BRITISH FAMILY REACTS! 5 WAYS BRITISH AND AMERICAN KITCHENS ARE VERY DIFFERENT!

[@TB-tr3cm]

Fun reaction. I use tap and faucet interchangeably. I think that it's also common to refer to drinking water, as either bottled water or tap water. I grew up with stove top kettles in the US. Never heard of electric kettles until I started watching Lost in The Pond.

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

There is a differentiation, in that a faucet as I understand it has to be connected to the plumbing. While you could also call that a tap, tap would include the devices attached to beer kegs, cool drink dispensers (as used at picnics and cookouts), and boxes of wine.

[@gregcable3250]

Besides faucet (for tap, which also use--mainly to distinguish between bottled water v. "tap" water) we also used the term "spigot"--don't know how widespread that term is.

[@2WarriorJay8]

We call it "tap water". Faucet is kind of a niche word, it's 100% the term we use, but I usually will say "run the sink" without specifying

[@ESUSAMEX]

In America, tap is used for the faucet on the side of the house where you connect the hose to water the lawn. Tap is also used in bars as in the beer is on tap. Tap beer is beer not from a bottle, but a keg.

[@jrbaytown]

I was thinking the same thing. I also call the outdoor tap a spigot. Beer from a tap😋🍺

[@ESUSAMEX]

@@jrbaytown Spigot is a term I have heard and used as well. It is only for the outdoor taps as you pointed out.

[@fayebell4716]

We have tea towels but they are completely different to a “dish towel.” Tea towels (I find anyway) aren’t as absorbent, dish towels are usually a Terry cloth material soaking up much more water. I actually keep one of each on my stove handle, tea towels to dry off my washed fruit or hands and dish towels for dishes or wiping down the counter.

[@briansjohnson17]

My dad was in the service in the 60s and was based in England and he loves tea. He would just boil water and use a teabag. Fun fact he also married a girl so she could get her citizenship, never met her

[@trish3572]

Only ever had a standard stove top kettle growing up . I didnt know electric kettle existed until I met a fellow from the UK ! It seems handy if you need hot water quickly. I would pass on it as I dont like lots of things on my countertop so there is that. 😊

[@megavideopowermegavideopow8657]

We do drink a lot of tea in America it’s just sweet and freezing cold in a tall glass over ice with a twist of lemon 🍋(only time I drink hot tea ☕️ in a cup like coffee is when I’m sick 🤒)

[@billbrasky1288]

Faucet is a specific term for the metal piece that the water flows out of. Americans use the word tap also but in a slightly broader sense.

[@AtomixIGN]

Faucet is/was the hardware where the two taps(hot & cold) mix. Now we used to have a inline multi-line mixing valve and a cartridge. Two taps. One faucet. And if it's for garden hose it's a spigot.

[@GT-mq1dx]

We call them faucets here in the United States, but we refer to the water that comes from it as tap water.

[@jeffcamp481]

We use our K-cup tea, or use the K-cup machine to heat a cup of water for our tea bag!

[@gregcable3250]

In our house in the US, the clothes washer and clothes dryer were in the basement. On the second floor of the house where bedrooms were (2 levels above the basement--the first floor is ground level and thus called the "ground floor", that is where the kitchen, dining room, den, living room, etc. were) --on the top floor there is the small waist-level door in which was the "clothes (or laundry) chute (pronounced "shoot")"--where you put your dirty clothes and they fell to a bin in the basement directly beside the washer to be easily put in--no carrying of dirty clothes down to the basement.

[@twenty3enigma]

You're going to love this... The water coming out of our faucets is called tap water.

[@68hilaire]

We have used a electric tea kettle for years. The stove top kettle is used as a back up. Just have it stored

[@LenaWatts-w4l]

I had a tea kettle. Used to heat water to make hot chocolate drink. Most people I knew had a tea kettle. We used it to do instant coffee as well. I married in 1964.

[@vortexathletic]

My friend’s mom has an electric kettle; and the first time I saw it, it blew my mind 😂

[@kathrynoneill5862]

I have never used the word tap, only faucet. I will use the word tap water for water that does not come in a water bottle. The differences are interesting.

