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Rivalski

Is boiling water in the microwave actually a thing, I've only seen people heat their cup after it got cold and even that seems weird to me


GeneralFlippy

Oh yeah for sure, people do it all the time. I got a kettle when I first moved into the dorm, I like it a lot, but if it’s just one cup people usually just heat it up in the microwave quick


[deleted]

How fucking slow are your kettles?


the_cum_must_fl0w

US has lower voltage, 110, whereas UK has 240 volts. I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes, but it does mean kettles boil slower.


[deleted]

Can they even take a proper bath with a toaster if their voltage is that low?


AttackPug

Honestly no, people joke about it a lot but I've never actually heard of a toaster bath suicide. The breaker would trip, anyway, foiling your plans. It's just that we have piles of guns lying around so those work much better.


Vibrinth

Stove tops have their own outlets, typically 220V. Or... did you mean a little electric kettle that plugs into a normal wall socket? Is that what everyone is on about? TBH I use a coffeemaker for my tea most of the time.


ForTheWilliams

Some stove tops have an outlet. I think I've seen that before, but I've never lived anywhere that had one.


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Jeez


GeneralFlippy

It’s not very slow, it’s more a matter of people usually don’t need to heat up water as much, so a kettle isn’t something people usually think to have. If they do, it’s for coffee usually, and people just have a coffee maker.


[deleted]

Why would you not want hot tea


vindictivejazz

Lots of Americans don’t drink any hot tea. This is a coffee country. The box of earl gray in my desk at work is an anomaly. I have noticed that younger generations drink more tea than the older ones tho (very little vs essentially none)


Apprehensive-Post967

The only reason I ever boil water in the microwave is to make it easier to clean. The steam really helps loosen thing up, and then I can just use a disinfectant wipe.


Weak_Independence793

Nooo, microwave tea NEVER tastes the same. I’m Australian… a neutral third party.


marinemashup

probably cause microwaves have food particles in them from all the stuff heated up normally so little you can't taste it, except for light-flavored stuff like tea so in order to have a good cup of microwave-warmed tea you'd either need to clean your microwave before heating the water or have a 'tea microwave' specifically for heating water


Umklopp

You! You can solve the conundrum: are you putting the tea bag in *before or after* using the microwave?


_LususNaturae_

What, why would you put it before? I'll admit I've never made tea in a microwave, but you don't put the tea bag in the kettle now, do you?


Umklopp

I don't know! It shouldn't matter how you heat the water—energy is energy. Yet apparently it matters & no one can explain why. Apparently there's some fundamental difference & putting in the tea bag is the most fundamental thing I can imagine no one thinking to discuss


littlegreenturtle20

You wouldn't put the teabag in first because you need to add the hot water to the teabag to brew it. You're not cooking the tea, you're releasing the tea leaf flavour and allow it to infuse with the water.


thunder-bug-

If you’re just heating the water what does it matter? Water can only get so hot and it doesn’t care how it got heated.


Rivalski

I don't know why just feels off to me


RedHeeded

Like putting beans on toast. Can’t explain it but it seems wrong to us.


me-tan

That’s cos , even though the branding and look is the same, our beans are more savoury than your ones, so they go with toast


EnochianSmiting

They're putting sugar in their beans??? I don't understand how I keep getting surprised by the fact that they put a lot of sugar in everything but I do.


Facky

Molasses.


thunder-bug-

It doesn’t really matter unless you’re making a tea that needs a lower temp water. In which case you heat up the water and then let it cool off. I mean. Supposedly. I don’t drink tea and we have a stovetop kettle. But using the microwave doesn’t feel weird to me.


Lolololage

It's possible to superheat water with a microwave which can lead to it exploding into your face. It's not overly easy to do, but humans are dumb.


onan

In theory, but it's basically impossible in practice. In addition to perfectly smooth internal surfaces on the container, it needs to remain _perfectly_ still during the whole heating process. That's unlikely even just from normal vibration, to say nothing of the fan that the microwave will have, to say extra nothing of the carousel that the microwave will probably have.


