5 Ways British and American Kitchens Are Very Different 

this is so true....

Horrible experience. I hate tasting soap.

For me it was a Pepsi as a guest in someone's house. A soap Pepsi. It made me fanatical for life about rinsing things.

Definitely! I had soap on my water bottle all day long at school and it tasted terrible. And it completely dried out my throat

It wasn't a drink, but I wasted a whole bowl of cereal like that. Soapy lucky charms. Never again. Now I rinse and use a towel to wipe everything dry.

Nay, those are hand towels, 😄 tea towels don't hang off the oven with a button! Also, it's bedroom 'sweet' not 'soot' 😛 (I have been holding that in for thirty years! Oh it is hard to move to strange places!)

@@voluntaryismistheanswer It's bedroom "suite" (pronounced sweet).

I use my tea towels to cover the rolls or breakfast biscuits after I put them in a basket to place on the dining table. I also use them to cover dough while it rises.

@@BrentDnD yes, that too. Anything serving really. I guess the difference as I see it is that dish towels or hand towels are going to be used for more utilitarian purposes and are going to be more germy, and tea towels are more for things that you want to avoid the towel being wet or grimy or stained. Which is why you would very much want to have a different name for the two things.

yup. same here in my house in san Diego, ca I grew up in

Tea towel and dish towels are the same thing. We brits just like to be exceptional, that’s why we give it a fancy name.

@@dionnefrancis-brown1533 Got to have some fun.

I love how you’re watching a video about the difference between the USA and the UK and you said you’re from the “south” but didn’t specify which country you’re from the south of.

​@amyhatch3761 there is a South in Britain too. I've heard them refer to each other as northerners or southerners like we do.

I never use my dishwasher and rarely dry any dishes but I do rinse them off with the sprayer. . I use the same dishes and pans day after day so just wash, rinse and leave them in the right side of the sink on the dish rack. Who cares if they have to dry themselves….😐

I am also Midwestern and we use a combination of the two. It mostly depends on if there are too many dishes to get to the water or not.

Similar in Flanders. We use both parts from the sink. On one part, we put hot soapy water, on the other just hot water.

Using a sink full of soapy water and the other half full of "rinse water" _is not_ the most effective way of washing dishes, and _can be_ unsanitary & ineffective! At bare minimum the rinse should be under a hot stream and _not_ in a sink full of water other dishes have been "rinsed" in!

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But.. but... but... no!

@@StudioCharley lol sorry. I know a lot of Americans that do this.

@@alyssamurphy4661 but you run the risk of either having below boiling water and have a badly brewed bitter cuppa (which whats the point!), or superheating the water which is just plain dangerous!

@@StudioCharley I've sort of perfected that over the years and know how long I need to microwave my mug. I drink tea maybe once every three months, though, if that. If I wanted to drink more tea, I'd definitely invest in a kettle, but right now, it feels like a pointless appliance that would just take up space in my small kitchen. Hell, I didn't even know electric kettles existed until last year. He was not joking when he said coffee is king in America. I'm all about the coffee.

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Love those cute egg cups!

And the soap film will leave an off taste to the food that sits on or in it

As you should. Granted it's minute amounts, but there's chemicals in the soap that you don't really want to be ingesting.

In the US anyway. I bet the directions might be different on the container depending on the country. Anyone in Britain csre to look at their "washing up" liquid and let us know?

Flour sack towels are great.

Or an old cloth calendar. We have a collection from both grandmothers...

@@Earendilgrey the best!

They are necessary for drying the crystal, as there is no lint residue.

I grew up in California 35 years ago and we used the same differentiation, dish towel is terrycloth and tea towel is lint-free cotton

I wonder if Lawrence's mother went to the Typhoid Mary School of Kitchen Management.

When i was a little kid, mom would cook the dinner and dad would do the dishes. He always told me " you wash with hot and rinse with cold"

Well good for you. If I rinsed I would then get water marks on my dishes from the lime in the water.

