/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14837110]

Do you microwave or boil you water for tea? Mostly interested in answers from Brits.

[Anonymous No.14837154]

We have electric kettles.
The idea of a household without an electric kettle is as absurd as lacking a toilet.

[Anonymous No.14837188]

>>14837110
I personally have a hole in my back garden that goes deep into the earth's crust. I pump water in there, which is heated by the mantel. When it comes back out it is perfect tea temperature. Also, it's incredibly efficient, i would definitely recommend.

[Anonymous No.14837207]

>>14837110
I find, that by putting a teabag with cream and sugar in a cup of cold water, then putting this into the microwave, I have a cup of tea all stirred up and nice by the time it boils for two or three minutes. .

[Anonymous No.14837308]

>>14837110
We have an electric kettle, but my brother has an old style kettle you put on the gas burner on the stove it's cool and it whistles when it's ready.

[Anonymous No.14837315]

>>14837110
Who the fuck microwaves water to heat it.
Use a kettle you swine.

[Anonymous No.14837325]

>>14837110
It's incredible how obscure the kettle is.

[Anonymous No.14837327]

>>14837110
Boiled water from a kettle into the teapot with tea leaves in a strainer... Or into a mug with a teabag if it's just me.

[Anonymous No.14837330]

>>14837325
obscure or ubiquitous?

[Anonymous No.14837337]

>>14837188

[Anonymous No.14837392]

>>14837315
You seem to be the racist, as is very common with your types. I simply don't give a shit about your fucking nations and don't want to visit them.
If you want to call me racist for disagreeing with you then you must have been shillary supporters since that's the best that they can do.
Are you still seething in your closets because Trump beat your annointed one?

[Anonymous No.14837473]

>>14837392
wtf are you talking about this thread is for microwave vs boil methods

stop being a retard you made all that up in your head for fucking what? what did you achieve? a (you)? pfff!

[Anonymous No.14837477]

I have one of these, it keeps water constantly hot so you don't have to wait for it to boil if you want tea/coffee

but the smug attitude from people who use kettles over people who use microwaves makes no fucking sense. It's hot water. Heat it up however you want, its not like using one method adds more flavor over another.

[Anonymous No.14837496]

>>14837477
boiling hard water will precipitate out calcium and magnesium salts. Doing this in a kettle leaves a good amount of this in the kettle. Doing this in a mug leaves all of it in the mug.

Tea's better when it's neutral or even mildly acidic.

[Anonymous No.14837557]

>>14837330
Well outside the UK, obscure
In the UK, ubiquitous

[Anonymous No.14837581]

>>14837477
Kettles are more efficient, quicker, safer (superheating in a microwave) and like the guy previous said, a little more healthy.
It's a unitasker that has been refined.

It's there to boil water, it does so very well and quick.
Even though it is a unitasker, boiling water is a very useful thing.
Instead of putting a pan of cold water for pasta on a hob and boiling it up that way, kettle is quicker and cheaper.

[Anonymous No.14837642]

>>14837581
>Even though it is a unitasker
Hardly, have you never boiled an egg in your kettle?

[Anonymous No.14837664]

>>14837496
do you earnestly believe that increasing the temperature makes calcium and magnesium less soluble in water, or is your water so supersaturated with divalent cations that the minimal volume loss from phase transition is enough to precipitate all the salts?

[Anonymous No.14837672]

Microwave for 2 minutes. Bag in mug for 2 minutes. Stir in milk and drink.

[Anonymous No.14837749]

>>14837664 I can see that you've never ever used an electric or stove kettle because then you'd know that it builds up a layer of calcium that needs to be periodically cleaned.

[Anonymous No.14837832]

>>14837664
Your trying to sound smart but Mg is less soluble in boiling water

[Anonymous No.14837838]

who the fuck microwaves water

[Anonymous No.14837841]

>>14837110
Ok wait a minute. Do people outside of the uk not have kettles in their houses or something? I thought it was an essential kitchen appliance and just something everyone owned?
>t.brit

[Anonymous No.14837858]

>>14837841
Ubiquitous in V4+Austria

[Anonymous No.14837863]

>>14837838
shartmericans

[Anonymous No.14837874]

>>14837841
Never seen (except TV) or owned a kettle in my life. Always boil water in a small non-stick pot on the stove.
>t.usa

[Anonymous No.14837877]

>>14837841
Americans don't use them since 110v takes ages to heat a kettle

[Anonymous No.14837886]

>>14837841
Everyone I know has one, but we don't use it for tea but to drink normally
>t. third worlder

[Anonymous No.14837896]

>>14837642
I have made spaghetti in mine.

