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Microwave : boils water
Stovetop : boils water
Electric stovetop : boils water
Induction stovetop : boils water
Electric kettle : boils water
Open flame : boils water
Bri'ish "people" : *pretending they have any sense of taste* "mIcRoWavE wA'eR taSte difFerenT."
Brits will scoff at microwaved water then straight up eat mushy peas at dinner.
Is this some kind of beans on toast thing I'm too colonies to understand?
Yeah I will never at all understand this weird superiority complex in the way in which people boil fucking water of all things. The result is the same.
The reason why a kettle is nice is because it boils a large quantity of water quickly. If you only want a single cup, then a microwave is a great option if you don't have or want a kettle.
You’ve missed the way that British people actually boil water though, thus missing the true reason that we’re superior.
Bri'ish people: Conquer half of the world in the name of spices
Also Bri'ish people: Refuse to season food
Aye, we season our world-class curries with newspaper and high fructose corn syrup aye
"our" curries
Damn, the empire mindset alive and well lmao
Our curries. Conceived by British people. Whose families may have come come from other countries. You know. British people
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
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).
What if it turns out that Bri'ish people just use pure lead kettles.
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.
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.
"Tea is for the sea not for me"
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’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...
240V Masterrace
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 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.
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.
Most people I know use a kettle as well as I. Hailing from Michigan!!
I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.
I use a gas stove to heat my kettle.
The microwave is only used to melt butter before I make cheesecake.
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.
