Use a British Challenger tank to heat your water instead

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."

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

Also Bri'ish people: Refuse to season food

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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I use a gas stove to heat my kettle.

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

I like my electric kettle because it has temperature settings for specific tea leaves/types and it has a large volume. But if I just want to boil one cup, the microwave is a no-brainer.

I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.

The British sent us Beatles and Monty Python, let them have this.

Britties think they're better, even though the concept of science seems to escape them.

Have an electric kettle. It's slower than kettles in the UK and Ireland as it maxes out at a lower wattage.

Ok, Brits. Educate me. What's the benefit of a tea kettle over heating water in the mug you'll drink it out of in the microwave? (Assuming you're making one cup of tea.)

wait people make tea in the microwave? gross lol

Could someone explain why it matters? Is microwaving water for tea akin to instant coffee or Keurig to snobby coffee drinkers? (I nuke water for tea, but when it comes to coffee I use distilled water, fresh beans, a scale and it's kinda ritualistic)

If you're british and lacking a tank, you can always use a gatling gun to heat the water instead

I think most use a kettle on the stovetop.

Americans: invent machine to boil water

Also Americans: use that machine to boil water

Rest of the world: 😱

Just recently I learned about different temperatures for different teas and coffee. Now I know why my coffee was coming out burnt tasting, and why my green tea didn't taste right.

Truly the superior hot water

If I have a little extra time I'll run water through the coffee maker without any grounds if that's somehow better?