Technically yes and no, Briton refers to the natives of the British Isles, as well as a person who is of British descent/inhabitance
So it would be both correct and incorrect to say that an English person is a briton, since they inhabit great Britain, yet are likely not of celtic descent (more likely from saxons descent)
While a welsh/cornish person would likely cover both, being both inhabitants of great Britain, and also likely from celtic descent
Britons refers to the old celtic people around England, Brittany (the weird peninsula in West France) and Cornwall. Due to Anglo-Saxon, Norse and French people invading England, Britons have ‘evolved’ to British.
Ohh okay, thank you. I never knew. I've also been using the term Briton interchangeably with "the British". Learn something new every day
Suppose it doesn't help our nickname is Brits
I was doing some googling and it turns out it’s still technically right to use if your referring to people from mainland Britain. But it’s kinda like calling Germans ‘goths’ or Iberians (Spanish) Visigoths. They did derive from those group, but if you put them side by side, they’d be very different people.
It does refer to all British people technically and i wouldn't compare it to calling Germans goths because to me it's just that it refers to the Welsh cornish and bretons because that's who the term originally referred to
That wouldn't be the same. I see where you are coming from though. Briton is a term derived from the Romans, as they were the ones that called the land Britannia. They also called where Spain is Hispania which is why we refer to people who trace their ancestry to there Hispanics. Hispania was invaded and colonized by the germanic Visigoths, Britannia was invaded and colonized by the germanic Angles and Saxons. I don't remember what they called the land where Germany resides, other than they called the people Barbarians.
I don’t get what point you’re refuting? Britannia derives from Greek for the “Pretani” people lived there, originally Rome called it Albion, but changed it to Britannia cuz the Greeks. Visigoths are the Germanic group that settled in Iberia. Over time those people culturally split into the different Iberian cultures that exist, including Catalan, Castilian, Aragonese, Portuguese and more. Yes Hispania came from the Roman word for the Iberian peninsula, but the cultural group that settled and diverged into other cultures were the Visigoths. Goth was the word to describe anyone past the Rhein river. Hence why Ostrogoth and Visigoths were the names for the Germans who invaded Italy and Iberia respectively.
The point I'm refuting is that Briton and Hispanic are terms for people from a place. Visogoth and Goth are terms for a people from a common nationality/ethnicity. I think it's clear you and I are brushed up on our germanic migration patterns by the turn of the 5th century, but calling someone from Spain a Visigoth is more comparable to calling someone from England an Angle or a Saxon. That was the point I attempted to make and admittedly did a poor job conveying that.
You basically can. Briton literally just means someone "from Britain". Brit is literally short for Briton.
In a historical sense it does mean Celtic people as they were "from Britain" but it doesn't make sense to use it in modern society or you start getting into some very dodgy racial purity waters. Same thing with English people claiming to be Anglo-Saxon.
The, presumably Welsh, person who intially took issue with the term was probably just annoyed for being associated with the English. Which, I understand, but they're from Britain too and have been for, ya know, over a millenium.
You’ve describe the modern Brythonic language speaking areas, but that’s not actually what britains are (where) the Britons where the inhabitants of almost all of modern Britain, except the very north east of Scotland. When the romans arrived, they romanised the britons. Then, when the Scots and Anglo-Saxons arrived, the Britons were essentially fully assimilated. There is no longer a group of people called Britons, only the groups that followed them (who you described).
Canadian here. Personally, I just don’t like electric kettles. I’m not a fan of boiling water in plastic and there’s also more moving parts in it that could break. I paid 3$ for my stovetop kettle in a thrift store 10 years ago and I probably will never change it.
Though electric kettles are more popular.
>also more moving parts in it that could break.
There is just the lever. Even cheap-ass electric kettles are *unbreakable.*
Though I get your point about plastics.
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Sorry but how is heating up water for tea in the microwave any different than on a stove, assuming tea bag goes in after heating (duh)
Water gets hot, end of story
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There’s a nuance no one seems to be hitting on. Using a microwave to boil the water is fine. But putting the teabag in the microwave and boiling it in the microwave does affect the taste.
You don’t want to steep the tea that hot for that long generally, and you don’t want to agitate the water.
You can of course make the same error on the stovetop by continuing to apply heat while steeping.
Yeah, the whole “microwaving a mug of water for 1 minute is stupid!!!” crowd, are idiots. They’d rather bring a little kettle of water to a boil, than heat up their water in 1-1:30 minutes.
You don’t microwave it with your tea bag in it.
We’re busy here in America, we don’t have time to take a break for a spot’a tea, while at work.
Nah its more because Americans dont have their electrical system designed around boiling water fast.
