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- tea@feddit.uk
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- tea@feddit.uk
No, of course we don’t microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.
No, of course we don’t microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.
Do Americans make tea in a kettle? Teabag inside the kettle?
Apparently I’m committing all the tea sins. I definitely make tea in a kettle. But if I do that, I boil the water before adding the tea bags. Isn’t that pretty standard? I’d only do so if I’m making a lot of the same tea (or iced tea), usually for a group of people
For that there is a teapot. Some can be continuously heated up, just through external heating methods, such as a candle!
Making tea in a kettle severely decreases life of the kettle and even after washing, some amounts of aroma compounds will remain, affecting the taste and aroma of whatever you boil water for next
I think we may have different definitions of a kettle. I mean something like this:
Which you put on the stove. I can’t imagine that having tea in this is a problem at all. It’s just glass.
I’ve also done this with something like:
Which I could imagine keeping more of the taste/being a problem.
I assume you mean something like this by a kettle?:
Yes, I mean an electric kettle indeed, the last one
No problem brewing tea in glass, that’s how teapots work.
Surely putting tea inside a kettle would stain the kettle?
At my university time I had some student friends who brew loose tea in a kettle. Was kinda disgusting tbh.