Tea. Earl Grey. Cold?
As a matter of fact, Earl Grey makes for a very interesting iced tea. You might combine it with straight black or green tea to dampen the flavor, but in any case, it has kind of a strong, flowery taste that makes for a nice variation.
You can of course brew it cold overnight, if you’re really in to the whole ‘cold’ angle.
You might combine it with straight black or green tea to dampen the flavor
Add chicory/barley coffee, cinnamon and muscat, optionally guarana/guyausa, and you get something that tastes like coffee but lasts multiple times longer, is healthier and doesn’t destroy rainforest.
lasts multiple times longer
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Caffeine/stimulating effect.
I cold brewed tea before. It’s not bad.
cold tea belong to sinkhole
I’m a lunatic, I do both. Hot for actual tea, or cold for tea flavored water with green tea.
The best is that someone then took this exchange and made it into a Shakespeare script:
I know someone else drew it into a comic but I’m having trouble finding it.
I’m friends with enough experienced Shakespeare actors that I want to get them together and perform this.
That was magnificent.
Fun fact: electric kettles are nerfed in the US and other 110V countries (~1kW vs ~2kW of power usage)
Still faster than a gas stove tho
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Mine is 1.5kW in Canada. But I often wish I could buy a UK one and hook it to my dryer outlet.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams
We have stuff like NEMA 6-15 outlets in the USA, and there are other countries where 220v at 60hz is the norm – so it’s possible to get kettles designed for that.
Alternatively: for around the same price you could get an “instant hot” water heater installed under the sink and have dedicated tap for boiling hot water without any wait.
This is all way more complicated than it needs to be. At the plant, we just take water after the condenser in the secondary cooling loop. Boom. Instant hot water.
In my experience it does take seven minutes to boil a cup of water on a gas stove. Resistive electric is about half that time, induction is half of that. I’ve tested it with same amount of water in the same kettle. Gas stoves are garbage.
Electric kettles are very fast too.
Depends on what your power-delivery is.
European style: way more power aaaand more deadly :)
Us-Style, less power, (about 30% longer to boil a similar volume-kettle) and somewhat less deadly.
Gas-stove-style: most of your actuall power goes besides your pot and doesnt heat the water, some heats the handle, how fun.
US electric stoves are wired into higher power circuits. The stove built-in to the kitchen is just as powerful, though there are transmission losses heating the kettle.
Countertop kettles use less power here because of the plugs, and it takes about the same time as a resistive stove.
Gas stoves here have nozzles that shoot the flame from the center away from the pot you’re trying to heat. You have to choose between slow heating from a tiny flame, or slow heating from heating the air next to the kettle and the handle instead of the kettle itself.
You turn the stove on with the vessel. Go and do something else did ten minutes. Bam, boiling water
The issue with many of us is we get distracted and don’t come back until things start getting spicy.
I had a coworker catch eggs on fire trying to make boiled eggs at the office 4 times.
Is half gone because it’s been boiling about 8 minutes now.
This post is older than dinosaurs. Older than left handed lesbian dinosaurs even.
Everyone in this entire thread is hearby banned from entering the UK.
Don’t worry, they’re not missing much, though if things get a bit dicy here, we may need to capture these folks and put them in the stocks to unite the country around a common enemy.
I just gotta say it does not take three minutes for a microwave to heat water
depends on the wattage and the amount of water
It takes 3 minutes for me as well
My electric kettle boils 2 cups in 2 minutes.
then you got something wrong with your microwave, they literally work by heating the water molecules in the food
It all comes down to the wattage and how much water you are trying to boil. A 900W microwave takes about 2½ minutes to boil 300 ml of water. And thats without needing to heat the mug.
Like… for 700W microwave it’s about 50% efficiency. Don’t know any other device this efficient in my house
This is one of those posts that the English like to answer right away with nonsense about electric kettles and the minutes saved, questioning the sanity of approaching water boiling like it’s absolved problem. But turn it on it’s head and see why the English don’t understand the problem. Limit the question to just “how do you boil water” to see which cultures actually cook. The English don’t cook so they make a mug’s worth of water at a time.
This is drivel.
Yeah. I’m hungover and my reading comprehension isn’t great today; that said, I didn’t follow any of that comment.
I’m not really sure what you mean. Even if you’re going to boil a pot of water, it’s much quicker and energy efficient to boil in an electric kettle first and then pour that water into the pot, repeating until full. (Unless heating slowly is necessary, which I think is the case for boiled eggs?)
If you’re only going to drink a single mug of tea then the kettle is actually horribly wasteful. It’s better to microwave a single mug.
I also don’t really understand the allegation that the English don’t cook. Surely they’re making macaroni and ketchup at the very least. Or why the English are relevant to the conversation at all.
- Not English, have kettle. Also both my partner and I cook.
- For tea(and coffee), it has multiple temperature settings and can keep the water at that temperature.
- Yes the different temperatures absolutely make a difference in taste.
Also, Asian households typically have a a countertop boiling water tank.
Did they suggest putting a mug full of water on the stovetop?? That’s so dangerous. Mugs are not meant for that kind of direct heat, and picking it up will be tricky too.
Yeah dont think ceramic mug would survive.
There are steel camping mugs that can go right on stove, I use one with big wire handle that you can pick it up with bare hand with boiling water
Yeah dont think ceramic mug would survive.
I mean if it’s proper ceramic it’s going to be very heat resistant because it’s literally clay that’s been fired in a kiln hot enough to melt glass. On the other hand the heat from the stove is going to be super uneven, regardless of resistive electric or gas (and of course induction will do jack all because there’s no metal for it to induce)
If I had mugs to waste I’d do an experiment for science but…I don’t want to be picking up broken ceramic in my kitchen this evening…
Buying an electric kettle, prob one of my better decisions.