[Anonymous No.14837903]

>>14837110
Ausfag here. Just use the kettle

[Anonymous No.14837911]

My grandma is British and she uses a kettle without fail.

[Anonymous No.14837922]

>>14837841
Everyone has them here in Aus and NZ.
Same with Canada and Japan when I went there.
Literally send to only be Seppos that don't have them for whatever reason.
Literally

[Anonymous No.14837982]

I boil water in a small pot then pour into my mug with the tea bag so it can brew for a bit. I would like an electric kettle but I'm the only person in my family that drinks tea in a regular basis so boiling from a pot is good enough for me.

[Anonymous No.14837990]

>>14837982
Could just eat more pasta or boil eggs anon.
Boiling water has lots of uses and a kettle is the most efficient way to do it.

[Anonymous No.14838306]

>>14837110
not even a brit if you microwave your water instead of using stovetop or electric kettle, kys

[Anonymous No.14838343]

>>14837982
>pot
based as fuck if you can’t afford a kettle. if you need a lot of tea for a lot of people in under 10 minutes, you can speedrun it by putting the teabags in the pot as it boils (harder to do in a kettle), but be warned that the resulting tea tastes like shit. works best if you’re going to be adding lemon, cream etc

[Anonymous No.14838355]

>>14837110
Alright britbongs, how should I clean my electric kettle? It always develops a thin layer of calcium buildup or something after a few uses

[Anonymous No.14838366]

Do Americans really microwave their water?
Hahahhaa
Even in the middle east they have kettles.

[Anonymous No.14838394]

>>14838355
You have to descale it with vinegar. Just look that up on google. Not hard

[Anonymous No.14838444]

I grill my water for that grilled texture

[Anonymous No.14838481]

>>14837110
As others have said, kettles are just something everyone has. It legitimately boggled my mind when I learned some other countries don't have them as standard. How do Americans make coffee without kettles? You don't just use 'em for tea here.

[Anonymous No.14838503]

>>14838355
It's limescale, just use limescale remover

[Anonymous No.14838533]

>>14838394
>>14838503
Thanks nigs, just wondered if there were any secret volkisch tricks you guys had

[Anonymous No.14838558]

>>14837110
Used to know a paki who microwaved it. I have it the proper way, 100% british tea bags with boiled water from a Tesco kettle.

[Anonymous No.14838561]

Can you use diluted water in kettles or does that make limescale bad?

[Anonymous No.14838583]

>>14838355
You can buy stuff to descale it.

[Anonymous No.14838605]

>>14838561
It’s usually not a good idea to put anything but regular water inside, because they’re kind of hard to clean. Generally, if it leaves any kind of residue behind when you boil it, it’ll be kind of a pain.

[Anonymous No.14838654]

>>14837315
When there's no stove and no electric kettle.
I used to microwave water in the break room at work to make tea.
Now, I just keep my electric kettle at work for everyone to use.

[Anonymous No.14838683]

>>14838355
>Using hard water

[Anonymous No.14838699]

>>14837642
I actually cooked a shitload with it when I was forced to live in a hotel for a couple of months by my job. There was nothing there apart from a kettle so I propped a bowl of beans or whatever on top and held the power down until they were heated through by the steam

Then after like 2 weeks of that I went to go buy a microwave and found a plug in electric grill in wilkos for like £20, which massively increased my options. Fuck hotel living though, especially when they don't even give you a fridge

[Anonymous No.14838724]

>>14837110
I know you want a British answer, but t I use an electric kettle to boil water. For tea, I place desired loose leaf in a strainer and pour the water over it in the cup, then steep for a set amount of time.
t. American

[Anonymous No.14838769]

>>14837110
I got a little Japanese water heater, so I have got to boiling water whenever I want. I pour the boiling water into the kettle or mug. No need for an electric tea kettle.

