What Andrew is talking about is Induction Hob, it is magnets that provide heat through a magnetic pot or frying pan. This means that when you lift the pot or frying pan away, the plate switches off automatically and the plate itself does not give off heat, this means that you cannot burn yourself or if someone throws paper on the plate, it will not start to burn. type of stove consumes the least amount of electricity.
We have them in the UK as well. Unfortunately, the builder who built our house was cheap, and they installed a normal electrical hob (Bosch). I'm just looking for a reason to refurbish the kitchen and replace it with an induction hob, as they are far more energy-efficient.
Right, so the lamp thing. In Sweden we buy our lamps so if we move, we take our lamps with us. some of them not all of them, some are attached especially in flats, there fixtures in the hallway and the toilet and so on that we can't remove, but bedrooms, living rooms and parts of the kitchen usually have special lamp sockets to plug in the lamps we bought.
The induction tops are heating the pots and, not the area around the pot, using induction. The induction reacts with the steel in the pot that get hot. There is no energy loss compaired to the ordinary electric tops that produces heat that heats the pots. Also the boiling tome is shorter that saves energy..
We do have screens, but we don't have them permanently installed. It used to be the same with double glass, we had an extra window stored away during summer that we put in when winter came. I don't think we ever had sash windows. Or door knobs. Drying cabinets/rooms for laundry are in all apartment buildings, but I've never seen one in one family houses.
Indeed, we have never had door knobs. Even 200 years ago we had "flip handles" going to an iron bar that held the door closed. These developed into small spring-loaded brass handles, which were the precursors of our current-day handles.
You can actually find door knobs in certain places in Sweden, mostly on doors that are either not meant to be opened often or there is some security aspect to their purpose. Like on a door to a room housing sensitive equipment in some sort of business. I know I have used a few but can't really remember where in Sweden, unfortunately. I CAN say they are a bit weird as you can't really tell how far the knob is supposed to turn.
We do have mosquito nets that we hang up during the summer by the windows and doors. Which we hang up with velcro so that we can take it down during the winter months when it is not needed and easily put back up again during the summer.
2:30 Why do people think there are just one type of everything? Not all swedes like these gigant plastic plates as switches that came in the late 80s. We have small ones as well, even rotary switches like (say) in the 1910s. So it varies with both time period, price level, and personal taste and preferences.
I had a hard time getting used to the fixed shower head when I lived in the states. Not practical at all and usually set too low so you have to bend your knees when standing under it. Also the twist door knobs are so inaccessible. Try twisting that knob with two broken arms… not easy 😅
I grew up with largely fixed shower heads in Sweden. Find them more hygienic, as people can't put them below their asses and genitalia :) But I'm with you on those bisarre (refuse to spell it with a z) door knobs used is anglo saxon countries!
About mosquitoes and mosquito net for windows and doors: in the south and middle of sweden it is not very necessary to use if you live in a town, but quite good to use in the summer if you live on the country side. 🙂
In Sweden we used to have small switches but the 90's came and we got new stuff, so we started replacing them when renovating and such :D. We also used to have a button toggle that you pressed in and it clicked then you did the same to turn it off but that was real old from the 40'-50'-60's some old houses still have these that are functioning. Also I believe I've seen newly produced old school toggles in some stores.
It was largerly earlier than the 1990s too. But yeah, it's not very surprising that older designs have came back. I mean, the stuff introduced around the 1970s, 80s and 90s were so cheap, ugly, and plastic in look and feel.
My parents had drying cabinets (Torkskåp) when I was little. And my dad still has one in his house. It's as big as a fridge but it gets warm and has room to hang clothes in it.
