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The coffee maker thingie my roommate has sucks big time for doing anything that isn't coffee, because it just boils the water and you have absolutely no control over it. So I'm looking to buy an electric kettle, something simple and effective that heats the water to the right temperature for my chimarrão or tea, without me having to use a regular kettle on the stovetop and keep watching it like a hawk everytime.
Then, of course, I'm reading and watching a shit ton of reviews of different electric kettles available in here, because I'm a complete psycho and I want to get the best "bang for my buck", or at least something decent and durable and that won't break my bank, because I'm not willing to import a kettle from Japan and pay 500 bucks.

In my searching, I found the Black and Decker 2200G. It's good priced, it's made from stainless steel, it has temperature control from 40ºC to 100ºC, with a special marking for the right temperature for tea/chimarrão (represented as a chimarrão gourd, which is a nice touch), it has that security feature that automatically turns it off if it notes the kettle is empty (which I learned is considered a distiguishing feature, and not something you can take for granted, as most cheaper models don't have this and can burn down your house, which already made my time reading/watching reviews be worth it). It looks perfect.
But then I saw a couple of reviews giving it a somewhat bad rating (as you can imagine, electric kettles aren't something that have huge followings, so we don't have dozens of techtubers reviewing them, when you find 3 or 4 reviews of a kettle you are in luck).
I went to look at these reviews closely, to see if there is some catch, maybe it looks perfect on the outside, but in reality it sucks big time and doesn't heat the water properly, IDK.
But no, it actually is pretty durable, high quality, and heats a cup of tea in 50 seconds, according to these same reviews. The negative points in the score boil down to:

"You can't see the water heating inside the kettle". Well, that's because it's a stainless steel kettle, you morons, and they still haven't created transparent stainless still.

"The kettle isn't innovative in it's design".

HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS. IT'S A FUCKING KETTLE YOU FUCKING ZOOMERS, YOU PUT WATER INTO IT, YOU TURN IT ON AND IT HEATS THE WATER, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? WHAT CAN BE "INNOVATIVE" IN THE DESIGN OF A KETTLE? I SWEAR TO GOD THESE RETARDS ARE THE REASON EVERYTHING IS GOING TO SHIT NOWADAYS, PEOPLE LOOKING FOR "INNOVATIVENESS" JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT ARE WHY EVERY STUPID SHIT CONNECTS TO THE INTERNET AND TO A PHONE APP. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU WANT, YOU MONKEYS? THAT THE KETTLE CONNECTED TO YOUR STUPID PHONE, SO YOU CAN LOOK AT THE TIMER IN IT? DO YOU WANT TO CALL ALEXA AND HAVE EVERYTHING BEING PROCESSED IN AMAZON'S SERVERS TO TURN THE FUCKING KETTLE ON BEFORE YOU GET HOME? THAT SHIT TAKES 50 SECONDS TO HEAT THE WATER, YOU FUCKING MORON, CAN'T YOU WAIT 50 SECONDS WHEN YOU GET BACK HOME? ARE YOU SO ADDICTED TO COFFEE THAT YOU NEED THE FUCKING WATER READY AT THE EXACT SAME MOMENT YOU get HOME? FOR FUCKS SAKE, IT WOULD TAKE YOU MORE TIME TO OPEN AND NAVIGATE THE APP TO SEND THE COMMAND TO IT THAN IT TAKES FOR THE DAMN THING TO HEAT THE WATER.
I FUCKING HATE THESE PEOPLE AND I WISH THEY ALL WOULD DIE BEFORE THEY KEEP TURNING THINGS EVEN WORSE THAN THEY ALREADY ARE.

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