British Guy React to 5 Ways British and American Kitchens Are Very Different

[@MrFungus420]

56 years old and I have never owned, or had any real need for, either a kettle or an egg cup.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

for eggs i just cut a part out of the container they come in and then throw it out. I do use a kettle when i make tea,

[@harveythepooka]

For those under 25 who still eat cup-o-noodles, they make them the microwave. That's also how a lot of people make their tea. It takes about 90 seconds to boil water in a mug.

[@tiktok11150]

Those who have a Keurig we don't use the microwave anymore to make tea. It takes too long. LOL!

[@emmef7970]

I didn't realize cup-o-noodles or any of the different brands of "just add water and heat" ramen were only for people under 25. Geesh, no one told me and I'm 65 (not on a pension), still working and I eat them because I like them not because I am on a budget. I need to tell all my kids, siblings, friends, co-workers that are over 25 that we are not suppose to be eating them. My brother and alot of co-workers are gonna be pissed off that they can't eat them anymore because they passed the cut off age!

[@Sharon-pb7so]

@@emmef7970 Well damn!! I'm 62. I eat cup of noodles all the time. Now I have to stop? What about the case of them I have downstairs? Should I donate them to a special under 25 food bank? Oh man, my husband is older than me. Wait until he hears they're for 25 and younger. He's just perfected his microwave technique. Bummer.

[@emmef7970]

@@Sharon-pb7so I know right. I guess it's true since harveythepooka says it is. I guess I aged out about 50 years ago. I'm pissed no one bothered to tell me! I must have been making a fool of myself all this time. So sorry you & your husband both find yourselves in the same situation I am in. Scandalous behaviour! Thanks for the laugh, Sharon. :) harveythepooka is a numbnut!

[@Sharon-pb7so]

@@emmef7970 I know this is very illegal considering my advanced age but, I bought a bag of dried veggies on Amazon and when I made cup of noodles I add a tablespoonful of the dried veggies and then add the water. I'm careful to only open the lid as little as possible. Then I leave it to soak and I have veggie noodle soup. We won't tell the 25 and under our soup hacks. Maybe he'll discover them when he's 26 or 27. Much too old for cup o noodles. Another hack is to use frozen corn and peas. Cook your soup, make sure you make a little extra. When you pour your water in the soup, don't fill it all the way. Now take the leftover boiling water, put a tablespoonful of peas and another of corn. Put it back in the microwave for a minute. Spoon the hot veggies into the cup. If you have extra water put that into the soup as well. I add a, dash of pepper and the soup is pretty decent.

[@susanreber6018]

Garbage disposal is a must here, I think. I've never lived in an apartment that didn't have one.

[@TheBeesleys99]

I imagine they are pretty cool and super useful!

[@susanreber6018]

@@TheBeesleys99 They get rid of things that would bring bugs if just thrown away!

[@SherriLyle80s]

Also prevents wildlife from being curious about your garbage.

[@elkins4406]

I grew up in New York, so I didn't see one until I was an adult. New York has very old plumbing, which can't handle the load of extra garbage going down the pipes, so they're not legal there. (They still kind of freak me out, to be perfectly honest. I'm a little afraid of them.)

[@emmef7970]

@@elkins4406 No need to be afraid of them unless you put your hand down the drain and then flip the switch on. I’ve put my hand down the drain many times to retrieve stuff that went down accidentally. No worries because I have to reach across the counter to flip the switch.

[@jimjanssen216]

Don't forget about sun tea. We brew tea in large jars outside in the sun and then pour it over ice.

[@questioneverything55]

Love sun tea!!!!!!!!

[@kimh2862]

I’ve heard them called tea towels a lot in the south. I’ve also heard tea towel used to refer to a special or decorative type of dish towel. I use both words. If it’s made out of toweling, terry cloth, etc. then I call it a dish rag and if it’s made out of like a smooth linen or cotton like the one shown in the video, then it’s a tea towel.

[@christophereggers5519]

In America we eat eggs "sunny side up” and dip toast triangles into it. You usually also get a side of hash browns and sausage or bacon. 🍳

[@natashadavis2959]

I like mine sunny side up also, but I'll scramble them with my fork and eat them on buttered toast. Num

[@SchmaltzyCraftsy]

@@natashadavis2959 I'm the same way, over medium, then chop it up and spoon onto toast.

[@ronclark9724]

Hash browns or a bowl of grits....

[@NanaRae2Three]

We call them dippy eggs.

[@JKM395]

I'm 43 years old, been in the US my whole life, and I have never once seen an actual egg cup in the wild. I've seen them on TV, but that's the extent of it. I've never even seen one in a shop, though I can't say I've ever looked either. My wife is from London, so I'll have to agree with you on the tea. Yorkshire tea is the way to go.

