British Couple Reacts to 5 Ways British and American Kitchens Are Very Different

[@dacweekend]

In the US, dishes are always rinsed. If you tell someone here that in UK a soapy dish is left on the rack so the soap can run off, you are likely to get some horrified looks (if not gasps). 🌺

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

Yeah, it seems like letting a dish dry without rinsing the soapy water on it would leave a soapy film on the dish. But then, from what I have heard of traditional British cuisine, the soapy film probably improves it.

[@lindariley7037]

I always heard from friends that soap left on dishes gave people diarrhea. But my mother never rinsed them & we didn't get it. SE TX

[@MrSheckstr]

@@lindariley7037 two stories to confirm this My cousin’s step children did the dishes, and i could always tell the difference between when the son and the daughter washed the dishes…. You would take a plastic cup, add ice cubes, then add soda from a 2 liter bottle. If the son has washed the dishes the fizzing of the carbonation around the ice would make soap bubbles appear on the surface Another story involved a whiskey dispenser in the shape of a gas pump i had give as a gift to a freind’s boyfriend ( the small circle of friends did a secret santa) she had decided to wash it out before filling it with his favorite hard liquor for new years…. But didnt rinse it out ….. the soap scum in the line went into the shot glasses….. and everyone doing shots had “issues” at around 3am

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

Yeah I gotta take a hard pass on chemical, soapy tasting dishes...

[@MrSheckstr]

I wonder if the dish soap itself is a different formulation and the amount of dish soap used per sink in less…. Regardless rinsing of dishes is something that is legally required in a commercial setting in the US and that standard just carries over into the home…. Whats more curious would be the different ways that dishes are rinsed…i know of three 1 wash rinse rack one dish at a time Wash, stack into rinse sink until sink is full, then rinse the entire batch and rack before washing another batch… Wash every dish, setting them aside to be rinse in the wash sink after/as its being drained …. I will often do this if its a small load of dishes, or with the last batch of dishes because the water rinsing off the plate is also rinsing out the sink itself. In this process after the dished are all in the rack drying the rubber pads in the bottoms of both sink are draped over the divider and rinses and the wash clothe is used to wipe down all the kitchen surfaces then rinsed snd laid over top of the mats to drain and dry…. This helps to prevent having areas where moisture and food residue and encourage mildew to grow and stink

[@allisongrinnell5107]

The reason that we Americans don’t use egg cups as often is because fried eggs with runny yolks are far more popular than soft boiled eggs. We still dip our toast in it but we don’t need a cup for that.

[@jariemonah]

Europeans really underestimate how many electric kettles we have in the US. Lol.

[@GinaMarieCheeseman]

Yep

[@carlcarlson5553]

Yeah but its still a correct assessment. People do have electric kettles but its rare compared to the og

[@kristiericson1365]

We washed in one sink with hot water and dish soap, rinsed them with hot running water, then set them in the dish drainer.

[@randallchaput9529]

Also, with the washer/dryer - you can wash a second load while first is drying if not one machine

[@pacmanc8103]

The combined washer/dryer units are also quite small - the capacity is about 1/2 a large washer and dryer set will do.

[@bettyleung4594]

My friend has a combo washer/dryer . Capacity as you stated is much smaller. Additionally the dryer is not robust. It takes much longer time to dry a load of laundry.

[@alexshkoditch4593]

My parents had egg cups for soft boiled eggs when I was a kid (early 1960's), but I haven't even thought of one since then. There doesn't seem to be much demand for soft boiled eggs here. I have over easy fried eggs to dip my toast into. I literally have about 6 cups of tea A YEAR, but I drink coffee every day. Why would someone like me have a kitchen device like an electric kettle for such limited usage? Most Americans have coffee makers that pass water through a filter that contains ground coffee. Most of the people I know don't use "instant coffee" which is made with boiling water, but most people agree that instant coffee.... uh..... sucks.

[@217_Walker]

Remember Sanka? uuugghhhhh 🤣

[@lennybuttz2162]

I have an electric kettle because I make my coffee in a French Press and the kettle is faster than using the stove. I can also heat the water up in the kettle for hot chocolate, dry soups, instant noodles. powdered gravy, tea.

[@colej.banning2419]

I remember thinking as I was growing up that it was weird that we called boiled eggs hard-boiled, since I didn't know any other way of making them. Even as an adult the only time I've seen a soft-boiled egg was when I was making hard-boiled eggs and accidentally undercooked them.

[@Muddywatersist]

We use our dish washer about 50% of the time and the other half hand wash in our 2 sided sink. Yes we have a dish drying rack on the counter 100% of the time.

