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A kettle, sometimes called teakettle, tea kettle or the pot, is a small kitchen
Kitchen

A kitchen, is a room or part of a room used for food preparation including cooking, and sometimes also for eating and entertaining guests, if the kitchen is large enough and designed to be used that way....
 appliance
Appliance

Appliance may refer to a device with a narrow Function :* Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input.** Small appliances...
 used for boiling
Boiling

Boiling, a type of phase transition, is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding environmental pressure....
 water in preparation for making tea
Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
 or other beverages requiring hot water. Kettles may be electric or for stove
Stove

A stove is an enclosed heated space. The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated or to heat the stove itself, and items placed on it, for cooking purposes....
top use. Depending on culture and historical location, the word kettle can also have a variety of other meanings.

he United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, '"kettle" usually refers to a teakettle, a roughly pitcher
Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a base on balls....
 shaped metal (or ceramic) vessel used to heat water on a stovetop or hod.






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A kettle, sometimes called teakettle, tea kettle or the pot, is a small kitchen
Kitchen

A kitchen, is a room or part of a room used for food preparation including cooking, and sometimes also for eating and entertaining guests, if the kitchen is large enough and designed to be used that way....
 appliance
Appliance

Appliance may refer to a device with a narrow Function :* Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input.** Small appliances...
 used for boiling
Boiling

Boiling, a type of phase transition, is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding environmental pressure....
 water in preparation for making tea
Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
 or other beverages requiring hot water. Kettles may be electric or for stove
Stove

A stove is an enclosed heated space. The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated or to heat the stove itself, and items placed on it, for cooking purposes....
top use. Depending on culture and historical location, the word kettle can also have a variety of other meanings.

Stovetop kettles


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In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, '"kettle" usually refers to a teakettle, a roughly pitcher
Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a base on balls....
 shaped metal (or ceramic) vessel used to heat water on a stovetop or hod. Kettles usually have a handle on top, a spout, and a lid. Sometimes stove
Stove

A stove is an enclosed heated space. The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated or to heat the stove itself, and items placed on it, for cooking purposes....
-mounted kettles also have a steam whistle that indicates when the water has reached boiling point. Kettles often resemble teapots, but are used to boil water, not to brew tea.

Elsewhere in the world (and sometimes in the United States) the word kettle can also refer to a soup kettle, a metal
Metal

In chemistry, a metal is a chemical element whose atoms readily lose electrons to form positive ions , and form metallic bonds between other metal atoms and ionic bonds between nonmetal atoms....
 pot for boiling
Boiling

Boiling, a type of phase transition, is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding environmental pressure....
 or stewing, resembling a small cauldron
Cauldron

A cauldron or caldron is a large metal Cooking pot for cooking and/or boiling over an open fire, with a large mouth and frequently with an arc-shaped hanger....
.

Electric Kettles


In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 , Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 and South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, a kettle is an electrical device used to quickly heat water for hot drinks, such as tea
Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
 or coffee
Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
. It is normally constructed out of durable plastic or steel (with a plastic handle) and powered by mains electricity
Mains electricity

Mains is the general-purpose alternating current electric power supply. The term is not often used in the United States and Canada. In the US, mains power is referred to by a variety of formal and informal names, including household power, household electricity, domestic power, wall power, line power, AC p...
. Once the water has reached boiling, the kettle automatically deactivates to prevent the water boiling away and damaging the heating element
Heating element

A heating element converts electricity into heat through the process of Joule heating. Electric current through the element encounters electrical resistance, resulting in heating of the element....
.

Corded kettles generally use detachable IEC C15 and C16
IEC connector

IEC connector is the common name for the set of thirteen line sockets and thirteen panel plugs defined by International Electrotechnical Commission specification IEC 60320 ....
 connections.

"Cordless" kettles became popular in the 1980s and 1990s consisting of a plastic base that connects to the mains outlet and a separate kettle. They both have electrical contacts that connect to supply power to the kettle when it is placed on top of the base, and the kettle can be easily detached to allow movement to the sink and elsewhere.

Similar to the electric kettle is the electric water boiler
Electric water boiler

An electric water boiler, also sometimes called an electric dispensing pot, electric water heater, electric water urn, or electric kettle, is a consumer electronics small appliance used for boiling water and possibly maintaining it at a constant temperature....
, a vacuum flask
Vacuum flask

A vacuum flask is a storage vessel or insulated shipping container which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment....
 with a heating element that boils water and maintains it at a constant temperature. These are particularly popular in East Asia
East Asia

East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either Geography or cultural terms. Geography and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km?, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia....
.

History


The word kettle originates from Latin catillus, which in various contexts is translated as bowl, deep dish, or funnel. a kettle is probably the most ancient kind of metal cooking utensil. Common materials were wrought iron
Wrought iron

Wrought iron is commercially pure iron. In contrast to steel, it has a very low carbon content. It is a fibrous material due to the slag Inclusion ....
 and pressed steel plate.

Related Objects


  • A cauldron
    Cauldron

    A cauldron or caldron is a large metal Cooking pot for cooking and/or boiling over an open fire, with a large mouth and frequently with an arc-shaped hanger....
     is a large kettle hung over an open fire, usually on an arc-shaped hanger called a bail.
  • A fish kettle is a long slim metal cooking vessel with a tight fitting lid to enable cooking of whole large fish such as salmon
    Salmon

    Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
    .
  • A kettle grill
    Grill (cooking)

    There are multiple varieties of grills, with most falling into one of two categories: gas-fueled and charcoal. There is a great debate over the merits of charcoal or gas for use as the cooking method between grillers....
     is a dome
    Dome

    A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory....
     shaped grill
    Grill (cooking)

    There are multiple varieties of grills, with most falling into one of two categories: gas-fueled and charcoal. There is a great debate over the merits of charcoal or gas for use as the cooking method between grillers....
     with a rounded lid, resembling a cauldron.
  • A kettle drum is a kettle (cauldron) shaped drum.


See also

  • Electric water boiler
    Electric water boiler

    An electric water boiler, also sometimes called an electric dispensing pot, electric water heater, electric water urn, or electric kettle, is a consumer electronics small appliance used for boiling water and possibly maintaining it at a constant temperature....
  • Samovar
    Samovar

    A samovar is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, as well as in other Central Europe, Balkans and Eastern Europe countries, in Iran, Kashmir, Turkey and Hadhramawt eastern Yemen....
  • Tetsubin
    Tetsubin

    Tetsubin are Japanese cast iron pots having pouring spout and handle crossing over the top, used for boiling and pouring hot water for drinking purposes, such as for making tea....
  • Teapot
    Teapot

    A teapot is a vessel used for steeping tea leaves or an herbal mix in near-boiling water. Tea may be either in a tea bag or loose, in which case a tea strainer will be needed, either to hold the leaves as they steep or to catch the leaves inside the teapot when the tea is poured....