[skinkinthegrass]

Happy Thanksgiving! to you. 😆

"electric kettles"?

do you mean, tea/coffee pots? heck!..we went through a nearby house in '69..abandoned
(dated by Newspapers/battery jars) in the '30s Depression and they had an electric coffee-
pot ☕ (electricity was introduced into area in the '30s).

[fanfan]

Your reply forced me to learn more. (I love that. Thanks!)

I think you are taking about a percolator.

Here is a kettle from the ‘60s. It was only for boiling water.

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/housewares/k-42-electric-kettle/

My sister told me she couldn't buy one when she lived in Kentucky. We had to send her one.
It's probably because you don't drink as much tea as we do.