[@TheSpanishInquisition87]

After watching so many Brits be astonished at our lack of electric kettles, I finally got one. I love it. I no longer have a coffee-maker, but use a French press for coffee The kettle comes in handy more often than you'd think. 10/10 would recommend.

[@elebenty5709]

A co-worker gave me his hand-me-down electric kettle a few years ago and we bought a new one soon after.

[@shigemorif1066]

Dipping toast in eggs is why I always order eggs over easy. I’ve definitely seen and heard of egg cups, but never used one. Looks fun!

[@colej.banning2419]

I like getting poached eggs and dipping my toast in that. I will can't quite wrap my head around the idea of a soft-boiled egg.

[@MrSheckstr]

Ironically in my household we had things that were not egg cups that we used for a purpose that meant we called them Egg cups…. While at the same time we had a couple of things that absolutely were egg cups being used for a completely different purpose. We had a stack of little 8 oz dessert bowls that my father would ladle in a serving of scrambled omelet to us kids…. While at the same time we had egg cups scatter around the house being used as compact candle sticks for small votive candles

[@Wiley_Coyote]

It's not that Egg Cups don't exist in America. It's that they're considered old fashioned. A normal store probably won't have them, but I'm sure a cooking specialty shop does. We do make eggs with runny yolks, they're just served differently.

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

It's called a "fried egg" and you put it on your plate lol Why do you need a cup for that?

[@MrSheckstr]

@@ahoyforsenchou7288 American dining culture compared to British has ALOT more pan frying and baking and ALOT less boiling

[@lindae2524]

I prefer over easy eggs. So I can dip my toast into the yolk. I will make a fryed hard egg but usually on a sandwich.

[@217_Walker]

We certainly do make eggs with runny yolks,what part of America are you from that you dont know that? Just asking.

[@kilngoddess424]

Runny yolks ick me out. Fry that sucker til the yolk is solid.

[@dagmar0027]

I have an electric kettle that's specifically for water for tea. From what I understand, though, it doesn't heat up water as quickly as the British kettles do. However, in some newer-built houses, there's a small side faucet at the sink that's just for instant boiling hot water - so there's no need for a kettle in those homes.

[@nullakjg767]

Most people have keurigs which is basically an electric kettle that also makes your beverage of choice.

[@colej.banning2419]

​@@nullakjg767 Keurigs certainly aren't uncommon but saying that most people have one is probably pushing it.

[@jfife4211]

The problem I found when visiting in UK is that the washing/dryer was too small. I have a 6 ft 2 inch 200 pound husband. And I could only fit one pair of his jeans in at a time. Seperate washer and dryer let's u wash a load and dry a load at the same time. The single unit took forever before I could put another load,

[@davidcosta2244]

Home Depot is advertising a combination washer / dryer by LG that takes only two hours to wash and dry here in Tampa.

[@lisadime9411]

In the U.S. an oven is used for baking and roasting; so, you are placing something in it. The stove is used for pots, such as boiling potatoes. When the two are integrated the proper term is a range which sits on the kitchen floor. Many people have wall ovens. I think most Americans have ranges (all in one)... The term "tap" is mostly used by my family when one wants room temperature drinking water. We will ask if you want refrigerated or tap water... Washer machines in kitchens seems so out of place. I think about food smells getting into clothing. The machines look so small. I often wonder, how many times a week must one launder their clothes. And it seems like it would take so long because from wash to dry must take 3 hours.

[@Trifler500]

I know stove and range the opposite of what you wrote, in the U.S. The range is the part on top of the counter if standalone, or on top of the oven if combined. The stove is a combined range and oven.

[@lisadime9411]

Ranges Home Depot The range is your kitchen's most versatile appliance. It combines a stove and oven in a single appliance, @@Trifler500

[@MrSheckstr]

My house is the old Bunkhouse for a rather large farm…. Because of this it had multiple washers…. A stacked unit in a linen closest up stairs ( used mostly for towels , wash clothes , T shirts and pillow cases ) Two sets of washers in the basement one a standard size one a commercial size. The basement had narrow metal pipe that ran at right angles to the floor joists that hangers could hang upon them plus clothes lines that hung from hooks screwed into the joist that ran with the joists … in this way some clothes could hang dry on rainy days … The kitchen was naturally oversized with an industrial four chamber sink two stoves, a standard fridge, a beverage fridge you would see in the checkout lane at the grocery store, TWO freezers , one a chest style…. It had an ancient dishwasher that i decided to replace with a kitchen washing machine underneath a part of the counter that was specifically designed to place about six crock pots in a row

[@marshsundeen]

Many in the UK do not have dryers.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Laurence did a video on the reason why British houses have washing machines in the kitchen. He stated that most houses in the UK were built before world war two and it was easier to add washing machines to the kitchen because the plumbing was already there. On the other hand in America most houses were built after World War II and they were built With a separate laundry room or in some cases the washer dryer hook up is in the garage. In Laurence‘s house, the washer and dryer are in his basement. Where washer and dryers located in America depends on where you live and the age of your house. My grandparents washer and dryer was on their back porch. It was a big back porch and it was covered and enclosed but it was not part of the original house. My former boss had his laundry room on the second floor of his house. His logic was because that’s where their bedrooms were and they didn’t want to carry clothes up and down the stairs. The house I grew up in the washer and dryer were in the garage and we still had a clothesline in the backyard

[@TrekBeatTK]

I grew up in an old house in New England and our laundry was in the kitchen! It was in a back corner. This was totally normal to me.