[@briankirchhoefer]

In the US we mainly refer to tap as tap a keg of beer or What kind of beer is on tap meaning draft(draught) beer.

[@nathanpark1058]

We do an awesome little prank with the sink pre-rinse sprayer. Wrap a rubber band tightly around the button and put it back in the holder for the next family member who uses the sink!

[@manxkin]

I do the dishes in my sink with water from the faucet. Rinse off the soap then dry. I don’t have an electric kettle. I use my microwave or Keurig to heat water. No dishwasher or garbage disposal. Washing machine and dryer are in my scary basement (my house was built in the 1920s).

[@lilyz2156]

I do my dishes in the sink and use dishwasher if I have several people over for dinner or my roomies as well. I have electric kettle, one roomie has stove top. Washer and dryer in garage as FL has little to no basements. Basements creep me out..

[@gregcable3250]

In addition to "oven" we used the term "range" (but never cooker, :))

[@crystalpender2345]

I have an electric kettle as well. To wash my dishes, I use a dishwasher.

[@mosesruiz9813]

I have both an electric and stove top kettle. Both are readily available everywhere in the US.

[@okie-kan9240]

My mom called dish towels, tea towels sometimes. I have seen and heard of egg cups, they do sell them here.

[@bamachine]

We had the stovetop kettle back when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's. We made tea a lot but it was by the gallon, then put in a glass jug, a cup of sugar added, covered with a "tea towel", once it cooled some, pour it in a glass over ice. During the summer months, we did it a bit different. We would put the water in the glass jug, place the large tea bags in it, set it out in the sun and let it heat it naturally, then add the sugar, then serve over ice. We typically only do hot tea during the coldest months, in my home. We do coffee every day and we have an electric kettle. It is a glass pitcher with a heating element attached at the bottom, fill with water and set it on an electric connector, once it reaches boiling, it automatically cuts off. I use it for both coffee(using a French press) and to pour over my ramen concoction(I use instant ramen noodles but my own mix of spices and other ingredients).

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

Thumb Up #679! 👍 You're welcome! Thanks! 😊 Notes: Huh? I know that "Fawcett" and "faucet" are spelled differently, but they sound the same! "Tap" isn't just "pat" spelled backward for us! 😅 The kitchen and bathroom sinks have faucets, while outdoors we have hydrants. Restaurants and bars have beverages on tap. To get maple syrup, a maple tree needs to be tapped. The device is called a "tap" I suppose, because that is the sound heard when you use a mallet to tap it in. 🤔 That leads to the sex euphemism of when a guy sees a gal and says, "I'd tap that!" That makes his phallus the tap. I went and bought a tea kettle because of Lawrence. We haven't used it yet. I buy ready-made tea, because I'm lazy. Grandma would have preferred to use one rather than a regular cook pot. Electric tea kettles didn't always exist! You used the old style ones too! In most of the movies and television shows that I've seen, set over there, you still do! I suppose for the new young people, Electric Kettles have existed your whole lives! From my perspective, they are a relatively new invention that probably came out when "Mr. Coffee" did! I only sample coffee, in my search for some that doesn't smell like garbage or taste like burnt water. So it is still new tech to me. Though Dad uses a different brand of coffee-maker, I avoid it! When I was a child, he used an electric coffee percolator while his mother used a coffee pot.

[@yungkidnf]

The house I grew up in (built originally in the 60s or 70s, I believe, burnt down in 88 and rebuilt) had a washing machine in the kitchen nest to the sink and against the wall the the back door was at. It sat across from our fridge as well( the other side of the back door). And our dryer was in the corner of the dining room that was attached to the kitchen. The dryer butted up against a wall that had our refrigerator on the other side and a wall of the outside of the house. Our next house (also built in the 70s) had slightly larger (fewer rooms, more floor space), but it had a laundry "area" strattled in the hallway the leads to the side door. Our current house (built brand new in 2021 and almost 3 times the size as the second house) has a dedicated laundry room(albeit backward for our front opening appliances).

[@yungkidnf]

Also, a bud of mine has an electronic kettle and he LOVES it

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Americans have kettles that sit on the stove. Look up Pioneer Woman kettles. My wife has two sitting on our stove, lovely to look at covered in a floral pattern.

