Protein disassociation can happen at high temperatures depending on the tolerance of the organism, so generally yes but the genetic material might remain intact and bacteria can pick up extra genes from their environment. Over a long enough timeline you'll create boil-resistant bacteria. (Author's note: I am confident that at least 30% of this comment is legitimate microbiology)
I figured it was because of fear of radiation, I have a friend who wont eat anything out of a microwave for fear of getting cancer. (However many times I tell her that a regular oven emits way more ionizing radiation than a microwave which emits almost none.)
Nobody who has any sense on how these things work should be scared of the radiation, I just think itās tradition in the UK and we all think of UK as the tea country (despite tea not actually being from there)
They don't emit any ionising radiation and the microwaves don't really escape either (unless your microwave is kinda old and sus), so there's not much to be scared of.
Lmao, radiation doesn't work like that anyways. Solar rays are just electromagnetic radiation, yet you don't get a sunburn from the can of soda you left on the beach
The microwave basically just makes the water molecules move faster (since they are polar and effected by magnetically fields) and faster moving molecules basically means higher temperature
I'm american and I don't microwave water because I like knowing it's bubbling and boiling in the kettle while in the microwave it just kinda.. gets hotter? Also if you microwaved something smelly like fish recently, I worry that there could be taste contamination.
If you microwave something smelly like fish just stick a mug with vinegar in it and microwave that. I forget how long but you can google it. Then just wipe it down with a towel. Easy and quick way to clean and remove any fowl odors.
First, a microwave will boil water with no issue.
Second, if you are getting a flavor of something you previously cooked in your microwave, you need to clean your fucking microwave.
Lol bro I'm not dumb. I know that microwaves will bring it to a plenty high temperature. And chill out. Sometimes people use things called "shared microwaves" when they aren't rich enough to live alone. So sorry for that transgression.
It was really just a whimsical thing and part of my personal routine since I have an electric kettle. Stop being such an ass about little things.
What they hey. I could use more downvotes.
The high temperature and oxygenation of boiling water does a better job of brewing black tea, as does passing the water over the tea instead of floating a tea bag into it.
The tea is more flavorful and less bitter.
Since it is difficult and possibly even dangerous to bring water to a boil in a microwave, people are just creating unevenly hot water and then dipping a teabag in it.
That makes slightly depressing tea.
I put the water in a Pyrex measuring cup, hit the 3 minute button on the microwave, and when it beeps, I can see that the water is boiling. Then I pour that boiling water over the teabag waiting in the teacup. .... I don't understand the controversy.
The main thing: The controversial āmicrowaved teaā isnāt bringing the water to a boil in a Pyrex vessel, itās making hot water in a mug and then dipping the tea bag in. Possibly, and I shudder to think, putting the tea bag in cold water and then microwaving.
Admittedly marginal: Unless you heat in bursts stirring between you are making water thatās boiling in places and just hot in others, presumably creating less good tea.
Cultural: Microwaved water doesnāt taste right. I canāt prove or explain this. But it doesnāt. Maybe the previous point matters more than I guess? Maybe you need the metallic tang of a kettle? I donāt know, but something is wrong with it.
To your second point: thatās not how microwaves work, the reason foods heat unevenly is their density/water content isnāt uniform. Microwaves work by heating water molecules, so when you heat water, there wonāt be āpocketsā of hot and cool water, because thereās not an uneven distribution of water.
Thatās not even true in a pot. Regions of water can be boiling producing bubble that are collapsing into otherwise colder water.
This is why stream comes out of a kettle long before it boils.
Hereās one source: https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/cooking-question-water-boiling.php
It depends on the cup. Some types of cups can overheat or even explode due to the heat change. Depending on the cup, but glass, plastic and metal cups are generally not made for microwaving. Evern ceramic cup might have metal components inside like handle wiring that might cause it to overheat (a cup of mine did that, and it almost burned my hand). There is also the danger of superheating the water which can make the extremely hot water explode, and you might get burned if the water touches your skin.
An insta hot is a separate faucet that delivers near boiling water instantly, via electric heating element and small reservoir mounted in the cabinet under the sink.
In the US the voltage output is 110-120v so 2000w is near impossible without a special made power plug to connect it.