[@marshsundeen]

Before the building boom that is happening now in Charlotte, the majority of homes we looked to buy, were small ranches many with the laundry in the kitchen. We ended up buying a home with the laundry in a bathroom. I was uncomfortable with combining laundry and food. Now a lot of the small homes are being knocked down and McMansions are being put in their place.

[@markpekel4517]

we have dishwashing soap for washing in the sink. dishwasher's have a compartment for the dishwashing pod. had egg cup as a kid but not now.

[@mistressthorn]

My family switched to an electric kettle years ago and we love it!

[@paulzaborny6741]

Not mentioned is using the microwave oven to heat up water or for a hot a hot drink (mine even has 2 beverage settings). 4min 25 seconds in the micro and have boiling hot water. I own a whistler kettle, haven't used it in years.

[@dynamodan8216]

Americans do dip eggs, it's just usually an over easy egg or sunny side up egg , not a boiled one. Basically the same end result.

[@colej.banning2419]

Poached eggs are also fairly common. They're my favorite.

[@christineharrison7815]

Birds in a nest! 😅 where you’ve made a center hole in a piece of bread and cracked an egg an gently dropped it in that hole….needs to have nice buttery skillet or pan…..an viola… toast and a dippy egg in 1 shot

[@Bellastrega1960]

You’ve never heard of a hard boiled egg?

[@travissmith962]

Stove top kettle in our house! That whistle is great.

[@Merlinherk]

Electric water pots are becoming more common. Most dorms (military for me and college for niece and nephew) are way big eaters of cup o' noodles or ramen. Hot chocolate and herbal tea is very common too.

[@corinnem.239]

Electric kettles are for places with no stove like the office.

[@corinnem.239]

Those were available in the mid 1980's in US College dorm rooms. Anyone with a stove just does not use them unless they are Asian.

[@Merlinherk]

Even after they upgrade my dorms (we got a communal kitchen) most of us still used microwave or kettle. The kitchen was tiny, narrow and just 1 stove so first come, first served. We had a ton newer, younger guys so the no dishwasher was mind blowing for them. The kitchen was so tiny oven door on stove barely missed other wall

[@MichaelScheele]

@@corinnem.239, or other tea drinking societies (e.g., UK, Ireland, eastern Europe).

[@pacmanc8103]

@@corinnem.239That is simply untrue. I have never had a teapot anywhere near a cooktop or stove. We use an electric glass pot that’s plugged into the wall - takes about 60 seconds to come to a hard, rolling boil. I think it depends on how often you need boiling water. Most people who drink coffee use electric drip coffee makers, too. They don’t use percolators on the stove any longer.

[@cynthiaalver]

My mother enjoyed eggs over easy served on hot buttered toast every morning for as long as I can remember.

[@nrrork]

We don't have egg cups, but here's what IS common: Fried eggs with soft yolks and you dip your toast into the yolk. Or I'll usually just burst the yolk and put the whole egg on my toast and eat it like that. So, we know how good egg yolks on toast is, don't worry there. But soft boiled eggs aren't super common here. Fried, poached, or scrambled is way more likely. We hard boil eggs a lot, too, but usually for salads and stuff, not breakfast.

[@krisschobelock4973]

We have egg cups...I have several...they just are not something that you see at say a Walmart - - - and not very common. I do like them though if I take the time to make eggs and use them....mostly they gather dust! LOL Soft boiled eggs are kind of a pain to make - getting the timing just right....

[@corinnem.239]

I hard boil hot for breakfast !

[@hrussell9677]

I grew up with egg cups, but I think it was mainly an East Coast phenomenon due to its relationship with all things English. But I rarely hear of people using them today. But my mother taught us how to soft boil an egg and we frequently had them in egg cups-again, in the old days (50s-60s).

