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by gizmo385 1114 days ago
> Takes about a minute.

Electric kettles are certainly fast, but this feels like an exaggeration. Technology Connections[1] made a good video on this recently and even boiling roughly 1 quart of water (which is significantly less than you'd typically use for something like cooking pasta) required almost 5 minutes to come to boil in an electric kettle.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c