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venndaai:

semusepsu:

ksylofonimandariini:

kontextmaschine:

warringgods:

kontextmaschine:

A little disorienting to learn my parents do the “British” thing of making tea with water heated in a kettle and thinking microwaving it is weird and degraded

They\u2019re right. Why the fuck would you boil water in the microwave?

Found the Brit

Your parents are right, microwaving water is deranged, literally only Americans do it.

explain to an american who doesn\u2019t drink tea: literally why would this matter? you just need the water to be hot right? why does it matter how you do it?

I have noticed it\u2019s worse using the microwave and I think it\u2019s because of the imprecision (you just have to guess when it\u2019s near boiling) and that you dunk the tea bag into the microwaved mug versus pouring the hot water over the tea bag

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Dunking vs pouring is at least theoretically a thing, but people keep hitting on this “you don’t know exactly when it’s boiling” point. If you heat water past boiling, it doesn’t become superhot, it boils off, right?

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