FM: Yeah, same arguement with the kettles. Supposedly my Krups should take longer with 110V at 60 Hz to heat the water, but I can't see that it does. The thing is that a given appliance design is optimized for the country it is built for. When you have the travel variety of anything it won't perform as well when you take it to countries using the other system. Yvonne's hairdryer was optimized for the UK and didn't perform as well at the lower voltage. Hot water kettles are not very common in the US. Coffee pots are ubiquitous. You can make a tea pot by throwing out the coffee perculator hardware before the first use, by my Krups was designed as a tea pot and that is very new here. Artemis
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