Know anyone who cant use a kettle?

I taught my daughters to cook and, truth to tell, they're probably better at it than I am, mainly because over the years I've got complacent, whereas they actually follow a recipe!

I've not come across a teenager who can't/won't use a kettle, although I do remember moving one daughter into Uni and someone in the shared kitchen moaning loud and long because there was no toaster - when someone said we'll just use the grill, the reply was 'What? How?

 

"Cor, look at him, a teenager and he can't even make a Flint scraper!"
Stone Age man to neighbour.

 

One of the interesting things on another site is the thread in which children are posting about having to teach their parents to cook! Now that is sad.
And it is not that long since I saw a Flat advertised which had no kitchen or indeed anywhere to boil the water in a kettle. When asked about it, the seller said that the kind of people who bought these type of flats did not cook, they ate out or had take-away meals which included a hot drink.
I am told it is fairly common in USA cities for people not to have any cooking facilities.

 

As a 24 yr old in my very first rented accommodation, I very often burned boiled eggs! Burning toast under the grill was a given but then I was used to doing the toast at the living room fire with our posh new extendible toasting fork!

 

And the Sandwich Toaster

 

Elementary physics. Pass an electrical current through the water to split the H2O molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, then you can burn it easily

Fantastic. My grandad always used a toasting fork. In fact it was exactly like the one in your pic, except his was blackened with age. It worked great with the proper bread he used to buy but he gave it to me in the end, and they just don't work well at all with the supersoft fake bread most of us buy these days.