@@BrookeSimmons well if any working person was a dishwasher in a commercial kitchen 1. pre-rinse/de-scrap 2. Wash/degrease hot soapy water 3. Hot rinse clean water 4. Sanitizer dip 5. Air dry

@@BrookeSimmons I'm definitely from a working class background and I've always rinsed my dishes..

Amen to that one good bother Laird.

You are using to much soap.

@@richardhodds7812 little soap, lotta soap, still there is a film. Even a thin film, do not want.

I’m still alive.

@@judgejudyslover it won't kill you but it's still gross 🤢

I remember using an egg cup to eat soft boiled eggs with a tiny spoon and toast, as a child in the US in the early 1980's, before they told us to stop eating them because of Salmonella.

Egg cup?

That would never exist in my house as eggs must be cooked completely. No matter how they are cooked, they must be well done. Enjoy your soggy soldiers!

​@@havabird2772 Your household sucks...

Tea needs boiling water to get the flavours out. The leaves are so dry that less than bubbling water won't do it justice. Loose tea leaves in a pot is still the best way to make it, and use a fine - mesh strainer. Coffee, on the other hand, needs water off the boil, otherwise the oils cook off, and the taste is lessened.

Kiwis don't rinse, I think

Because they add milk that cools it.

I first discovered it at work. In our office (UK), a cleaning lady comes to the office and cleans all the tea cups (after everyone drinking tea all day long). One night I stayed late and discovered how she did dishes. Just soapy water and right on the drying rack. I thought she was just lazy and complained next day to one of my colleagues, and she said it was a normal way to do dishes in the U.K., not all people do it this way, but that it was pretty common. After that I try to always rinse whatever cups there in the offices before using them.

It drives me insane to see it in movies too. WTH. People rinse their cars, bodies, clothes, etc. Why not their dishes? If soap is not desirable on other surfaces, why would you put any in your mouth or food. Also, what about leftover food particles from wash water? Good to know though.

@@foggylegg6362 Interesting point here. Me. I'd always rinse. However, I've noticed that - well, German pubs often have a glass washing sink where you can see it, used by the bartender. Essentially, it's a sink with built-in vertical brushes. Now, I don't know about soap or other chemicals, but I did notice a considerable lack of rinsing. Upend the glass, push it down over one of those brushes a few times, put it up to dry. Then use for the next guest.

@@KaiHenningsen I lived in Germany from 1987-92, and the gasthaus always rinsed the glasses before letting them drip dry.

@@KaiHenningsen Ugh.

Good point, you never hear tap water being called faucet water. Sounds like something from the bathroom then.

We don’t use egg cups here near Pittsburgh , but many people enjoy “dippy eggs” - same idea , you can dip your toast in the soft yolk

We never had diipy cups but all life i've enjoyed an "egg on toast". just a sunny side egg placed on a piece of toast. you don't have to dip the toast, the yoke just runs all over it.

We had egg cups growing up and we drink lots of tea on the East Coast of Canada (Nova Scotia). We say 'tea towel' and use electric kettles. Guess we've kept lots of British traditions. Orange Pekoe tea is our favourite tea and we can get PG Tips. I would use tap instead of faucet and very few of us have garbage disposals in our sinks. Food waste goes in the recycling bucket under the sink.

Frankie Amsden it was when watching that part that I realized in my area of the US we generally say the sink ignoring the faucet's individuality. About the only time we acknowledge it is when somethings gone wrong with it. We get water from the sink and damn a leaky faucet.

Yes. I still do half that today: bath on the right and spray-rinse on the left. [New England]

I started only running water after I moved out mainly because I hate putting my hand in water only to come across a scrap of food or something. My Mom still fills one side of the sink.

Yes! Otherwise sad would fuss loudly about wasting water! I cringe when I see someone rinsing dishes under running water and call them finished.

You can never rinse with standing dirty water. Running water is the only rinse water that works.

My granny in Virginia used a dishpan for washing dishes. When she was finished the water was thrown out for the hogs.

Coffee is King 👑

If I were ever to accept any sort of monarch… yeah, that would be the one. I keep on forgetting about kettles. My mom drinks tea often enough that she bought an electric kettle a few years back, and she has to keep reminding me that it exists. (Possibly stopping me as I’m on my way to the microwave to boil a cup’s worth of water.) Meanwhile, I’m baffled any time I’m visiting someone who turns out NOT to own a coffee maker of some kind. How do they live?!