[Anonymous No.14838786]

>>14838481
Americans use a stand alone coffee maker, like a Mr. Coffee, since they can be bought for $20 or less or a Keurig. Others would boil water from a pot and pour it into a french press or a ceramic coffee drip.

[Anonymous No.14838789]

>>14837838
How do non-Americans reheat tea or coffee gone cold? Double-boil method?

[Anonymous No.14838826]

>>14838786
I always assumed coffee makers were for upper middle class people
You mean your average nig is gonna have an automatic coffee maker?
>>14838683
Not him but nigger I'm not using my bottled water on fucking Yorkshire. That goes to muh black gold bi luo chun autism tea.

[Anonymous No.14838891]

>>14838826
Nah, coffee makers are generally seen as the unitasker for the working task. They're pretty cheap, specially in sale. Keurigs on the other hand, those are expensive in every single aspect.

[Anonymous No.14839020]

>>14838481
Not american but we make coffee with this

[Anonymous No.14839041]

every day we remind ourselves americans are retarded

[Anonymous No.14839048]

>>14838789
you generally don’t it fucks with the flavour
make what you can drink and enjoy it while it’s hot

[Anonymous No.14839089]

>>14839020
Aren't those supposed to be shitty? I mean, in this country (UK) they have a really bad reputation, but that might just be because they're old and what we used to use before Italian style coffee became popular.

[Anonymous No.14839091]

>>14837110

>mom always told me not to microwave a bowl of water because it would explode on me

what did she mean by this?

[Anonymous No.14839154]

>>14838561
>diluted water
Nigga

[Anonymous No.14839162]

>>14837154
/thread

[Anonymous No.14839224]

>>14839091
distilled water will explode Fact!, or you just didn't have microwave safe bowls and the excessive heat could make them crack and dump boiling water all over you

[Anonymous No.14839245]

>>14837110
If you boil the water you are doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.14839250]

>>14838826
i bought my coffee maker for $10 at walmart, almost every house in America has one. I have two 1 for coffee and 1 tea

[Anonymous No.14839257]

>>14837877
full on bullshit, 2400W on 20A 120v

[Anonymous No.14839280]

>>14839089
the old coffee maker got a bad rep because supposedly the water was to hot and burn the coffee (but they would make a pot in under a 1 minute) the new coffee makers are a lot slower. It's basically a automatic pour over

[Anonymous No.14839290]

>>14839245
https://youtu.be/DTuXBoA688Y
All you need to know

[Anonymous No.14839337]

>>14839245
If you don't boil English style tea then you are doing something very wrong.

[Anonymous No.14839351]

>>14837110
In Europe we use electric kettles but I guess you could boil it in a pot as well but who the fuck nukes water O.o

[Anonymous No.14839367]

>>14839089
Of course they're shitty. They're not meant to make good coffee, they're meant to make convenient coffee.

[Anonymous No.14839380]

>>14839367
why not just use a french press or moka

[Anonymous No.14839404]

>>14837982
I mean you use the kettle for coffee too.
This is what confuses us Commonwealth chads about you cucks

[Anonymous No.14839411]

>>14838789
You don't.
Tea and coffee taste like shit reheated

[Anonymous No.14839423]

>>14839380
a moka just seems like a fancy Percolator which Americans moved away from decades ago. A drip coffee maker is simple and quick, just flip the switch in the morning and a few minutes later you have a pot of coffee, no messing around like with a french press

[Anonymous No.14839424]

>>14837110
microwaving water boils it you nonce

[Anonymous No.14839436]

>>14839404
I bet his family all uses a Keurig.
My home is the same way. You gotta understand that normalfags don't see keurig as a way to conveniently make shitty coffee. They believe it is the absolute pinnacle of coffee technology and that there is nothing better.
They see me using my aeropress or moka pot and think I'm working harder to make worse coffee. Have they ever tried my coffee? No.
So, in my house. Nobody will ever use an electric kettle but me. So it's never going to get counter-space. I just have to pull out a stovetop kettle if I want hot water, like the other anon.

