Travel Kettles

[jack]

The last time I went to Europe, I vowed I would never again to stay in a European hotel without bringing a travel kettle, because I always want tea without having to negotiate in a foreign language for it, and many hotels don't have a kettle in the room, and don't have tea available at breakfast.

However, now I'm looking online, I'm annoyed. Surely travel kettles (ones with actual plugs, not ones designed for camping) are used almost exclusively by british people travelling in Europe?

So they should all (a) be sold in England and (b) be sold with European plugs.

But that does NOT seem to be the case. Who the hell sat down to make a travel kettle, and thought "What kind of plug should it have? A UK plug!" Everyone in the UK I ever want to visit ALREADY HAS a kettle, and doesn't need me bringing 0.4 more kettles!

Non-eponymously, most small kettles don't even use a kettle lead, which more convenient, but you can't swap that out for a european kettle lead.

Or am I just using the wrong search terms? I'm going to stop ranting and buy a normal travel kettle, unless anyone has a better suggestion?

Comments

[corrvin]

If it helps any, most US hotels now have a single-serve Keurig-style brewer in the room-- which either dispenses hot water through a coffee pod to make a single cup of coffee, or hot water into a mug to which you can add a teabag. This is fairly new in the past couple of years, though.

Shame about the lack of teakettleosity in Europe.