@@SenoraCardgage How do they live? They don't. They have a meaningless, grey existence that falls short of actual living.

@@CharlesGriswold Sounds about right!

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I'd rather not have a germy towel swiped across it though, let it dry!

You need to wash your laundry more often if you don't have clean towels for your kitchen.

Soap left on plates leads to diarrhea. Yikes!

@@duckfan2008 But the laundry machine is three rooms aw-- OOOOHHHH

Yeah I don’t get that. Soap dries but doesn’t disappear.

I'm wondering if this is because the single sink with attached drain-board is more common in the UK that the States... but don't you just rinse dishes with hot water back into the dishwater to keep it hot?

I am also British and both my wife and I were brought up to rinse the soap off after washing them [had an oppressive mother {even in the 1960's!) who insisted I participate in cleaning up after meals and learn basic cooking despite the fact i had a younger sister available for those tasks]. Now the bulk of our kitchen ware is rinsed and placed in the dishwasher. I think Laurence has lost touch with things in the UK. In most new houses and in new installations of kitchens in older houses you have mixer taps, double sinks for rinsing and often dishwashers, as our house has. There is some reason why a lot of commercial premises such as hotels and restaurants stick to separate taps but I can't remember it.

I wonder if this is a holdover from pre-war "washing soda" (Sodium carbonate)

@@dotar9586 that you dont need to rinse, but it tastes like salt

Thank you, I was worried this was a thing and my cousins (ancient and literal) were across the pond eating soap scum from a sink of dirty dishes.

I love iced tea. I actually don't like sweet tea though. I always remember making sun tea with my dad as a kid.

Belle Greycats - Not that I personally agree, but I understand what you say to be pretty accurate. My only argument would be, that sometimes a shot of brandy in the tea, with the Vicks and the tissues, might be useful, depending on how you feel about such things. I also love iced tea, even tho I live up north (NY). In fact, I was raised on it. I prefer mine strong, with just a little sugar, and heavy on the lemon, please. Anytime I travel south, which is often, it is not difficult to get it just as I wish. Just to say, I don't 'boil' the tea, ever, but if I'm making for more than just myself, I don't microwave it, but rather put close to boiling water into the teapot, for it to steep, at least 4 minutes. My microwave is rated at about 800 watts, by which, after 4 minutes, the cup of tea has never 'boiled'. I have no idea why most Brits don't seem to enjoy the beverage. Honesttly, I always assumed that they had invented it. I'm not trying to incite a flame war, but I'm just saying.

@@chickenfishhybrid44 - Obviously, you have a great dad.

@@dobiebloke9311 he was pretty good. Hard working son of a gun.

That's a southern usa a thing. Most all Northerners def. dont drink sweet tea. Just some sweet tea drinkers who moved here.

Most of the hotels I’ve stayed in here usually have a 4 cup coffee maker in the rooms. As well as coffee, tea bags, sugar, and powdered cream. You can always have room service bring real cream or milk if you prefer. If you ever come back to the U.S. ask for one and extra tea bags.

I use the coffee maker for that in hotels

I bought a travel size electric kettle to take on vacation or if we have to evacuate due to Texas weather. My tea always tastes better when I use the electric kettle. Found Lost in the Pond this morning and subscribed after watching one video. Brilliant!

You really wanted that hot tea then. Personally unless it's really cold or I'm feeling bad, I generally don't want hot tea. I normally want my tea cold and sweet.

In some hotel rooms there are electric kettles. It depends on the hotel.

Well y'all were part of Britain a LOT longer

🇨🇦 here too. I’ve had eggs out of egg cups, I have an electric kettle, I use tap both tap and faucet, etc.

That’s interesting. I moved to Canada a couple of years ago but grew up watching British television. I was actually surprised at how many ‘American’ words were used here , like zucchini, cilantro, eggplant etc (yes I love food 😄). But I am grateful the spelling is mostly British

That's funny, almost as if you speak English...