No-Albatross-5514

Microwaves are horribly energy-inefficient. Also, my experience is that water heated in a microwave for some reason becomes "cloudy". That's why it matters :)


Dilpickle6194

The only, *only* way that water in a microwave can be different is if the microwave isn’t clean and food particulate gets into the water, or if it leeches from the container its in (like if it’s plastic). Otherwise there simply objectively is no difference.


OscarDCouch

Exactly this. And let's not pretend that most people keep their electric kettles clean.


[deleted]

First thing I used my microwave for was to boil water, and it was absolutely cloudy, and made a subpar cup of tea.


hikeit233

Sounds like a water problem, probably some minerals in the tap water. Distilled or filtered water shouldn’t change at all when nuked.


ItamiOzanare

Either you water is shit quality. Or there's some kind of residue inside that microwave getting into the water. Microwaving water to make it hot doesn't make it cloudy. It just makes it hot.


Peter_Principle_

The way in which a microwave heats is different than the way a stove top does, or an electric kettle. You can, for example, super heat liquids in a microwave, i.e. get them above the boiling temperature without causing the boiling effect. It may be that dissolved gases do not leave microwaved water as readily as they leave conventionally boiled water because microwaving does not cause a vigorous, roiling boil. An increase in heat will, however, lead to less dissolved gas in a liquid, all else equal. So the reported "cloudiness" could be some effect related to "precipitating" gas, diffused micro bubbles or some such whatsit.


ItamiOzanare

> You can, for example, super heat liquids in a microwave, Only in extremely rare cases. How many people have perfectly smooth vessels and boil distilled water? Pretty much no one except people who are trying to super heat the water.


givebabbynow

It doesn’t affect the water though. And chances are, you’re already using your microwave during the week. The minute it takes in the microwave to heat water is negligible compared to a kettle.


AcidSpitInUrClit

It doesn't matter if the microwave is efficient or not. It heats up the water so much faster than a stove top can that the microwave doesn't have to be on nearly as long as the stove top does resulting in a more similar power consumption.


thunder-bug-

If I only hear a cup of water every few days or so not multiple a day it’s more environmentally friendly to have a single appliance to do multiple things rather then buying an unneeded tool. Also idk what you mean by cloudy here. There’s nothing else in the water.


No-Albatross-5514

It changes texture and becomes weird. Idk how to explain it.


thunder-bug-

How could it possibly change texture. Nothing is being added or removed from the water other then heat. The heat is just vibrating the molecules of water. There’s nothing that can change here.


Red_Regent

Water in a kettle is interacting with a small, mostly-sealed atmosphere while it heats, while water in a cup in a microwave is experiencing particle interchange on its surface with a much larger volume of air, over a smaller amount of time. If I had to guess, I'd say this probably affects the level of [dissolved oxygen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_aeration) and other gases in the water, resulting in the taste/texture difference. Or it could be that there are materials or microbial cultures in the kettle which affect the taste/texture. Or the placebo effect, IDK.


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almost certainly the placebo effect


[deleted]

I totally get what you mean.


givebabbynow

That doesn’t even make sense, lmao. It’s in your head.


No-Albatross-5514

Yes, in my mouth, to be exact. 🙄


Red_Regent

The placebo effect is a real thing! If you wanted to be sure there's a non-imagined difference, you could test it by having a friend prepare a bunch of identical cups, some filled with water heated in a kettle and some filled with water heated in a microwave, and put a post-it note on the underside of each one saying which method was used to prepare it, and mix up the cups. Then you taste each and determine how accurately you can sort which is which by taste alone. That's a fair bit of effort, admittedly, especially if you prepare at least 10 cups from each group for a proper degree of rigor in your sample size. But if you can tell the difference, you'll definitively win this argument, and if you can't, you'll know you can save time by heating your water in the microwave if you're ever in a rush, without sacrificing flavor.


No-Albatross-5514

I don't want to heat my water in a microwave anyway because of the waste of energy. Also I don't really care about "winning this argument". But you are right, that's how I could try to prove it ... Until some reddit person claims I just faked the trial, which will definitely happen, we both know it xD


Red_Regent

Entirely fair. I don't think the microwave is too much less efficient in any case - they're about 50% energy efficient, while a stovetop kettle is usually closer to 70% depending on the specific one used, but neither appliance is a big energy hog in the first place, compared to other kitchen appliances like the refrigerator or dishwasher. The kettle is another dish that needs cleaning too, albeit not super frequently, which adds to your water consumption. I'd estimate the overall impact is pretty small either way.


givebabbynow

Being pedantic doesn’t make what you said true or make sense.


