Bri'ish people: Conquer half of the world in the name of spices
Also Bri'ish people: Refuse to season food
I'd never dare make a joke like this, not because it's mean or whatever, but because I wouldn't want to show off how little I know about the world.
Americans who drink tea generally use a stovetop kettle. Sometimes they use an electric one. But what does it matter how the water gets hot, if the water's hot? Microwave radiation doesn't leave a taste in water or something
Boiling it with some kind of kettle can make minerals drop out of solution, but I really doubt it would make a significant taste difference unless the kettle is attached to copper piping leading to a catch basin (aka a still).
This isn’t true, Americans make tea by boiling a stovetop kettle pouring that into a pitcher with 5 teabags adding 1-3 cups of sugar after about 3 minutes and then filling that pitcher to the top with hot tap water. And then pouring that over ice after about 5 minutes
No we don’t. We don’t drink tea at all
You kid, but I really do find this stereotype of Americans fascinating in it's persistence. Every supermarket I've been to in America during the last decade has a tea section that is double the size of the coffee section next to it. These stores wouldn't be stocking like that if Americans weren't buying a ton of tea, but yet the idea of America being a tea desert continues.
it's not that they don't drink tea, it's that they drink it wrong
I bet it drives you nuts that we folks in the southern US like to drink our tea sweet as hell and ice cold.
I do lie awake most nights thinking about it
That's kind of ok actually, at least you're not pretending it's real tea.
(also it's delicious, so you've got that going for you)
Why of course we do. But we drink Yankee tea, which is a super concentrate of all tea leaves ever created. It's illegal in 36 countries and if you drink it you either meet god or you have a stroke. One of the two.
I either buy my tea at a convenience store in a can, or i put it in a large jug of water, leave it out in the sun for a few hours and then drink it with ice and a bit of sugar.
Electric kettles have been available at every American ~~supermarket~~ superstore for literal decades.
Yes they aren't ubiquitous here in the way they are in the UK and elsewhere, but they're absolutely not a rarity at all.
Sincerely, somebody who has been using an electric kettle for almost two decades.
edit: wrong word. I meant places like Walmart, not places like Safeway.
Lol, no we don't. We just don't drink tea. Unless you're in the south n it's more sugar water than tea.
Southerners are actually 2/3 hummingbird
I have an electric kettle and actually go out of my way to get good tea thank you.
I have an electric kettle, AND I season my food, lol
I use a kettle at home, but I’ve used a microwave at work. I don’t understand what’s remotely laughable about doing so. Boiling water is boiling water.
I’ll tell what is laughable is how America restaurants typically serve hot tea. They draw a small metal container of hot water from the spigot on the side of the coffee maker, and bring it to the table with an empty cup and a teabag. By the time the bag goes in the water, the water is far too cold to infuse properly.
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It actually doesn’t make that big of difference. It is more likely Americans don’t have kettles because we drink more coffee and have drip coffee brewers instead.
We use a kettle here in the states and it’s just fine. But it’s mostly used for French press coffee.
I’m British and was shocked to learn that other countries don’t even have 3000W electric kettles.
Just put the kettle on top of your Intel laptop...
Our typical US 120V household outlets can't pull that much power. Most electric kettles here draw about 1.5 kW.
Could run a 240V circuit (or tap into the oven/range 240V circuit I suppose) and use an imported UK kettle. I've heard of people here actually doing this, but I can live with the slower boil times 😄
Most people I know use a kettle as well as I. Hailing from Michigan!!
wait people make tea in the microwave? gross lol
wait people don't understand how microwaves work? dumb lol
I use a gas stove to heat my kettle.
The microwave is only used to melt butter before I make cheesecake.
I have a machine that keeps hot water on tap. You peasants heat your water up? I pour mine in the cup already boiling hot from the tap. Kettles are so 90s early 2000s.
The hot water coming out of the tap isn't supposed to be boiling.
Americans: invent machine to boil water
Also Americans: use that machine to boil water
Rest of the world: 😱
I like my electric kettle because it has temperature settings for specific tea leaves/types and it has a large volume. But if I just want to boil one cup, the microwave is a no-brainer.
The British sent us Beatles and Monty Python, let them have this.
I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.
Have an electric kettle. It's slower than kettles in the UK and Ireland as it maxes out at a lower wattage.
Erm, the microwave is faster and more efficient at heating water.
American outlet electricity, I recall, is such that it is actually some kind of weak. You guys need the microwave because your kettles aren't getting enough to eat, so they can't lift.
There was a technology connections video of that I think...
Ok, Brits. Educate me. What's the benefit of a tea kettle over heating water in the mug you'll drink it out of in the microwave? (Assuming you're making one cup of tea.)
well you see, when you heat it slowly over a flame, the bad stuff evaporates and leaves behind a purer flavor...
when you microwave, it doesn't
p.s. im an american and have no problem microwaving water... but i do swear there's a slight difference... maybe it's from the cup being nuked?
i also microwave cold coffee...
Truly the superior hot water
I think most use a kettle on the stovetop.
If you're british and lacking a tank, you can always use a gatling gun to heat the water instead
Could someone explain why it matters? Is microwaving water for tea akin to instant coffee or Keurig to snobby coffee drinkers? (I nuke water for tea, but when it comes to coffee I use distilled water, fresh beans, a scale and it's kinda ritualistic)
At the end of the day, everything is just atoms moving at different wiggle rates, that's the technical term. It doesn't matter what makes them wiggle faster or slower.
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