[@gregdubya1993]

This reminds me...I need to get new line for the summer time so I can hang my wash out

[@frances4309]

Most every college student has/had a "hot pot" we used to heat water in. We do have electric kettles in the US, we just don't use them often through the year. Growing up many people had the stove top kettles that were used often in the winter.Most folks use the coffee maker for water for drinks. Lots of people have electric iced tea makers, here. I don't know any American home that runs water to wash dishes instead of filling 1/4 to 1/2 one side of the sink with wash water, the other side with clear rinse water and uses a drainer to leave dry or dry with a dish towel, then put the dishes away. Hmmmm wonder where Laurence got his info. Egg cups are more used at Easter. "Tap" is an older term. "Tap water", as opposed to bottled water, is still a very common term.

[@caitlynskiff2001]

I personally prefer using a dishwasher, but even before I put the dishes in the dishwasher I rinse it off first. And when I have to handwash something like a mug I'll just rinse it out with soap. I find letting it sit in soapy water makes the mug or glass take like soap when you use it again. Just rinsing it out quickly with a small bit of soap is the way to go for me.

[@toodlescae]

I used to have an electric kettle. Haven't found one to replace it since it quit working. I have a stove top one now for my hot tea.

[@construct3]

I make a distinction between faucets and taps. When I turn the "faucet," water comes out of the "tap." I'm not sure others make that distinction. It's not often you need to.

[@josephlawinger8501]

We have electric kettles. It's just that more people drink coffee

[@yungkidnf]

Also. In our first house, we had a double sink with a pivoting spout. And we only ever washed the dishes with one side full of soap and hot water and the other side cleaned to rinse them. We never had a dishwasher in the first house(even though I was told my parents had the option when the house was being rebuilt, but declined) Edit: also never had a garbage disposal in the first house

[@fayebell4716]

I have that type of sink now, there is a unspoken rule about leaving one side completely clear at all times 😅 wish we had enough space for a dishwasher!

[@Gutslinger]

We always wash our dishes by hand in the sink in my family. We have even had a dishwasher for at least 4 years, and we never used it once. I've never seen a garbage disposal in person.

[@sallysummerville6554]

Coffee is king here. But we drink a lot of tea too. It's just iced tea. We brew our tea bags and make it by the gallon!

[@AndyTenney]

We use an electric kettle and have for years here in Northern Idaho, US.

[@whiskybooze]

US here...I grew up drinking tea with my Mom and we always boiled the water in kettle on the stovetop. We finally get her an electric one now that she's older. She he actually took me to have High Tea once as well with her.

[@secolerice]

I had a stovetop kettle for the occasional cup of tea or hot chocolate until I could afford a microwave. Now I just heat the cup of water for 1.5 minutes in the microwave. Easy. We have two electric coffee makers as my husband and I don’t like the same kind of coffee. I use a burr coffee grinder to grind whole beans. I grew up with egg cups but don’t use them anymore. I have a china set from my grandmother.

[@scottbee501]

I grew up in Illinois. My mother was of German-Irish descent and my father British. My brother and I usually had hot tea every morning before school.

[@SchwarzeSonne1965]

Yes is still common in Germany for sure in the North.

[@sweetwater156]

I did have an electric kettle for a little while when I was into hot tea. That didn’t last long and I went back to my iced sweet tea. Haven’t had another kettle since and it’s been about a decade.

[@burntchuwawa7976]

We got stove kettles but no one uses them but since I'm Mexican and my family and me use it all the time to make tea and coffee

[@jwhitaker1119]

I have an electric kettle. The reason it's not a thing is because the wattage is lower, so the electric kettles take twice the time to heat up.

[@stephanledford9792]

I use an electric kettle after watching videos about differences between the US and the UK. I like the fact that you can select the temperature you want VS just boiling the water in a stovetop kettle.

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

Where I grew up we ate dippy eggs but they were fried eggs with runny yolks!