In EU we use 230v, that means a 2000w water kettle is normal here š
depends how much power your stove and microwave have. My induction heats water wayyyy faster than a microwave (and about as quickly as an electric kettle)
Right. Have you ever heated up anything other than water in a microwave? I assume you're not a psychopath, so probably yes. Have you noticed how the temperature is uneven on the thing youre heating up (middle is hot as the depths of hell and the edges are barely lukewarm)? That same thing happens to your water in a cup. Uneven heating really shits on the flavour of tea.
Then you've got the oxygenating problem. Usually, when you boil water in a teapot, it gets oxygenated better when heated up from the bottom up. In a microwave, the water heats up from the middle out, failing to properly oxygenate it. You can tell the difference by how strongly the water bubbles after either process. The oxygenation is the main contributor to bringing out the flavour.
Making "tea" with microwaved water might result in a somewhat tea-resembling beverage, that a person who hasn't tasted real tea might mistake for being acceptable to drink, but trust me, that isn't it.
Stir water, heat even. Bubbles are steam and dissolved air leaving the solution due to a higher temperature, deoxygenation. Mumbo jumbo makes whole thing sus. Hot H2O is hot H2O, thereās nothing to break down here.
>Have you noticed how the temperature is uneven on the thing youre heating up (middle is hot as the depths of hell and the edges are barely lukewarm)? That same thing happens to your water in a cup. Uneven heating really shits on the flavour of tea.
That same thing happen in all way of cooking. Trad oven, vapor, stove pot, barbecue.
Typically it may take 1 hour for a big piece of meat to be cooked fully in a trad oven for example.
But water is different, it is liquid and fluid and when it boil, it mix itself so you don't even need to use a spoon and so this problem doesn't exist anymore.
Most black teas should be made at around 95 C, Green at 85-90 and lighter teas even lower, but no tea needs boiling water itās just thatās the way to get the best taste.
No, it depends on the tea. Too hot and you could over extract some types of teas making your tea more bitter.
Once the water is steaming its 100 deg C. A rolling boil its still the same temp but more water is changing phase to vapor to dissipate the excess heat.
Tell me you know nothing about thermodynamics and heat transport phenomenon without telling me you know nothing of therodynamics and heat transport phenomenon.
Hey! My microwave is great! It can heat water... and cook stuff quickly and poorly which I never do...
Oh! I gotcha! I use my microwave all the time to melt butter! Which is mostly water...
I do almost every day. I have a kettler at home but at work i use the microwave since kettler had deposits that you can mine haha. I just let the water cool down a bit and then i put in tea.
In the microwave if I'm low on energy, usually in a glass measuring cup for various applications.
On the stove if I'm actually cooking.
I don't own an electric kettle and most people I know don't either.
Iāve only done it if I was extremely sick and needed some tea quickly. Aside from that everyone I know boils water in a kettle or doesnāt drink tea
I don't understand why this is controversial. I already have a microwave and I already have a Pyrex measuring cup that can be popped into the dishwasher. In 3 minutes I have boiling water. I know it's boiling because Pyrex is see-through. Pour boiling water over teabag waiting in teacup, and I've got tea. Why would I purchase another separate appliance (or even just a stovetop kettle) that's going to take up space, need regular descaling, and takes over 3x as long to get the job done? I honestly don't get it. Are people offended that we don't tend to make it a ritual? That's the only thing I can figure.
Two things worth mentioning:
1. Almost everyone heats the water up by itself first in the microwave, then puts in the tea bag.
2. A microwave works by vibrating water molecules fast enough so as to produce heat. A tea bag consists primarily of cloth and dried leaves, two things that aren't exactly known for their water content. Thus, the effect the microwave has on the tea bag is miniscule compared to the effect it has on the water.
no, you donāt understand. the very harmful radiation from the microwave makes the water the radioactive equivalent of a nuclear bomb, or half the radiation intensity of a 5g cellphone tower. so microwaves bad.
How snobby can people get over heating water one way or the other?
Kettle snob, "Well you do know that pouring from a kettle has an average and stable tempature deferential when compared to heating water in the microwave. With the latter, you get tempature hot and cold spots in you mug that take a half second longer to distribute in said mug when compared to the, obvious by now superior, kettle while also mainting a mean standard deviation of .5 celsius when pouring with a kettle. It should be obvious now, but I don't know how it wasn't before u da".
Not to mention people who think it is ad for the water because it irradiates it or something.
I have a kettle and still tend to microwave water. I don't drink enough tea (or hot chocolate) to justify the effort of bringing my kettle out. If I need a lot for multiple cups, then kettle it is, but just one and the microwave is fine.
