Save me, America!
So, I'm writing for Yuletide, and I don't want to do anything that'll send my reader to the thesaurus. So I'm brewing tea. Specifically, a character is brewing tea, and I'm trying to figure out what term to use.
I know from experience that tea in America, especially if you're doing it in an office, is likely to be in a teabag. That's not the problem, though. It's when you go to turn on the... thing that boils water. Here, I'd refer to it as the jug, but kettle is common too.
So, anybody that can help: what do *you* use to boil water?