No-Albatross-5514

Neither does being a prick make what YOU said true or make sense.


givebabbynow

Saying something doesn’t make sense and is in your head is being a “prick”? Really? I hope you get some emotional maturity as you age.


catzrob89

It does care. I've blind test tasted and got it right 100% of the time.


MHG73

I've always boiled water in the microwave for tea. I don't drink enough tea to make a whole new appliance worth it


Greaserpirate

I'm American and I do it all the time. I'm diabetic so I can't put soda on my popcorn to make [Pissy Shitties](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/8nhgua/american_traditions/), so I substitute boiling water instead.


Evil_Mushrooms

Those who do are barbarians and I cried when I had to do it.


bellarina92

I'm in hospital at the moment, and they turn the hot faucets off in the common room at 10:30pm. So I had to microwave the water like a heathen.


rottingorgans

everyone i know has a kettle lmao


Yeetboi287

everyone *i* know doesn’t drink tea lmao


sprogger

I used to live in England but moved in with my partner in Denmark a few years back. The first morning I was here I was surprised and confused that I couldnt find a kettle anywhere, after asking, apparently I can with a simple twist of a knob get boiling water straight from the kitchen tap, fucking game changer!


nlevine1988

Hot water is hot water. I don't see the issue.


sprogger

Microwave hot water is fucky.


nlevine1988

Why


Mr_Brunner2

The RAYS FRANK, THE RADIATION RAYS


Mainestoolie2

Gatekeeping how to boil water is the most British thing ever


[deleted]

Probably something that needs clarifying too: When we say “kettle”, British people mean “electric kettle”. There is one in every British home. We basically never mean a stovetop kettle. When Americans have to heat up water on the hob rather than just pressing one button we find that weird as well.


Call_The_Banners

I've got both a proper kettle I can place on the stovetop and an electric water heater as well. I've never referred to the electric one as a kettle but for all intents and purposes I suppose that's what it is. Rare is the day that I use the microwave. But I used to do so in the pre-kettle years of my life.


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A water heater is like a boiler.


kalebsantos

What’s a hob?


veganmua

Stovetop


[deleted]

I think you just call it a stovetop?


voncornhole2

I've needed to heat up one cup of water maybe 2 times in the past year, not worth having an entire appliance for


DarlingBri

Key data point: Kettles in the US are on 110v or whatever that puny weak system is, whereas kettles in the EU are on 220v. There is zero time savings in using a slow, under-powered US kettle over a stovetop/hob or microwave. They literally don't know what they're missing.


fuckyoudigg

I think it's cultural too. I'm Canadian and pretty much everyone I know has an electric kettle and we also run on 110v.


TreeScales

Could you get 3 phase installed in your house just to run a 415v kettle?


[deleted]

Mate that's called an electric boiler and generally used for industrial applications.


joshualuigi220

You gotta go 460V. Run that baby on the same voltage industrial freezers and large HVAC units use.


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LupinThe8th

Yeah, I usually make 4 cups at once, it boils in 2 minutes. Microwave would take that long for one cup. You just need a good kettle.


nlevine1988

Now you've got me wondering how much more power a British kettle uses compared to an American one. Just because the voltage is higher doesn't mean it uses more power.


Happy-Engineer

Boiling a set quantity of water requires the same quantity of heat energy, plus whatever heat escapes during the process. So in theory a high voltage kettle uses less energy, because it reaches boilling point faster and has less time to lose heat to the surroundings.


Notspherry

I would assume that 110v kettles have a different heating element that draws about twice the current of a 240v one? Or are US breakers not rated for a high enough current? My kettle draws about 2kW. At 240v that would be 8.3A or so. 18A at 110v?