They seem to have been popular around the 80-90's. You used to see them in every other house, but people throw them out for some reason. I mean, yes they draw a lot of power, but even unpowered they make a great place to hang you washed clothes to just air dry. As a little kid I was sometimes allowed to sit in the drying cabinet after taking a bath, man was it nice. It's like a dry sauna, if that makes sense :)
The standard in American homes are still gas stoves. Induction stoves, or even electrical stoves are not very common. I personally have an induction stove/electrical oven combo in my flat, but it was already here when I moved in 9 years ago. :P Sometimes the stove-top is completely separated from the oven which is getting more and more standardized these days. And yeah... I've never seen doorknobs on any doors in Sweden in all of my life. xD Not even cabinet doors have them, they normally have a little hook in the corners where you open them. :P Oh, yeah we have cabinet dryers too, but they're usually used in kindergardens so the kids' clothes can be hung in them to dry after they've been out playing in the rain and snow during the breaks. But these are not that common in our homes, if we need to dry off our clothes we're normally just use cloth hangers and put our coats and jackets on the clothing racks because we do not want to go out unless we have to during these times. :P
“Airing closets” were more common about 40-50 years ago. Nowadays we use dryers and clothesline and foldable clothes racks to dry our laundry depending on how you live. And yes, Americans have duvets but only with a plain sheet not a two sided cover sheet like we have. Nasty 😷 Oh and one more thing that actually missed. Our washing machine heat the water to a set degree for instance 60°. American washing machine just use hot tap water (at least they used to, maybe different now)
Dwayne, not to bash the UK or anything, but we Swedes also find that you guys have strange standards in your homes. Gas stoves, "what-is-central-heating", 2 pane glass in windows, washing machine in the kitchen (why), fridge in the laundry room (why). Begs the question - why even have a laundry room at this point? Seen a lot of examples of this, so strange :) You guys also seem to have an obsession with "on-suite" bathrooms and having 0 bedrooms on the bottom floor (if multi-floor home).
About the walls: all/most newer Swedish buildings (as in at least 60 years) are built with some concrete walls (“bärande väggar” = carrying walls) and some with drywall or something similar.
Hi Dwayne! Yes, it was a surprise to me when I moved to the States how oldfashioned many practical things were in comparison to Finland (and the rest of the Nordic countries at least). Yes they are backward! Especially the bathrooms, windows, locks, heating, kitchens. They even still have wall-to-wall carpeting, popular here in the seventies and beginning of the eighties. Now, everybody has hardwood floors with separate carpets or mats. Also, outside the big cities, if I remember correctly, some of the electric lighting lines still hung on poles above on the side of the street or road. Haven't seen that since my childhood in the fifties. Toilet flushing and faucets are from 'dazumal', too. I hear that the internet connexion is not that good either in some places. And expensive...
No matter where we dry our clothes: It is perfectly possible to "dry" in minus degrees (Celcius). You hang them out, they freeze, you dust them off with a rattan (carpet whip) or whatever it's called in English.
Dwayne, I think he's talking about induction stove tops, not just regular electric ones, but I have heard that most of the us still uses gas rather than electric ones.
Most of the things be brings up that they ”don’t have in the US” are thing that do exist there. It’s just that they exist in more expensive homes, and are less common in lower class homes.😅 One thing that is true is the build quality and material of the walls which are different. Both because of build cost and tradition in building.
You have to install your own mosquito nets. That's what we do in Sweden. And these we take with us if we move, it's not part of the apartment or house. How bad the mosquitos get depends on where you live, in bigger cities it's usually a non-issue, but in more suburban or rural areas they can be truly horrible at times. Those cupboards for drying clothes exist here too. But they are more often found in 'public' laundry places. If you live in an apartment there will usually be a big 'laundry house' for a whole building or neighborhood.
@@AHVENANSo true! And surprising. Of course, in 50 different states things are bound to be different, too. So some places may be very modern and others seem like they live in the fifties or sixties still... And adding to that impression are of course some social customs, beliefs and attitudes...
When I lived in American (in the early 90's), there were no shoe racks by the door. Shoes were kept in the wardrobe together with clothes. Considering that most American homes have (or had) (very) thick carpets, you can imagine the amount of dirt that accumulated in those carpets when walking inside with shoes that have just been outside, collecting sand, dirt and what have you. Frankly quite disgusting.