[@skyhawk_4526]

If I had to guess, soft-boiled eggs probably date to medieval times as an easy and convenient way to serve eggs to a whole family since back then most peasant families would have a fireplace for cooking and perhaps one or two large pots. It would be easiest to cook eggs by putting several in one pot, boiling them on the fire, and serving them. Since the US is so much younger, I think they probably never really caught on here. Even in Colonial America, most people would have had a wood-burning stove to cook on and a skillet, making other variations of cooked eggs (fried, scrambled, etc.) more convenient and popular here. But if you had a bunch of eggs, multiple mouths to feed, and only a single large pot and a fireplace, boiled eggs would be the way to go.

[@danhollifield]

I'm American, my wife is English, so we have an electric kettle & egg cups. We also have a stovetop kettle that whistles, a Kureg single-cup coffee maker that uses those little plastic coffee pods, a stovetop coffee percolator with the little glass knob in the lid so you can see the coffee perking, and a cowboy-style percolator that can be either stovetop or campfire-ready. Our washer and dryer are both waist-high, located in a special closet in the bathroom. We also have a steel cable strung from near the back door of the house to one of our storage sheds that is used as both a clothesline and a place to hang a couple of birdfeeders. In the sinks & tub/shower combo we use Tap and Faucet interchangeably, but the ones outside the house are called Spigots. When I was growing up, a Great Aunt of mine had a huge cast-iron stove in her kitchen. It burned either coal or wood, or frequently both. She and my paternal Grandmother also had chamberpots instead of bathroom toilets, and bathed from a wash basin filled with hot water boiled on the stove. The area of East Tennessee where I grew up was full of Victorian/Edwardian-era customs, styles, and traditions. On the other hand, my father worked at Oak Ridge. My parents grew up during the Great Depression, so I learned a lot of things about having a family life under difficult conditions. Now, I have never used an egg cup, because the only ways I can stand eggs is either scrambled for breakfasts or hard-boiled & made into Deviled Eggs for family reunions or picnics or church socials. This is because as a child I once got ferociously ill from eating eggs sunny-side up. I love eggs scrambled or Deviled, however.

[@marshsundeen]

My mom grew up in Kentucky where she lived on a farm with an outhouse.

[@reneeseiling5573]

I'm American, my parent's washing machine was in the kitchen. Everyone always found it odd. Its not with the other appliances, it was at the end of the kitchen.

[@mage1439]

I grew up with the washer and dryer in the kitchen, then later it was in an area by the back door. Imagine my surprise when my mom got married and their washer and dryer were in the bathroom.

[@jacqueline-ki6bk]

We have the side thing for boiling water automatically ready. But I can't get my head around not rinsing off dish soap. It "❤would leave water marks" ? What about dried soap? And then put food on top of that? No offense but soap film is yuck. You can't wash your hair with shampoo and not rinse it, or wash the car but not rinse off the bubbles (and nobody eats off those😂). I like dipping toast in egg yolk but fried egg sunny side up is the usual. Interesting comparison though.❤

[@Beth-fd6pj]

I have egg cups in my home, I don't use them a lot, we cook the eggs sunny side up, poached or over easy. I even have the egg topper that cracks/makes a hole in a soft boiled egg shell so you can dip from your soft boiled eggs.

[@thegamewyzard]

When I was young living a trailer the stacked washing dryer was im the bathroom. Now the house that grew up in had them in the kitchen, where, ironically, was a small bathroom that was taken out.

[@jonathanfreedom1st]

I always dipped toast into the egg over easy. 😩 I didn't know it was a thing...I thought it was just me. 😂😂

[@mildredpierce4506]

In my sister‘s old house, the laundry room was not attached to the kitchen but it led to the garage so you would walk through the den into the laundry room and then into the garage.

[@piratetv1]

Egg and soldiers is the most British thing I've ever heard.

[@bluflaam777LSA]

We bought a house that was remodeled by a couple from Europe and they put the washer and dryer in the kitchen. It is a bit odd in the US. Usually there is a laundry room or they're put in the garage or basement. Not a rule, but mostly so.

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

A very common house design nowadays is to have the laundry nook upstairs with the bedrooms and the full bathrooms (hall or en suite). The plumbing is already there and 95% of your washing is composed of the clothes you change out of in the bedroom, the towels from your bath or shower, and the sheets from the beds. This is particularly common where you have a roommate-style townhouse.

[@cynthiamckenzie1034]

The older homes 50+ have the connection for W/D in garage or in the basement.

[@vagabondwastrel2361]

One of the other things about the UK plumbing difference is the cold water tank. That was the reason for hot and cold taps. The water tanks were phased out/phasing out due to it being a cause of disease. Rodents were known to die in them and the home owners wouldn't know until the bones plug up the pipes.