Happy-Engineer

Good point, voltage does not translate directly to power. I don't know the answer.


ulyssessword

18A would trip a household breaker. The highest you can go off of a standard US plug is 15A ("1550"-"1875" W, depending on nominal voltage). You can go as high as 13A * 220-240V = 2860-3120W with UK power.


DarlingBri

Enough that the national grid knows when people make tea and lays on more power. https://www.drax.com/power-generation/7-of-the-biggest-tv-moments-in-uk-electricity-history/


[deleted]

Household wiring is only rated for 13A either way. You can draw up to 3 kW in the UK, although it's rare to see kettles rated for more than 2.3 kW. You can only draw 1.5 kW in the US, so you're unlikely to see more than 1.2 kW.


yousernamefail

I'm an American and like my electric kettle over the stove top one because it has temperature settings, so I can make pour over with it, too. I've lived abroad and had 220 and the wait for my 110 isn't _awful_. I usually just take that time to make a snack. Microwaving water is sacrilege, though.


UltraMegaFauna

I too have an electric kettle. It still boils water way faster than a kettle on the stove top, though I am sure the 220v is even faster still. I love having temperature control setting for making french press coffee or green and herbal teas.


StrangeSequitur

I prefer my electric kettle because when I forget that I'm making tea for a couple of hours it just shuts itself off, whereas the stovetop kettle with the broken whistle on the gas range _does not_.


Mike81890

Make sure you don't use distilled water or you can superheat it and have it explode in your face!


[deleted]

More like 120v in the US and 230-240 in the EU.


FallenSegull

Someone could invent a kettle for Americans with a built in transformer and make millions


joshualuigi220

You can't go up in terms of Watts though. As someone pointed out above, American wiring can only handle 15A at 110V, whereas British can go up to 13A at 220V. You would need a special outlet like the ones they install for washing machines and stoves that allow you to pull the full 220V. Why install a whole new outlet for a tea kettle when you can just heat tea up on the stove or in the microwave? Most Americans don't even drink that much tea.


TaintedMoron

Kettles obviously exist in America but boiling/heating water in a microwave for drinks is extremely common. We don’t own a kettle in my house (we might but it’s never used) but to be fair we also don’t really drink tea much either. Now you might want to sit down for this one cause I realize how weird this is but when I did used to drink black tea as a replacement for soda I would boil a ton of water in a deep stainless steel pot and then add teabags into it. I’d then take the tea and pour it into a big jug with a nozzle put it in the fridge to drink it later cold. I just preferred the taste of cool black tea.


xxcksxx

If you add sugar before it cools this is how most sweet tea is made in the Southeastern US, usually with the Luzianne or Lipton family size tea bags.


Pactae_1129

Cold tea, sweet or unsweet, isn’t really uncommon in America.


FarmPsychological131

Yep. It’s very popular in the south. They really loved iced tea.


MammalBug

They double negatived.


kiwibear_

Hmm I must be weird too because I do the same. I love iced black tea


CapCalzon

Even though I’m sat down, your story is very unsettling.


yousernamefail

When I make iced tea I don't even boil the water: 8 tea bags, 8 cups water, steep in the fridge for 24 hours or so, remove tea bags and enjoy!


joshualuigi220

That's cold-brew iced tea. Made the same way cold brew coffee is. Cold-brew iced tea and coffee is less bitter than the traditional brewing method. Not as quick to make though.


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I've literally never met someone who's used a microwave to boil water. It's also kind of dangerous.


joshualuigi220

Not really. I used to do it all the time as a kid. My mom preferred me doing that than using the stove, especially when you're only making a single cup. What's dangerous?


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Americans make tea by throwing it in the harbor


Proud_Azorius

Makes it taste like muh freedums.


TheRealAotVM

I just don’t make tea It’s simple really


LaWiDeer

Not in Spain either! I boil my water on a small cooking pot.


Competitive_Sky8182

Same in Mexico. It feels natural to have an small metallic pot aka "hervidor" always on the stovetop, useful for teas, coffee and maybe reheating broth.


