that could supply 240 at 15A would require more than 30A of 110 to operate. It would also be a massive heavy SOB. You can't just plug it into a normal wall outlet because that can't supply the 30A required.

Yep, I mentioned that far earlier in the thread.