This post stresses me out so much. Why is how people warm water such a tribalistic topic???
I did not choose to be part of the stove kettle tribe, I was born into it.
Pretty funny to complain about how long it takes to boil water when it would take way longer to cold-brew tea.
You can leave cold brew in the fridge and it’s ready when you want it. For hot drinks, you need to heat up the water, so that’s extra time between when you decide you want tea and when it’s ready for consumption.
You’re assuming they’re doing a good job making cold tea and not just drinking lightly flavored cold water.
I’m used to stoves taking at least ten minutes just to warm up
The nice thing about gas stoves is they get hot instantly. I now have an induction stove and it’s a lot slower.
Every study I’ve seen comparing gas and induction stoves shows induction stoves boiling water more quickly. Have you measured it?
Edit: Are you thinking of electric or induction? They’re different.
Fuck gas stoves. Takes twice as long to boil water compared to induction.
I cold brewed tea before. It’s not bad.
I’m a lunatic, I do both. Hot for actual tea, or cold for tea flavored water with green tea.
The best is that someone then took this exchange and made it into a Shakespeare script:
I know someone else drew it into a comic but I’m having trouble finding it.
That was magnificent.
Did they suggest putting a mug full of water on the stovetop?? That’s so dangerous. Mugs are not meant for that kind of direct heat, and picking it up will be tricky too.
Everyone in this entire thread is hearby banned from entering the UK.
Don’t worry, they’re not missing much, though if things get a bit dicy here, we may need to capture these folks and put them in the stocks to unite the country around a common enemy.
Tea. Earl Grey. Cold?
As a matter of fact, Earl Grey makes for a very interesting iced tea. You might combine it with straight black or green tea to dampen the flavor, but in any case, it has kind of a strong, flowery taste that makes for a nice variation.
You can of course brew it cold overnight, if you’re really in to the whole ‘cold’ angle.
I grew up drinking orange pekoe tea from the time I was born. I’ve seen my mom prepare tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle for my younger brothers so I can safely guess she did the same for me.
And we liked to make it strong! We’d have a giant metal pot that held about 2 liters of liquid, get it at a rolling boil, throw in eight tea bags and let it continue boiling for a minute until the liquid turned into coffee.
I left home when I was 20 to live in other parts of the country and I’ve never met anyone else that made tea properly.
I’ve seen people mildly heat water or microwave it.
The best one was a restaurant I used to go to for great breakfast … I asked for tea a few times because I’m always nostalgic for it. They always made shitty tea and I wondered why … until one day the waitress admitted to me that the hot water tap wasn’t so hot today and she didn’t know why … THEY USED HOT TAP WATER TO MAKE TEA!!!
Tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle…?
But why? Do they want a cranky baby that doesn’t sleep?
Babies can’t process caffeine in the same way as adults. If anyone is reading this and thinks it’s a good idea to give your child black tea of any sort, you should absolutely wait until the kid is at least 10-12 yrs old… The kiddo will be absolutely wired and it negatively impacts their ability to sleep. Overall this is a very bad idea.
Edit: also refined sugar is a big no no for kids younger than 2 yrs old.
My parents were old time hunters and trappers who were born in the wilderness … so they weren’t up to date with the latest pediatric recommendations at the time.
I’m sorry what? There’s a lot to unpack here
faucets and secondary taps for sinks that can deliver filtered boiling or chilled (or even sparkling) water do exist.
This was an old time diner style highway restaurant … they were using the same hot water to make tea as they were using to wash the dishes
Yeah I learned that the hard way washing my hands at my buddies house one time in the kitchen.
This is all way more complicated than it needs to be. At the plant, we just take water after the condenser in the secondary cooling loop. Boom. Instant hot water.
This is one of those posts that the English like to answer right away with nonsense about electric kettles and the minutes saved, questioning the sanity of approaching water boiling like it’s absolved problem. But turn it on it’s head and see why the English don’t understand the problem. Limit the question to just “how do you boil water” to see which cultures actually cook. The English don’t cook so they make a mug’s worth of water at a time.
- Not English, have kettle. Also both my partner and I cook.
- For tea(and coffee), it has multiple temperature settings and can keep the water at that temperature.
- Yes the different temperatures absolutely make a difference in taste.
Also, Asian households typically have a a countertop boiling water tank.
I’m not really sure what you mean. Even if you’re going to boil a pot of water, it’s much quicker and energy efficient to boil in an electric kettle first and then pour that water into the pot, repeating until full. (Unless heating slowly is necessary, which I think is the case for boiled eggs?)
If you’re only going to drink a single mug of tea then the kettle is actually horribly wasteful. It’s better to microwave a single mug.
I also don’t really understand the allegation that the English don’t cook. Surely they’re making macaroni and ketchup at the very least. Or why the English are relevant to the conversation at all.
If you’re only going to drink a single mug of tea then the kettle is actually horribly wasteful. It’s better to microwave a single mug.
The good thing about electric kettles is that you can fill them with exactly the amount of water you need, and if it’s only a mug full it boils really fast, and without having to worry about whether your mug is microwave-safe.
This is drivel.
Yeah. I’m hungover and my reading comprehension isn’t great today; that said, I didn’t follow any of that comment.
A good kettle can be more specific about temperature and hold it there. Green/Oolong tea tastes best brewed at 80°C for me, if I want to extract more caffeine I can go higher, I brew coffee at 94°C. People in less developed countries would probably have to boil the water before its safe to drink though (not saying that I consider England developed, just more than many other places with shit infra). Induction is also a game changer. All of the pros of gas and electric with none of the downsides and faster than both combined.