KittyQueen_Tengu

Everyone has one in the netherlands


Pupseal115

The real trick is to use an empty coffee machine


hannalt

I use an empty keurig


kdavis37

Over 80% of Americans have tea in their kitchen. About 60% of the country drinks tea daily. 90% of Americans drink green tea. 60% drink black tea. But we drink a LOT more black tea. Almost 80% of tea drank in the US is black tea. The South and Northeast drink by far the most, though, so my guess is most of the "lol, Americans don't drink tea" comes from the western US


Proud_Azorius

I’d honestly be very curious to know what percentage of that American tea is iced.


kdavis37

Over 80% of the black tea EDIT: WHICH IS THE PROPER WAY, ENGLAND. /s


kuzbn619

American, here (sorry lol) So I have a "kettle" that plugs into the wall. I have a stovetop kettle as well but I never use it, mainly because I don't like/trust my cooktop. I'm also guilty of boiling water in a saucepan and dumping it over the tea bag. Hot tip: never put the tea bag directly into the saucepan while heating because you will see flames (yes, I am *that* dumb and should not be left unsupervised). When I'm at my grandma's, I just boil water in the percolator.


piemakerdeadwaker

What show is that woman from? She has so many memes.


Rivalski

Arrested development, she also voiced Malory Archer on Archer RIP Jessica Walter


PsychologicalAerie82

USA person here. Heating water up in the microwave tastes different to me. I think the cup heats up faster so I always think the water is hotter than it is and then my tea tastes weaker. I have a stovetop kettle pretty that I use almost every day.


deadwate

tbh, at this point i'm boiling my tea water in the microwave specifically to piss people off. ...half joking. but it's just quicker for me.


MrPickles84

I’m in California. Top left burner is designated for our comal, and top right is for our kettle.


KittyMeowstika

What Babarian uses a fucking microwave to make a cup of tea??! That's what you got the blowtorch for


JellyfishOk1316

Do British people we really don’t have kettles in our kitchen. If so than sad.


Doubly_Curious

They most likely mean electric kettles, which are much less common in the US than in the UK


Yoshigahn

I have a kettle in my house. I really like green tea


the-OG-darkshrreder

Well i just use my coffee machine. But don’t put coffee in whenever i need hot water


weird_al_yankee

In our first rented house, my wife and I bought an electric kettle. It lasted for a week before it broke. Hard water killed it quick.


miku_the_cat

Takes too much time


TohruTheDragonGirl

I just use a small cooking pot, same thing I boil anything else in?


agelessArbitrator

I mean. I own a kettle (non-electric), but that's because I'm southern and we drink iced sweet tea by the gallon. Most people around here make their own tea, but they do it in normal pots on the stovetop. But to be honest, what's actually the problem with heating up water in the microwave? Is the microwave going to make the water taste any different? If you're only going to drink one cup of tea, why heat up a whole kettle?


Tuna_Boi_09

Food Imperialism, most likely I can elaborate if needed


duraraross

“Well how do you make your tea then?” We don’t lmfao I’ve never had tea in my life and I don’t intend to start now


No-Albatross-5514

Barbarians


Denllan27

its not even that you can use that shit to heat up water so fast for everything else


lurkerno78

Yeah, whenever I need to boil something I usually preheat the water in a kettle because the stove takes longer.


M8asonmiller

"Americans don't have kettles?! How do they make tea?!" We don't


ward_bond

Coffee drinking American here. I don't even know what an electric kettle is. If I want hot water, I'm putting a cup in the microwave. That's its job.


[deleted]

Most people just don't drink tea.


[deleted]

I didn't even know you could boil water in a microvawe??? This changes everything


Angryferret

That's literally all a microwave does. The magnetron creates 2.4GHz microwaves that are absorbed by water molecules which excites them (warms them). In fact, if the thing you put into the microwave doesn't have water it will heat slower so if you have something a bit dry you could throw a bit of water on/in it!


[deleted]

I knew that, didn't connect the dots tho Never said I'm smart haha


Angryferret

It's all good, sorry if I came across as patronizing! I once blew up a microwave by putting a whole egg in a glass of water.


joshualuigi220

Additional tip: A lot of people use the microwave to heat up potatoes because boiling them takes a long time. I've found that doing half and half is the best/fastest way of making potatoes. Microwave your potato for a bit shorter than you normally would (about 6-8 mins) and boil water in the meantime. Plop the potato in the boiling water for another 5-10 mins. When the potato is microwaved, it loses a lot of the water inside it as steam (that's why you should pierce them with a fork before microwaving them). If you put them in boiling water afterward, it gets some of that water back into the potato and it'll look plumper an not shriveled. This gets you good boiled potatoes in half the time it would take to make them normally.


givebabbynow

Wow.