[@nowhereman725_]

I've never heard of an egg cup (I only like mine scrambled anyway). We don't have a tea kettle because we rarely drink tea (except iced tea). If we do want hot tea, we use the keurig to heat the water (after removing the coffee pod) and then let the tea bag sit in the mug for a few minutes. I've never heard of a cooker (we have ovens and stoves) and, yes, we use soap when we hand wash the dishes. Then we rinse and dry them. But it's been a long time since we've done that because we use the dishwasher.

[@RamblingRose08]

I'm in California and i have an electric kettle and egg cups. When i was in college and i lived in an apartment i had a coffee maker on the counter and a kettle on the stove but now that i have a bigger kitchen i have both a coffee maker and an electric kettle on the counter.

[@piratetv1]

My washer and dryer are in the kitchen. It is rare to see though. I fix appliances and most washers and dryers are in the basement, a bathroom, or a closet specially made for them around here

[@lynnw7155]

My mother never rinsed the soap off the dishes. It's very disconcerting to fill up a glass with water and find a soapy head on it.

[@thegamewyzard]

Yes we use dish soap when hand washing. Mostly for one off items we need quicker the sending them through the dish washer cycle. Plus some items that cannot sit in water such as wooden or aluminum cooking utensils. Plus we use cast iron pans that require a different kind of cleaning.

[@Deadcntr]

Im nearly 70 years old. I have not seen an egg cup for 60 years. They were comon 60 years ago but fell out of favor.

[@nrrork]

It depends how many dishes I'm washing, really. If its enough to fill a sink, I'll do a sink of hot water. If it's just a couple, Ill do it under running water. Also, when you do a sink of hot water, you can put the dishes and then go kick back and chill for like twenty minutes because they "need to soak awhile". 😊

[@terrigaines1812]

I'm a huge advocate of letting the dishes soak awhile 😂

[@rianaconklin6954]

I had the same egg cups with the chicken feet for my girls when they were little lol ❤

[@nyneeveanya8861]

Kettle on the hob in winter helps keep moisture in the air. Laundry can be anywhere according to house size. In the kitchen, bathroom, its own room, hallway closet, or bedroom closet.

[@samanthao5018]

A leading dishwashing liquid company recently said the correct way to wash dishes is in a sink of warm or hot water with the liquid added. Dishwashing liquid is basically a concentrate that has to soak in water to dilute it. They are currecntly working on a a spray bottle of dishwashing liquid that is already diluted so that it can be sprayed on an individual dish without filling the sink and then rinsed off and dried.

[@larryk731]

The smaller the home, the more likely it is for the laundry to be in the kitchen or bathroom. I live in a small (by suburban US standards) and my laundry is in a closet at the end of my kitchen. Some condos in the same development have it in the bathroom but none have a distinct utility/laundry room

[@carissadallke1345]

The first house I lived in as a kid had it in the kitchen but it was because the house was built over a hundred years ago.

[@Janice4th]

Mine are in the garage. I would love a utility room.

[@POTATOSOOPS]

I'm American and I've always washed dishes in the sink filled with water and soap

[@secolerice]

I have my grandmother’s egg cups. I remember using them as a kid. But the way we eat soft boiled eggs and toast is spooning out the egg on a complete slice of toast rather than dipping them with pieces of toast. Who needs a kettle when you have a microwave? I used to have one of the whistling kettles, but I got rid of it because the microwave is a lot faster for one cup! I use the term tea towel. I think it’s old-fashioned here. My grandparents used to say it more than my mother but I must have heard it somewhere because I use that term a lot now.

[@songbird989]

I usually just rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher.

[@3DJapan]

When I was growing up we had an entire bedroom-sized room for laundry in my later teens my mom split the 3 story house into 2 apartments and the laundry room became a kitchen. Laundry went down to the basement where it's also done in my current house.

[@Trifler500]

In the U.S. we have "egg-in-the-hole" where you cut a hole in the middle of one or two slices of toast, then you pour an egg into the hole of each slice while pan frying it. You cook it until the egg on the outside is well cooked, but the egg inside the hole is still a bit runny. It's delicious and sounds a lot like what you're talking about with dipping the toast in the egg cup.

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

We called this an egg in the nest...

[@Trifler500]

Apartments in the U.S. usually have a small closet with a stacked washer and dryer (dryer on top of the washer).

[@crs7937]

and even homes. My last 2 homes that I owned stacked them because they have the gadgets.. And they fit in a closet!

[@MLeonard317]

I've had an electric kettle in my home for almost 30 years. I will never be without one. It is one of the most versatile appliances you can have. Not only for tea but many other things.

[@firstenforemost]

I don't think you know what "versatile" means. And electric kettle isn't versatile -- it just does ONE SINGLE THING: heat up water.

[@jeannedickson5921]

When I was a little girl, the first house my family lived in had the washing machine in the kitchen. We hung the clothes on the line to dry outside. When we moved, when I was 10, the new house had a utility room with washer and dryer, but my mom still liked hanging the clothes on the line.