That type more than halves the boiling time and does not gett hott after you take it off the stove so you can't burn yourself. I think that was what he tried to explain.
Induction cooking is performed using direct electrical induction heating of cooking vessels, rather than relying on indirect radiation, convection, or thermal conduction. Induction cooking allows high power and very rapid increases in temperature to be achieved: changes in heat settings are instantaneous. Glassy smooth featureless rectangular cooktop set nearly flush with a kitchen counter Top view of an induction cooktop Cooking vessels with a suitable base are placed on an induction electric stove (also "induction hob" or "induction cooktop") which generally has a heat-proof glass-ceramic surface above a coil of copper wire with a low radio frequency alternating electric current passing through it. The resulting oscillating magnetic field induces an electrical current in the vessel. This large eddy current flowing through the resistance of a thin layer of metal in the base of the vessel results in resistive heating. For nearly all models of induction cooktops, a cooking vessel must be made of, or contain, a ferrous metal such as cast iron or some stainless steels. The iron in the pot concentrates the current to produce heat in the metal. If the metal is too thin, or does not provide enough resistance to current flow, heating will not be effective. Induction tops typically will not heat copper or aluminum vessels because the magnetic field cannot produce a concentrated current, but cast iron, carbon steel and stainless steel pans usually work. Any vessel can be used if placed on a suitable metal disk which functions as a conventional hotplate. Induction cooking has good coupling between the pan and the coil and is thus quite efficient, which means it puts out less waste heat and it can be quickly turned on and off. Induction has safety advantages compared to gas stoves and outputs no air pollution into the kitchen. Cooktops are also usually easy to clean, because the cooktop itself has a smooth surface and does not get very hot.
Summer winter spring fall i hang my cloth up in the air thingie you named i have one but dont use it caus the electrisity is expensive as hell, my apartment is from around the 80’s so i got one, and yea Amerika is strange comepair to sweden 😅 And the stove he was talking there is glass tops and induction hubs one that you can use anny pans on but one that only certain pans work on, amerika got 95% gasstoves We got mosquito nets you can hang up in the doors and windows but i dont think people use them And about the shoes i get mad if people walk in with shoes here
What really gets me is... there are IKEAs in the US. Most of the things he mentions that he likes are stuff you can find at any IKEA store. It still blows my mind that there are grown adults in the west who have never been to an IKEA store...
His Interior does not represent "Sweden" completely because all interiors differs almost wherever you go in Sweden, some interiors you choose yourself depending where you live, some newer houses can include all higher standard which also raises the cost of living, some areas still have the old houses from 50-60's that has the old toilets and door handles like US and much more..
It's pretty common knowledge that americans use gas for a shitload of stuff that we don't, their stoves, ovens, dryers, water heater, heating systems for the house. I really don't understand why they stubbornly stick to this stone-age technology given how dangerous gas can be but they do I believe electric stove tops of any kind, even the old ones with seperate hot plates elevated of the surface I do not believe really exists in the US, they are definately not common at least They really do seem to be way behind on alot of stuff, but I guess that's what happens when you're conviced that your country is the greatest country in the world, that every important invention ever made was invented in your country and you just don't know barely anything about the world outside your own borders, or even inside them in some cases....
I can confirm that gas stoves seem to be the norm in the States. And now induction. I never saw an ordinary electric stove. Here in Finland, we have almost got rid of all gas stoves except for those in the summer cottages and on boats - for practical reasons.
Most homes in Sweden have tumbledriers, in the case that you don't have one (if you're renting an apartment for instance) the will be a shared laundry room/house nearby where there will be a variety of machines available (washers, driers, centrifuges, electric drying cabinets, a mangle etc). Drying cabinets like you spoke of aren't a thing here really.
A thing to note is a tumbledryer is very detrimental for the lifecycle of clothes. Also air drying clothes in the winter (I'm from Finland) might bring in much needed moisture to the dry winter air, but moisture in the air also makes heating work harder.