[@maryknight3405]

Yorkshire tea for the win!

[@KenjaTimu]

I'm 48. I'm not sure that i ever knew that egg cups existed before i saw this video.

[@olyvoyl9382]

@@KenjaTimu people used to eat soft boiled eggs in egg cups here way back when. Ask your grandparents.

[@tanyamckinnon5376]

We had them when I was young. My dad loved soft boiled eggs

[@ronclark9724]

@@KenjaTimu I haven't seen a egg cup in decades either at Walmart or Kmart... If one can NOT buy it at your local supermarket, it does NOT exist...

[@corvus1374]

Microwaves are for heating water. I wash dishes in hot water and soap, but run the water in the other sink (there are two) where I rinse them off before putting in the dish drainer. You fry bacon in a frying pan/skillet, then fry your eggs in the bacon grease, and then clean off your plate with the toast,

[@pitdoctor]

The egg cup and a soft boiled egg seems like a lot of extra effort when I can make a piece of toast and cook an egg sunny side up or over easy in a pan and just put it on top of the toast on the plate. You still get toast and runny yolk, but you don't need a specialized thing that is only good for holding a soft boiled egg.

[@ronclark9724]

A egg cup is the most useless thing ever created... Spot on sliding your fried eggs onto a plate...

[@jeffburdick869]

6:40 I'm American and filling the sink with hot water and soap and then cleaning them off with a small rag or other cleaning product is how I cleaned dishes when I lived in an apartment without a dishwasher. I've never heard of the other way. Thats weird.

[@kathyp1563]

Yeah. The only time I've ever washed all the dishes under running water is if there is one dish, max two. Otherwise, I fill the sink.

[@gigigemini7433]

I have never washed dishes in standing water bc after the first dish it is basically a pool of cross contamination.

[@calliew311]

@@gigigemini7433 that's what the hot water, soap and rinse is for, for me anyway. But then again, I live in the desert, where we can't even water our lawns every day, we have assigned days and I NEVER take more than a 10 min shower unless I'm washing my hair. If I let water run, I would feel bad wasting it.

[@kfl611]

I've seen people with a double sink, fill one side with soapy water to wash, and the other side with rinse water. Once the dis is scrubbed they dunk it in the rinse side of the sink water and put it on the drain board/rack.

[@missarnold1988]

@@gigigemini7433 That's why I add a lil bit of bleach to my dish water.

[@BlueDebut]

I've never even heard of an egg cup. I just have my eggs scrambled or over easy. I mix it with a hashbrown or breakfast potatoes and top it with Cholula hot sauce. Also toast to wipe up the sauce and egg is FANTASTIC

[@TheBeesleys99]

That sounds gorgeous! But you do need to try an egg cup and egg and soldiers!

[@BlueDebut]

@@TheBeesleys99 I'll have to make it soon! I love breakfast and am always looking for new recipes

[@IONATVS]

Far more americans would recognize eggs “sunny-side up”-lightly cooked in a pan without breaking the yolk so the yolk and the top layer of white remains soft-or eggs “over easy”-the same but flipped halfway through, so the white cooks on both sides but the yolk remains soft-which gives you much of the same delicious runny-ness to slather on your toast and doesn’t require a special cup as much skill to make sure it’s cooked right as softboiling-since you can watch it cook to the right level in the pan. Though some of the white does cook fully in these two versions so if you want it ALL runny you have to do the work to softboil it properly. Over-easy is more common to order in my part of the US (though i prefer sunny-side for more runny-ness), but sunny-side-up is still very culturally relevant as it stars in a classic stock scene in American road trip movies where someone is dejected and eating at a diner and someone orders for them a special breakfast to try and cheer them up-usually arranged as 2 sunny-side up eggs as eyes and streaky bacon strips forming the smile. The cheer up attempt rarely works in said scenes, as the person who ordered it is generally the cheesy one who might be cheered up by a cute gesture like that, but the person it was ordered for is generally either too depressed for it to help or thinks themselves too “mature” to accept the gesture.

[@BlueDebut]

@@IONATVS yeah I adore sunny side up eggs.

[@Sharon-pb7so]

@@BlueDebut I make eggs over easy because I don't like the egg whites to be snotty.

[@coyotelong4349]

No egg cups just because soft-boiled eggs aren’t a super popular way to cook eggs here honestly lol Americans tend to like eggs over easy or hard-boiled, but not both at once 😂

[@travis79109]

Or scrambled...with tons of cheese

[@randyparker4766]

You can get the same basic texture with poached eggs.

[@demarcuswitten9723]

You forgot sunny side up

[@bagnome]

Over easy is really common and you still get to sop up the yoke with toast. If I had to guess, this is the more popular equivalent of egg cups in the U.S.

