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.
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That was magnificent.
I'm friends with enough experienced Shakespeare actors that I want to get them together and perform this.
I grew up drinking orange pekoe tea from the time I was born. I've seen my mom prepare tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle for my younger brothers so I can safely guess she did the same for me.
And we liked to make it strong! We'd have a giant metal pot that held about 2 liters of liquid, get it at a rolling boil, throw in eight tea bags and let it continue boiling for a minute until the liquid turned into coffee.
I left home when I was 20 to live in other parts of the country and I've never met anyone else that made tea properly.
I've seen people mildly heat water or microwave it.
The best one was a restaurant I used to go to for great breakfast ... I asked for tea a few times because I'm always nostalgic for it. They always made shitty tea and I wondered why .... until one day the waitress admitted to me that the hot water tap wasn't so hot today and she didn't know why ..... THEY USED HOT TAP WATER TO MAKE TEA!!!!!
Tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle...?
But why? Do they want a cranky baby that doesn't sleep?
My parents were old time hunters and trappers who were born in the wilderness ... so they weren't up to date with the latest pediatric recommendations at the time.
I’m sorry what? There’s a lot to unpack here
I'm indigenous Canadian and I'm the first generation in my family to be born in a modern hospital. My parents were born and raised in the wilderness and lived a very traditional nomadic life for about the first 30 years of their lives. They had a bit of education and they were very bright people but they had no understanding of many modern things ... things like feeding a baby caffeinated drink. All they understood is that it was nutritious and filling.
And it didn't do me any damage .... I think?
I mean, the fact that you’re on here means you must be damaged a little. But damn that is an amazing backstory
Babies can't process caffeine in the same way as adults. If anyone is reading this and thinks it's a good idea to give your child black tea of any sort, you should absolutely wait until the kid is at least 10-12 yrs old... The kiddo will be absolutely wired and it negatively impacts their ability to sleep. Overall this is a very bad idea.
Edit: also refined sugar is a big no no for kids younger than 2 yrs old.
faucets and secondary taps for sinks that can deliver filtered boiling or chilled (or even sparkling) water do exist.
This was an old time diner style highway restaurant .... they were using the same hot water to make tea as they were using to wash the dishes
In my experiance, the water for washing dishes at resteraunts can get extremely hot, easily hot enough to burn you. I think the idea is that the heat helps steriloze the dishware and more easily break up the fats and oils. Ive never personally seen boiling water from a resteraunt tap, but i have seen water at about 175° which im guessing is around 80° C
Edit:79.4 degrees C, damn im good
I agree, restaurant tap water can be very hot ... there is even a faucet in some places I've seen from coffee machines that can dispense hot water. But all of them fall just below the threshold of boiling water which is 100 degrees C.
Tea needs boiling water at least for a moment in order to brew properly. I don't know the science of it ... I just know from experience and having had tea all my life. If you place an orange pekoe tea bag in anything but boiling water, it will never steep properly. In any other heated water, orange pekoe tea just comes out bland and not as tasty. Like I mentioned in my early comments, my family used to throw tea bags into boiling water and let it stay in rolling boiling water for about 30 seconds and it immediately brews a potent mixture of dark red liquid that has as much caffeine as coffee.
The only other great sin to steeping tea is to place the tea bag in boiling water and immediately mix it all with milk - that guarantees a ruined steeped tea. You wait about five full minutes for the tea to steep before mixing anything with it.
I've been frustrated by friends and family all my life who didn't grow up drinking tea because they'll boil some water, leave the water sit for a minute or two until it cools off from 100C or even wait several minutes until it cools off to 80C and then try to make a cup of tea. It drives me nuts when they serve me luke warm tea and then pour in a bit of milk into it all and everything turns white.
As you might have guessed ..... I love my tea.
Have you ever had sun tea? You get a clear glass container, preferably the kind with a nozzle for dispensing drinks from, then you fill it with water and load it up with a bunch of tea bags, maybe 10 per gallon(?), then you close the lid and set it somewhere in direct sunlight in the morning on a hot summer day. By mid afternoon you can take the tea bags out and put the tea container in your refrigerator.
It's just as dark as regular tea, but it has a smoother flavor. Typically you drink it iced, since it's a summer drink for hot days.
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Yeah I learned that the hard way washing my hands at my buddies house one time in the kitchen.
The water heater in my house can be set all the way to 85c and it's right behind my kitchen tap, so it gets to that temperature within seconds. I've been wondering for a while if I could use it to just make tea instantly instead of putting the kettle on first, especially since I've read multiple times that 100c water is actually bad cause it can burn the tea leaves.
So far I haven't been able to try it because of some circumstances, but I might in the future.
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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
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You guys don't use Turkish Combustion Kettle to boil water?
That looks epic
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Fun fact: electric kettles are nerfed in the US and other 110V countries (~1kW vs ~2kW of power usage)
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.
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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.
This post stresses me out so much. Why is how people warm water such a tribalistic topic???
I did not choose to be part of the stove kettle tribe, I was born into it.
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.
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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.
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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.
Pretty funny to complain about how long it takes to boil water when it would take way longer to cold-brew tea.
You're assuming they're doing a good job making cold tea and not just drinking lightly flavored cold water.
You can leave cold brew in the fridge and it's ready when you want it. For hot drinks, you need to heat up the water, so that's extra time between when you decide you want tea and when it's ready for consumption.
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This post is older than dinosaurs. Older than left handed lesbian dinosaurs even.
I cold brewed tea before. It's not bad.
Buying an electric kettle, prob one of my better decisions.
I just gotta say it does not take three minutes for a microwave to heat water
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