Remember! The guy is ameican! We have nets! But usually we are not so thin-skinned/sensitive. As with AC. AND, of course, he thinks that what is standard in the EU and Sweden seems 'futuristic'. Nothing bad said about the dude. He's just typically (like me) ignorant, inexperienced.
I don't like American showers, with the shower head attached to the wall. The water doesn't go "where it needs to go", when you can't get water from below...
He forgot to mention the most important part of the toilet: In Sweden, there is only water at the bottom part of the toilet bowl. Unlike in America, where it looks more like you are sitting on top of water-filled bucket. As somebody used to the first standard it feels very uncomfortable to try the American-style ones. Who wants to almost dip into the water by just sitting normally?
Exactly! Disgusting. A clinic I visited had one of those here in Helsinki. That was the first time I saw one. When I flushed, I was afraid that the water would overflow! Can't even think about what would happen with number two...
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What Andrew is talking about is Induction Hob, it is magnets that provide heat through a magnetic pot or frying pan. This means that when you lift the pot or frying pan away, the plate switches off automatically and the plate itself does not give off heat, this means that you cannot burn yourself or if someone throws paper on the plate, it will not start to burn. type of stove consumes the least amount of electricity.
We have them in the UK as well. Unfortunately, the builder who built our house was cheap, and they installed a normal electrical hob (Bosch). I'm just looking for a reason to refurbish the kitchen and replace it with an induction hob, as they are far more energy-efficient.
@@RobertClaeson And far more cancerogenous.
Right, so the lamp thing. In Sweden we buy our lamps so if we move, we take our lamps with us. some of them not all of them, some are attached especially in flats, there fixtures in the hallway and the toilet and so on that we can't remove, but bedrooms, living rooms and parts of the kitchen usually have special lamp sockets to plug in the lamps we bought.
In Sweden we buy the screens for doors and windows if we need them thats the differens
He's not talking about electric stove tops per se, but induction ones. I'm sure that's what you were refering to Dwayne.
The induction tops are heating the pots and, not the area around the pot, using induction. The induction reacts with the steel in the pot that get hot. There is no energy loss compaired to the ordinary electric tops that produces heat that heats the pots.
Also the boiling tome is shorter that saves energy..
We do have screens, but we don't have them permanently installed.
It used to be the same with double glass, we had an extra window stored away during summer that we put in when winter came.
I don't think we ever had sash windows. Or door knobs.
Drying cabinets/rooms for laundry are in all apartment buildings, but I've never seen one in one family houses.
Indeed, we have never had door knobs. Even 200 years ago we had "flip handles" going to an iron bar that held the door closed. These developed into small spring-loaded brass handles, which were the precursors of our current-day handles.
You can actually find door knobs in certain places in Sweden, mostly on doors that are either not meant to be opened often or there is some security aspect to their purpose. Like on a door to a room housing sensitive equipment in some sort of business. I know I have used a few but can't really remember where in Sweden, unfortunately. I CAN say they are a bit weird as you can't really tell how far the knob is supposed to turn.
We do have mosquito nets that we hang up during the summer by the windows and doors. Which we hang up with velcro so that we can take it down during the winter months when it is not needed and easily put back up again during the summer.
2:43 That plug standard is *much* older than EU...
We have used it in Sweden since 1925.
Well we don't have built in mosquito nets but it's easy to buy and instal one by yourself, both for windows and doors.
Some people have nets in front of doors because of mosquitoes but it’s not standard but you can add them yourself, I have one
2:30 Why do people think there are just one type of everything? Not all swedes like these gigant plastic plates as switches that came in the late 80s. We have small ones as well, even rotary switches like (say) in the 1910s. So it varies with both time period, price level, and personal taste and preferences.
I had a hard time getting used to the fixed shower head when I lived in the states. Not practical at all and usually set too low so you have to bend your knees when standing under it. Also the twist door knobs are so inaccessible. Try twisting that knob with two broken arms… not easy 😅
I grew up with largely fixed shower heads in Sweden. Find them more hygienic, as people can't put them below their asses and genitalia :)
But I'm with you on those bisarre (refuse to spell it with a z) door knobs used is anglo saxon countries!
