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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 95 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (30 children)

Microwave : boils water
Stovetop : boils water
Electric stovetop : boils water
Induction stovetop : boils water
Electric kettle : boils water
Open flame : boils water

Bri'ish "people" : *pretending they have any sense of taste* "mIcRoWavE wA'eR taSte difFerenT."

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (27 children)

Brits will scoff at microwaved water then straight up eat mushy peas at dinner.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Is this some kind of beans on toast thing I'm too colonies to understand?

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah I will never at all understand this weird superiority complex in the way in which people boil fucking water of all things. The result is the same.

The reason why a kettle is nice is because it boils a large quantity of water quickly. If you only want a single cup, then a microwave is a great option if you don't have or want a kettle.

[–] li10@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’ve missed the way that British people actually boil water though, thus missing the true reason that we’re superior.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (16 children)

We get it, you boil water with your anus.

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[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bri'ish people: Conquer half of the world in the name of spices

Also Bri'ish people: Refuse to season food

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aye, we season our world-class curries with newspaper and high fructose corn syrup aye

[–] androogee@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

"our" curries

Damn, the empire mindset alive and well lmao

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Our curries. Conceived by British people. Whose families may have come come from other countries. You know. British people

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Don't get high on your own supply

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[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This isn’t true, Americans make tea by boiling a stovetop kettle pouring that into a pitcher with 5 teabags adding 1-3 cups of sugar after about 3 minutes and then filling that pitcher to the top with hot tap water. And then pouring that over ice after about 5 minutes

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[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Americans who drink tea generally use a stovetop kettle. Sometimes they use an electric one. But what does it matter how the water gets hot, if the water's hot? Microwave radiation doesn't leave a taste in water or something

[–] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Boiling it with some kind of kettle can make minerals drop out of solution, but I really doubt it would make a significant taste difference unless the kettle is attached to copper piping leading to a catch basin (aka a still).

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

What if it turns out that Bri'ish people just use pure lead kettles.

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Electric kettles have been available at every American ~~supermarket~~ superstore for literal decades.

Yes they aren't ubiquitous here in the way they are in the UK and elsewhere, but they're absolutely not a rarity at all.

Sincerely, somebody who has been using an electric kettle for almost two decades.

edit: wrong word. I meant places like Walmart, not places like Safeway.

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No we don’t. We don’t drink tea at all

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago (9 children)

You kid, but I really do find this stereotype of Americans fascinating in it's persistence. Every supermarket I've been to in America during the last decade has a tea section that is double the size of the coffee section next to it. These stores wouldn't be stocking like that if Americans weren't buying a ton of tea, but yet the idea of America being a tea desert continues.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol, no we don't. We just don't drink tea. Unless you're in the south n it's more sugar water than tea.

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Southerners are actually 2/3 hummingbird

[–] Rinna@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

I have an electric kettle and actually go out of my way to get good tea thank you.

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 11 points 8 months ago

I have an electric kettle, AND I season my food, lol

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I’m British and was shocked to learn that other countries don’t even have 3000W electric kettles.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Just put the kettle on top of your Intel laptop...

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

Britain, do you really want to compare appliances?

I could put most of your fridges in my fridge.

I could put the whole bayuex tapestry in my washing machine.

I don't even know if y'all can fit scrooge's Christmas bird in your ovens.

I'm kidding around but the one thing y'all definitely have is better kettles that's for damn sure.

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Are the things you listed supposed to be positives? It's so weird to me that Americans like everything to be gigantic.

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[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I use a kettle at home, but I’ve used a microwave at work. I don’t understand what’s remotely laughable about doing so. Boiling water is boiling water.

I’ll tell what is laughable is how America restaurants typically serve hot tea. They draw a small metal container of hot water from the spigot on the side of the coffee maker, and bring it to the table with an empty cup and a teabag. By the time the bag goes in the water, the water is far too cold to infuse properly.

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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] derf82@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It actually doesn’t make that big of difference. It is more likely Americans don’t have kettles because we drink more coffee and have drip coffee brewers instead.

https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c

We use a kettle here in the states and it’s just fine. But it’s mostly used for French press coffee.

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[–] Criscofingers@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Most people I know use a kettle as well as I. Hailing from Michigan!!

[–] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have a machine that keeps hot water on tap. You peasants heat your water up? I pour mine in the cup already boiling hot from the tap. Kettles are so 90s early 2000s.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

The hot water coming out of the tap isn't supposed to be boiling.

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I use a gas stove to heat my kettle.

The microwave is only used to melt butter before I make cheesecake.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago

I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.

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