[Anonymous No.14839439]

>>14839424
acording to Alton Brown microwaves can get water above boiling temp without actually causing it to boil

[Anonymous No.14839446]

>>14837990
Yeah a kettle is literally just a water boiler, you put the kettle on before you boil water EVER
Whenever you've made pasta, boiled potatos, made rice, blanched stuff, imagine pressing a button on the Boil Machine and you get boiled water in 30 seconds.
>>14839423
I've never used or seen a percolator but looking around online it seems they're very different. Moka pots make something like a less concentrated espresso.
What faff are you talking about re: French press?

[Anonymous No.14839461]

>>14839439
That's not exactly what he said.
He was talking about the phenomenon of water exceeding boiling temp when the container it is in lacks nucleation sites for bubbles to form.
Usually, impurities within the water itself is enough to provide nucleation sites, but if your water is distilled or being boiled for a second time, this problem can occur in very smooth containers like pyrex glass.
And easy fix is to leave a toothpick or chopstick in the water, or to use a less smooth container, (at work, I microwave my water in one of our paper hot-cups)

[Anonymous No.14839464]

>>14837110
I have an electric kettle, I boil. I am an American.

[Anonymous No.14839501]

>>14839446
with a french press there are more steps and and timing that has to be accounted for, not flip a switch and walk away to get the rest of your breakfast ready.

[Anonymous No.14839521]

>>14837110
Electric kettle almost excusively. Microwaving water never even was something I contemplated as a thing until I saw an American do it online.

[Anonymous No.14839526]

>>14837315
That is literally what a microwave does you inbred beast.

[Anonymous No.14839528]

>>14839404
>>14839436
I'm a grill but yeah. My family got rid of their coffee maker in favor of a Keurig since they thought "expensive=better" but it's not. They actually barely use it since those Keurig single coffee cups are super expensive and just buy coffee from Mcdonald's or Dunkin' Donuts. I might buy a cheap stove top kettle but unsure what would be the difference from boiling water in a small pot.

[Anonymous No.14839553]

>>14839521
We microwave water because many of us have electric stove tops that take forever to boil water and a good microwave will give you a cup of boiling water in about 1 minute

[Anonymous No.14839585]

>>14837110
OP here I fucking love you guys

[Anonymous No.14839596]

>>14839501
>More steps and timing.
>Pour a little water on and wait a bit for it to degas
>Pour the rest of the water.

[Anonymous No.14839602]

>>14839245
Black tea needs to be at boiling point, especially the teas used in English blends.

[Anonymous No.14839619]

>>14839596
Yeah, that IS more steps and introduces a timing issue.
If you leave that and come back to it too late, it's not done right, brew time has gone on way too long.
The same is not true for a drip machine.

[Anonymous No.14839633]

>>14839619
Not really. A coffee machine has more steps and there's no real timing issue either unless you want to be autistic about it. I just leave it for a few minutes and not even time it. Hell if you're fussed about that, just pour all the water in at once. It'll taste fine.

[Anonymous No.14839708]

>>14839553
>many of us have electric stove tops that take forever to boil water
The anon you're responding to is talking about an electric kettle though. The kettle sits on top of a little baseplate that plugs into the wall, and powers the heating element inside the kettle. Heats water about as quickly as a microwave, and does not require a stove. They're pretty universal here in Canada.

[Anonymous No.14839718]

>>14839633
meh, i prep my coffee machine the night before and just flip the switch in the morning. Honestly i didn't notice any difference between the coffee maker and my french press. To each his own

[Anonymous No.14839737]

>>14839708
i was referring to heating a pot of water on the stove compared to a microwave, but why own a electric kettle if i also own a microwave? seems redundant, after all hot water is hot water, it's not like the microwave changes the molecular structure of the water making it inferior to kettle heated water.

[Anonymous No.14839752]

>>14839528
Just buy a Mr. Coffee. They make perfectly good coffee.

[Anonymous No.14839760]

>>14839633
A coffee machine doesn't have more steps.
You need to boil water in a kettle for the french press. wait for that or make sure you get back to the kettle on time. Then add coffee and the hot water and wait for it to brew or make sure you come back to it on time.
It's two separate waiting periods rather than just 1. And the brew never stops and the water needs to be poured off before it's gone too long.

[Anonymous No.14839788]

>>14839752
I don't drink coffee.