About mosquitoes and mosquito net for windows and doors: in the south and middle of sweden it is not very necessary to use if you live in a town, but quite good to use in the summer if you live on the country side. 🙂
In the winter I dry my laundry on a rack right under my air heat pump. It dries sooo fast.
You can also dry clothes outside in the winter, as long as it’s below freezing! They dry super fast. Weirdest old school hack ever.
In Sweden we used to have small switches but the 90's came and we got new stuff, so we started replacing them when renovating and such :D. We also used to have a button toggle that you pressed in and it clicked then you did the same to turn it off but that was real old from the 40'-50'-60's some old houses still have these that are functioning. Also I believe I've seen newly produced old school toggles in some stores.
It was largerly earlier than the 1990s too. But yeah, it's not very surprising that older designs have came back. I mean, the stuff introduced around the 1970s, 80s and 90s were so cheap, ugly, and plastic in look and feel.
Yes. Spot on!
My parents had drying cabinets (Torkskåp) when I was little. And my dad still has one in his house. It's as big as a fridge but it gets warm and has room to hang clothes in it.
They seem to have been popular around the 80-90's. You used to see them in every other house, but people throw them out for some reason. I mean, yes they draw a lot of power, but even unpowered they make a great place to hang you washed clothes to just air dry. As a little kid I was sometimes allowed to sit in the drying cabinet after taking a bath, man was it nice. It's like a dry sauna, if that makes sense :)
@@vicolin6126 These were common already in the early 1970s too. (Saw them everywhere as a kid.)
The standard in American homes are still gas stoves. Induction stoves, or even electrical stoves are not very common. I personally have an induction stove/electrical oven combo in my flat, but it was already here when I moved in 9 years ago. :P Sometimes the stove-top is completely separated from the oven which is getting more and more standardized these days.
And yeah... I've never seen doorknobs on any doors in Sweden in all of my life. xD Not even cabinet doors have them, they normally have a little hook in the corners where you open them. :P
Oh, yeah we have cabinet dryers too, but they're usually used in kindergardens so the kids' clothes can be hung in them to dry after they've been out playing in the rain and snow during the breaks. But these are not that common in our homes, if we need to dry off our clothes we're normally just use cloth hangers and put our coats and jackets on the clothing racks because we do not want to go out unless we have to during these times. :P
“Airing closets” were more common about 40-50 years ago. Nowadays we use dryers and clothesline and foldable clothes racks to dry our laundry depending on how you live.
And yes, Americans have duvets but only with a plain sheet not a two sided cover sheet like we have. Nasty 😷
Oh and one more thing that actually missed. Our washing machine heat the water to a set degree for instance 60°. American washing machine just use hot tap water (at least they used to, maybe different now)
Dwayne, not to bash the UK or anything, but we Swedes also find that you guys have strange standards in your homes. Gas stoves, "what-is-central-heating", 2 pane glass in windows, washing machine in the kitchen (why), fridge in the laundry room (why). Begs the question - why even have a laundry room at this point? Seen a lot of examples of this, so strange :)
You guys also seem to have an obsession with "on-suite" bathrooms and having 0 bedrooms on the bottom floor (if multi-floor home).
We indeed do have airing cupboards in Sweden as well, utilised both in houses and apartment complexes with communal washing spaces.
The lightswitch he showed. The "American" one is very close to dark luminescent light switch used in Swedish homes until WW2.
They were used in the 50s as well 😊
About the walls: all/most newer Swedish buildings (as in at least 60 years) are built with some concrete walls (“bärande väggar” = carrying walls) and some with drywall or something similar.
Hi Dwayne! Yes, it was a surprise to me when I moved to the States how oldfashioned many practical things were in comparison to Finland (and the rest of the Nordic countries at least).