I think the electric kettles are becoming more popular because they are so fast compared to the stove top kettles.

Me too! Best kitchen appliance I ever bought.

I also drink hot tea, but I am usually trying the flavor ones

Electric kettles were common when I was a child; still remember my grandmother using hers. (US, California)

Same here. We use an electric kettle in the US too.

@TheRenaissanceman65 He said in England they leave the soap suds ON the dishes when they dry -- that would result in soap scum.

@@jdinhuntsvilleal4514 No, he said that HE did. He does not speak for all of us!

JD...since the 90s, when they started changing the dish detergent (no sulphites) is when dishes started needing the longest cycle to get clean and started getting the water stains. It's supposed to be eco-friendly but we use more water to clean our dishes! Really, if you look at it correctly they screw up everything when the changes are for a safer planet...

I was given an electric tea kettle recently, and it's in the closet. I only drink tea and use my stove top tea kettle for both iced and hot tea.

Oohhhh, how we truly do.😅electric kettles are great, but there just not as fun and satisfying as stove top kettles. I mean stove top kettles sing to you!😂🤣😅

Before we had electric kettles in the UK, we did have stove top whistling kettles. (Yes, I'm that old that I remember - and also the instruction that you take the pot to the kettle, not the kettle to the pot - and there was no such thing as a teabag.)

@@francespike9780 After reading your post and learning electric kettles tend to heat the water faster, I opened it's box today. I washed it and will try it tomorrow. (Taking the teapot to the kettle with the loose tea in an infuser seems the way to go.)

not me i prefer to bash it in with a bat.

I've got an electric kettle. I absolutely love it. I've always preferred tea to coffee.

Was it because of the video? How did you know to get her one? hah

$30 to boil water. I just heat water in a pan on the stove.

@@Starsk25, electric kettles are a luxury. A luxury that once you experience, you don't want to go back. It's like a toaster... there might still be people who toast their bread in the oven or over the flames of their stove, but once they've had a taste of using a toaster, they won't go back.

@@Starsk25 To be honest, an electric kettle is much faster- about 2 minutes for half a gallon to boil

I love your mom.

My wife bought me some egg cups so I would stop using the shot glasses for my eggs,

My mom had egg cups. The soft boiled eggs were 😋

Soft boiled eggs were a staple in my family growing up but my mom had 5 kids and didn’t want egg yolk all over our clothes or her kitchen. So she scooped the eggs out of the shells and served them in bowls with buttered toast torn up and mixed into the eggs so it would soak up the yolk and reduce the mess. Can’t say I blame her, I don’t like cleaning up after adults and dogs let alone 5 kids.

I love boiled eggs(preferred hard) but I eat them with ketchup.

Interesting. I'm Canadian too and agree with everything, except this: we call the cloth we use to wash the dishes a dish cloth. We dry the dishes with a tea towel. Also I must say the idea of not rinsing the soap off dishes is kind of revolting. Plus, having used stove top kettles and electric kettles, I'll go electric every time. I find the stove top variety to be incredibly slow to boil.

In my dorm in Liverpool we had 2 separate taps in the kitchen and a mixer tap in the bathroom, it was weird

My mum's house doesn't have a mixer tap but I still rinse after.

@@baileyellison642 My Uncle explained the reason they do that is so you can actually drink the cold water tap. He said you didnt want to drink the water if it was mixed with the hot water because of the hot water heater.

Dishwashers are standard in modern kitchens. Even our RV has one.

@@rich7447 I've never had a dishwasher, and since moving house, it's not going to happen. My kitchen is so small that my fridge, freezer and tumble dryer live in the shed!

Cute I want a set

My heritage is Norwegian and we all had egg cups growing up. With little wool caps to put on the eggs to keep them warm! I'm pretty sure that I have mine around here somewhere. I'll have to find it and give it a try again. (Landmark day was being able to crack it in half myself instead of Mom doing it for me!) They weren't as runny as this to dip your toast into. I remember adding salt as you got further down into the egg.

Aw! How adorable !