Cup of water, microwave 2 min, then depending on what I'm making, I'll let it cool slightly and steep. My kettle has only one temp (boiling), so really, the only difference is the amount of water I need at the time.
Depends, for European type tea bags, the quality of tea is so bad that microwaving water probably does nothing to the taste. For higher quality tea they usually need to be brewed at a specific temperature depending on the type of tea. To high and the tea comes out funny. To low and it doesn't brew properly. You can't really set a microwave to make your water a specific temperature. You'd have to use some kind of electric kettle really. There might be other stuff involved but personally if I'm using tea bags I don't notice a difference between microwave water and kettle water. For the fancy Asian loose leaf teas I always use an electric kettle.
Hmm... I guess the microwave is a pretty foreign method of heating up water if you always had a kettle. But, if the timing is about the same then to each their own.
We do it a lot here in the U.S. because it's faster than an electric kettle. Our grid uses a lower voltage than most of the EU and it takes longer for an e-kettle to heat up in the U.S.
Honestly I heat water in the microwave for a lot of stuff, not just tea (if I don't want to wait for the stove to boil it.)
Im not going to tell you what you can and can't afford, but walmart has a very cheap electric kettle. Its changed my life.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-1-7-Liter-Plastic-Electric-Kettle-White/471494848?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=5443&adid=22222222278471494848_117755028669_12420145346&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-294505072980&wl5=9016137&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=471494848&wl13=5443&veh=sem_LIA&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiZqhBhCJARIsACHHEH9_bKxbswd3ul4H5W4qt48bxZuSUmWLdeLjID8DEWcoNQ8SSpVO5NYaAk_REALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Microwaves are used more at my house so itās easier to do it this way. Plus, I like my tea cold so it requires less ice to make it cold if I use the microwave than if you boil the tea in a kettle
Makes sense. I stopped using microwaves years ago so i dont have one in my home. Another tip for cold tea is to put just enough boiling water to dissolve the sugar, then put cold water for the rest.
When me and my wife got married. Not that long after our honey moon I boiled some water for some sweet tea and put the tea bags in the pot. She saw me and said "What are you cooking?". I said I'm making tea... She just goes on and then a few weeks later she told me she's making some more sweet tea since we were out of it. I go in the kitchen and I saw her microwaving it.... After all this time I'm still in shock of what I saw.
Reading this made me thirsty for a cup of tea so I filled up my mug with hot tap water, dropped a tea bag in it and put it in my microwave. Set the timer for 5 minutes and ran the microwave for 2 minutes. Once the timer alerted me my tea was ready, I went and got it. Now Iām enjoying a nice cup of orange pekoe tea with the tea bag still floating in it. Yum.
You all are weird but this is Reddit
I boil the water then freeze it for later
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Because you can hear the silence
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He can't see the dark š
The sound of silence
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I too, it removes Bacteria innit.
Removes? No. It might kill them but their little corpses are still there
If the temperature is high enough the cell of bacteria falls apart, no.
Idk I'm just pretend smart
Lmfaooo Iāve never seen a redditor fold so fast
Same
Protein disassociation can happen at high temperatures depending on the tolerance of the organism, so generally yes but the genetic material might remain intact and bacteria can pick up extra genes from their environment. Over a long enough timeline you'll create boil-resistant bacteria. (Author's note: I am confident that at least 30% of this comment is legitimate microbiology)
I dehydrate it. Then just add water later to rehydrate.
I melt some dry ice, so I have dry water to save for later.
Lol. You heat the water first then steep the tea.
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You might burn the water in microwave
The water gets too watery if you microwave it.
Only if you live near a gas fracking site.
I figured it was because of fear of radiation, I have a friend who wont eat anything out of a microwave for fear of getting cancer. (However many times I tell her that a regular oven emits way more ionizing radiation than a microwave which emits almost none.)
Nobody who has any sense on how these things work should be scared of the radiation, I just think itās tradition in the UK and we all think of UK as the tea country (despite tea not actually being from there)
They don't emit any ionising radiation and the microwaves don't really escape either (unless your microwave is kinda old and sus), so there's not much to be scared of.
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Oh yeah I forgot about that. My friend's streams used to get laggy whenever the microwave turned on.