[@nrrork]

You gotta remember you have a kettle on the stove, though. I once got distracted until I hear "POP!" and a bright flash and an ominous buzzing hum because all the water had boiled out, the kettle got red hot, and blew out and fused itself to the burner. Whoopsidoodles. 😳

[@corinnem.239]

😂🤣😂

[@marshsundeen]

Having one that whistles is key.

[@emanymton713]

North Carolinian here, my family has *always* had tea instead of coffee around the house so, I grew up with a tea kettle constantly on the stovetop. Eventually we got an electric kettle for the convenience. Now that I’m off on my own I have an electric kettle and a stovetop kettle in my home. My sister has an electric kettle in her home. And my parents have an electric kettle and stovetop kettle. Egg cups though, we’ve never needed because no one in our family eats soft boiled eggs (outside of a ramen bowl.) Our washing machine is in our kitchen. Edit: my mom *does* have egg cups. We just never used them.

[@pythoscheetah2553]

Electric kettles definitely exist in the US. You could probably find one down at the local Walmart or Target if you went looking. But they're hardly ubiquitous, as coffee drinkers way outnumber tea drinkers in the States. A stovetop kettle for the occasional cup of "I'm sick, I need something hot" tea is all most Americans need. And on the subject of egg cups, I'm familiar with them from having lived in England as a kid, but I don't think I've seen a single one actually in use in the US for like 30 years. I know of a couple local restaurants that won't even serve eggs with runny yolks, calling it a "health issue"

[@Janice4th]

When he filmed the episode they watched, the kettles may not have been that common.

[@NathanMalnaa]

I've actually seen videos of people accidentally putting a electric kettle on the stove and not realizing it till it starts smelling and is melted lol

[@mikehermen3036]

An advantage to the stovetop kettle is that is always on the stove partly filled. After cooking something you put the kettle on the still hot burner (hob). That way you can't accidentally burn your hand (and you get a bit of extra humidity in the air.

[@tea_time_t]

When I was a kid we never had soft boiled eggs, but we did have "bullseyes." This was an egg fried into a piece of toast with the middle cut out, so the runny yolk was inside the toast. Then you dip other toast into the yolk.

[@Blondie42]

Leaving the soap suds on guarantees streaks. We handwash delicate items that the dishwasher would destroy. And so long as the soap is rinsed off there's never any streaks while properly placed 8n a drying rack

[@3DJapan]

Usually ice in hand washing a dish or something I'll just dry it and put it ash but for most things we have a dishwasher.

[@sandpiperr]

Egg cups exist in America it's just that most average people don't bother to buy them because they seem kind of pointless. If you're going to have a hard boiled, or even soft boiled, egg a regular bowl or plate works perfectly fine to have your breakfast off.

[@kindredspiritbaseballmom7913]

I love dipping my toast into egg yolk for breakfast. I call it a "dunky egg". We fry the eggs in the pan and either have it "sunny side up" or flip it over and seal the top which is called "over easy". Then put it on a plate to eat and dunk.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

we have electric kettles in the US

[@ggstrauss]

I live in Texas and have an electric kettle. I love it! Now my mom and family members bought one too. I use it for tea, making broths, my kids use it for ramen.

[@muhugcy]

Our washer and dryer were in the basement til we put laundry room in the garage. My parents' washer/dryer are in their bathroom. We have a Cuisinart single serve coffee maker (the kind that uses the pods), I use it for coffee, my husband uses it for his iced tea. He puts a tea bag in one of the holders for the ground coffee and adds ice when it is done.

[@michaelmmcintyre]

Most houses prior to the 1970’s had the Washing Machine in the kitchen. The house I grew up in had one next to the fridge. Then a window to the back yard (garden) with a clothes line out back. The design harkened back to when women were predominantly housewives who spent a good bit of their day in the kitchen and needed to keep an eye on the drying laundry and the kids playing in the yard. We had a clothes dryer in our garage just off the kitchen dining area. Now, there’s usually no clotheslines, and a washer/dryer in a laundry room.

[@brendafrazier811]

Our house in the 50’s-60’s when I was young had a utility room next to the kitchen for the washer. The next house we lived in was built in the late 40’s and it was in the basement. I’ve actually never lived in a house with the washer in the kitchen. Maybe it’s regional.

[@michaelmmcintyre]

@@brendafrazier811 maybe it was just the planned communities they built after WW2? I grew up in a massive Suburb of Philadelphia that was built from 1949-1954 to accommodate the post war families having Baby Boomers.

[@marshsundeen]

In the northern US, most homes have basements, so that is where the laundry is.