Yes they are backward! Especially the bathrooms, windows, locks, heating, kitchens. They even still have wall-to-wall carpeting, popular here in the seventies and beginning of the eighties. Now, everybody has hardwood floors with separate carpets or mats.
Also, outside the big cities, if I remember correctly, some of the electric lighting lines still hung on poles above on the side of the street or road. Haven't seen that since my childhood in the fifties. Toilet flushing and faucets are from 'dazumal', too. I hear that the internet connexion is not that good either in some places. And expensive...
No matter where we dry our clothes: It is perfectly possible to "dry" in minus degrees (Celcius). You hang them out, they freeze, you dust them off with a rattan (carpet whip) or whatever it's called in English.
Dwayne, I think he's talking about induction stove tops, not just regular electric ones, but I have heard that most of the us still uses gas rather than electric ones.
Most of the things be brings up that they ”don’t have in the US” are thing that do exist there. It’s just that they exist in more expensive homes, and are less common in lower class homes.😅
One thing that is true is the build quality and material of the walls which are different. Both because of build cost and tradition in building.
You have to install your own mosquito nets. That's what we do in Sweden. And these we take with us if we move, it's not part of the apartment or house. How bad the mosquitos get depends on where you live, in bigger cities it's usually a non-issue, but in more suburban or rural areas they can be truly horrible at times. Those cupboards for drying clothes exist here too. But they are more often found in 'public' laundry places. If you live in an apartment there will usually be a big 'laundry house' for a whole building or neighborhood.
I visited Las Vegas in 2015, and was shocked to see that in a fancy ass hotel and casino they still used landline phones and fax machines...
The US are stuck in the past in a lot of ways
@@AHVENANSo true! And surprising. Of course, in 50 different states things are bound to be different, too. So some places may be very modern and others seem like they live in the fifties or sixties still...
And adding to that impression are of course some social customs, beliefs and attitudes...
When I lived in American (in the early 90's), there were no shoe racks by the door. Shoes were kept in the wardrobe together with clothes. Considering that most American homes have (or had) (very) thick carpets, you can imagine the amount of dirt that accumulated in those carpets when walking inside with shoes that have just been outside, collecting sand, dirt and what have you. Frankly quite disgusting.
That type more than halves the boiling time and does not gett hott after you take it off the stove so you can't burn yourself.
I think that was what he tried to explain.
It's an induction stow that boils instantly but the stow is not hot when you move the pott away. You need special potts for the stowe to
Not electric stove, Induction stove.
Induction cooking is performed using direct electrical induction heating of cooking vessels, rather than relying on indirect radiation, convection, or thermal conduction. Induction cooking allows high power and very rapid increases in temperature to be achieved: changes in heat settings are instantaneous.
Glassy smooth featureless rectangular cooktop set nearly flush with a kitchen counter
Top view of an induction cooktop
Cooking vessels with a suitable base are placed on an induction electric stove (also "induction hob" or "induction cooktop") which generally has a heat-proof glass-ceramic surface above a coil of copper wire with a low radio frequency alternating electric current passing through it. The resulting oscillating magnetic field induces an electrical current in the vessel. This large eddy current flowing through the resistance of a thin layer of metal in the base of the vessel results in resistive heating.
For nearly all models of induction cooktops, a cooking vessel must be made of, or contain, a ferrous metal such as cast iron or some stainless steels. The iron in the pot concentrates the current to produce heat in the metal. If the metal is too thin, or does not provide enough resistance to current flow, heating will not be effective. Induction tops typically will not heat copper or aluminum vessels because the magnetic field cannot produce a concentrated current, but cast iron, carbon steel and stainless steel pans usually work. Any vessel can be used if placed on a suitable metal disk which functions as a conventional hotplate.
Induction cooking has good coupling between the pan and the coil and is thus quite efficient, which means it puts out less waste heat and it can be quickly turned on and off. Induction has safety advantages compared to gas stoves and outputs no air pollution into the kitchen. Cooktops are also usually easy to clean, because the cooktop itself has a smooth surface and does not get very hot.
