And some used to whistle when water was boiling
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Apparently you can get a smart kettle connected to Alexa. So you yell at her to put the kettle on. 
Mine is just plug & boil like usual.
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Does she fill it up too? Cause heaven forbid that it’s empty when she switches it on!
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She is pretty, but sometimes good looking kettles find themselves in hot water.
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I used to love those old kettles, you put them on the stove, granny and mum had them. I’d have one now but they’re slow to boil and not fuel efficient
I think you can get electric ones that whistle, but that’s cheating
She probably just shouts at you to make your own tea! 
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Very good!
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I definitely need one of those!
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Our downstairs whistling kettle for our wood stove
Our upstairs electric kettle.
When plugged in the bubbles are blue. I like it
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My gas kettle does that - it really annoys the cats.
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See - I always thought the hot water was in the kettle - must have been doing it wrongly for years!!
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Wait!
What?
You’ve never had an electric kettle or been to a house where there is one?
I’m so surprised. You are in the US are you?
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Kettles are rare in Portugal, if a household does own one it spends most of its time stashed away in a cupboard somewhere. Tea drinking is rare, everyone’s addicted to coffee, everyone lives next to a coffeeshop. They are cheap & efficient. I was living there January 2002 the day the country switched from Escudo to Euro, a shot of coffee (espresso) costs 50 cents. It’s a bit more expensive now.
In Oz we tend to call them Electric Jugs. They used to be ceramic and had a bare element the only safety mechanism being that the plug held the lid closed. The best element I ever bought was basically two metal discs separated by an insulator - nothing to burn out and you could make your own.
These days they seem to all have a separate powered base, cost peanuts and can be either metal or plastic. Like someone else I have never noticed the plastic ones affecting the taste of the water.
Water here is generally soft but occasionally you get towns with hard water where they use bore water and sometimes the water tastes a bit mineral. When I get home from such places I generally de fur the jug I carry in my camper. Come to think of it I have had that electric jug for a while the cord still plugs into the body of it.
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Never saw one like that @Bruce
Electric Kettles here (UK) used to be stumpy with a male plug up the rear. Then they came with a separate power base, then that type got taller and sleeker and are called jug kettles.