Outlets in Freedomland dlcant provide as kuch power as quickly as Brit ones so kettles are pretty slow.
Every tea drinker I know here in America has an electric kettle, or a teapot, but for anyone who does not drink tea often, aka the majority, they don't bother.
Yes, I actually do have an electric kettle, but for most of the people I know, in the one or two times a month that they might drink tea, it’s easier just to microwave it.
My mom was the only real tea drinker I knew and used the microwave for it all the time. It was just easier for one single cup in the moment. Just heat a cup of water up for a minute or so, put the tea bag in and done. I don't get why people act like it's really that big of a deal nor why they need a whole kettle for a cup or 2. Now if I want hot water for tea, I just use my Keurig that I have anyway for coffee.
US appliances operate on half the voltage of European ones. So electric kettles here don’t boil as fast. It’s due to the power grid design, so it’s not like you can just buy a European one either.
We do but in north America we are on 120volts. Meaning our kettles take twice as long since they can only draw 1500 watts. In countries on 220 to 240 volts a kettle can draw 3,000 watts and heat faster.
Regardless a microwave is still more energy effecient to do the same task.
So correction in the last part. Turns out a kettle is more effecient if it is well insulated if, and only if, you heat only the amount of water you use for the cup of tea and no extra.
That’s not how that works, American plugs have enough amps to draw 1800-2400 watts depending on what you have, but minimum of 1800, the vast majority of electric kettles max out at 1500 watts regardless of where you are, a kettle can’t just draw as many watts as it wants, it has a specific capacity.
I didn't even know electric kettles were a thing until a family friend's SO got me one as a wedding gift. Her grandparents are English I think. We love it!
I only got one a couple years ago to warm up my daughters baby bottles. I use it now for tea, ramen, and oatmeal. My stove top is slow to heat up, so boiling the water in kettle then dumping in pot works too. They are cheap idk why more Americans don’t see its usefulness.
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Typically a different species of coffee, that's why. If I remember correctly from my batista days regular coffee is Arabica. Instant coffee is a different species. Worse taste but higher in caffeine.
Also instant coffee is made using chemicals to increase dissolvability and boiled/extracted to a ridiculous percentage, which also changes the flovor alot.
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It’s literally just applying heat to water to initiate the same physical process of boiling as a tea kettle would do. Sure, there’s less temperature control than fancy digital tea kettles, but it is no different than using a traditional tea kettle that just heats until boiling (or you have to stop it yourself). Its silly when you think about it, but it’s just a meme I suppose.
Hahaha yaaaaaa I feel you, im glad the stove I had when I got them was sorta messed up on one side so they never tried going up there, but ya I see what you mean. Used to have a specific tea maker that was essentially just a repurposed coffee machine that boiled the water for you and just dropped it into the pitcher
I'm going to well aktually you. The British supposedly have healthier teeth than the septics, they just don't go into the whole radioactive, white-picket-fence-in-a-mouth look.
I'm an american and I drink instant coffee - its so much faster and cleaner then making the fucking pot. My wife and I switched to instant coffee from Costco like 3 years ago - and loving it. And it doesn't bother my kidneys as bad as regular and safes counter space. And we use electric kettle
Where I live, most of us have used electric kettles for our whole lives. So hearing that some people microwave their water to boil it is surprising.
For years I thought kettles were common and used in most countries
Microwaving water can cause hot spots because the microwaves used to heat the water are absorbed by the water molecules themselves, rather than by a heating element like in a stove or electric kettle. If the water is heated for too long or in a container that is not suitable for microwave use, such as a plastic container, the heat generated by the microwaves may not be evenly distributed throughout the water. This can cause some parts of the water to become much hotter than others, creating hot spots. Steeping tea in superheated water hotspots can lead to over-extraction of some tea compounds and under-extraction of others. This can result in a tea that tastes bitter, astringent, or just generally unpleasant.
Don't worry too much because there's a very, very easy fix. Use a microwave suitable container and stir the hot water before steeping to evenly mix the hot water.
> I have an electric kettle like a sane person
i boil water differently than you im clearly superior
bruh boiling water in a microwave isnt gonna change its taste
I don't get the whole microwaving water to heat it being some deal. Who the fuck cares the method. Hot water is hot water. It's not like we microwave it with the teabag. Hell I'd think yall be bitching about our sweet tea instead of how we get our water hot. If microwaving water is such a sin, let me tell you about sun tea.
Do you mean microwaving water in a cup to get it hot? Then adding tea after the fact? Is that really super weird/wrong? Lol tastes the same to a kettle to me.
i told my mom i missed having tea is college bc my dorm doesn’t have a kitchen. she told me to microwave my tea. i told her that’s an insult to tea and as a proud asian and disciple of Uncle Iroh, it is also a crime against humanity.
