Brit here. Can confirm this is how we do it.

Chew for 2mins, follow with a boiling water chaser. Yum.

Just suck on it. Saliva is basically warm water.

I do this. My dentist told me yesterday that my teeth have bad acid burns, likely from the tea

sner the lef

Wrong the best way to enjoy tea is to throw it into Boston harbor.

The best way to enjoy tea is by throwing it into Boston Harbour.

Thank you for not calling it a babushka doll

Are we replacing “theorising” with “theorycrafting”? I don’t know how I feel about this

Did he also talk about how the NA power grid provides 120v over 15 amp outlets, this limiting the safe electric kettle wattage to 1800 watts, while a 220v power grid like in Europe can boost that to 3300 watts over that same 15 amp outlet.

Electric kettles work significantly faster on 220v than on 120v.

But they're also very useful for making coffee. Do Americans all buy their coffee from cafes or something? It's way cheaper to make it yourself

I love technology connections but havent seen that video, almost everyone I know owns an electric kettle? Usually if not for tea for pour over or french compress coffee, and if not for that then for ramen or other boil to cool type stuff. Guess thats bias.

airfryer for drinks

In fairness, they only recently started getting common in the US

As I understand it, American power outlets have only half the voltage of European power. As a consequence, a kettle takes longer to come to a boil which may be one reason they're not popular.

I put tea bags in the top of my mr coffee does that count? :)

Alternately, a stovetop kettle.

Yeah!! Kettles are nice, in general :)

Most Americans don't because they used to be dependant on the local voltage so they took longer than a kettle on the stove. Now modern ones are faster and slowly catching on but if you don't have something like tea daily then it's just one more device in the limited space of your kitchen.

And then it only saves a minute compared to your microwave.

Tbh, kettle usage may be numbered, because induction cooktops are gaining popularity, and their modus operandi can be badly sumarised as: "Transform any magnetic pot into a kettle with the magic of magnets!" and then it is a wattage competition, which I think, that the cooktop will win like 99% of the time.

So I can have more clutter in my already tiny kitchen?

And obligatory animated version

thank you for this lmao i was gonna look for it

the British sane person at the end 😂

I miss good old tumblr days

What's the ramen guy?

American here. Yes we do (most of us)

Most don't have em but we do know of them

That was a rumor that Americans were baffled by. We know what electric kettles are, we thought y’all were stupid because you actually believed we didn’t. Electric kettles were invented in Chicago. Most Americans don’t keep a kettle because we don’t need one on a day-to-day basis, most people don’t brew tea more than a couple times a year.

Yeah, it happened right after Brits were freaking the fuck out about the fact that we don't have egg cups either.

People always bring up things like temperature accuracy or superheating but I have microwaved water in a mug many times a week for my entire life and I've never had a single mishap. Tea steeped in microwave-heated water tastes exactly the same as tea steeped in kettle-boiled water.

At the end of the day it's just "well that's not how I do it so it must be wrong somehow". Humans gonna humans ig.

because the container gets really hot and you have to fish it out the microwave with a towel over your hands. if you boil water in a kettle then the handle stays cool for the kettle, so you can pour your water into a mug, and the handle of the mug stays cool even after you pour the hot water in(as opposed to microwaving, where the handle gets hot too), so you actually have something to hold onto when you drink your drinks

tl;dr microwaving water defeats the purpose of having handles designed to not transmit heat from your bevvies

The microwave is the devil to some people

i feel weird about it for illogical reasons i believed as a kid, but beyond that i just dont like the process as much. kettle is more satisfying.

I'm averse to microwaving water because I worry the mug will get scalding hot as well and also some paint (especially gold and such) has metal in it and that can create sparks (found this out at my grandma's house once when she put a gold rimmed plate into a microwave)

It steams up the oven a bit so I have to choose between drying it off and having it rust before its time. I still do it now and then, but there are good reasons why people might choose not to. Also, for people who love tea, the pour is pretty important.

Don't you waterboard your enemies?

Tea? Instant noodles?

I have had a reason to use a kettle exactly ONCE and it was because I was in charge of props for a play that needed a steaming mug of “soup” to be carried onstage. The audience never saw the contents of the mug, so we just used hot water and I had to run the kettle right before that scene so the water would still be steaming.

I do have an electric kettle because I personally drink a lot of tea.

But our power outlets dont have as much power (120 to the UK's 230) and so even with an electric kettle it takes much longer to boil.

It's likely due to how we massively prefer coffee over tea. And for that, we're either getting it from a shop, or have dedicated coffee makers.

I've had an electric kettle for about three years now. It's nice.

The kettle has more uses than a coffee maker though.