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The secret of kettles has gotten out and more Americans are ... learning
If you don't have a kettle the things to know are:
* It's not "just for tea"
* It is only for water, never put anything but water in it. Do not make instant coffee I beg you.
* Think of it like those taps fancy places have with on-demand boiling water.
* The ones with a base, cordless are worth it. Easy to fill.
* If I come over and you don't have one I will judge you a little.@futurebird @benh who the fuck coffee'd a kettle?!
And boiler taps are fancy? My physics dept student lounge had one. Well, I say student lounge, but it was the everyone lounge tbh.
I forgot there were kettles that weren't electric.... I may have been contaminated by living in the UK since my parents divorced.
Also idk why but add a little squirt of lemon juice. Does something for calcification or cloudy water or something, idk. I do the same to the espresso machine.
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@futurebird @benh who the fuck coffee'd a kettle?!
And boiler taps are fancy? My physics dept student lounge had one. Well, I say student lounge, but it was the everyone lounge tbh.
I forgot there were kettles that weren't electric.... I may have been contaminated by living in the UK since my parents divorced.
Also idk why but add a little squirt of lemon juice. Does something for calcification or cloudy water or something, idk. I do the same to the espresso machine.
"who the fuck coffee'd a kettle?!"
Someone wise enough not to let me find out who they were.
Every place I've worked has had a kettle and EVERY single one made coffee flavored water unacceptable for tea.
This is why I hide a kettle under my desk.
Hotel kettles? About half of the time they have been touched by coffee. I don't know what people are doing. Heating it up again maybe?
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The secret of kettles has gotten out and more Americans are ... learning
If you don't have a kettle the things to know are:
* It's not "just for tea"
* It is only for water, never put anything but water in it. Do not make instant coffee I beg you.
* Think of it like those taps fancy places have with on-demand boiling water.
* The ones with a base, cordless are worth it. Easy to fill.
* If I come over and you don't have one I will judge you a little.@futurebird Re: Kettle for Tea. I keep trying to decide why I feel like there is some small difference in water boiled stovetop and water boiled in electric kettle for certain types of tea. Cos the stovetop is slower, are a greater portion of the water molecules vibrating closer to boiling? Am I imagining it? @MxVerda @benh
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@futurebird Re: Kettle for Tea. I keep trying to decide why I feel like there is some small difference in water boiled stovetop and water boiled in electric kettle for certain types of tea. Cos the stovetop is slower, are a greater portion of the water molecules vibrating closer to boiling? Am I imagining it? @MxVerda @benh
Real tea heads insist on water boiled by a cold fast running brook on a clay chaozho...
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Of course you can't take the water right from the cold fast running brook. You must bring it down from the mountain in a clay jar, let it rest for 3 days in the shade under a cloth, then bring the jar back up the mountain so you can sit by the brook (in sympathy with the source) and cook it over your clay stove.
Otherwise? Are you even drinking tea?
(I would have been SO GOOD at being an independently wealthy scholar who lived in the mountains and wrote about tea.)
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Of course you can't take the water right from the cold fast running brook. You must bring it down from the mountain in a clay jar, let it rest for 3 days in the shade under a cloth, then bring the jar back up the mountain so you can sit by the brook (in sympathy with the source) and cook it over your clay stove.
Otherwise? Are you even drinking tea?
(I would have been SO GOOD at being an independently wealthy scholar who lived in the mountains and wrote about tea.)
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@futurebird @ellestad @MxVerda @benh not sure using heavy water is the best - too much deuterium can spoil the flavor of a first flush Darjeeling
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The secret of kettles has gotten out and more Americans are ... learning
If you don't have a kettle the things to know are:
* It's not "just for tea"
* It is only for water, never put anything but water in it. Do not make instant coffee I beg you.
* Think of it like those taps fancy places have with on-demand boiling water.
* The ones with a base, cordless are worth it. Easy to fill.
* If I come over and you don't have one I will judge you a little.@futurebird
LOL!! When I joined the Navy going through the schooling the barracks I was assigned to would not let us have stoves or microwaves... They would let us have electric kettles and electric percolators. I went to the PX and bought the cheapest electric kettle I could find. I cooked everything from Ramen, to Rice, to Spaghetti for dinner and then would use it for Tea and Oatmeal the next morning.Not proud of it, but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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LOL!! When I joined the Navy going through the schooling the barracks I was assigned to would not let us have stoves or microwaves... They would let us have electric kettles and electric percolators. I went to the PX and bought the cheapest electric kettle I could find. I cooked everything from Ramen, to Rice, to Spaghetti for dinner and then would use it for Tea and Oatmeal the next morning.Not proud of it, but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
