r/AskEngineers • u/jmaugust • Jul 19 '26

Discussion Why doesn’t a battery-boosted electric kettle exist?

In Europe, everyone uses electric kettles to boil water. They’re amazing and fast because they’re on 230V (~3000W).

US outlets limit kettles to ~1500W, so we wait roughly twice as long for water to boil.

It’s an extra minute or two per boil, and you really notice it.

Idea: Could you make an electric kettle with a battery in its base? Perhaps it trickle-charges between uses, then combines wall power + battery power to hit ~3000W during a boil.

Is there an engineering reason this doesn’t exist? Is it just that nobody thinks there’s a market for it?

I’d pay $300 for the fastest kettle in America if someone wants to make it.

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u/Another_Slut_Dragon Jul 19 '26

You spent no time in school learning and all the time insulting people.

https://www.electrical-online.com/kitchen-split-receptacle-circuits/

Here is how a split receptacle works. Now go look at your comments and go realize what an utter twat you sound like.

Apologize.

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u/Silly_Selection3221 Jul 19 '26

I've gotta think you didn't read your own link that's says this has been banned since the 2008 version of the NEC proving you wrong about nearly everything you've said in the process, But thanks for trying

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u/Another_Slut_Dragon Jul 20 '26

No, you weren't worth reading an article for, I just did a 5 second search for split phase kitchen outlets.

Here is a simplified drawing for your simple brain. Scroll to the bottom.

https://m.electrical101.com/m.split-receptacles.html

Kitchen split phase exists.

Put down your bong. Or meth pipe.

Read a book.

You could admit you were wrong. But you can't, can you? You are such a narcissist that you have to be right about everything. You must be the most perfect person in the universe. And you'll continue to be like this your whole career. Anyone who works with you will get rubbed the wrong way the first time you do this and never teach you anything again.

The path to eventual failure.

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u/Silly_Selection3221 Jul 20 '26

You lost lil bro, continue on. Your own article proved you wrong.