[@kiekie84]

tap is a type of water and tap water in America is the same as city water so instead of saying city water we say tap water to describe what kind of water is it since we also have well water and spring water which are different types of water spring water comes from the spring well water comes from the well and tap water comes from the city but all spring water well water and tap water if traveling in a home to the sink will always travel through the faucet

[@TaMara_x]

I've never heard of egg cups until now lol .I love dippy eggs and need to get one to try!! ☺️ I despise doing dishes even in a dishwasher. I'll do everything else someone else can do them lol Much love from NY💜

[@BTinSF]

I love WW II movies and I've seen several where Winston Churchill is depicted having breakfast using an egg cup. So I knew they existed and how they were used but I've never seen one over here.

[@glenncordova4027]

So egg cups aren't really for breakfast golf. "Fore!" ⛳

[@kelsqi-books4835]

Electric kettles take up counter space. A stove one is stored right on the burner, which is part of the appeal. I use mine a lot and I'd like an electric, but it would be in the way, really.

[@cherylflam3250]

I have an electric kettle. But it’s stuffed away somewhere..haven’t used it for at least 3 years. Not a big tea drinker.

[@caitlynskiff2001]

US citizen here and I think some of this guys ideas of America come from where he moved to in America, the midwest. I am also from the midwest and the egg stand thing could be just that soft boiled eggs aren't popular in this part of the country. But I do know it isn't uncommon to see them in California or Florida. I can't stand warm tea and much prefer the cold version. I just fill up a pitcher of water, stick a tea bag in it, and leave it in the fridge over night.

[@DS-182]

In the midwest it's a kitchen faucet, the water that comes out is "tap water" and a spigot is your outside garden hose faucet- tap -spigot that puts out either "city" water or "well" water and if it's "well" water this is referred to as "turn on the well" its really not that complicated, its all about the other words in the sentence and what you're doing that lets people know what you're referring to 😂

[@anthonyevans6989]

so i was raised in america and am american by an british mom ( mum) and an american dad so i am familiar with both countries traditions .

[@eMemoryCard]

My apartment in Orlando Florida has the washing machine in between the sink and refrigerator in the kitchen.

[@Eryc001]

I'm honestly so jealous of that haha. I'd love to have that setup in my kitchen here in Upstate New York

[@lilyz2156]

Really? When I lived in Orlando my apt had a laundry room near front door.

[@eponine1966]

Growing up always filled the sink to wash the dishes. Had double sink where the other could be filled for rinsing. For anyone who had a Mom that took food sanitation licensing, a bit of bleach could be put in the rinse water. And my house had a washer\dryer set up in the kitchen. Only reason, the woman who owned the house before me had MS, so set up in the basement wasn't option.

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

I have an electric tea kettle. I know a lot of people who have them here. Most people have coffee makers though

[@alexj.5207]

many dont even have stove kettle we just use a coffee maker

[@Scott6794]

Ok so this is Daz's wife and two children?! This is great!

[@shawnanderson6313]

I don’t believe that is her daughter. Family friend

[@RFredrickPhotography]

Only the boy Aiden is their kid, the girl Sophie is NOT their child from what they've said in their Q&A and regular videos, and she works for the company.

[@themourningstar338]

I think Sophie is Office Bloke Mike's daughter, but I'm not sure on that.

[@brandonaston301]

We don’t really eat runny eggs in the US due to salamonella. Personally I only eat scrambled eggs.

[@TeamEvil84]

I have a kettle...i dont use it. But i drink tea almost every day.

[@jamesleyda365]

Never heard of faucet...... That's crazy

[@hannahbrown187]

Idk where this myth that Americans only use stovetop kettles comes from. Most people I know who have a kettle they use with any regularity have an electric one. It’s just that fewer Americans have one in the first place or need it often. Fewer people drink tea, and while stuff like pour-over and French press coffee are more popular than they used to be most people still opt for a drip coffee machine.

[@svtinker]

Egg cups extra cleaning. Just dump eggs on top of toast.

[@dawnpalacios8312]

I have electric kettle, but it's recent bwcome popular... somewhat 🤭

[@realblythe]

Another great video worth watching

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Please keep in mind, this is his experience and opinion . Please do not generalize there are almost unlimited options when it comes to kitchens in America

[@richardhigel5612]

Since metal Tea kettles don’t go into a microwave… no need for a tea kettle.

