I recently bought a 3500 watt electric kettle out of the bargain bin in LIDL, for around 20 euros. Europeans do not mess around when it comes to hot beverages

Yeah funny, i was going to say 2.5 kW kettles are a britishism and the ones on continental europe are weaker...

... but then i checked my eastern european kettle and guess what, it's ... 2.4 kW.