[wnolens]

Strange.. every household and even hotel room I've ever been in North America had a kettle.

I only went to an Airbnb once that didn't have a kettle, so I Amazon'd one and just left it there.

[vel0city]

If you did it must not have been in the United States, or you got lucky.

I've been in over a hundred different hotels in the United States. East coast, West coast, Midwest, Rockies, deep South, South Atlantic coast, pretty much every region. I've probably only had a kettle a handful of times. Nearly universally a drip coffee maker, but practically never a kettle.

Note I'm not talking about the machine with the glass carafe on a small burner with a basket above it. That's a coffee maker in US terms, not an electric kettle.

[wnolens]

Oh yea ok I think you're right about the hotels.

It's a pretty universal item in any Canadian home and possibly even dorm room.

[mbreese]

In the hotels, that’s not a kettle. It’s a coffee maker. If you choose to not put coffee in it, that’s up to you.

(Us Americans tend to optimize for coffee over tea. If something also works for tea, that’s a happy coincidence, but not intentional.)