On Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:21:41 AM UTC-4, Yellow wrote:
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> Every household does not already have a kettle?

I didn't own one for years. Then I decided I needed a safer, closed container with which to heat water on the boat and broke down for a kettle. I had been heating water in a big saucepan, until one time when some idiot hot-dogged it thru the anchorage and it almost fell off the stove.

I do remember attending a huge bridal shower once and the poor girl got four whistling teakettles. I wanted to cry for her. Maybe she re-gifted them in subsequent Xmases.