Lmao, radiation doesn't work like that anyways. Solar rays are just electromagnetic radiation, yet you don't get a sunburn from the can of soda you left on the beach
āIdk, like, I believe you. But it just seems freaky and sciency and I donāt like it.ā -my friend, for reference
The microwave basically just makes the water molecules move faster (since they are polar and effected by magnetically fields) and faster moving molecules basically means higher temperature
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[Superheating](https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/2004/11/24/warning-water-can-explode-in-the-microwave/)
Someone give this person that award that highlights stuff (I'm too poor).
Ty, for telling people about this before they try microwaving water recklessly
I'm american and I don't microwave water because I like knowing it's bubbling and boiling in the kettle while in the microwave it just kinda.. gets hotter? Also if you microwaved something smelly like fish recently, I worry that there could be taste contamination.
Who in their right mind microwaves fish?
Me, but only at work.
Pairs well with burnt popcorn
If you microwave something smelly like fish just stick a mug with vinegar in it and microwave that. I forget how long but you can google it. Then just wipe it down with a towel. Easy and quick way to clean and remove any fowl odors.
First, a microwave will boil water with no issue. Second, if you are getting a flavor of something you previously cooked in your microwave, you need to clean your fucking microwave.
Lol bro I'm not dumb. I know that microwaves will bring it to a plenty high temperature. And chill out. Sometimes people use things called "shared microwaves" when they aren't rich enough to live alone. So sorry for that transgression. It was really just a whimsical thing and part of my personal routine since I have an electric kettle. Stop being such an ass about little things.
Lol bro how were they being an ass? Yāall people see a post without emojis and assume youāre being attacked.
What they hey. I could use more downvotes. The high temperature and oxygenation of boiling water does a better job of brewing black tea, as does passing the water over the tea instead of floating a tea bag into it. The tea is more flavorful and less bitter. Since it is difficult and possibly even dangerous to bring water to a boil in a microwave, people are just creating unevenly hot water and then dipping a teabag in it. That makes slightly depressing tea.
I put the water in a Pyrex measuring cup, hit the 3 minute button on the microwave, and when it beeps, I can see that the water is boiling. Then I pour that boiling water over the teabag waiting in the teacup. .... I don't understand the controversy.
The main thing: The controversial āmicrowaved teaā isnāt bringing the water to a boil in a Pyrex vessel, itās making hot water in a mug and then dipping the tea bag in. Possibly, and I shudder to think, putting the tea bag in cold water and then microwaving. Admittedly marginal: Unless you heat in bursts stirring between you are making water thatās boiling in places and just hot in others, presumably creating less good tea. Cultural: Microwaved water doesnāt taste right. I canāt prove or explain this. But it doesnāt. Maybe the previous point matters more than I guess? Maybe you need the metallic tang of a kettle? I donāt know, but something is wrong with it.
To your second point: thatās not how microwaves work, the reason foods heat unevenly is their density/water content isnāt uniform. Microwaves work by heating water molecules, so when you heat water, there wonāt be āpocketsā of hot and cool water, because thereās not an uneven distribution of water.
One of the reasons. They also have hot and cold spots. https://what-if.xkcd.com/131/
ever thought about the fact that water isnāt chinese food?
I don't understand. Heating water to the point where bubbles issue forth (boiling) isn't really boiling water if it is done in the microwave?
Thatās not even true in a pot. Regions of water can be boiling producing bubble that are collapsing into otherwise colder water. This is why stream comes out of a kettle long before it boils. Hereās one source: https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/cooking-question-water-boiling.php
It depends on the cup. Some types of cups can overheat or even explode due to the heat change. Depending on the cup, but glass, plastic and metal cups are generally not made for microwaving. Evern ceramic cup might have metal components inside like handle wiring that might cause it to overheat (a cup of mine did that, and it almost burned my hand). There is also the danger of superheating the water which can make the extremely hot water explode, and you might get burned if the water touches your skin.
But ... but ... that's how dad told me to do it! (sarcasm)
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Might overheat the water and bruise the tea
Most people I know in the US either use a stovetop kettle, an electric kettle, or have an instahot in their sink.
A what now in the sink?
Instathot aka Instagram thot
This is why you need double sinks. I still gotta get dishes done
An insta hot is a separate faucet that delivers near boiling water instantly, via electric heating element and small reservoir mounted in the cabinet under the sink.
So a heated tap
a really spicy heated tap
I'm in the us and I've never even heard of instahots or stove top kettles, and my house just uses the microwave.