[Anonymous No.14839790]

>>14839788
Well, nobody's perfect.

[Anonymous No.14839803]

>>14839737
It's just convenient. You put water in the kettle, hit the little switch, and walk away. It automatically turns off once the water starts boiling, and is pretty well insulated so the water stays hot in the kettle. With a microwave, I'd have to wait around to watch it boil or risk it boiling over. I also feel like the chances of burning yourself might be a tiny bit higher with an open container than with a kettle.
So no, it's not a big difference, just a few of the niceties you get when you buy something purpose-built. They're also quite cheap, and I don't own a microwave anyway, so I find them useful.

[Anonymous No.14839816]

>>14839752
>>14839788
i make green tea in my Mr. coffee, i toss 8 bags in the top and let it run, few minutes later i have a pot of green tea.

[Anonymous No.14839827]

>>14839760
I think you're overthinking it.

[Anonymous No.14839843]

>>14839816
Haven't thought of brewing tea in a Mr. Coffee like that. I sometimes run a Keurig without the coffee cup since they're basically an electric water dispenser with a gimmick.

[Anonymous No.14839848]

>>14837315
This.

[Anonymous No.14839850]

>>14839526
>irradiating your food
>the exact same technology that made navy seamen infertile
do americans really?

[Anonymous No.14839854]

>>14839843
Mr. Coffee is a true gentleman when it comes to hot brewed beverages. The British can shove their kettles up their arse.

[Anonymous No.14839863]

>>14839850
If a microwave is irradiating your food, so are your router and phone. In fact, your wifi router works on pretty much the exact same frequency as your microwave.

[Anonymous No.14839946]

>>14839850
this is not even bait, it's just stupidity
>microwave
>irradiating
>exposed to radiation
only by the farthest stretch of technicality and that's only when the microwave is running, once you take you food out there is zero radiation.

[Anonymous No.14840131]

>>14837392
Genuine schizo post.

[Anonymous No.14840215]

>>14837832
Embarrassing, honestly

[Anonymous No.14840405]

Britbong here, I don't even drink tea or coffee myself but can't imagine going without a kettle anyway because boiling water has a ton of other uses and its nice to have the option to make tea and coffee for guests too.

[Anonymous No.14840941]

I just boil my water in a small pot.

[Anonymous No.14840979]

>>14840941
a large pan would work faster because it has more surface area

[Anonymous No.14840980]

Depends on if I want more than one cup. If I plan on just having one, I’ll just put the cup in the microwave. Otherwise, I boil the water and transfer it to a teapot to cool it down.

[Anonymous No.14841026]

>>14837110
i have a keurig thing but it makes hot water taste like cofee ; ( (

[Anonymous No.14841030]

>>14840980
>I boil the water and transfer it to a teapot to cool it down.
why boil it just to turn around and cool it down?

[Anonymous No.14841409]

I have a kettle but nowadays I never take it out of the pantry.
It's so easy to just microwave the water for tea. If I need water for cooking, that's so fast with an induction stove that it's not worth the effort to save 10 seconds with a kettle.

[Anonymous No.14841447]

tea robot

[Anonymous No.14841684]

>>14838561
Distilled?

[Anonymous No.14841811]

>>14837110
Big kettle on range. Always hot.

[Anonymous No.14842336]

>>14839091
Old microwaves used to do this, I remember it being on the news quite often in the 80s. If the microwave emitters focused the microwaves in one spot and there was no turntable (or the focused spot was in the centre of the turntable) then pockets of the water could become superheated without boiling. Then, when you stir it, the superheated water boils instantly and you get a massive stream explosion. People have died.

[Anonymous No.14842384]

>>14839245
Only for green tea

[Anonymous No.14844031]

>>14842384
why? please elaborate.

