>What is a HOB you speak of?
Amazing isn't it. I think that we are entering the world of bread rolls and English as a local language. If someone talks about macroeconomic indicators, transcendental meditation or transubstantiation everyone knows what we�re talking about. The minute we get down to the gas or electric hotplate on the top of a stove, all our communication skills fail us!
The hob is the bit on top of the stove (or maybe recessed into the work-surface) that provides the heat for cooking.
The point about electric kettles is that when one is young, one assumes that everywhere is a bit the same. Travelling provides insight into life at home. It had never occurred to me that an electric kettle was a very British item, probably to do the fact that we have traditionally drunk more tea than coffee.
On the other hand � American fridges � wow!
