[vehemenz]

I use both. Stove top kettles are less efficient, but they have a few advantages over electric kettles. They:

- work when power is unavailable (outages, camping, etc.)

- are more or less indestructible

- don't take up counter space

I have one of those big 4L Zojirushi electric kettles that I keep plugged in for 8-10 hours a day. Sometimes I will use the stove top kettle for supplementary boiling water when people in my household are using the electric, or I don't want to start a reboil cycle or take too much at once.

[lupire]

Electric kettle uses the same footprint space as a stove kettle.

[vehemenz]

Are you suggesting people put their electric kettles on the stove? Or that people place their hot kettles on the counter?

[antisthenes]

When it's not on the gas stove, it has to go somewhere.

[vehemenz]

And how does that relate to counter space?