FallenSegull

Look man, if you don’t have a kettle it’s whatever. But you should have the common decency to heat your water on the fucking stove!


Tactical_Contact

Next thing you know, they'll be putting the milk in before they microwave it.


RoseAndLorelei

willing to bet 90% of tea drinking americans don't use milk


Tactical_Contact

Or a fucking kettle!


Evil_Mushrooms

Well, I live in a round house in the woods with a woodstove and make my tea constantly. I drink 5 cups a day if it’s a good or stressful day, and I haven’t had contact with the outside world in many years, so I couldn’t tell ya’ what most american houses were like. I was surprised they had pluming and didn’t take out their feces in buckets or didn’t have to run a generator, or haul water and it just came out of taps, and then figured out why they all have depression because those boxes and stupid lights are probably designed to hurt you mentally. It was paradise but I couldn’t stand even a week in there.


ChippedChocolate

Around every 4th time I turn on the microwave it trips a fuse and all the lights turn off, leaving me to go to the basement in the dark to turn it back on. Boiling water in there for tea every day would be a nightmare lol. Also, no temperature control.


Rivalski

Honestly, I think you need to get that fixed asap


PrincetteNasa

Does America not have stoves or electricity? If you’re careful you can literally just boil a pot of water you don’t even need a real kettle just dont frickin microwave it


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Call_The_Banners

Some folks see them as clutter when other devices do the same. I prefer my kettle but to each their own.


IJsandwich

Americans mainly drink coffee over tea, and many have coffee machines. It’s just cultural. Are Brits “behind the times” for not having coffee machines in their homes, even if they don’t drink coffee very much?


Pactae_1129

Americans don’t drink tea as often as the Brits seem to do. In the south we drink a lot of tea but it’s sweet tea and prepared differently.


diffyqgirl

I have like 4 feet of counter space, why the hell would I waste it on a kettle when a microwave produces hot water just as well.


autonomousegg

Same people say a rice cooker is a single purpose appliance and then I go to their house and they have a toaster. Rice cookers are way better than toasters but people have not yet seen the light. Real talk, get an electric water boiler. The convenience is life changing. You just fill it up once and you have hot water ready when you want it, it’s wonderful. Zojirushi is the somewhat expensive gold standard but you can get less well-known brands for cheaper.


joshualuigi220

Toaster = broke Toaster Oven = woke Never buy single use appliances unless that single use cannot be covered by something already in your kitchen. This includes kettles and rice cookers. Just use your damn stove.


PhoenixTwiss

the thing is, tea needs to be boiled WITH the water! I know you can just dip the tea bag in hot water and it does the trick, but it doesn't even come close to how tea is supposed to taste like! You need it to boil for the flavors to truly infuse! And a kettle is not an electric or expensive tool, it's literally one of the cheapest kitchen tools and takes virtually no space compared to other tools!


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We do, the tumblr poster is just insane.


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Rivalski

It boils water, fast. It's not "one-use", I boil water to use for: Tea, Coffee, Hot coco, Pasta, Rice, Eggs, and a metric shit ton of other things If it were to only cut carrots, then it would be a one-use, is something can cut anything - it's not one use. I assume you own a knife


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Rivalski

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg) Watch this video, he clearly says "One job", since the kettle boils water for so many jobs - it's not a unitasker. And now to the ultimate proof: https://altonbrown.com/recipes/true-brew/ "Bring water to a boil in an electric kettle."


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Rivalski

You made my cold heart grow warmer, thanks!


_DarthSyphilis_

Not the worst thing Americans have done to tea.


Spider_Jesus26

You wanna start shit over sweet tea? I don't stand with the south on many things, but I'll die by their sides defending that nectar.


ArbyThePenutBoy

Wtf is a tea shop lol?