[Anonymous No.14844247]

>>14837664
Your argument is understandable, but as usual with chemistry, the real world is a fuckton more complex. Hes actually right that those salts would precipitate as you heat the water.
First consider that CO2 dissolves in water and reacts with it to form carbonic acid. This is an equilibrium process.
CO2(aq) + H2O ----> H2CO3(aq)
Concentration (think partial pressure) of CO2 is greater underground, which results in more dissolved CO2 and therefore lower pH.
CaCO3 ---> Ca2+ + CO32-
CO32- + H+ <----> HCO3-
Here calcium carbonate found underground dissolves in the water. Then the carbonate ion reacts with a proton to give bicarbonate. Calcium bicarb is much more soluble than calcium carbonate. So at higher pH lots of CaCO3 dissolves and is converted to bicarbonate by this equilibrium process.
Once the water comes out through the tap, it is exposed to much lower concentrations of CO2 than are found underground. Through another reaction carbonic acid decomposes to water and CO2.
H2CO3 <----> H2O + CO2
Since the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is now suddenly lower, by henrys law more CO2 will now come out of the solution and go back to the gas phase to respond to this change. This is called outgassing. As shown in the reaction above, CO2 outgassing will deplete the H+ source (carbonic acid). As H+ depletes, pH lowers and more bicarb is converted back to carbonate. Calcium carbonate, which has poor solubility in water, precipitates. Heating the water would make CO2 outgas faster and therefore cause precipitation of CaCO3 to increase. A similar pH dependent process happens with Mg(OH)2 which also causes it to precipitate at atmospheric CO2 levels. >>14837832 is misleading.

[Anonymous No.14844342]

>>14844031
Not him but for basically any tea, brewing them in boiling water will make the tea way too fucking bitter. This is especially true for green tea, but it's true for oolong, white, and even black tea (which is better at 95 or 90).

The main exception is English style tea, which is so shitty that it's designed to be boiled to extract all the shittiness which is promptly hidden with milk and sugar. This is because, historically, tea kept on a ship for six months in wildly changing climates did not keep well. Ofc English tea is by far the most popular in the west so boiling for tea is generally what you want to do.

t. someone who has English tea on the reg but prefers Chinese stuff

[Anonymous No.14844348]

>>14844342
Ok chud

[Anonymous No.14844390]

>>14844348
wat

[Anonymous No.14844408]

>>14844390
He's trying to force a shitty self made meme phrase by spamming it in all the threads.

[Anonymous No.14844416]

>>14844390
you heard me, dilate.

[Anonymous No.14844701]

I make tea in two ways.

Method 1: Place tea in infuser, boil kettle, pour hot water into teapot. Let tea infuse for 1-2 mins. Pour tea. Drink tea.

Method 2: Place lots of tea in metal teapot with water. Boil and stew on the hob for any length of time. Pour/drink/reheat whenever tea is required.

[Anonymous No.14844971]

>>14844408
this, almost as bad a the "vinegary shits" anon and the "pepperoni pizza is only for kids" anon, possibly all the same anon because they don't seem to understand how memes work.

[Anonymous No.14844989]

>>14844416
you're coming on to strong which makes you seem like a 12yo on xbox live, try being more subtle and entrap the person you're trying to troll by getting them to say something that can be misconstrued then use their own words as ammo to make them look stupid.

[Anonymous No.14844999]

>>14844342
good to know...that i've been doing it wrong all these years

[Anonymous No.14845020]

>>14844989
Sure thing chud

[Anonymous No.14845040]

>>14844999
Were you boiling green tea or not-boiling *nglo tea?

[Anonymous No.14845216]

>>14839250
Wrong water temperature for tea. Those make very hot water, which is good for coffee, but for tea you need it properly BOILING.

[Anonymous No.14845223]

>>14845020
Ok, chud.

[Anonymous No.14845253]

>>14845040
i was bringing a pot of water to a boil, turn off heat and move to a cool burner then throw on 8 green tea bags (to make a gallon) and let it steep for 8 min.

[Anonymous No.14845271]

>>14845020
Chud
-An insult used primarily by people on the socialist left.

wow way to out yourself in one word

[Anonymous No.14845277]

>>14845216
i make mostly herbal tea and it seems to work well for that

[Anonymous No.14845310]

>>14845271
That's exactly what a chud would say

[Anonymous No.14845349]

>>14845253
What the fuck
Nothing about this is normal, this almost sounds like north african green tea

[Anonymous No.14845456]

>>14845349
Florida "im in a hurry "tea, i make a gallon up and put it in the fridge so a can grab a cup of ice tea when ever

[Anonymous No.14845462]

>>14845310
still trying to force a meme

[Anonymous No.14845469]

>>14845462
Ok chud

[Anonymous No.14845726]

>>14845469
shit memes catch on better on /b/ or /pol/, you should go try there

[Anonymous No.14845752]

>>14837110
Never microwave water it creates Chlorine Gas.