[@pliny8308]

Eggs are eaten sunnyside up, over easy or scrambled or in an ometlette. I hate soft boiled eggs, and so do most Americans nowadays. I've never seen anyone order them in diners, for example.

[@Trenton-om9qs]

If we boil water we usually use the stovetop

[@kfl611]

And usually just a small sauce pan to boil it in.

[@IONATVS]

Stovetop for large quantities, but for small quantities-like if only one person in the family wants tea-you can just put the water it in a glass measuring cup and microwave it for a couple minutes. Boils incredibly quickly.

[@celticlord88]

I had an electric kettle but it always broke. Now I understand why we don't use electric kettles

[@bmbunch8825]

We just fry our eggs and throw em on the plate and dip our toast in the yolk that runs everywhere. Cooking your egg in bacon grease just brings em up an entirely new level.

[@questioneverything55]

epic indeed, along with some grits

[@jamesoliver6625]

Can I have an AMEN!. Sunny side up, you sop the juice with half a biscuit, then get a little Steen's on your plate and use the other half biscuit to sop.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

Ooh.. save your hamburger grease and fry your potatoes in it or French fries.. amazing!... be sure you don't save any watery juice though or it spoils. I just cook burgers first then the potatoes or fries. On grill I'll place French fries on a cookie pan under the hamburgers

[@sandy9064]

I don't have an electric or stovetop kettle. I just microwave some water in a mug if I want tea or hot chocolate. Let the horrified gasps begin.

[@jreyman]

I've done that, too.

[@KenjaTimu]

Microwaving water makes perfect sense if you know how microwaves work. It's actually a wavelength that is designed to heat water. That is how it cooks food by heating the water inside it. That is why they make those microwaves that turn food. Because people think it's the microwave's fault that the food isn't being cooked evenly when it's because of varying water content. So they put the turning mechanism into there to make you feel better. But of course, not to fix the actual problem.

[@paigeherrin29]

Same!

[@bobp1016]

Same with me. Microwave is much faster.

[@sj4iy]

I have an electric kettle for tea and coffee. It's really useful for oatmeal, ramen, pasta and any other meal that requires hot water. Great if you don't want to spend all day waiting for a pot of water to boil on the stove.

[@mistermisanthrope4106]

I'm intrigued by the difference between English breakfasts & American breakfasts. My Southern big breakfasts usually include biscuits (not British biscuits), gravy, bacon/sausage, fried apples, fried potatoes, honey, butter, strawberry jam, etc.

[@marvindoolin1340]

And grits. Love 'em with butter and salt. I don't think I could handle all that any more, but there was a time.

[@mistermisanthrope4106]

@@marvindoolin1340 Yes, that's the classic way to fix grits. Good eating.

[@Sharon-pb7so]

@@marvindoolin1340 Grits is basically cream of wheat cereal . I add a bit of sugar and cream.

[@AtarahDerek]

My Montana breakfast usually consists of some yogurt with fruit or granola. If it's late enough in the morning, I'll make a fried egg sandwich for brunch. Fry two eggs, top with cheese, sear some ham, and put the whole thing on toast spread with Miracle Whip.

[@lisab.9956]

Few people have stovetop kettles anymore. Mostly heat water for tea in mug in microwave. It is rare to find electric kettles & people just run water through their coffeemaker for whole pot of hot water. Only time washing machine is in kitchen is really tiny apartment. Lot of neighborhoods & apartment buildings do not allow laundry to be hung outside. (I use drying racks & shower rod to hang clothes to dry that don't go in dryer.) Amish & Mennonite communities hang laundry outside because they don't have electricity for dryers. Most kitchens have garbage disposals & water sprayers are part of faucet with push button to get spray rather than steady stream. We always rinse dishes with clear water before drying them or putting in dish drainer to air dry. I remember egg cups from 40-50 years ago, but haven't seen them since except in restaurants that serve boiled eggs, which isn't popular here. Don't know anyone who has egg cups in their homes. Toast is cut into triangles & use 3 toast points to dip into runny egg. Tea towel is made of linen or cotton & dish towel is made of terry cloth or cotton/polyester blend. Tea towels tend to be fancier & have nice patterns/designs, whereas dish towels are solid colors, striped, or plaid. Tea towels are better to use on glassware & silverware to prevent streaks & spots. Hanging them on oven handle is a way to dry them faster after use. "Cooker" in U.S. refers to appliance that slow cooks such as outdoor smoker, rice cooker, or pressure cooker. It never refers to an oven. Cooking in an oven is called baking, roasting, broiling, etc.

[@Glwstick18]

We had egg cups and call them tea towels but my mom and older sisters immigrated to the US from Ireland, so that is probably why.