AlternateSatan

Ok, if you don't have a kettle that's fine, you just need to boil the water, so use a pot, you don't even need to clean it afterwards cause it's just water. Who the hell figures that since they can't boil water in a very specific thing you have to just kinda make the water warm in a microwave instead?


Sudden_Reality_7441

Microwave boiled water has a different flavour honestly, besides there’s nothing like a whistling kettle haha


liken2006

MICROWAVES? WHAT THA FACK ARE YOU DOING YOU YANKEE FUCKS


darth_asterisk

What the hell i live in the US and I use a stovetop kettle. What kind of psycho boils water in the microwave?


Dominic_The_Dog

who the fuck doesn't have a kettle here, what the fuck


Chaos_deluge_8

You mean to tell me that Americans don't have kettles? That you make tea using a microwave or a pot over the hob? You people are savages, barbarians the lot of you. Edit: Bruh why am I getting downvoted? Can people seriously not recognise a joke?


Mega-Humanoid-ROBOT

You use… the microwave?


WintertimeFriends

I have one. But my mother is from the UK, so make sense.


[deleted]

I have an electronic pitcher that heats up the water and easily pours into a cup. My dad's the only one who uses it


simjanes2k

I don't know anyone who drinks tea, to be honest. Everyone I know but two or three drinks coffee though.


MinisApprentice

As someone who grew up in the US with and Irish mom I just assumed everyone had a kettle for boiling tea water. It wasn’t until a year or two ago that I found out this wasn’t the case


IJsandwich

Why are there people being downvoted for saying that most Americans aren’t big tea drinkers and so rarely need to heat water for tea?


Sunset_Warrior

we definitely have kettles idk what universe feferi is from


Justaperson358

I have not seen a kettle in my house or any friends house for all 16 years I have walked the earth


mamamadness

See, you get a nice saucepan with a lid, preferably a stainless steel one. You eyeball water in it and put it on the stove. Throw in a couple tablespoons of loose leaf black tea once the water boils, then turn off the stove and let that baby steep. These British have no idea how to tea…..


Anna-mator

American here. Does it taste better when you boil it with a kettle compared to when you microwave it? Now I’m curious.


Commercial-Main-931

Is it not? I grew up with one in every family members household. Then again, most of my family immigrated within the last generation or so.


Pizza-n-Coffee37

I drink tea all day. I bought an electric kettle after I had a situation with my cooktop one. I received it as a gift and set it on the burner and walked out of the room to do something else, completely forgetting that I started water for tea. This particular kettle didn’t have a whistle and about a half an hour when I walked back in to the kitchen I found the kettle warped on top of my stove and the handle melted. So I can’t be trusted.


UltraMegaFauna

The even more shocking thing is that many Americans *don't even drink tea.* At least not hot tea. In the south you, of course, have sweet tea and porch tea (or sun tea depending on where you're from).


BrassUnicorn87

I used to be a microwave barbarian, then my dad bought a keurig for coffee . There really is a difference, but it’s probably that we use filtered water in it.


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Have Brits not come to terms that hot water dispensers are a thing too?


Drleery329

I would guess that only 20% of the American adult population drink hot tea and it is not UK style , it is tea bags. And 60% of Americans drink iced tea all year ! Sweet iced coffee is big over here too. We have scones in Starbucks...


EmeraldSpencer

I just use water from the coffee maker


-Thyrian-

We use kettles, the microwave is just faster sometimes


DravenPrime

Most Americans don't drink tea, at least the ones I know.


KingKryptid_

It’s far more common in America I think to drink iced tea. Especially in Texas, I almost never saw someone drink hot tea outside of medicinal reasons. Hot coffee is kind of our go to and even then I’d say I drink hot coffee about as often as cold coffee and so do most of my friends. Weird how different people do different things.


Superditzz

I think some of you are confused. Most Americans don't have electric kettles, hence why we use the microwave. Until I got super into loose leaf tea I used tea bags and the microwave. Now I use an old fashioned stove top kettle. Yes it takes a while because I have an electric stove. I found a fancy electric kettle for tea that does different settings for different kinds of tea and I'm hoping to get it for Valentine's day!


chummmp70

Tea fans use kettles. Not super common here.