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[+] 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (74 children)
  • [–] 13 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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

    Also Bri'ish people: Refuse to season food

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] 36 points 2 years 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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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (3 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

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years 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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    [–] 22 points 2 years 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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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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    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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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (26 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.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (8 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.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I use a gas stove to heat my kettle.

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

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