[Anonymous No.14845778]

Ausfag here. Have always used a kettle. Pic related is only $19 and boils water quicker than the microwave or the stove. Every house should have a kettle. It's ridiculous to me that Americans don't have them.

[Anonymous No.14846119]

>>14845752
only if you're on city water which is chlorinated, then yes it actually does do that, but in such a small amount that it won't make you noticeably dumber

[Anonymous No.14846942]

>>14845778
This Americans don’t have kettles thing is the self hating coastal faghats trying to make us look bad.
I’m a Missouri mountain redneck, the epitome of flyover country hick... we use our electric kettle all the time. The 110v thing is not an issue, our kettle can have a full pot boiling in under three minutes. Not sure if they are faster in the UK, but three minutes is fast enough. If you only fill it to the minimum fill line for a single cup, it’s more like 80 seconds.

[Anonymous No.14846978]

>>14845726
Sure thing chud

[Anonymous No.14847032]

>>14837110
i have a stovetop kettle!

[Anonymous No.14847035]

>>14846942
>110v thing is not an issue
i live when euros try to make that sound like a issue while having no understanding of electricity, voltage is meaning less, amps are what matters. But as a east coaster no we do not have kettles, whats the point? if i'm just doing 1 cup i'll nuke it for 1min and if i need more i just boil a pot on the stove. What do you even need boiled water for besides tea or cooking which is done on the stove? those little wash cloths that expand when you put them in hot water?

[Anonymous No.14847040]

>>14846978
rather be a chud then have a chod

[Anonymous No.14847057]

>>14847035
>> What do you even need boiled water for besides tea
Lots of things, but isn’t tea enough?

[Anonymous No.14847178]

>>14847057
it's the wash cloths isn't it

[Anonymous No.14847809]

>>14847035
Euro here, we only make it sound like an issue because that's what we've been told by Americans. I've never been to America, but whenever the kettle thing comes up a bunch of Americans say it's because of the voltage or something.
The point of a kettle is that it boils water WAY faster than using a pot, and the fact you don't get that does suggest that the electricity is an issue.

[Anonymous No.14847820]

>>14837841
Italian bull here, we usually microwave the mug, put water and tea after add cream cheese and sugar ready

[Anonymous No.14847821]

>>14847820
>add cream cheese
Is this an ESL thing or do you legitimately add cream cheese

[Anonymous No.14847952]

>>14847820
>*Italian cuck

[Anonymous No.14848004]

>>14837557
i thought the us was the only country that didnt have them, they are household here in aus

[Anonymous No.14848158]

>>14847035
Except every time it comes up in discussion that's what Americans have said. And what, you never have rice, or pasta or anything that needs boiling water involved? Oatmeal? What about even crappy junk food like instant ramen or such? Boiling the water in the kettle first makes the whole thing much faster.

[Anonymous No.14848161]

>>14848004
I've seen them up in Canada too so I don't know why the US alone is the odd one out. They're all over Europe, they're all over Asia, they're literally everywhere but the US.

[Anonymous No.14848173]

>>14837110
>microwave water
Wtf americans actually do that?

[Anonymous No.14848214]

>>14837841
Im in america and ive also never seen a household with a kettle in it. Cubans use pic related, but its to make coffee. Ive always thought they looked like some poorfag kettles.

[Anonymous No.14848258]

>>14848214
Fuck you're retarded. It's a geyser coffee maker and costs a lot. Americans are retarded I always knew it's not just a meme.

[Anonymous No.14848276]

>>14848258
>Cost a lot
Why? Ive never seen this inside any Americans house either. We use electric coffe makers. Only a cuban buddy of mine has this and he says its how Cubans make coffee. I looked it up and they go for like 10 bucks definately not expensive.

[Anonymous No.14848279]

I'm an american and I boil water then pour it over the tea. I have a small kettle but it holds enough water for one cup of tea so if I'm making more I just use a pot.