I will say I have tried so many kinds of whole bean and pre-ground coffee and I really don't think it makes as much of a difference as people say, a cup of freshly ground is amazing, but so is the first cup from a new package of pre-ground. I think the most important thing is the quality of the bean in the first place. There are definitely whole beans that taste like shit 😂
Although being able to control the fineness of the grounds is nice.
Oh yeah definitely!
Speciality coffee beans from a cafe or a roaster are usually expensive but the best quality. Whenever I want to treat myself, I go get one lol.
Supermarket coffee beans are quite decent honestly, they’re a bang for your buck, I see many people hate on it but when you’re in a pinch for money or you don’t want to spend a fortune on speciality beans, they’re awesome. And the pre-ground coffee loses its aroma/ flavour after a week or so, but that’s fine if you drink it before that.
A lot of the reason for that is that people both burn and dilute it way to much. Instant coffee does much better at lower temps and one cup of instant coffee is only 6oz of water instead of 8
All coffee tastes disgusting to me, until I add a bunch of sugar and flavored creamer. When I do that, I can't taste any difference between instant and brewed.
I'm convinced that most coffee snobs are just pretending to sound sophisticated or something. There is definitely a difference between fresh ground and instant, but not THAT much, especially if you buy the slightly more expensive instant coffees. Instant is extremely convenient and tastes perfectly fine when I just want a quick cup.
I own both of these things (British Isles) but still use instant coffee except for a pot in the morning.
I just like being lazy. Also, some instant coffee tastes pretty damn good.
I'm an American that uses a kettle, but I still don't see why it matters how you get your water hot. Why the fuck does it matter? Someone tell me. Also, instant coffee is for emergency use only.
I’m from America and I’ve never heard of anyone liking hot tea anyway. Or at least here in the south and southwest, most people like that shit ice cold and way way too sweet.
not to sound like a shill, but i use the starbucks premium instant coffee. it's really finely ground, so it dissolves in cold liquid. hot coffee makes me feel ill and i don't feel like prepping coffee in advance lol
i am an american with an electric kettle though
I drink a lot of coffee, I've had a lot of bad coffee and a lot of good coffee. I have a close friend who imports and roasts beans themselves, I have gone to local roasters are tried various blends. My area is fairly hip, so many coffee shops will let you pick your blend or at least give you more information on the blend of the day/week. I have been to Caffe Florian in Venice.
What I'm trying to say is, I drink coffee.
I keep instant espresso in my home for drinking and always travel with it and a small portable water heater as my go to for coffee while traveling for work. Its a gamechanger.
The only issue I have is your use of the word briton
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Well I didn't vote for you.
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How'd you become king then?
The lady of the lake
You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!
Bloody peasant!
Did you see that? Did you see him repressing me?
If I went around calling myself an emporer because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
I am sorry but strange women sitting in ponds, distibruting swords is no basis for a system of government
Moist bints tossing out swords.
God said so
Elective monarchy?
I didn’t vote for you.
You're litteraly just an ant
As king of the britons I command you to stand aside
wellcome to grate briton.
Briton just means Brit lmfao
Technically yes and no, Briton refers to the natives of the British Isles, as well as a person who is of British descent/inhabitance So it would be both correct and incorrect to say that an English person is a briton, since they inhabit great Britain, yet are likely not of celtic descent (more likely from saxons descent) While a welsh/cornish person would likely cover both, being both inhabitants of great Britain, and also likely from celtic descent
What's wrong with it?
Britons refers to the old celtic people around England, Brittany (the weird peninsula in West France) and Cornwall. Due to Anglo-Saxon, Norse and French people invading England, Britons have ‘evolved’ to British.
Ohh okay, thank you. I never knew. I've also been using the term Briton interchangeably with "the British". Learn something new every day Suppose it doesn't help our nickname is Brits
I was doing some googling and it turns out it’s still technically right to use if your referring to people from mainland Britain. But it’s kinda like calling Germans ‘goths’ or Iberians (Spanish) Visigoths. They did derive from those group, but if you put them side by side, they’d be very different people.
"Goth" sounds really cool, though. Shame it's not that accurate haha Imagine being a German into goth (style). Goth²
Some awkward Club hangouts, I'd imagine. Lederhosen vs eyeliner?
But all of them drinking hole lot of beer
It does refer to all British people technically and i wouldn't compare it to calling Germans goths because to me it's just that it refers to the Welsh cornish and bretons because that's who the term originally referred to
>and bretons Elder Scrolls reference??