[@spiderdude2099]

0:47 Literally ANYTHING that requires heated up water in America, we have one word for you guys: MICROWAVE. Cup noodles? Microwave the water. Tea? Microwave. Hot chocolate? Microwave. On the rare occasion we use a kettle, it’s a stovetop one and people only do it to feel fancy and extra. No one in America would argue that microwaving water is any worse than heating it in a kettle. You don’t need a million ways to skin a cat, if it heats the water up fast in the microwave, why would we want to do it any other way. It doesn’t change the taste or affect the water or final product in any way shape or form.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

A little note on Lawrence if you hadn't heard yet. He originally lived in Indianapolis, but later moved to Chicago. Can't recall the timeline for that, but I think he originally came over to the US in like 2008 or 9. And the move to Chicago was like in 2017 or 18 I believe.

[@TheBeesleys99]

Awesome cheers mate!

[@kokomo9764]

He moved from Indianapolis to Anderson Indiana then Chicago.

[@NolmDirtyDan]

most people will just boil water in just a pot on the stove if they are cooking something. but tea as i said before in the last video, most people will just but some water and the teabag in a mug and just heat it in the microwave

[@TheBeesleys99]

That still amazes me!!! ahah

[@BlueDebut]

@@TheBeesleys99 yeah it comes from Ramen culture here. Everyone makes it a certain way but in the microwave is the most common. Us Americans use our microwaves for EVERYTHING

[@coyotelong4349]

Ugh those uncultured swine The classy way is to boil water in the microwave first, then take it out, then put in the tea bag 😂

[@Gray-soul_81]

@@coyotelong4349 This is what my maternal unit does.

[@christyb434]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 And...pour over ice and sugar. 😂

[@Noobtaco]

52 years US native. I have an electric kettle. I will sometimes use it for ramen, but usually I just microwave it. I do not own a egg cup but my mom and grandparents did. I just soft boil my eggs in an instantpot :) Not rinsing can lead to a nice cozy relationship with your toilet.

[@SuperDrLisa]

How do you do soft boiled eggs in the instapot ? I do hardboiled but soft boiled!!

[@lessbs]

American here, and everyone I have ever known has always filled the sink with water to do the dishes. A sprayer attachment is also good to use when scouring the sink after doing the dirty dishes. Yes, I grew up with egg cups and still have them now. The only difference is I've always had egg scissors ✂️ to take the tops off. Keep up the good reactions I enjoy them very much.

[@lollinelson5549]

We use the microwave to heat anything liquid. Kettle? I thought it was a kitchen decoration until I was an adult.

[@ailawil89]

I legit use mine as a decoration piece.

[@GPA_Karting]

You Americans are weird

[@ms_scribbles]

Yeah, we've got pot noodles, except they're called Cup O' Noodles. And what we do is use our stovetop kettles and pour the water in that way. (Of if I'm lazy and don't want to wait, just boil the water in the microwave in a measuring cup and pour it in that way. Don't do it often, but I might if I'm in a massive hurry.)

[@willrobinson4976]

I use a stove top kettle nearly every morning. I'm preparing my breakfast while the water heats up, it doesn't take long at all, especially with these electric stove.

[@SilvanaDil]

This American is no stranger to egg cups; then again, I've been around for awhile.

[@TheBeesleys99]

Im sure you have aged like a fine wine! A few have said they have never heard of it!

[@SilvanaDil]

@@TheBeesleys99 - I don't know about that, but if I were a bottle of Scotch, I couldn't afford me!

[@coyotelong4349]

Yeah my grandparents have a pair of egg cups but they’re the only people I know with them haha

[@O_0Annie]

Lol I’m 23 and I have an egg cup. So does my mother lol but she uses hers to hold an egg she decorated one Easter and is really proud of 😂

[@danielleporter1829]

@@SilvanaDil Love the Scotch metaphor lol. I'm sure like a well aged Tawny whiskey or Port , you've mellowed with time😁😂😆🌹🍷🥃

[@camf7522]

The advantage of hanging your tea town on the oven handle is that a warm oven helps dry the tea towel quicker! I have a set of 8 egg wooden egg cups tuned by my great grandfather! One thing missed is in the UK people often use a plastic tub in the sink instead of using a plug.

[@grandmasterblueberryice4882]

In the South if you drink tea it's most likely cold and sweetened. It gets hot around here.

[@NuNugirl]

We keep our washer/drier in a “mud room” and if it has enough room it has a “slop sink”.

[@redheadgeek9225]

I think people in the U.K. seem to forget one major fact: coffee makeers make hot water. Americans LOVE coffee, so there's a really good chance they have a coffee maker in their kitchen. You put the water in, don't add coffee grounds, and you get hor water for tea! LOL! It doesn't mean that some of us don't have kettles or pots to put on the stove for hor water, or an electric kettle like I do. But I wouldn't use it to make just one cup of tea. I'd use it to make a whole pot of tea, usually for iced tea later. But for just one cup, you just fill up a cup to the brim with water, dump it in the coffee maker, leave out the coffee grounds, and it drips/pours out as hot water. Why clutter the kitchen with even more gadgets if you don't need to?

