A little disorienting to learn my parents do the "British" thing of making tea with water heated in a kettle and thinking...
A little disorienting to learn my parents do the “British” thing of making tea with water heated in a kettle and thinking microwaving it is weird and degraded
They’re right. Why the fuck would you boil water in the microwave?
Found the Brit
The realistic answer, @warringgods, is electric standalone kettles aren’t a typical appliance here (any more than those tall Japanese automatic ricemakers, though you sometimes see squatter ones with the dimensions of a pot and pot-style lids). We have stove kettles, but those take a while to boil, and anyway, we already have an appliance that heats water quickly: the microwave!
I’m Australian
Awwww!