If you want your tea to actually be drinkable and not taste like just bitter water, you don’t use boiling water. A proper electric kettle allows you to set the water temperature to 85, 90 or 95°C.
Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.
remon@ani.social 3 hours ago
Sure, it feels a bit odd … but what’s the issue? It will boil the water.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
remon@ani.social 2 hours ago
Never seen one of those. All the electric kettles I’ve ever seen just turn off once the water is boiling.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
I can confirm they exist, as one of the places I sometimes work has one - the base unit has a button for 70°/80°/90°/100°.
However, despite probably drinking in excess of 50,000 cups of tea in my life, I’ve only ever seen one of these kettles. The others have all been either “normal electric kettles” as you described, those always-on-water-boiler things you get in offices, or very occasionally, a traditional “put it on the hob or camping stove” kettle.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I THINK they may be exaggerating, for effect and self-deprecation. They may have been looking forward to the ritual of preparing tea and having a cuppa as a bit of normalcy at the end of a day of travelling and not even that very simple ritual is possible in its usual form.
remon@ani.social 3 hours ago
Fair. But it still beats having to boil water on stove!