Starlit - What means a 'Moomin character'?

@@dobiebloke9311 Moomins are illustrated characters in a Finnish book series called Moomintroll, written by author Tove Jansson. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Moomin_characters

I still have to speed up the videos. His delivery is slow to the point of being tortuous droning.

@@oltedders not on Thursdays

I would like longer videos but I have a chronic illness and im in bed a lot and need entertainment.Wish I didn’t have the time

I thought 10 minutes was needed to make more cash from RU-vid.

@@CallieMasters5000 yeah more cash. But you’ll notice through the analytics that the longer the video, the less people will watch the entire thing or if at all. Not to mention you can tell when someone is dragging out the video. They always tend to get boring and redundant. Just fast forward to the last two minutes and you’ll see what you came to see

Once the egg was eaten, the shell had to be turned upside down and hit with the spoon to get the witches out.😂

I always tasted the soap of it wasn't rinsed off

@TheRenaissanceman65 thats nasty

I am British. I always rinse the dishes and leave them to dry. Growing up my parents only ever rinsed glasses. They would also never just leave dishes to dry naturally and would always dry with tea towel and put away. Looking back I think the reason for not rinsing under the tap was because of limited hot water.

@@littleannie390 Rinsing with cold water works better than hot water.

Ohh, thank you for saying that! I was worried about the quantity of soap in British meals, Hahaha!!!

Germans don’t rinse it off either. Their explanation is: it’s nontoxic, so why waste water. Used to quarrel about that with my boyfriend all the time.

@@tofuhunter1 I've never heard of not rinsing the soap off of dishes! It may be nontoxic, but soap residue can't taste very good.

@@tofuhunter1 That's insane, that shit is disgusting to taste, why wouldn't you rinse it?

It really is. I miss my gas stove so much.

I've always had gas stoves (and I am very old), but I've never had one that crackled, though I am familiar with the sound. I must have had friends whose stove turned on that way, or possibly encountered them in a vacation rental.

They didn't always use the crackling arc starters. Decades ago they maintained a small constantly burning flame but operating that flame resulted in increased gas consumption. You had to make certain the burner ignited when you turned the control. If not you had to know how to safely light it with a match.

Still more familiar with the "fwhoomp" of a long-nosed lighter (or match) to do the deed... ;o)

The click of a dial on my electric stove is too.

Same

Agreed.

But, like Lawrence, I love hearing the whistle of my kettle!

Microwave is faster, cheaper, and easier.

Same here

The first time I seen my British husband not rinse the dishes, I was mortified, completely grossed out 😂😂😂😂. He was completely clueless why I was shocked. That was a long conversation. Now he rinses

American here. We do the same thing. “Tea towel” for the linen cloth to dry dishes. “Dish towel” is the terry cloth we use to dry hands and never the Twain shall meet!

Our southern American tea towels are a 100% cotton special weave that do not leave fabric bits behind. Our hand towels are a different type of cotton that can leave fuzzys behind.

Tea towels were smaller than dish towels from what I can remember but as kids we used whatever was nearest.

Yes, terry dish towels are solely for hands, what I think of anachronistically as flour sack towels is what I'd use for dishes (if I bothered to dry lol). I keep a clean stack handy and folded, they're beautifully absorbent.

@@april3084 are you sure you're not thinking of the 'guest towels', fiddly little ones we children were not allowed to touch? 😄

I am switching to fairy liquid that is much better than saying dish soap.

You could also just dry with a teatowel. Takes the soap off and the dish/plate/whatever is ready to use or put away. And, to be honest- you can try this at home- you don´t taste the soap if you ould lick the plate, let alone your food will taste of it. I bet you never tried. This thing is really beteen the ears.

@@mizztab3677 right? I'm never saying dish soap again

Fairy liquid is a brand of dish soap/washing up liquid

@@mizztab3677 Dawn dish soap is the American version of Fairy.

In traveling the world, my family had a UK plug kettle and an Italisn plug kettle. We would NEVER have called them kettles as apparantly you do. We called them "hotpots". A kettle goes on the fire. Enjoy!