[@davidowens1132]

My dad who is 93, still puts milk and butter in a cup, cracks an egg into it, and then poaches it in the microwave. I don't think that he's ever been to the UK.

[@bethlovcy1276]

When I was a child, long ago and far away, we had a pump in our kitchen sink. You pumped the water and heated it on the stove. Then you had a large basin to wash in and a large basin to rinse in and the dishes were always hand dried and put away. It was 1978 before I had a rolling dishwasher that you hooked to the hot water and ran it. When it was done, you rolled it back to it's spot. Mine had a butcher block top on it so extra prep space, lol.

[@lindaclark7868]

I have a very small house but I still have a separate area for my washer and dryer. We do not have a dishwasher except for my 2 hands.

[@marshsundeen]

American here, we have a small house, without a laundry room. Our washer/dryer is in one of our bathrooms. They sit in where the linen closet would have been. Washing dishes, we fill the sink with hot soapy water, and then we rinse the dishes and place in the drying rack. We do not want soapy dishes. My house now has a dishwasher, but I grew up in a home without.

[@helenavalentine9718]

While electric kettles are available, maybe even common, I’ve never had one. Stove top kettle works fine and feels right. When doing dishes by hand I usually put the hot soapy water in the largest used vessel that’s not going in the dishwasher. Wash, rinse under running water, drain. Sometimes I towel dry them. Faucets with built in sprayers are great. No egg cups though my granddad had one. He was born in the British West Indies in the 1870’s! Eggs over easy for me. My boiled eggs are always hard boiled for salad and such.

[@corinnem.239]

We put our fried eggs with yolk on toast and eat it. Cut into the yolk and eat on toast no egg shells.

[@JL-ym4eb]

We put our eggs on our toast directly. Probably taste the same but less washing up to do. We use the term tea towel sometimes but mostly dish towel is said in our house here is Pennsylvania. I do have an electric kettle but rarely use it. If I have tea I heat the water on using a kettle on the stove. Enjoy your show and take care..

[@jLutraveling]

Sometimes we do basted eggs. It like a fried egg without the fat. I like mine over easy. With a soft yolk. I am hoping you get to see a Lowe’s Home Depot or a housing development when you visit this year.

[@Ira88881]

Many apartments have the washer and dryer in the kitchen, but they’re in a special closet just for them.

[@MrSheckstr]

As a kid our “egg cups” were ceramic 8 oz “dessert” bowls because that is what our father would serve a portion of scrambled eggs with sausage or bacon and shredded cheddar in … when i first saw an actual egg cup i thought they were candle sticks for short but fat votive candles

[@thegamewyzard]

We had a stove top kettles that whistled but now use a glass microwave wave kettle for tea or hot coco or hot chocolate. Now I have Jet Boil stoves and cups for camping that boil water for drinks or rehydration cooking or just cooking. Plus coffee makers and now Keurig coffee machines.

[@nrrork]

I wouldn't mind having an electric kettle, but I am straight up OUT of kitchen space. I got my blender, stand mixer, food processor, toaster. I just don't have the counter space for another small appliance.

[@theluckyfishmarket]

Twist: I have an electric kettle that whistles like a stovetop one lol

[@jeromemckenna7102]

When I was a child most people in the US had some kind of kettle for boiling water. We had the whistling kettle but mostly used a larger kettle. My father was a great tea drinker. I've been told the with US electric current being 110 volts, electric kettles take too long to boil.

[@xzonia1]

I am allergic to eggs, so I have no need for an egg cup. I cannot imagine eating off of dishes that were allowed to have soap dry onto them; you have to rinse the soap off! That's just gross to think about. I've never seen a clothes washer in a kitchen before IRL. I prefer having them in the utility room, garage, or basement. It's what I'm used to. lol :)

[@dmwiggy7661]

Wow, I have a dedicated laundry room. Never would have thought to place in the kitchen

[@MA-jd4ui]

My parents had electric kettles they made coffee back in the 70s and 80s Great video is always hope all 3 of you are doing good May god bless you and have a great day ❤

[@jstmez]

Electric kettle for tea, coffee, ramen. Washer and dryer in a closet off a hallway. Sink with soapy water, dip in a sink with hot water, drain rack. Garbage disposal for bits, not chunks, of food. More for when I clean the sink. Grease and chunks are bad for your pipes and water treatment.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

One of the reasons for tea kettles was it sat on the hearth or wood stove and added moisture back into the room. American's brought over kettles from Europe and the electric one just never really caught on as most people moved to coffee and coffee pots. It is only more recently that a counter machine can handle both.

[@Fuzz32]

Funnily enough I actually bought an electric kettle last year. Made by the American company Hamilton Beach. And no I don’t use it for tea I use it for hot chocolate when the weather gets cold. Yes, I’m American if it wasn’t obvious. 😏

[@Ulysses_DM_]

I use mine for coffee, tea and hot chocolate, it's at least as fast as a microwave.