[@Sharon-pb7so]

Unfortunately I've tried that method. The basket that holds your coffee retains that coffee taste. I LOVE how coffee smells but I hate the taste of it. So running water through the Mr. Coffee to make hot water will give you yucky coffee flavored water that's nasty.

[@kg4wwn]

I personally have a kettle, but most Americans, especially the younger generation, don't have a stove-top kettle, but instead boil water in the microwave.

[@MrsMajorHoff]

I have a plug in kettle, and I order Yorkshire Gold off amazon. Grew up with soft boiled eggs and toast soldiers so I still have egg cups. I was surprised the first time I went to England and saw the laundry washing machine as a combo with a dryer in the kitchen. Also, the freezer and stoves were totally different. I do fill the sink, but always wash the suds off.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Tea? Never heard of her. Now Coffee...he's a brute of a man. 😉👍😆

[@TheBeesleys99]

That hurts but i do love that joke ahah!

[@emmef7970]

I've often thought of it the same way! You put it so eloquently. lol.

[@PaulineAH]

I feel like washing your dishes in a sink full of water would be counterproductive because after the first dish you are just dipping everything else into dirty water.

[@markhamstra1083]

I hate to break it to you, but a dishwasher also reuses water; it collects and resprays the water multiple times.

[@gigigemini7433]

@@markhamstra1083 that's why you wash on running water, not standing water when washing by hand

[@markhamstra1083]

@@gigigemini7433 ...if you are okay with wasting a lot of water.

[@gigigemini7433]

@@markhamstra1083 I'd rather pay higher utilities than risk getting sick from a pool of cross contamination. I used to work in food service and the amount of cross contamination in regular kitchens is astounding.

[@markhamstra1083]

@@gigigemini7433 So you use a different sponge or wash cloth for each dish?

[@davidroddini1512]

Did I hear correctly? In the UK they don’t rinse the soap off the dishes before putting them in the dish drainer?! I was raised that if you don’t rinse the soap off it was just asking for diarrhea next time you ate off them!

[@TheBeesleys99]

That explains why im always on tbe toilet then 😂😂

[@ray85158]

As a kid we had egg cups for soft boiled eggs and toast. My dad was a pro at cracking the egg with a knife. They are just not common in the US.

[@downnice95]

My parents had a eggcup when I was a kid but I don't have one so if I were to guess it's a generational thing here

[@ArcadiaPorter]

I had absolutely no idea what an egg cup was before I saw Lawrence's video. I love his videos.

[@garycamara9955]

Most houses here have a laundry room.

[@Romancefantasy]

I have a nice red kettle and the ritual of filling it and turning on the gas and seeing the flame is as soothing as the tea you make.

[@suzannalytle2758]

You can make hot tea with a coffee maker put your teabags where you normally put your coffee grounds (no filter needed) and run it like you normally would. If you like the spray kitchen function you can probably buy extension nozzles that you can hook up to any sink you already have.

[@corin164]

Being a Scottish-American household, we have and call everything mentioned in the video, plus the egg cups.

[@10heidi82]

Sunny side up eggs would be our comparative. The yolk is still creamy and great for dipping toast into.

[@duanewilcox2096]

We in the US also do Poached Eggs over Toast. I don't know many people that do Soft Boiled Eggs.

[@maryknight3405]

And when the kids were little, they called them dippy eggs. Egg cups were just one more dish to wash. Who needs to make more dishes?

[@cassieberringer7427]

@@maryknight3405 Yep here too! My brother liked the yellow part and I liked the white part, so my mom would split up our dip eggs to each accordingly. I eventually grew to enjoy having the yellow part with the white as I got older.

[@celticlord88]

@@duanewilcox2096 I do soft boiled eggs but I eat them whole. I don't use them with toast.

[@random40s]

Here's how we do the egg cup sorta thing... We soft boil an egg get the shell off it, throw the whole thing in a cup, (like a coffee cup, or mug) then go at it with the toast. No special cup needed.

[@Sharon-pb7so]

We used to do that too.

[@clarkholton461]

always made tea in the coffee maker before the we got our first microwave as a kid.

[@TheBeesleys99]

Microwaving water sounds so strange to me

[@ChrisVuletich]

@@TheBeesleys99 I've done it in a pinch, but it's actually potentially dangerous. The water could become superheated, meaning that bubbles haven't formed to break the surface tension of the water. If you stick a spoon or something into superheated water, breaking that surface tension could result in it exploding 100C water out of the cup and all over you. It happens rarely, but it can happen if certain conditions are met. Stick to the kettle :)

[@janeterambert5455]

No, I have l lived in a Lot of houses, and the size of the kitchen makes no difference at all!

