UK reacts to typical US house
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baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Lewis is hilarious. Especially when he has his Mom and Sister react along... that poor young girl is so dim. Bless her heart. 
He recently visited NY with his girlfriend and was amazed with how great the food was. I'm thinking "And THAT is why most of us 'Murricans are so damned FAT!"
He recently visited NY with his girlfriend and was amazed with how great the food was. I'm thinking "And THAT is why most of us 'Murricans are so damned FAT!"
jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
My home does not have the US style light switches, they are UK style. On/Off labels printed on them would not make sense, since the living room, and basement, have switches on each end that control the same set of lights. The on/off position becomes reversed when you switch those from the other side, as described in the video.
We've added smart lights to the living room and outside. We can dim the lights (or change their colors) via smart app. Or, the lights can be controlled via voice, through the Amazon Echo. "Alexa, turn living room lights off."
US table lamps do have switches on the lamp rather than the cord. However, I heard that @baimun uses, "Clap on. Clapp off, The Clapper."
Even though the US toilets only have 1 handle, the guts of the toilet can be made to operate like a UK toilet, quick flush for #1, flush hold for #2. When I was in Italy, public toilets were squatty-potties, which work even better than US toilets for getting those bowels moving along.
Not everyone in the US has central heating with forced air. Older apartments still have radiators.
When, I attended college at NAU, Flagstaff, Arizona, our rental house had a gas heater in the middle of the living room, no forced air. The house was old. I suspect when it was built that it only had a wood burning stove. During winter, we would crank that gas heater up super hot in the living room, yet the bedrooms were still cold. There was no air conditioning.
Our current home was built in 2001 by an independent builder. Forced air, central heat. Two gas fireplaces. No air conditioning. Two ceiling fans. We went without air conditioning for years, until my wife got pregnant. "We need air conditioning!"~wife. Yes, dear.
We have front loading washing machines as an option here in the US. IIRC front-loaders use less water. The nice thing about a top loader is that you can add clothes, even after they fill with water. However, top loading machines can get off balance during the spin cycle. Then, you have to open them up, move the clothes around, and continue the cycle. If I'm not there, my top loader fills with water, then agitates, to try to rebalance the load of laundry, then goes back into spin cycle, wasting a lot of extra water.
Air Fryers are all the rage in the US. Have those become popular in the UK?
We've added smart lights to the living room and outside. We can dim the lights (or change their colors) via smart app. Or, the lights can be controlled via voice, through the Amazon Echo. "Alexa, turn living room lights off."
US table lamps do have switches on the lamp rather than the cord. However, I heard that @baimun uses, "Clap on. Clapp off, The Clapper."
Even though the US toilets only have 1 handle, the guts of the toilet can be made to operate like a UK toilet, quick flush for #1, flush hold for #2. When I was in Italy, public toilets were squatty-potties, which work even better than US toilets for getting those bowels moving along.
Not everyone in the US has central heating with forced air. Older apartments still have radiators.
When, I attended college at NAU, Flagstaff, Arizona, our rental house had a gas heater in the middle of the living room, no forced air. The house was old. I suspect when it was built that it only had a wood burning stove. During winter, we would crank that gas heater up super hot in the living room, yet the bedrooms were still cold. There was no air conditioning.
Our current home was built in 2001 by an independent builder. Forced air, central heat. Two gas fireplaces. No air conditioning. Two ceiling fans. We went without air conditioning for years, until my wife got pregnant. "We need air conditioning!"~wife. Yes, dear.
We have front loading washing machines as an option here in the US. IIRC front-loaders use less water. The nice thing about a top loader is that you can add clothes, even after they fill with water. However, top loading machines can get off balance during the spin cycle. Then, you have to open them up, move the clothes around, and continue the cycle. If I'm not there, my top loader fills with water, then agitates, to try to rebalance the load of laundry, then goes back into spin cycle, wasting a lot of extra water.
Air Fryers are all the rage in the US. Have those become popular in the UK?
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jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
Answering my own question: According to AI, Air Fryers are very popular in the US & UK. 60% of US homes have them, compared to 61% in the UK.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
We had a table top air fryer for a while, but when we replaced our stove, it has a convection option and the gas range top has a high temp water boil spot and a griddle.
jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
A few years ago, I would visit at least 30 households, 5 days a week. My clients kept telling me all the cool things they were doing with their air fryers. I was resistant because it takes up counter space.
Now that we have had an air fryer for a few years, I rely on it for specific things. Cosori recalled ours. So, we got a new, updated model last week, for free.
We have a double oven with convection, a Jennair gas stovetop with all the accessories, grill, griddle. The oven heats up the kitchen a lot, which is not preferable, particularly in the summer months. Meanwhile, the air fryer does certain tasks quicker than the oven without heating up the kitchen as much (french fries, crisping cold pizza, toasting a sandwich, etc). I’ll often heat up leftovers in the microwave and then crisp certain foods in the air fryer.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I have a nice two drawer air fryer someone gave me for xmas one year. It collects dust because aside from occasionally making Trader Joe’s Orange Chicken I don’t eat anything that benefits from air frying. The only person I’ve known who uses one regularly lives in Australia where apparently it’s normal to eat all kinds of frozen foods that cook best that way.
We've got a fancy Ninja gizmo that does a bunch of things including air fryer.
Mrs jbj uses a tonne, usually to do frozen crap as jpnyc mentioned and it does do it well tbf. All my pals with kids love an air fryer.
I use it much less but I left it a bit late last night to fire up the kamado so did a steak in the ninja and it turned out great. Mrs jbj cooks like a student and I prefer the kamado or hob so the airfyer gets used probably 20 times for every time we put the oven on now.
Mrs jbj uses a tonne, usually to do frozen crap as jpnyc mentioned and it does do it well tbf. All my pals with kids love an air fryer.
I use it much less but I left it a bit late last night to fire up the kamado so did a steak in the ninja and it turned out great. Mrs jbj cooks like a student and I prefer the kamado or hob so the airfyer gets used probably 20 times for every time we put the oven on now.
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baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
We have one that was my go-to for wings, chicken tenders, fries, etc... but once we got the oven with the convection feature it got banished to a shelf in the garage because my wife doesn't like the bakers rack all cluttered with all the crockpot/blender/frier/etc that we only use occasionally.
Like @jrockbridge said... it's a choice between heating up the kitchen or cleaning the separate device... and since I pay all of the heat/gas/electric bills.... we went with the fryer being in the garage because my wife doesn't like looking at it.
We have one that was my go-to for wings, chicken tenders, fries, etc... but once we got the oven with the convection feature it got banished to a shelf in the garage because my wife doesn't like the bakers rack all cluttered with all the crockpot/blender/frier/etc that we only use occasionally.
Like @jrockbridge said... it's a choice between heating up the kitchen or cleaning the separate device... and since I pay all of the heat/gas/electric bills.... we went with the fryer being in the garage because my wife doesn't like looking at it.
Ours has a little cubby we put it into when not in use so it's not taking up lots of counter space.
Cleaning is easy too, bowl of water (some lemon juice or vinegar if you want to get fancy or it's disgusting) let it steam then wipe down.