Thanks, but if I want coffee I don’t want it in 10+ hours. I think I’ll pass.
There’s always (blech) instant.
I love my air fryer. Also don’t see how it is a single use thing. Is an oven a single use device?
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Just browsing youtube and you’ll find TONS of cooking videos trying all sorts of things in the air fryer… all kinds of meat, even baking bread, cake, and more.
When i can find bags of frozen chicken wings and drumlets, I just drop five or six of them in the basket and heat it at 400 for about 6 minutes, so heated (but not cooked) and fat was mostly rendered. Then I add sauce on the wings and then 350 for about 5 minutes, flip it over, apply more sauce, then another 5 minutes, then add time as needed until all the wings are cooked.
You can do something similar with drumsticks or chicken fillets or even porkchops, but you should marinade those overnight with whatever marinade you like (garlic, pepper, chopped jalapenos, soy sauce, a little sugar, and whatever spices you like). Go light on the soy sauce or it’d be a bit too salty. Cook at 350-375 for 10 minutes, flip it over, then another 5 or so minutes until all done.
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I’ve tried a cold brew coffee maker. I was not impressed. I’ve also tried bottled cold brew concentrate. My dad was not impressed either. 
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Oh Glob.
There is a long-standing anti-amercanism in Germany often using the term “US-amerikanische Infrastrukturapocalypse”. This sounds very much like it, but on a smaller (household) scale.
I have an electric kettle with 1.2 kW, with three preselectable temperatures. Absolutely sufficient and quite fast, since insulated and with a lid. If I want to have boiling water any faster, there always is the induction stove. Which, if there is no gas, is the only acceptable way of cooking in any of my former and future kitchens. And which, by the way, is only marginally faster then the kettle despite being powerful. Oh, and the oven has a standard 400 V 3-phase connection. As they all do.
Rock + window isn’t really the end of it. Depending on the kind of glass and kind of rock, that is. And the velocity, of course.
Rollläden.
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I felt this way about my American electric kettle until I visited China on a business trip and found that the water for my coffee boiled in (what felt like) an instant every morning. And kettles were ubiquitous. Every office had at least one in every room.
An American electric kettle is still much more convenient than boiling water on the stove but most people just don’t seem to have one. I’ve convinced a few friends to try an electric kettle and they all quickly became converts. Not sure why they’re not more widely popular here.
Absolutely. Having recently moved into an apartment with an induction stove I haven’t even bothered to get a kettle, although I’ve grown up with them and need hot water several times a day for tea and coffee. It’s just so much easier to always have a saucepan with water on the stove and have it heat up in (tens of) seconds. Maybe some day I will invest in a nice stovetop kettle with a whistle rather than an electric kettle.
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Asian-American households often have hot water dispenser bottles, which is basically an electric kettle with a keep-warm function AND a dispenser.
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They’re spot-on on everything else and not completely wrong on the air fryer.
It sounds like an induction stove is the trick if you want to do it on the stove, which I suppose is equivalent to having a standalone 240V kettle (which I do in my American kitchen, but I had to have a 240V outlet pulled specifically for it)
It’s not particular to Germany. They’re pretty common here in Belgium.
The heft of the windows in the hotel I stayed at in Berlin was amazing. It was two sets of double paned windows. But they weren’t just double paned windows, the glass itself was incredibly thick and there was a huge space in between, inches of space. It was like I had two sets of windows designed for a soundproof recording booth, only sturdier. Quietest hotel I’ve ever been in and it was next to a train station. American windows are pitiful by comparison.
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With a lot of European’s complaining about the lack and slowness of American kettles (120 vs 240V), what wattage are your microwaves?
Typically in the US microwaves range from 800-1200W. I prefer 1000W or less and I still us the power function when heating food.
I have an air fryer oven. Technically, it’s probably a mini countertop convection oven, I guess? But it’s marketed as an air fryer oven. I love it. I use it almost daily. I’ve used it for everything from made-from-scratch “fries” to flatbread made from the discard of sourdough starter. It’s a great multi-use kitchen gadget. Do fries taste exactly like deep fried French fries? No. But they’re pretty frickin close and a lot less messy to make. And 100 times better than frozen oven baked fries. Now, my instapot I’ve found much less useful and it’s gathering dust in the basement. To each their own.
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Yeah, you can only use it for making things hot. Total waste of money. 
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