Use a British Challenger tank to heat your water instead

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use a gas stove to heat my kettle.

  The microwave is only used to melt butter before I make cheesecake.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.

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• Asclepiaz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could someone explain why it matters? Is microwaving water for tea akin to instant coffee or Keurig to snobby coffee drinkers? (I nuke water for tea, but when it comes to coffee I use distilled water, fresh beans, a scale and it’s kinda ritualistic)

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  • FoD@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At the end of the day, everything is just atoms moving at different wiggle rates, that’s the technical term. It doesn’t matter what makes them wiggle faster or slower.

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  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s fairly inefficient and less convenient than a dedicated electric kettle, but no there’s nothing wrong with the results. I did pick up a cheap electric kettle recently and it’s nice, but doesn’t get a ton of use since I don’t drink that much tea.

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it doesn’t actually matter as to the quality of the tea. Hot water is hot water. Assuming you don’t just microwave til it’s boiling, and instead get it to the proper temperature, there will be 0 difference.

    A lot of electric kettles have fine temperature control, so it’s easier to dial in on an exact temperature. Brewing a lot of teas too hot will burn them and make them taste bitter. This is 100% a temperature thing, though, and what you use to make it hot has no impact.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wait people make tea in the microwave? gross lol

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  • anders@rytter.me ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @Gork @Pika yeah. im always trying to avoid the microwave because things just taste better using any other way of heating.

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    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Microwaves are good for some tasks and bad for others. They’re generally fine for reheating food if you know how to use one, for example. Absolutely no difference between hot water that comes out of a microwave and any other method.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re british and lacking a tank, you can always use a gatling gun to heat the water instead

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• banichan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Britties think they’re better, even though the concept of science seems to escape them.

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