[@clarkholton461]

@@ChrisVuletich I'm in Texas we don't heat the water to boiling, just to kinda hot and soak the tea pouches longer.

[@Crittergirl81]

A lot of people use their stove tops to boil water in the US, but electric kettles are available. I have one and use it everyday.

[@jartstopsign]

Had eggs on toast plenty of times but this is the first time of heard of the egg cup thing. Have to give it a try

[@TheBeesleys99]

Eggs on toast it also great... But yeah an egg cup is 100% worth a try! a whole new experiance to eat an egg!

[@EG-cm5th]

I miss having a sprayer hose. They’re good for more than just washing dishes; sometimes you have a container that you need to fill with water, but the container is too large. It’s much more convenient to just use the sprayer hose, rather than filling a smaller container and going back and forth. Useful for filling a bucket without having to go back and forth between the bathtub and the kitchen when you’re cleaning the floor.

[@lindastarr4699]

I actually have an old egg cup that belonged to my grandpa. That was fairly popular pre 60's. Most people have a dishwasher, however, when I wash by hand I rinse off all the food from my dishes first then put them in a sink full of hot soapy water, rinse and set to dry. It's actually relaxing sometimes if you don't have a massive amount.

[@staceysturgill5316]

I’ve always thought a dish towel is for cleaning and a tea towel for cooking, I use a tea towel (doesn’t shed Terry cloth) to cover bread dough, or to squeeze excess water from potatoes for hash browns, etc. To me, the tea towel is a different fabric from dish towel so that there’s no lint left on the food one is preparing.

[@jillcostello6669]

We had egg cups when i was young. But we usually fry the egg what we call over easy. The yolk is cooked but runny. Then you put the fried egg on buttered toast. Also use the kettle on the stove for tea, soup in a cup or anything you need hot water for.

[@BlueDebut]

I personally like coffee but when I drink tea its Green Tea or Irish Black Tea. Japanese tea sets especially are my favorite. The small cups without a handle lets me cherish it more and take it easy. Also when I go camping I make coffee and tea over the fire and its tastes even better.

[@TheBeesleys99]

ahaha awesome! yeah they are pretty cool cups!

[@kfl611]

some one gave me instant tea bags (sugar free) of sweet iced tea. You set the tea bag in cool water and in 5 minutes you have sugar free sweetened iced (add ice) tea. Surprisingly it was really good and tasted like boiled sweet iced tea.

[@hayneshvac2]

here in the US, they also have teabags made specifically for your coffee maker, by lipton brand at least in my area, I believe there are K cups as well.

[@risalangdon9883]

Lol, my mom had a couple of egg cups. But they were just used as nic naks. After the "Boston tea party" coffee did become the drink of choice. I do like the stove top kettle for boiling water to make pitchers of sweet tea. However, majority of us homes have electric coffee makers. You can just run plain water through for hot water or I've occasionally placed a few tea bags in the filter area, pressed the strong brew setting and there you have a pot of hot tea that you don't have to strain. Nobody wants to eat off dishes that will make food or drink items taste like dish soap. But most houses have double sinks. Fill one side and wash, and then when you have a few clean items in the other side, then rinse and place in the strainer.

[@g.tiller9291]

This was enjoyable. My family is from England. I'm 3rd generation, and my very English grandmother had an electric water kettle. (Bit of fun tid bit: "Chapman's Hill" South of Meopham in New Green Ash is named after my family the Chapman's who lived there.) Anyway my family says, "turn on the tap," "wash up," and "tea towel," and I never knew why until I watched this video. However, I grew up on the prairies of the Heartland where everything was repurposed by necessity, and the tea towel is sometimes called a "flour sack towel." Pioneers on the prairies of America made their tea towels out of flour sacks bc the flour sack was the same linen weave as a tea towel. This was fun to watch as it let me know my English roots haven't disappeared from my family.

[@DonnaPinkRibbon]

We never had soft boiled eggs, but we had sunny side up fried eggs and we dip our toast in the yolk of those.

[@shnomac9873]

Over easy egg on a piece of toast... yall just trying to be fancy with a "egg cup" 😉😂

[@amberhines3979]

I just replaced an old faucet in my kitchen that had separate hot & cold taps with one that has them integrated with a sprayer. I LOVE it. I've seen an egg cup in a friend's collection, but I've never has an occasion to use one since I like hard boiled eggs. Soft boiled eggs go in the trash >.> I prefer to wash my dishes by hand, even if I have a dishwasher. I like under running water, my mom prefers a sink full of warm, soapy water. And we dry them with a cup towel, but sometimes with a dish towel ;)

[@KathySRW]

I'm American and I have a stove top kettle, but in my kitchen I also have a water cooler as one often has in a business office, and it has a hot water spout. I use either to make hot water for tea.