[Anonymous No.14848283]

>>14848258
Shut the fuck up you jealous inbred

[Anonymous No.14848296]

>>14848276
>Why
Because it's a different feel and a different taste. My dad is a coffee maniac and he orders super exclusive coffee beans once a month every morning he wakes up an hour earlier and grinds coffee beans on a special manual coffee grinder with adjustable grinding size and then sets up a geyser coffee maker and check it every 2 minutes for 20 ml of coffee. And it tastes like actual coffee and not some donkey urine called americano.
>>14848283
Butthurt american retard +1

[Anonymous No.14848423]

>>14844247
based chemist anon

[Anonymous No.14848424]

>>14848276
>>14848258

Bialetti is the original makers, they're more expensive. Regardless of price, they're a great way to make coffee. Some of the cheap ones are a bit flimsy. A large Bialetti is about $50.

[Anonymous No.14848443]

Not British but I drink tea almost everyday. I tend to boil it via kettle. The water is extremely hot and steeps the tea better overall.

[Anonymous No.14848496]

>>14837110
neither I cold steep, it takes longer but I like the flavor better

[Anonymous No.14848508]

>>14848496
Get out of here you ROTTER

[Anonymous No.14848514]

>>14848443
This. Many Americans having learnt about the fact that different teas need different steeping times and temperatures mindlessly bash the fact that Brits tend to use water at boiling point for Assam heavy black tea blends, ignoring the fact that this is actually how Indians, Sri Lankans, Cantonese and many other peoples brew their own tea. Hell, if they think the Brits steeping their tea at boiling point is absurd wait until they see Indians and Cantonese boiling it for about 15 minutes in large pots and other vessels.

[Anonymous No.14848699]

>microwave water

[Anonymous No.14850407]

>>14839737
>but why own a electric kettle if i also own a microwave?
Kettles can hold more volume of water

[Anonymous No.14850424]

>>14850407
Ok chud

[Anonymous No.14851096]

>>14837886
Lol, I noticed this when I went to China. I was wondering why every single hotel room came with an electric kettle. Apparently, there's cholera in normal tap water in some countries. Yikes.

[Anonymous No.14851181]

>>14848158
>Except every time it comes up in discussion that's what Americans have said
No...no it hasn't, Americans aren't self aware enough to even know that euros have different voltage then us or that it could have potential effects (even though it doesn't because again amps not volts). And things like ramen or pasta is after the water is boiling you still have to cook it for a few min in a pot anyways so why not just start in the pot? i plain ahead far enough to allot my self the extra minute for the water to boil since i'm using the pot regardless

[Anonymous No.14851194]

>>14851181
Ok chud

[Anonymous No.14851202]

>>14848443
>I tend to boil it via kettle. The water is extremely hot and steeps the tea better overall.
so you're saying the kettle makes boiling water hotter then water boiled in a pot? Do you understand water boils at 212 degrees regardless of what it's boiling in?

[Anonymous No.14851216]

>>14851181
Except it has. Perhaps you're a newfag? And no, the kettle boils the water in less than three minutes, a pan takes much longer.

[Anonymous No.14851223]

>>14851202
You can wait for over five minutes for it to boil in a pot or you can flick a kettle and get it in two and it shuts off precisely when the temperature is right.

[Anonymous No.14851228]

>It's another AMERICANS ARE OBSESSED WITH YURO thread.

Half of the threads on /ck/ are these. I swear, you people need a new pastime other than screaming at the Orange Man or burning down cities.

[Anonymous No.14851238]

>>14851228
Said the chud

[Anonymous No.14851244]

>>14837110
Microwave water?

That’s really fucking gross and just feels dirty

[Anonymous No.14851623]

>>14851216
>>14851223
you guys need better pot/pans, my copper bottoms boil a huge pot of water in like 2 min and if i'm cooking something i use that time to do prep work.

[Anonymous No.14851626]

>>14851244
why? hot water is hot water

[Anonymous No.14852431]

>>14837110
fun fact, turks consume more tea than brits, and tea was introduced quite recently, in 1930s as an economic bolster for a very rainy area in blacksea region.

[Anonymous No.14853254]

>>14837154
fpbp