But do you not have kettles I’m Australian btw

@@cranjismcbasketball919 yes we have Kettles.. I use mine to make tea, have hot water for making cup of noodles, hot water for instant hot coco The electric ones just heat up a heck of a lot faster then the stove top ones amd use a lot less power if your stove top is electric too. 220 volts @30 amps vs 110 volts @15amps

My Mom has a glass table that she washes with Windex..... I try not to eat food that has fallen on to the table because the stuff it's made from can't be good for you.... but I really can't find out how bad it is, can you eat off a table cleaned with Windex or is it a bad thing... part of me says that you can slowly poison yourself the other part is like meh I'm not guzzling the stuff....

Eating SLS is bad for you, your supposed to wash them, he's just being a man thinking he speaks for everyone as they tend to do, I'm British and I don't leave soap on them and old food too, because the entire point of soap is that it is a hybrid molecule, it both mixes with oil and water, its meant to bind to greese and dirt and remove it with itself when it is rinsed off, so he's missing out half the process, i.e the removal and just leaving his plates in the soap and dirt binded together stage.

@@GreatSageSunWukong my british friend does that too. Also, when drinking tea or coffee or lightly using a dish, he barely runs it under some water for half a second, and puts in into the dish rack as if it were cleaned.

@@janejan9728 nasty

@@GreatSageSunWukong Bollox

why do you need a tea pot? just heating the water in a regular pot works too

@@nickwille16 It's really fast. :) Saves power.

Are the Russians ever going to bring back the samovar?

Don't leave standing water in your kettle between uses. That will make them last much longer.

I just can't eat runny eggs. Fried hard over, hard boiled, or scrambled well done.

Poached eggs are good!

@@josephcote6120 I know. I have never been able to swallow a runny egg, the will not go down.

I only trusted my mother to make me a soft-boiled egg. I am very afraid of it being cooked too long or not long enough. She died over 25 years ago, and hadn't cooked me a soft-boiled egg for many years before that, so I probably haven't had one in almost 50 years. (At some point in time she stopped making soft-boiled eggs in favor of using an egg coddler.) Over easy is the way to go for a runny yolk but a cooked white. I was raised on basted eggs, but they take too much effort and the results are not significantly different (in my opinion) from eggs cooked over easy.

@@carolalexander1429 I like poached eggs, I just never fully mastered the technique there’s a 50/50 chance I’ll end up with watery egg drop soup

I have heard Canadians do that too.

You don't put the washing up liquid directly on the plates. You fill a bowl with soapy water and wash with that.

Thanks for the clarification. I wash that way too, but have always rinsed all the soap residue off.

Ugh 😑 no rinse. That air drying rack over the sink looks nuts too.

@@samanthab1923 it's a waste of water. The dish rack is very efficient at storing and drying crockery.

Ask other people if they do it too... Or Google.. 🤷‍♀️

Um, you look around...

okayso ya Get out more? :D

I may date myself because now “Casual Friday” means you look like you rolled out of bed, but back when “normal people”, not just bankers and lawyers wore ties and pantyhose to work and Casual Fridays were kakhis and polo shirts, I got a job at a workplace-disrupting avant-garde tech company. It was my first “real” job. A professional job with business cards and invitations to meetings!! It was surreal and definitely a fun place to work for a young person wanting something different to start out their career. I grew up in Alaska. I spent my early adulthood in the Silicon Valley in California where I got said job. Dress rules were so laid back that there was actually a sign that said, “shoes must be worn in the cafeteria at all times”. It wasn’t too long before I drifted into wearing my sweatpants from my high school sports warm-ups and sweatshirts (think Rocky Balboa running the steps 🤣) OMG they were so comfortable I couldn’t help myself! It was an addiction. If I dressed up I might wear jeans! I must say I was unique in this. For my coworkers, jeans were still reserved for Fridays, and athletic wear for the gym. (These were days long before Lululemon). I really thought something was wrong with me. Was I really that lazy!?! (No-My house was magazine covers worthy and my hair and makeup nice) Were other people actually comfortable when I couldn’t be!?!…. I let it go. Years later, I went back to Alaska and in one enlightening moment I looked around and saw almost everyone, regardless of demographic, wearing sweatpants or jeans and a sweatshirt!! It was so validating!! I’m not a one-off crazy sweatshirt loving girl-I was conditioned that way! It’s cultural!! Yipee!! My peeps! We were way ahead of our time--I should have gotten Lululemon stock when it first came out. I knew other folks would get addicted to comfortable clothes if they gave it a chance!

