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Who the fuck uses a stove top kettle in this millennium? At the end of the day you could buy a cheap normal kettle and be fine. That said last one I bought is a Kitchen Aid. Works well, has settable temp, looks pretty, cost not a huge amount for a kettle, but also wasn't cheap, probably boils water at about the same rate as a cheap one .. would buy again
My house was built in the 19th century, the kitchen was built in an addition constructed about 80 years ago and the electrical was updated about 50 years ago. I do not have the counter space nor electrical outlets to plug in single purpose kitchen gadgets, so I just use a stovetop kettle. It's fine, it doesn't take noticably longer than the electric kettles I've used when visiting family
I have a gas stove and the stovetop kettle is way faster. You can't pull enough current out of a 120v 15a plug socket to match the power output of a good gas burner (18,000 btu for mine).
Technology Connections did a video on this, his findings and my experience tend to be quite the opposite of yours... With a gas burner, you're dumping so much of that energy into the space surrounding the kettle (hold your hand above the kettle.. all the heat you feel is being wasted by not warming your water), whereas an electric kettle keeps the heating element inside the heating chamber and only loses a small amount of heat warming up some escaping air.
When making noodles and such, I boil the water in the kettle, then pour it into the pot that's been sitting on the stove on "low". It's a million times faster than just boiling in the pot.
American btw.
This is one of those "it probably doesn't make enough of a difference to even bother looking into" but it would be interesting to take into account cost, time and environmental considerations in your case.
I would be surprised if the electric kettle would win out for most Americans in any of the 3...
The winner should be the fact that gas stoves are burning inside the house and cause a fair bit of pollution and worse your air quality.
In europe the electric tea kettles are much faster. Being an american with a gas stove, i also find the stove top ones faster.
How much water are you boiling? I can prepare coffee during mine and it's done when I'm ready for it.
i could not find a English source, but according to the German wikipedia using a stove top kettle on a gas stove is the cheapest option:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserkocher#Leistung_und_Effizienz
I've also heard that using a stove top kettle on induction electric stove is as energy efficient as a normal electric kettle.
Why do you prefer to use a normal kettle?
I cannot find a reliable source, but it appears the gas prices have since doubled, making it about on par. [https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/natural_gas_prices/ ]
Just buying one would be difficult here.