[@garycamara9955]

We don't even have a kettle.

[@harryadair7668]

We use the coffee maker to boil water for tea or a camping coffee pot

[@TheBeesleys99]

That make sense to be fair :D

[@AK-jm3vh]

Near where I live is a tea company, so that brand sells well (Celestial Seasonings) but green tea is super popular above all, but I think my state (Colorado) drinks more tea than other states. Ya, very weird to have a washer in the kitchen.

[@sheriburke8276]

I’ve never owned egg cups. I’ve seen them here in the US, but usually around Easter. I thought they were holders for colored eggs...

[@wsburnett]

I have to admit that the first time I ever saw an egg cup was in the movie "Call Me By Your Name". It looked like an interesting and convenient concept. I didn't know what it was called until I watched this video together with you.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

Most people I know including myself just heat up a cup of water in the microwave for tea. Things like cup of noodle also in the microwave. I did have an electric kettle in my dorm room in college because we weren’t allowed to have microwaves and I was too lazy to go downstairs to the cafeteria to use one.

[@hayneshvac2]

For egg preparation in my area, no need to cut the toast because we fry our eggs either over easy, or medium, eat it with a fork accompanied with sausage or bacon, or both which can be dipped in the yolk, and once eggs and meat are eaten, we mop up our plates with our toast...so the only dish we need is our plate really...and most typically our toast is buttered, as well as some who aren't too keen on yolk may add some jam or jelly to their toast. Buttered toast with jam is quite good.

[@barbararomero285]

I like to use my stove top kettle (tea kettle) for a cup of tea or instant noodles, etc. My dad uses the microwave to heat his water and my daughter uses the coffee pot to heat water or to make a whole pot of tea. If necessary it will also work to make a pot of coffee

[@lucthin6245]

I never heard of soft boiled eggs until now. If I wanted to dip your eggs in the yolk then it would be a sunny side up style.

[@00Anjie]

I only know about egg cups because it was a piece of key evidence on an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and I used to love that show. 😅

[@BigfootAnthropologist]

You don't need an egg cup to dip your toast into an egg yolk. Just a plate with sunny side up or over easy eggs. And when you're done, use the remaining pieces of toast to clean your plate.

[@aaronburdon221]

yup got the dish towel, but it hangs off of a hook from a cupboard door and not the oven door. If you open the oven door, it will fall off.

[@SuperSteeler98]

When I was a kid and we made tea, we just put water in a mug and put it in the microwave.

[@janew4609]

My grandparents used egg cups, my parents did and I do, too. Seems the best way to have a soft boiled egg.

[@meganables7795]

Here in the south we make sweet tea by the gallon so we use the stove top and usually a medium pot (sauce pan)

[@Peg__]

For camping, I use a perculator over the fire. They also come in handy when bad weather knocks out utilities. 🌪

[@jena6587]

I’m here for egg cups. Never had one and I don’t know how to cook one. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have “dippy eggs”. It’s pretty much the same, but without the cup part. They’re called over easy or fried. I’ve seen so many egg cups in my life, but never knew what they were for. Now I know. Thank you!

[@amywalker3647]

American electric kettles are bought and used all the time.

[@MsCatSwan]

I grew up in the 1970’s. My dad always had a soft boiled egg for breakfast in an egg cup. And we always had both a coffee pot and a tea kettle to heat water on the stove top, because we enjoyed both (and still do).

[@mrexists5400]

9:24 my grandmother had them and actually used them on occasion

[@BlueDebut]

Laundry in the kitchen?? Absolutely not. We always have a laundry room that can act as a semi storage room.

[@TheBeesleys99]

Yeah thats what i have always experienced too!

[@McGregorGirl]

Hey Beesley, just found your channel. You are adorable. LOL I love the Lost in the Pond videos, but many of the things covered are regional. Like with this video. Im from the American south, and while we generally prefer a little tea with our sugar over ice, we are still VERY fond of our tea. Me personally, I just put the teabags in water and set it out in the sun to seep. Some parts of the south have very ingrained rediduals from our European "founders", usually towards the Brits or the French respectively, depending on what part of the south. Also, in Mississippi, where I am from, almost every house I lived in had the washer and dryer hookups in the kitchen. (For me, the bathroom makes more sense, when you think about it. ) Garbage disposals are AMAZING. I can't stand not having one. I actually have egg cups, we just don't use them often as we usually just fry our eggs on a griddle with the bacon and pancakes.

