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Dunno why brits insist on a whole other appliance to heat water for tea. Chuck a tea bag in a mug, fill with water, and toss it in the microwave for 2 minutes. EZPZ :>
Wrong temp for tea. American here. I’ve used kettle for tea for decades. Speaking for them.
How so? Air pressure aside, boiling is boiling.
It isn’t heated evenly. Top and bottom would have different temperatures as a result. Kettle is evenly heated and has a consistent temperature.
That doesn’t make any sense. Heating will cause the water to circulate, as will adding the tea, a spoon, whatever. By the time it’s becoming tea, any temperature gradient within a cup is approximately zero.
If you use boiling water for tea you are wrong. Or drinking some herbal infusion instead of loose leaf green tea.
You’re right for green tea, which demands a more delicate brew, but black tea needs boiling water.
Indeed I am drinking neither. Black tea is more my speed, and for that boiling or fresh off the boil is just fine.
That must be a new microwave because there’s hardly any detritus in there yet.
You know you can clean them right?
The heat sanitizes it every time I use it so I’m not sure if it visually being pretty is worth the time or effort.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/cooking-food-in-dirty-microwave/
Interesting read, you're mainly correct according to this, not because it kills all the bugs, but if you don't get old food falling into your dish while it's heating, you're probably pretty ok.
.Clean your microwave and cover your food when you microwave it, don't live like an animal just because it won't kill you. It's part of being an adult.
I don’t think animals are able to use a microwave.
Good thing they didn’t shame anyone.
It is shameful to live like this. People need to know it's not ok. This message wasn't just for him it was for anyone else thinking the can stop cleaning theirs because it's "safe".
The microwave approach is fine for fruit infusions, but sucks for real tea. Black tea especially needs to be brewed with freshly boiling water, not gradually brought up to temperature like you’re reheating soup. It throws off the whole brew.
Source: am brit
That’s why you boil water in the microwave then add tea. Boiling is boiling, it doesn’t matter how it gets there.
The person I replied to said, and their picture shows, keeping the teabag in the mug inside the microwave. That’s the part that’s objectionable.
Oh yeah that’s just monstrous, but it’s not the microwave that’s the problem there.
Where's the elegance and sense of ritual? The ritual of making it slowly is so comforting.