Yeah seriously! Who just wastes that much water!? I mean, if you just have a few little things to wash, then sure, no need to fill the whole sink but thats not the norm.

I've always rinsed the dish, turned off the water, soaped the sponge, washed the dish, rinsed the dish, turned off the water, dried the dish. I believe that's how my parents did/do it too.

I've always washed dishes under running water. Mom does also. I don't wash my dishes in a tub of soup.

@@j-rocd9507 Must be a regional thing. I grew up around people who remembered carrying water into the house.

I was dishes under running water, but I have very few dishes.

My 70-year-old kettle is still going strong--and I bet my parents didn't pay anywhere near $20 for it, either.

I need that whistle, I usually put the kettle on and go do something else, usually in another room.

I bought a $6 kettle at Walmart 15 years ago, and it's still fine. My friend that uses an electric kettle has been through about 4 of them in that timeframe. I'll stick to my stovetop model, with the satisfying whistle that alerts me from across the house.

Yes where as shitty electric kettle will last you 2/3 years then it breaks!

A stovetop kettle without a whistle is like a cat without a purr.

I recently gave in and bought an electric kettle and it's life changing. At least the part of your life that involves boiling water for drinks.

You can do the same with a stovetop kettle

@@laurent1144 much more expensive to run.

You really need a gooseneck kettle for pour over.

I am more simple...water in a sauce pan works well for me

Correct...but we can’t be slowed down by an egg cup. I eat at least 4 eggs for breakfast. 😜

Over easy > sunny side up.

Alec Ver Bunker (and Mathew) - I agree with all you both said. I hate a 'crusty', over-cooked egg. Those are meant for the dogs or pigs, yet I would never intentionally do that to them. Scrambled or fried, cook it gently, please. That is why, when I eat out, I will generally order poached eggs, as they seem hard to burn, even when over-done. Yeah, the yolks should be the sauce, to dip the soldiers in (meaning buttered toast).

What? I NEVER use terry cloth towels for drying dishes. Terry cloth towels are for drying hands. Linen towels (no lint) are for dishes.

@@mariateresamondragon5850 and if they get soaked you can wring them out and they will keep drying... Amen

Maria has it right Doug

@@FreezyAbitKT7A And linen has some anti-microbial properties

No lint. Perfect for covering up those biscuits, scones, what have you, in your basket to keep warm. (Ok, now I’m hungry). It’s interesting though, about “tea” towels, I’d say 85% of people under say, 40, don’t know the difference anymore.

Maybe it's a Scottish thing but we've always, in my memory (70 years so far), called them dish towels - ie a towel for drying dishes. As my Dad used to say, 'the English are crazy. It makes a hell of a mess of the cloth if you dry tea with it!'

Also tea towels are used to dry the dishes, pots and pans because they do not leave lint. Dish towels are used for drying your hands, wiping up spills, carrying hot or cold dishes to the table, etc. when having lint does not necessarily matter.

That’s simply not correct. No matter how it’s constructed it’s called a dish towel. I do have some that are thin. Mostly they are useless and get lost. The towels that are protected will always be used first and for either purpose. If it ever touches the floor it becomes a rag.

@@jodyjohnsen, You are absolutely wrong. A tea towel is made from cotton, linen, or muslin some sort of flat fabric. They are usually used more for fine china or dishes for which you do not want to leave lint. You may say "dish towel" or "kitchen towel" and encompass fabric towels used in the kitchen if you wish. However, you may not say tea towel when referring to a towel made from terry clothe no matter what task for which you are using it. Think of which you would prefer on your tray with the teapot and dainty teacups. Big fat terry cloth dishtowel? I think not.