[@gregcourtney7717]

The problem with the sink hose thing is longer range and, ime, really intense spray bounces off dishes and get everywhere in the kitchen

[@trevwalk]

I don't have egg cups. Plus I don't like runny eggs. So I wouldn't have a use for them.

[@terrashandra345]

New Subscriber, because you actually read the comments, cause you answer people. An egg cup to me was what we used to color eggs at Easter: not at all like what he shows. We always rinse our dishes and subce we have a well fir our water, we use running water not a sink full to do dishes. Live on border of Ohio and West Virginua so my typical breakfast growing up was thin pancakes, bacon or sausage, eggs (over nedium) on top with syrup or honey and butter. Saturday was sausage gravy and biscuits with bacon and over medium eggs. Sunday was French Toast which my Dad called 'Egg Bread' but Mom called "French Toast" with Sausage and biscuit sandwiches. 😀 my Mom did not work... we always had a huge American Breakfast.

[@DanielLopez-dy1ul]

I lived in Berlin for 3 months and I couldn't find the washing machine for the first week because I didn't realize that it was in the kitchen, and it was tiny. I've also never heard of an egg cup until now.

[@LAMusing]

I've seen egg cups, but thought they were just used to serve a hard boiled egg in LOL Garbage disposal are THE BEST THING. When my garbage disposal broke I confused about wth to do - scrape the plates into the garbage? Ooh - so much gross garbage that could attract ants or smell bad if I don't take it out promptly. What if I miss some bits- will my sink get clogged? It was the worst 2 weeks of my cooking life before I had a new one installed- by week 2 I mostly ate out or got take out.

[@jameskoralewski1006]

The only time you get water stains from drying dishes is if you have a contaminated water supply. I've never had water spots on my dried dishes but I do have fairly good city supplied water.

[@saltyhanzomain1980]

I love sweet tea and also I’ve never used a kettle to make tea.

[@asianguy02001]

Most people dont have electric kettles since the voltage is half what you have over there so it takes 15 minutes or so to heat up so it's faster to use the stove.

[@danielleporter1829]

I've had a couple electric kettles in my house that my mom bought . And when I was younger, I would put my mug in the microwave and wait for the water to boil. I have used a stovetop kettle for several years.🥚 cups just aren't as common stateside as they are in the UK. For those who do eat cup of noodles, they can boil the water on the stove and pour it in or will put the Cup of noodles in the microwave. For all the tea that isn't drank by my fellow Americans, I make up for it with all of the tea I drink in a year. Another kitchen lingo difference between UK and US kitchens Is what the heating element at the top of the oven is called. We call it the broiler and Brits call it a grill. Of course, a grill to an American is what[ is cooked on outside on 4th of July, Labor day, Memorial Day and in some parts of the country, President's Day ( since President's Day is in Feb and it snows in 2/3 of the country that time of year).

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Around here egg cups and soft boiled eggs are considered a special occasion type thing when mom's feel like doing a special breakfast. I saw them more as a child when mom was a homemaker.

[@wsburnett]

The egg cup. The first time I ever saw one was watching the movie, "Call Me By Your Name". I was intrigued.

[@samosmapper9687]

watching this like “wtf is an egg cup?”. we each learned a bit here.

[@EskimoUlu]

The towel might be put on a radiator to dry them before mildew can start growing. Just a thought, don't know if its right or not.

[@NAcHO-wx5vg]

My family used to have a stovetop kettle (live in America) but it was mainly to boil water for oatmeal

[@josephcarriker3967]

Our household are BIG tea-drinkers, unlike lots of American households. Rather than use kettles (stovetop or electric), we have a Japanese Zojirushi at our "tea station" in the kitchen - a lovely electronic device that boils water to perfect temperature and then keeps it at that temp. It decants the hot water at the push of a button, without waiting. You do have to refill it and bring it back up to temp occasionally, but that's easy enough to do *after* you've made your tea and it's running low, rather than before, so you never have to wait. :)

[@jameskoralewski1006]

I use an electric induction kettle every day to heat up water for soups, and tea, etc. Induction cooking is much faster at heating up water than electric stoves or gas stoves. I even bought 2 induction mini stoves that I now use to do all my cooking with pots and pans.

[@itzjonah25]

Dude I don’t get why I like this content I’ve been binging this for a while now

[@david-1775]

Have always had a garbage disposal and generally a sprayer. My mother always had a kettle for the stove. I either used the stove or microwave to heat up water depending on how much water I was heating up. I think maybe a year or two ago my wife bought an electric kettle. I don't think I have ever called it an electric kettle till just now LOL! I think I just called it the water heater. No egg cups. Towels were either tea or dish towels which were either on the stove door or looped over the drawer pulls (never had knobs).

[@fireswarm]

In USA to eat runny yoke eggs is usually cooked over easy or sunny side up then ate with toast or tortilla (flour or corn).