Epiphany

[pne]

I just found out what an "electric kettle" is. Or perhaps I should say that I found out what a "Wasserkocher" is called in English—I knew the appliance from Germany, and I had heard the word before, but had never connected the two.

I kept reading about how nearly every British home has an electric kettle and how they think Americans are weird for boiling water on the stovetop or in the microwave... and I kept having this mental image of a nice old-fashioned tea kettle (with spout on the side and handle on top) with a cable hanging out the end which you plug in. Not the tallish more-or-less-cylindrical device I know from here.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

Hm, according to LEO (http://dict.leo.org/), there are technical senses where "digester" corresponds to "Kocher" (marked "Papier und Zellstoff", i.e. in the paper and cellulose(?) processing industry?).

Googling for "water digester", though, mostly brings up sites in German-speaking countries advertising the kitchen inventory of holiday homes in English - heh.

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if that paper-industry meaning corresponds more to "evaporator"?