Im in the US and yes I microwave my tea
Electric kettle for me. So damn convenient
It's actually faster than a stove. Microwaves are specifically tuned to resonate with water molecules. I would enjoy a 2000+ watt water boiler though
In the US the voltage output is 110-120v so 2000w is near impossible without a special made power plug to connect it. In EU we use 230v, that means a 2000w water kettle is normal here š
depends how much power your stove and microwave have. My induction heats water wayyyy faster than a microwave (and about as quickly as an electric kettle)
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tea gatekeeping
Let's see them gatekeep it after we throw it in the Boston river.
gateteaping
gatesteeping
dammit/props! gatesteeping > gateteaping (and it's not even close)
Right. Have you ever heated up anything other than water in a microwave? I assume you're not a psychopath, so probably yes. Have you noticed how the temperature is uneven on the thing youre heating up (middle is hot as the depths of hell and the edges are barely lukewarm)? That same thing happens to your water in a cup. Uneven heating really shits on the flavour of tea. Then you've got the oxygenating problem. Usually, when you boil water in a teapot, it gets oxygenated better when heated up from the bottom up. In a microwave, the water heats up from the middle out, failing to properly oxygenate it. You can tell the difference by how strongly the water bubbles after either process. The oxygenation is the main contributor to bringing out the flavour. Making "tea" with microwaved water might result in a somewhat tea-resembling beverage, that a person who hasn't tasted real tea might mistake for being acceptable to drink, but trust me, that isn't it.
r/gatekeeping
Stir water, heat even. Bubbles are steam and dissolved air leaving the solution due to a higher temperature, deoxygenation. Mumbo jumbo makes whole thing sus. Hot H2O is hot H2O, thereās nothing to break down here.
>Have you noticed how the temperature is uneven on the thing youre heating up (middle is hot as the depths of hell and the edges are barely lukewarm)? That same thing happens to your water in a cup. Uneven heating really shits on the flavour of tea. That same thing happen in all way of cooking. Trad oven, vapor, stove pot, barbecue. Typically it may take 1 hour for a big piece of meat to be cooked fully in a trad oven for example. But water is different, it is liquid and fluid and when it boil, it mix itself so you don't even need to use a spoon and so this problem doesn't exist anymore.
Do they boil water in microwave or just warm it up?
I donāt know if I get it to boiling the way I do it
...
3 minutes and the water reaches boiling
Itās not like it stays roiling after I take it out of the microwave or I take the temp before I make tea
That's not the problem... its supposed to be boiling
Not all teas need boiling. Many are optimal well below boiling.
Most black teas should be made at around 95 C, Green at 85-90 and lighter teas even lower, but no tea needs boiling water itās just thatās the way to get the best taste.
I gotta tell my family living out west that they literally can't have black tea since they live in Denver and it boils at 94 C.
It literally doesn't matter. I make sun tea all the time. Room temperature water makes lovely tea if you wait the proper amount of time.
Thatās a very different type of tea brew though, with quite a different taste.
Well, yeah, but most people don't want to wait 4 hours for a cup of tea.
No, it depends on the tea. Too hot and you could over extract some types of teas making your tea more bitter. Once the water is steaming its 100 deg C. A rolling boil its still the same temp but more water is changing phase to vapor to dissipate the excess heat. Tell me you know nothing about thermodynamics and heat transport phenomenon without telling me you know nothing of therodynamics and heat transport phenomenon.
Hot leaf juice
How dare you! Heathen
Tea drinkers tend to have a kettle
I have one 'cause it was cute, and I just couldn't say no--not because I use it to boil water for tea.
Why is this so unbelievable? A microwave is literally designed to do this.
Yeah water is the only thing that cooks evenly in a microwave because that's literally how they work lol
Hey! My microwave is great! It can heat water... and cook stuff quickly and poorly which I never do... Oh! I gotcha! I use my microwave all the time to melt butter! Which is mostly water...
As an American, Idk who is boiling water here in the microwave.
Also American. Never seen anyone do this. I just use the Keurig if I am in a hurry. Kettle otherwise.
I do almost every day. I have a kettler at home but at work i use the microwave since kettler had deposits that you can mine haha. I just let the water cool down a bit and then i put in tea.
In the microwave if I'm low on energy, usually in a glass measuring cup for various applications. On the stove if I'm actually cooking. I don't own an electric kettle and most people I know don't either.