[@stephaniewashere9821]

When I was little, my mom would make me the egg the same way in an egg cup. She would take a slice of bread, butter it lightly then cut them in 4 strips. For breakfast on a school day.

[@SFsc616171]

Hi guys from Louisiana. My 1970's galley apartment kitchen might be a bit cramped for you. I'm a "rtangetop" guy, with my oven being the nesting place for all my pans. I have a 3 qt. kettle, with no whistle, but set the burner number (electric) and count 20 minutes, and its done. I do not fare well with the oven, and I am not a baker. My dad was a short-order cook in a diner in his younger years, so that is how I started on the range. My dishwasher is my drying rack! I like hard-boiled eggs ...2 of them, some cracked black pepper, and a cup of coffee (melitta single cup brewed), and I am content. The apartment complex has a laundry room, coin-operated ($2.00 a wash, $1.75 to dry), so that is my exercise. I forgot to metion that I use a countertop toaster oven since moving the pans in and out of the big oven would be a chore. Note -- electric range burners are not as well suited for certain oriental cooking methods as gas burners.

[@nyneeveanya8861]

An oven can be by itself or part of a range. A range has the hob on top and the oven underneath. Ranges can be just the hob and oven but some will have a hob, a grill plate, an oven, and a broiler.

[@propertylady57]

I grew up with eggcups and I have them myself to this day.

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

I don't even have a kettle electric or otherwise, I just heat my water in a pot on the stove. No egg cups, we just do overeasy and dip on the plate. A cooker here is often a roaster or an insta pot, perhaps a crock pot. If I were to tell my husband I had chicken in the cooker the oven is the last place he would look for it. Great reaction, blessings to all 3 of you.

[@lavenderoh]

Not rinsing the soap off is CRAZY what the hell?

[@marshsundeen]

If I make tea, it is for iced Tea. Then I use My stove top to boil water. If I want hot tea, I make that in the microwave and a tea bag.

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

I have had an electric kettle since c. 1984. (And I drink PG Tips daily.)

[@Cricket2731]

My Grandma had an all-in-one washer/dryer in the bathroom. She HATED it! She said one wash & dry cycle took way too long. An aunt on the other side of the family had a small utility room in the kitchen for doing the laundry. (She was disabled, & going up & down the stairs was exceedingly difficult for her )

[@sindeecharlton8857]

Never heard of an egg cup. Come to think of it, I in all of my 71 years have never had a soft boiled egg. I also have always rinsed the sop off every thing, if not one would eat dried sop.

[@randallchaput9529]

Yup, many have electric kettles here. And I have egg cups, difficult to get the eggs cooked correctly, though 😏😉

[@corinnem.239]

2 minutes of boiling.

[@krisschobelock4973]

To me - the washer right in the kitchen is the strangest of all UK differences . . . I cook with a lot of garlic and seasonings... I really don't want my clean clothes to smell of garlic...and where do you fold the clothes? Of everything I've seen...this one to me would kind of drive me a bit nuts . . . I'm sure if it was something I grew up with...probably would give a second thought . . but gosh .. ya, just couldn't handle that ... I will load my sink with dish soap and water and do dishes vs running the dishwasher if I don't have that many dishes! lol We have two sink sides - one to wash which is on the side of the garbage disposal - so don't have to worry about a bit of food - and then rinse and put into the dish rack...dry and put away! LOL Ya, we fry our eggs "sunny side up or over easy" so they have the runny yoke and dip our toast - or we poach them and again, runny yoke! We have egg cups - I have a couple - but having to make soft boiled eggs in double the time to fry or poach - those usually win out! LOL

[@ashmituk]

I transfer dirty laundry from the laundry basket upstairs to a small basket which I carry downstairs to my front loading washing machine in the kitchen. Once washed I empty the clean load from my washing machine into a basket which I then carry to a line outside. If the weather is bad I use my dryer. Clean and dry laundry is then carried back upstairs to be folded or placed on hangers and put away. Remember most people in the UK use front loading washing machines. Front loading washing machines have an airtight seal to prevent water leaking, this seal would also keep out any cooking smells. Before cleaning the dishes I scrape off as much food as possible into a small food waste bin and quickly rinse everything under a running tap. I then fill a bowl with clean warm soapy water, wash the dishes, rinse any remaining soap off under a running tap and place on the dish rack. I’ll then dry using a clean tea towel (dishcloth) and put away.

[@jonathanfreedom1st]

I remember back in the 1980s and 90s having a Dish Daisy and me and my brothers had to use it to hand wash dishes. 😂😂😂