Has he never seen a mosquito net screen thing? This guy (Andrew?) is hilarious, so oblivious about some things…
Summer winter spring fall i hang my cloth up in the air thingie you named i have one but dont use it caus the electrisity is expensive as hell, my apartment is from around the 80’s so i got one, and yea Amerika is strange comepair to sweden 😅
And the stove he was talking there is glass tops and induction hubs one that you can use anny pans on but one that only certain pans work on, amerika got 95% gasstoves
We got mosquito nets you can hang up in the doors and windows but i dont think people use them
And about the shoes i get mad if people walk in with shoes here
What really gets me is... there are IKEAs in the US. Most of the things he mentions that he likes are stuff you can find at any IKEA store.
It still blows my mind that there are grown adults in the west who have never been to an IKEA store...
Kudos to them :) Why would they go there?
haha those american light switch can be seen at very old finnish homes :D
typical american household is like finnish home in 60s :D
Have a house in Sweden from the 50's, and we got like... 7 different kinds of switches throughout the house 😂
I'm about as flabbergasted as you are mate
Are americans okay?
3:23 He is talking about an induction stove top.He is not just talking about an electric stove top.
His Interior does not represent "Sweden" completely because all interiors differs almost wherever you go in Sweden, some interiors you choose yourself depending where you live, some newer houses can include all higher standard which also raises the cost of living, some areas still have the old houses from 50-60's that has the old toilets and door handles like US and much more..
i have old switches where you push a button
It's pretty common knowledge that americans use gas for a shitload of stuff that we don't, their stoves, ovens, dryers, water heater, heating systems for the house. I really don't understand why they stubbornly stick to this stone-age technology given how dangerous gas can be but they do
I believe electric stove tops of any kind, even the old ones with seperate hot plates elevated of the surface I do not believe really exists in the US, they are definately not common at least
They really do seem to be way behind on alot of stuff, but I guess that's what happens when you're conviced that your country is the greatest country in the world, that every important invention ever made was invented in your country and you just don't know barely anything about the world outside your own borders, or even inside them in some cases....
I can confirm that gas stoves seem to be the norm in the States. And now induction. I never saw an ordinary electric stove.
Here in Finland, we have almost got rid of all gas stoves except for those in the summer cottages and on boats - for practical reasons.
@@Gittas-tube yeah I know gas stoves are not common here in Finland 🇫🇮
Most homes in Sweden have tumbledriers, in the case that you don't have one (if you're renting an apartment for instance) the will be a shared laundry room/house nearby where there will be a variety of machines available (washers, driers, centrifuges, electric drying cabinets, a mangle etc).
Drying cabinets like you spoke of aren't a thing here really.
A thing to note is a tumbledryer is very detrimental for the lifecycle of clothes. Also air drying clothes in the winter (I'm from Finland) might bring in much needed moisture to the dry winter air, but moisture in the air also makes heating work harder.
Remember! The guy is ameican! We have nets! But usually we are not so thin-skinned/sensitive. As with AC.
AND, of course, he thinks that what is standard in the EU and Sweden seems 'futuristic'. Nothing bad said about the dude. He's just typically (like me) ignorant, inexperienced.
I don't like American showers, with the shower head attached to the wall. The water doesn't go "where it needs to go", when you can't get water from below...
He forgot to mention the most important part of the toilet:
In Sweden, there is only water at the bottom part of the toilet bowl. Unlike in America, where it looks more like you are sitting on top of water-filled bucket. As somebody used to the first standard it feels very uncomfortable to try the American-style ones. Who wants to almost dip into the water by just sitting normally?
Exactly! Disgusting. A clinic I visited had one of those here in Helsinki. That was the first time I saw one. When I flushed, I was afraid that the water would overflow! Can't even think about what would happen with number two...
Well... dog- (cat) shit/piss, human spit, piss, snore... who wants that in the house, kitchen, bedroom, around the kids??