[@ms_scribbles]

It's not too much of a bother to use a stovetop kettle for tea, especially since folks who still drink tea in the US usually only drink it during breakfast time, so you just pop the kettle on the stove, do the rest of your breakfast prep, then the water will be ready when you're done making breakfast.

[@lindaeasley5606]

British kitchens must be very small. My whole life in the US I've only known a kitchen with sinks ,counter tops ,cupboards ,dining table ,large fridge and stove/oven. A separate room for laundry is very convenient

[@CookiesNMilf]

They are SUPER SMALL I’ve seen episodes of house hunters and stuff like that and they are like the size of a 1 person public bathroom. It’s insane.

[@jwhitaker1119]

We call it a faucet but the water that comes out is tap water. Strange.

[@BTinSF]

I've always had a kettle but always one that is heated on the stove, not electric. Never seen an electric one over here but they probably do exist. Speaking of "cookers"--if they call the oven a "cooker", what do they call what we call a "slow cooker"?

[@SophieVictoria.]

We call them slow cookers too! They’re great ☺️

[@Tabfort]

You can get electric kettles. I have one as an American. I would say that most Americans don’t have one though.

[@MisterRoads]

Id say most have them But don’t use them. I have 3 I don’t use.

[@gregdubya1993]

I have one also, we use it daily. I live in Indiana near Chicago.

[@pacmanc8103]

I have an electric kettle on my kitchen counter next to the coffee maker. The coffee maker is set to brew coffee every morning at 6:30. The kettle is use at night to make tea. I don’t think electric kettles are as rare as some Americans apparently think.

[@pacmanc8103]

@@brendafrazier811 Or at least you and your friends.

[@MisterRoads]

@@brendafrazier811 lol get out your retirement home. I’m in Boston there’s not a house here that doesn’t have 2

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

Soap leaves a residue.

[@ChrisAdamscomedy]

I use my electric kettle to make French press coffee.

[@lisas572]

Tap to us in America is a beer tap.

[@caphwys]

Aiden needs to do a video trying to pass as a true American. Talking like a true American with accent and using proper American grammar and slang. Earn that citizenship you already have!

[@shawnteeisme]

Never heard of egg cups

[@Bearfacts01]

We have kettles. LOL

[@shawnteeisme]

Tap water comes out of the faucet!

[@vicp1990]

What did Sophie say in the beginning?

[@joshuabolton3866]

Wait y’all have a washer in the kitchen?!

[@Damodeg]

[@SherriLyle80s]

I have an electric kettle but I use it a few times a week at most. I'd rather have coffee 😂 But... Medical advice wants me to lay off the extra caffeine.

[@21Piloteer]

Spigot or faucet

[@vodriscoll]

Electric kettles do exist, but I have never known anyone to have one. But many have a kettle heated on the stove. Tea is not popular here compared with the UK. I don't own either type of kettle. I rarely drink tea, and when I do I put water in a mug and heat it in the microwave. I know, blasphamy. lol

[@dakota9650]

I know egg cups exist, but i've never seen anyone have them. I always thought they were an English thing.

[@MatthewLikesToRead]

Aidan is so young and naive. Lol

[@phendric66]

The British Family with Daz should watch some of the Stanley Cup Playoff highlights

[@stevepalmberg5905]

Tap.. beer keg

[@WJones-jf8mf]

I’ve never seen an American not clean their dishes in a sink filled with water….

[@petermalutin7407]

okay...the girls need their own

[@kyloren1014]

Omg just no to egg cups lol

[@shawnteeisme]

I say dish rag lol

[@eldorajohnson3894]

All houses in America are not open plan.

[@Ginoulmer]

Washing dirty clothes in a kitchen seems so disgusting.

[@viacrucis2509]

Of course we have electric kettles. Just not very practical.

[@EagleFang74]

I have an electric kettle. Lots of Americans who went away to college had electric kettles because they were great for making instant ramen in your dorm room which usually didn’t have a cooktop. No offense to anyone who likes it but “dippy eggs”are vile. Yolks remind me of liquified baby chickens. 🤢

[@kingjellybean9795]

Is gator on of? Lolol jk but she is an absolute fox. Sorry daz

[@lindarichards3195]

Not rinsing soap off dishes??? Ew!!!