No, of course we don’t microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.
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Where’s throwing it into the harbor fall on this chart?
A war was started because of that
:(
You disgust me
The patriot in me smiles every time I microwave the water. Yankee Doodle, motherfuckers.
Ok, but, why is microwaved water any different the water warmed in a kettle?
This seems like a pointless thing to get worked up over.
Went to see Randall doing his book promo and being interviewed by Matt Parker (in the UK) recently and this was his exact position on it
The audience were not on his side 😆
Water warmed in a kettle has much more even temperature in all points, which affects the brewing process. Generally, the more even the temperature is, the more consistent and rich is your brew.
I would consider microwave boiling as a makeshift method to produce a mediocre result when you need it anyway, not as a daily driver.
Could be a problem if you microwave it together with the tea bag.
Also I find microwaves to not heat up the water properly, leaving some cold spots.
Hard to believe that cold spots could stay for more than a moment with the Brownian motion.
In my experience you won’t actually boil water in the microwave because it takes an eternity so you end up with tea in “warm” water instead. Or apparently some people also put the tea bag in the microwave ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Brother it takes 3 minutes to boil water in the microwave. I have done this without fail.
It cools down much faster though. Not sure how that works.
Because only some of the water boils, not all of it.
It doesn’t cool down faster. That makes no sense.
Listen I can’t prove it, but I swear on my mother it does
You can prove it by boiling the water in different ways, putting a thermometer inside and then filming/timing it :D
It may appear that way if it was unevenly heated, causing pockets of boiling water surrounded by comparatively cool water. This would make it look like it’s boiling, but then, when mixed, it is then much cooler than if heated by a kettle that relies on convection to mix the water.
How about someone who leaves the tea bag in the mug, sometimes for multiple days? Sips the tea with multiple bags still in it? It creeps me out and I am not even a big tea drinker.
Made me think of that eternal stew, but you instead add in more and more tea bags
What the fuck
Do Americans make tea in a kettle? Teabag inside the kettle?
Apparently I’m committing all the tea sins. I definitely make tea in a kettle. But if I do that, I boil the water before adding the tea bags. Isn’t that pretty standard? I’d only do so if I’m making a lot of the same tea (or iced tea), usually for a group of people
For that there is a teapot. Some can be continuously heated up, just through external heating methods, such as a candle!
Making tea in a kettle severely decreases life of the kettle and even after washing, some amounts of aroma compounds will remain, affecting the taste and aroma of whatever you boil water for next
I think we may have different definitions of a kettle. I mean something like this:
Which you put on the stove. I can’t imagine that having tea in this is a problem at all. It’s just glass.
I’ve also done this with something like:
Which I could imagine keeping more of the taste/being a problem.
I assume you mean something like this by a kettle?:
Yes, I mean an electric kettle indeed, the last one
No problem brewing tea in glass, that’s how teapots work.
You boil water in a pot if you want to drink a cup off tea late at night and don’t want the loud kettle to wake up the whole house.
Your kettle is that loud? The loudest part is the 1s jingle it plays after reaching my desired temp…And the volume isnt much louder than the microwave.
What tf why does it play a jingle and why does it have temp settings?
Didn’t know my electric kettle was outdated since it just turns off when it reaches boiling temp.
Jingle as in a signal tone that’s not a single beep.
And temp control is very neat to have if you are a serious tea drinker.
Makes it easy to boil water to 60, 70, 80, 90, 95 or 100 °C. And tea can be picky if it shouldnt be bitter ;)Guess I’m not picky enough to notice a difference between the temps my tea is made at (I just shake the bag until it has broadly the right colour), although I don’t have much taste left since covid anyways.
But will have a look for one with multiple temp settings for other purposes, if this one ever kicks the bucket.
bagged tea could care less. if you steep it 1min it will more or less taste similar to doing it the recommended time.
Loose leaf tea will notice it. It will either be too light, too bitter or just right and anything inbetween ;)
I’m an American who drinks tea. I’d love to hear from our distant countrymen on how accurate this is.
100% spot on. Microwaved tea is comparable I would say to microwaving a steak
Not British, but in my experience… accurate.
I mean, I’m also not British and am roughly aligned with this spectrum myself.
Look, if you can tolerate the absolute nonsense you hear from Americans about how to make coffee you can deal with me having a spice rack specifically to make tea.
What nonsense do you hear about making coffee?
Everyone has their own way, but there’s no wrong way.
I make coffee by drinking hot water, then chewing whole coffee beans and swallowing them. I then wash it down with milk.