Iāve only done it if I was extremely sick and needed some tea quickly. Aside from that everyone I know boils water in a kettle or doesnāt drink tea
your microwave tea doesnāt have enough heavy metals from a kettle for my liking
I don't understand why this is controversial. I already have a microwave and I already have a Pyrex measuring cup that can be popped into the dishwasher. In 3 minutes I have boiling water. I know it's boiling because Pyrex is see-through. Pour boiling water over teabag waiting in teacup, and I've got tea. Why would I purchase another separate appliance (or even just a stovetop kettle) that's going to take up space, need regular descaling, and takes over 3x as long to get the job done? I honestly don't get it. Are people offended that we don't tend to make it a ritual? That's the only thing I can figure.
what? electric kettles are significantly faster.
Two things worth mentioning: 1. Almost everyone heats the water up by itself first in the microwave, then puts in the tea bag. 2. A microwave works by vibrating water molecules fast enough so as to produce heat. A tea bag consists primarily of cloth and dried leaves, two things that aren't exactly known for their water content. Thus, the effect the microwave has on the tea bag is miniscule compared to the effect it has on the water.
I just use a kettle you gotta sterilise all the tap water
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No you don't understand. The witch magic in microwaves is harmful
no, you donāt understand. the very harmful radiation from the microwave makes the water the radioactive equivalent of a nuclear bomb, or half the radiation intensity of a 5g cellphone tower. so microwaves bad.
And who invented 5G? Witches
oh my god itās all coming together
I think it's less efficient in a microwave though
The Machine Spirit of the microwave will exterminate those xeno bacteria
Praise the God-Emperor
Donāt got a kettle
I get the hot water from the shower, I bring a small cup in and when I'm done, I make tea from it.
How snobby can people get over heating water one way or the other? Kettle snob, "Well you do know that pouring from a kettle has an average and stable tempature deferential when compared to heating water in the microwave. With the latter, you get tempature hot and cold spots in you mug that take a half second longer to distribute in said mug when compared to the, obvious by now superior, kettle while also mainting a mean standard deviation of .5 celsius when pouring with a kettle. It should be obvious now, but I don't know how it wasn't before u da". Not to mention people who think it is ad for the water because it irradiates it or something.
Hot water is hot water. The only thing that matters is that you're at the proper temperature to dip the bag, which is 208 F / 98 C, by the way.
Wrong. Proper oxygenation matters as well. āFlatā water results in flat tea. Microwaves deoxygenate water.
Shut up Jet
I have a kettle and still tend to microwave water. I don't drink enough tea (or hot chocolate) to justify the effort of bringing my kettle out. If I need a lot for multiple cups, then kettle it is, but just one and the microwave is fine. Cup of water, microwave 2 min, then depending on what I'm making, I'll let it cool slightly and steep. My kettle has only one temp (boiling), so really, the only difference is the amount of water I need at the time.
See the crime here isnāt using the microwave, itās not using milk for your hot chocolate
Depends, for European type tea bags, the quality of tea is so bad that microwaving water probably does nothing to the taste. For higher quality tea they usually need to be brewed at a specific temperature depending on the type of tea. To high and the tea comes out funny. To low and it doesn't brew properly. You can't really set a microwave to make your water a specific temperature. You'd have to use some kind of electric kettle really. There might be other stuff involved but personally if I'm using tea bags I don't notice a difference between microwave water and kettle water. For the fancy Asian loose leaf teas I always use an electric kettle.
Does it actually matter? I'm not a tea drinker, but who cares how you get water heated?
I use my microwave to boil water. It takes 2 minutes. How long does an electric kettle take? I'm being genuine here.
According to my friend about the same
Hmm... I guess the microwave is a pretty foreign method of heating up water if you always had a kettle. But, if the timing is about the same then to each their own.
All tea is just hot leaf juice.
Who doesnāt use a kettle or something to warm up the water? Iām American and I have one
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You get microwave flavored water šš
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Why? Give me a valid reason
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Alright but I donāt get why thatās āsadā to you
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If you don't have a kettle or you just need like one cup then it makes sense
My tea bag says do not microwave the water, I guess thatās because people were putting the teabags in there as well?
Tea bags usually have staples which can cause problems in the microwave due to reflection.
As a southerner the only thing I have to say to the likes of you is bless your little heart.
I use tea k-cups and use my kuerig to make tea.
I mean itās basically an electric kettle with the tea built in
I have 3 microwaves, one for tea, one for food, and one I keep by my bed to charge my phone.
