24 March 2008...8:13 am
heisssss
I had never heard of this invention before. I pride myself for understanding, at least on a marginal level, modern electronics/gadgetry. But for some reason, I never knew such a simple appliance existed that would make my life infinitely easier.
The Electric Kettle. Der Wasserkocher. Or, as I keep accidentally calling it, the Watercooker. That picture looks nothing like the one I have, but you get the idea. For $20 American, I can now boil almost a gallon of water, in my room, in under 3 minutes. Amazing! I’ve gone through my entire life having to wait patiently over a pot of water on the stove while it slowly creeped to a boil. Now when I have to cook pasta, I boil my water in the WK first, and it saves me easily 10 minutes.
Entrepreneurial ideas:
1. Open an awesome greeting card company in Germany.
Trust me, it’s necessary. You should see the shit I’ve had to send to my brothers for their birthdays.
2. Flood American department stores with Electric Kettles in hopes of creating a new Tea fad.
Profit.
4 Comments
29 March 2008 at 11:20 pm
for quite some time now, i’ve had the vague feeling that wasserkocher might not exist in the u.s. — however, i never dared to speak my mind, as a life without wasserkocher just seemed like such a ludicrous idea.
actually, i came to believe that spiegeleier, too, were something that does not exist in america, as everybody seems to have scrambled eggs for breakfast in dc. now, i wouldn’t have spiegeleier for breakfast, but still spiegelei seemed to be something totally absent from the american menu just like, say, delicious sauces, fresh vegetables or stuff that isn’t fried.
last night, after congregating at the dancing crab for two final pitchers to finish off the day, dominik and I went to steak’n'eggs and dominik had — surprise — pommes mit spiegelei.
made his day.
mine too.
unfortunately both of us couldn’t remember the english word for spiegelei, once we woke up today. so maybe that would be something to blog about as well.
30 March 2008 at 7:47 am
oh btw.: how’s life w/out rootbeer?
10 April 2008 at 10:45 pm
wait wait oskar. you go straight from making fun of the american menu for having an abundance of fried foods, to saying how great it was that you were able to find fried eggs. hmmm hmm?
and life with out root beer is horrible. a life without root beer is hardly worth living.
13 April 2008 at 2:14 am
oh well.
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