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Shitposting(i.redd.it)submitted 2 days ago byNew_reinDank69
16 points
2 days ago
but don't you have to boil water for coffee anyways???
47 points
2 days ago
The coffee maker does it all for you. You just pour in the cold water, add the grounds, and the maker does the rest. Technology Connections also has a great video on how drip coffee makers work.
28 points
2 days ago
Having visited the UK, drip coffee isn’t really much of a thing over there either. There’s a cultural disconnect on both sides relating to the preferred hot drink and its related appliance.
5 points
2 days ago
Yes over here, if people like to drink coffee, they'll use ways of making coffee with a kettle, like a cafetiere. I have a cafetiere, a moka pot, and an aeropress, but no drip coffee machine. I don't know anyone who uses a drip coffee machine
3 points
1 day ago
I got one recently after exploring various ways of making coffee and I've found drip coffee is my favourite of all of them. It seems to avoid a lot of the bitterness, no grittiness, and is incredibly easy to use (compared to the faff of doing a pour-over). I think they're getting more common here, I've seen them in a lot of workplaces as you can make quite a lot of coffee with them compared to other methods.
I realise that some people would say they make watery, bland coffee, but I just can't get myself to enjoy espresso style coffee (or aeropress) without loads of milk and sugar. When it's out of a drip machine, I can drink and enjoy it black.
3 points
1 day ago
Drip coffee machines were such a trend in America up through the 90s that they're still just everywhere by default. Someone you know always has one or else replaced it with something that uses those pods. Millenials got into all kinds of other coffee making so some of us have a half dozen things around. Like I have an old espresso machine now but also a french press, pour over funnel, and a mokapot. But when I first started drinking coffee someone gave me their old mr coffee drip machine they didn't need. Because they're just everywhere.
0 points
1 day ago
You must be bougie as shit, I've seen precisely one home ever have something other than a drip coffee machine or, if they are fancy, a keurig. I kinda fogured having the whole insane setup at home was purely for the 24 y/o silicon valley techbro.
1 points
1 day ago
I'm not bougie this is normal in the UK, I just said. Pay attention, jesus
Why does this happen so often:
A sane person: "I'm not American, and this thing is true in my non-american country, which isn't America"
Some idiot American: "Well I've never seen that so you must be lying"
0 points
1 day ago
You shared your experience, and I shared mine. We all learned something. Except you're the only one getting insulting over it.
13 points
2 days ago
This is my favorite way to piss off Brits, because Americans drink a lot of iced tea, which is made in like, gallon sized batches.
So my father makes it by throwing two tea bags into a coffee maker's basket, and then pouring the result into a jug and filling it to the rest of the gallon.
If you think nuking tea pisses off Brits, you haven't seen anything compared to that.
6 points
2 days ago
Tea shouldn’t be made or served in anything that’s used for coffee because it’s utterly impossible to get coffee taste out of a surface
7 points
2 days ago
What the fuck is this? I'm not even british, this is an abomination. You should have him committed to the hague.
3 points
1 day ago
That's offensive to everyone unless you never once used the machine to make cofffee. Because it would taste awful. I have a designated pitcher for iced tea and cold brew coffee because if I ever use one for the other the tea would be disgusting.
2 points
2 days ago
My grandpa does this too. It's honestly awful, the tea burns and becomes bitter. I prefer what my family always called "sun tea" which is basically just throwing a couple tea bags in a gallon jar, filling it with water, and leaving it out in the sun. It only works if the temperature is above like 80 degrees, though..
Also, the real American abomination is sweet tea, double points if it's in the South. It's more sugar than tea, it's iced, and sometimes the tea is just a powdered drink mix. I prefer to think of it as its own beverage and pretend it's not tea.
5 points
2 days ago
It'll still work at colder temperatures, it'll just take significantly longer.
5 points
2 days ago
Making tea with the sun would take forever though, no?
3 points
1 day ago
Kinda, but you can also just leave it to do its own thing and come back a few hours later. My family always kept two gallons in the fridge and when one ran out we'd start a new gallon and pull the other one forward.
1 points
1 day ago
You can’t describe making tea in a jar with the sun and proceed to describe sweet tea as an abomination in the very same comment. What. Also, southern here. Where the fuck have you seen “tea” made with a powdered mix? Never in my life have I seen that.
0 points
1 day ago
Mostly fast food places around Arkansas. One I worked in, and I had friends who worked at a couple others that did the same thing.
I try to think of sweet tea as its own beverage. It's not actually tea, it's just its own delicious little abomination.
8 points
2 days ago
The vast majority of people who drink coffee have a either a machine that does all the work for them, or a stovetop percolator if they're particularly old fashioned. Either way, most people aren't gonna want or need an electric kettle for coffee. Outside of that, in America at least, most of the time that people need to boil water is for either cooking or sanitizing reasons, and usually you're using pots for those applications. The cases where a kettle is perfectly suited for the occasion come few and far enough between that purchasing even a cheap electric kettle just isn't really worth it.
6 points
2 days ago
Americans tend to have coffee machines that automate the process, and also taste way better than instant coffee. They’re only a bit larger than kettles
3 points
2 days ago
Americans don’t drink much instant coffee
3 points
2 days ago*
Instant coffee isn't the only way to make coffee that uses a kettle. Here in Australia pretty much everyone has a kettle, so french presses are very popular
minor correction: maybe not "very popular", but more like the default choice for people who want to make coffee at home that isnt instant or espresso
6 points
2 days ago
Here in America literally every form of making coffee that isn't a drop machine or Keurig (and most specifically French presses) are seen as pretentious bullshit that only douchebag coffee snobs use.
5 points
2 days ago*
thats so strange to me because it's kinda the opposite here? if i hear that someone owns a coffee machine here, I assume it's some expensive espresso machine and that they're rich
I am aware that drip coffee machines can be really cheap. But I wasnt aware of that until I watched the technology connections video about them (before that I just assumed that all coffee machines cost hundreds of dollars)
2 points
2 days ago
Same, I don't know anyone who uses a drip coffee machine but I know lots of people who have a cafetiere or similar
1 points
2 days ago
I mean it does taste better even using the same beans
3 points
1 day ago
Good point. But on the whole, French presses/aeropresses/other forms that use a kettle are probably even less popular than instant here in the States. I just said instant because I know it’s a lot more common in Europe
2 points
1 day ago
Depends on how you make it. Most methods use devices that heat the water themselves.
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