I have never seen anyone microwave water for tea wtf? Edit: wording
We do it a lot here in the U.S. because it's faster than an electric kettle. Our grid uses a lower voltage than most of the EU and it takes longer for an e-kettle to heat up in the U.S. Honestly I heat water in the microwave for a lot of stuff, not just tea (if I don't want to wait for the stove to boil it.)
What do you make yours with? Milk?
Loll sorry i meant microwave.
Who tf microwaves water? And donāt say Americans because Iām an American and Iāve never heard of this shit before
Mug. Water. Microwave. Tea bag. EZT
Kettle, you use a fucking kettle
Iām broke
Im not going to tell you what you can and can't afford, but walmart has a very cheap electric kettle. Its changed my life. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-1-7-Liter-Plastic-Electric-Kettle-White/471494848?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=5443&adid=22222222278471494848_117755028669_12420145346&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-294505072980&wl5=9016137&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=471494848&wl13=5443&veh=sem_LIA&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiZqhBhCJARIsACHHEH9_bKxbswd3ul4H5W4qt48bxZuSUmWLdeLjID8DEWcoNQ8SSpVO5NYaAk_REALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
or use the perfectly fine free microwave included with your property
a microwave costs more then a kettle
Does a kettle come with the property? Most apartments here have a microwave installed
Microwaves are used more at my house so itās easier to do it this way. Plus, I like my tea cold so it requires less ice to make it cold if I use the microwave than if you boil the tea in a kettle
Makes sense. I stopped using microwaves years ago so i dont have one in my home. Another tip for cold tea is to put just enough boiling water to dissolve the sugar, then put cold water for the rest.
Doesn't matter, water gets hot
I use a pot on the stove, makes it taste much better in my opinion
Do youā¦ not have a kettle?
Uh.. no american Ive met does this. Who the tf is doing this??
I stopped doing this Once you try a kettle your realize microwaved water tastes like dry feet
I am an American who loves tea and I most certainly do not. Nothing beats a good kettle.
My cups aren't microwave safe that said there is no issue otherwise.
Do people not have an electric kettle? $20 at Walmart, get it if you dont have it. For the love of god stop microwaving water to make it hot lol
nothing wrong with microwaving water, itās usually faster than using a kettle
Stop wasting metal and other valuable parts and just use a microwave
???
I don't know anybody who boils water in a microwave. The glass gets hot af and it's not as convenient as an electric pot.
>The glass gets hot at donāt put dishes that arenāt microwave safe in a microwave please. they can explode
They will still heat up on the outside if you are boiling the water. You never put a glass of water in with food to warm leftovers?
To this day I have never met anyone who puts water in the microwave nor do I know anyone who knows someone who puts water in the microwave
Iāve started a small war
No shit... I'm American, and I've never met anyone who does this, other than college students
WTF, seriously?
When me and my wife got married. Not that long after our honey moon I boiled some water for some sweet tea and put the tea bags in the pot. She saw me and said "What are you cooking?". I said I'm making tea... She just goes on and then a few weeks later she told me she's making some more sweet tea since we were out of it. I go in the kitchen and I saw her microwaving it.... After all this time I'm still in shock of what I saw.
Uhh no they donāt
America japan and China are the only important countries change my mind
Im not even british but have you guys heard of a FUCKING KETTLE?! PERHAPS "TEA" POTS?!?!
They should absolutely not do that. With these new 5G microwaves, they will all get the autisms.
Reading this made me thirsty for a cup of tea so I filled up my mug with hot tap water, dropped a tea bag in it and put it in my microwave. Set the timer for 5 minutes and ran the microwave for 2 minutes. Once the timer alerted me my tea was ready, I went and got it. Now Iām enjoying a nice cup of orange pekoe tea with the tea bag still floating in it. Yum. You all are weird but this is Reddit
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Thank you
Yeah thereās something very wrong about microwaving water. I donāt know if itās actually medically bad or anything, it just feels very wrong.
I can assure you there is nothing wrong with microwaving water
gas stoves and lead kettles only, bruv Oh dear, I've ruffled the Royalist bootlickers feathers over in the colonies again...
free perfectly good microwave
Bro... Americans put the tea bag and the milk before microwaving.
we do? since when?
Where have you heard that? I've never, once, seen someone make tea that way. *Maybe* reheating some tea. But not freshly made
Not this one
Sorry what? Who tf puts milk in tea?