/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10800074

Just turn on the hot water tap and use that, retard

My roommate would boil water for coffee in the microwave because he didn't know how to use our kettle. We're burgers so you just fill it with water and stick it on the stove. A few months later we later found out he didn't even know how to turn on the stove.

>>10800074
ohhhhhhh say can you see!

>>10800074
Using a microwave to heat up water is like turning all the stoves on max to warm the house

>>10800271
Isn't it the opposite?
Aren't microwaves technically more efficient at heating up water because that's literally all microwaves do?
Aren't stoves less efficient because heat isn't directed into the kettle or pot?

>>10800275
Whenever I had microwaved coffee, it would have a different taste than if it was made in a kettle

>>10800074
Just boil water in a pot on a stovetop dummy

>not having a coffee maker that does the boiling for you

>>10800275
Microwaves (the actual wave, not "microwave oven") are extremely efficient at heating water, yes. But there are overriding problems:
1) microwaves plug into a wall outlet. That is capable of supplying far less power than that used for an oven.
and
2) the circuitry inside the microwave oven which converts electricity into said microwaves is not all that efficient. A resistive heating element like that inside an electric kettle is 100% efficient.
3) An electric kettle is much better insulated than a pot on the stove or a container in a microwave oven.

>>10800074
Actually why do Americans not have kettles? I had a girlfriend from New York once, and when I wanted to make coffee at her place I had to boil the water in a fucking pan (she didn't even have a proper pot)

>>10801883
You have to go back, amigo

>>10801883
because their domestic power supply is so cucked it cant run a kettle.

do americans actually microwave water whenever they want hot water?

one time a uni buddy's parents were visiting from america and they were bewildered at this strange device we used to heat water. i thought they were just weird outliers but is this actually what life in america is like?

>>10801883
1) We don't drink that much tea.
2) Those who do drink a lot of tea use pic related which is even faster than a kettle.
3) our electric kettles take twice as long a UK models because our standard wall outlets have a lower maximum possible wattage than Euro circuts. At that point the stove is faster because it has no such power limit.

>>10801883
I just boil my water in a pot.

>>10801995
Do Europeans really make these types of posts?

Just whisk the water until it's hot enough.

>>10802019
im canadian

>>10801952
She's the one living in my homeland. I have never and would never move to New York. Maybe she should go back

>>10800641
Based fellow /sci/ poster

>>10800641
>>10802319
You have to go back

>>10802073
That's even worse.

>>10801995
No dumbass.

First we get a pot ready. Then we take our gun...

>>10802010
>3) our electric kettles take twice as long a UK models because our standard wall outlets have a lower maximum possible wattage than Euro circuts. At that point the stove is faster because it has no such power limit.

I had never considered this. Is it true? I was never an electric-kettle person, it never seemed much faster than the stovetop

I like room temperature coffee.

>>10800283
no, it didn't. shut your lying mouth faggot. i hope you get the shit beaten out of you very soon.

>>10800283

clean your microwave

>>10800258
Kill him. What a fucking waste of flesh.

>>10803058
way easier to get hot fast with 240 volt mains m8

>>10801995
I use the kettle or my good old unfuckable cast iron tea pot. Which I use depends on how lazy I am at the time

>>10800074
I feel inductive cooktops to be the perfect middle ground.
>can deliver heat fast as fuck, great for boiling water
>can also deliver heat slowly, imitating a flame based cooktop

>>10800074
Stovetop kettles are GOAT, anyone who disagrees is a brainlet who fell for the overengineered electric kettle meme