I think you'd be using too much soap in the UK. Because the water hot water in the is in a bowl the soap is more diluted. So we put soap on the brush or sponge and a small amount in the water. Scrub anything hard off outside of the bowl, leave it in the bowl to get good and hot, then rinse off with the water in the bowl. Bit like a bath.

Bar soap does. Liquid soap doesn't

Soap does. Detergent doesn’t. And there is technically a difference. Soap is made from fats and oils, and detergent isn’t (whether or not it is CALLED soap is an argument for another day). That’s why we use detergent to wash dishes.

@@bethanyhait6880 true, dr brenners soap leaves a nasty film even in liquid form, although not as bad. I prefer to just rinse of the suds and not have to have a whole another scrub to get the film off my body. As to dishes... never had a film left on dishes. Unless from fat. If you have a lot of oily stuff in a dish (like a pyrex dish) you might have to wash it twice (even after letting it soak with detergent/dish soap and hot water)

You can get diarrhea from ingesting the soap

Completely American here but I eat this as well! And I have an electric tea kettle.

I don’t understand the shell being left on.

@@numbernine3436 It keeps the white in shape and the yolk in a container for dunking toast/soldier into, then when most or all of the yolk is gone, you use a small spoon to eat the rest out of the shell. If you tried to de-shell a soft boiled egg, most of the time it would bust before you could get it in the egg-cup. Cheers.

Why are you assuming everyone in a country of 67million does exactly the same thing because one man on the internet says they do? I only know one person that doesn't rinse. I've never seen a kitchen sink without a mixer tap.

@@GreatSageSunWukong Yeah, I've never known anyone not to rinse

@@GreatSageSunWukong I've been to the UK a few times and have only seen one double tap sink in an old building. So this must be changing, or maybe it's something only found in certain areas.

@@RandomJane104 I still have two single taps in my kitchen en suite and bathroom. One is freezing cold the other is boiling hot😂

@@GreatSageSunWukong Your comment fills me with great relief, I hope it's just Lawrence's weird family that does this :) I will say that when I was in the UK, I saw quite a lot of separated taps, I can't imagine all that much has changed in 3-4 years.

Most of the soap won't.

Sometimes when I go to someone's house and they offer me a glass of water I can tell immediately if the glass hasn't been properly rinsed. Once a glass of water tasted so soapy I poured it down the sink when the host wasn't looking.

Soapy film on dishes is seriously disgusting

Ingesting soap can cause diarrhea so yes I'll continue to rinse my dishes thank you very much.

I do not want soap on my dishes to dry because it will ruin the flavor on whatever food I may put on the plate or drink that I may put in the cup. So I RINSE the suds off, thank you very much, sir!

Oh, Yorkshire Gold is the best! (i'm from Yorkshire)

You have to wonder why they don't just invest in a Flintstones-esque baby elephant. Probably get a few quips out of the creature, too, which is always a plus.

It has to do with space more than cost. UK houses are generally smaller, hence less space in houses

We looked at an apartment in Brooklyn with a stacked washer and dryer next to the kitchen sink (and strangely the window... “Hi neighbor, just drying my undies.”

@@joermnyc 😂

It's about a lack of space. Homes in America added the laundry machines into the kitchen, yes, because there was an easy source of plumbing to tap into. In the early days of laundry machines, our's was in the basement [nebr]; my grandparents had their's in the garage [texas]. Laundry in the kitchen became the 'in' thing, simply because that meant you could afford the machine. That was the norm from the 50's until the late 70's when all new homes were built with a seperate laundry room. Then as flippers were moderninzing all those Mid Century homes, they moved the laundry out of the kitchen, if possible.

The hot water means it slides off- only rinse glasses. I’d rather not waste the water!

@@jacquiround1193 but it doesn’t

i was thinking the same thing

I don't want to taste soap.

@@jacquiround1193 I'd rather not poison myself.

Love my whistling kettle on the stove. Part of the friendly visit tea ritual. I don't have to check it nor have it on all the time. I mostly drink coffee but some of my friends like tea.

Yeah, my kettle is not electric and is apparently French? It's Le Creuset