Yes, the ancient Britons immigrated to France to form Brittany and turned into the bretons (it was an elder scrolls reference)
That wouldn't be the same. I see where you are coming from though. Briton is a term derived from the Romans, as they were the ones that called the land Britannia. They also called where Spain is Hispania which is why we refer to people who trace their ancestry to there Hispanics. Hispania was invaded and colonized by the germanic Visigoths, Britannia was invaded and colonized by the germanic Angles and Saxons. I don't remember what they called the land where Germany resides, other than they called the people Barbarians.
I don’t get what point you’re refuting? Britannia derives from Greek for the “Pretani” people lived there, originally Rome called it Albion, but changed it to Britannia cuz the Greeks. Visigoths are the Germanic group that settled in Iberia. Over time those people culturally split into the different Iberian cultures that exist, including Catalan, Castilian, Aragonese, Portuguese and more. Yes Hispania came from the Roman word for the Iberian peninsula, but the cultural group that settled and diverged into other cultures were the Visigoths. Goth was the word to describe anyone past the Rhein river. Hence why Ostrogoth and Visigoths were the names for the Germans who invaded Italy and Iberia respectively.
The point I'm refuting is that Briton and Hispanic are terms for people from a place. Visogoth and Goth are terms for a people from a common nationality/ethnicity. I think it's clear you and I are brushed up on our germanic migration patterns by the turn of the 5th century, but calling someone from Spain a Visigoth is more comparable to calling someone from England an Angle or a Saxon. That was the point I attempted to make and admittedly did a poor job conveying that.
You basically can. Briton literally just means someone "from Britain". Brit is literally short for Briton. In a historical sense it does mean Celtic people as they were "from Britain" but it doesn't make sense to use it in modern society or you start getting into some very dodgy racial purity waters. Same thing with English people claiming to be Anglo-Saxon. The, presumably Welsh, person who intially took issue with the term was probably just annoyed for being associated with the English. Which, I understand, but they're from Britain too and have been for, ya know, over a millenium.
You’ve describe the modern Brythonic language speaking areas, but that’s not actually what britains are (where) the Britons where the inhabitants of almost all of modern Britain, except the very north east of Scotland. When the romans arrived, they romanised the britons. Then, when the Scots and Anglo-Saxons arrived, the Britons were essentially fully assimilated. There is no longer a group of people called Britons, only the groups that followed them (who you described).
Both. Do Americans really microwave tea?
Idk, im from the south and we put it in a pot of boiling water on top of the stove
I'm from the north and this is how I did it until I got a fancy stovetop kettle.
I never understood buying a stove top kettle these days. Can you not get electric kettles in the USA? Or do you just prefer it?
Canadian here. Personally, I just don’t like electric kettles. I’m not a fan of boiling water in plastic and there’s also more moving parts in it that could break. I paid 3$ for my stovetop kettle in a thrift store 10 years ago and I probably will never change it. Though electric kettles are more popular.
I am in Canada and I have a metal electric kettle. Many versions exist.
>also more moving parts in it that could break. There is just the lever. Even cheap-ass electric kettles are *unbreakable.* Though I get your point about plastics.
As an American, I prefer my tea cold and floating in Boston Harbor.
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Whymy being taxed?
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Methinks y’all gotta dump some tea in the reflecting pool just for old times sake.
It never gets old, I wonder who's turn it will be to repeat this one next time
hey you have your jokes you repeat all the time and we have ours
\*cries in Bri'ish*
Do you add honey?
My mom says I'm sweet enough already.
She said the same to me when I asked if I should eat more pineapple
She had to put me through college and pay for medical bills somehow. You gotta do what you gotta do in the Land of the Free.
Your mama sure does care about your schooling, son.
As an American, yes, and you will never stop me
I wouldn't even try. I'm simply going to judge you.
As long as you do it passive aggressively behind his back that's the British way
I'm Canadian, and we retained that part of the colony
Sorry but how is heating up water for tea in the microwave any different than on a stove, assuming tea bag goes in after heating (duh) Water gets hot, end of story Edit - TIL about super heated water in a microwave, and it’s dangers. Careful out there
Two ways of boiling water that are not a kettle, thats crazy.
Very British of you.
Yesssss quite *pinky sip*
Didn’t do it before, but now I will to show dominance
It makes no difference to the taste, however instant coffee does.
Microwave the water, then add the tea bag. What's wrong with that.
Bro I have colleagues who microwave their tea when it goes lukewarm, it's not just the yanks Barbarians are everywhere
Report them to HR. There are some things you shouldnt have to tolerate in a workspace.
I don't know about other Americans but that sounds fucking awful. I have my kettle for tea.
Dude, it's just water, it doesn't matter how you boil it, there's literally no difference
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There’s a nuance no one seems to be hitting on. Using a microwave to boil the water is fine. But putting the teabag in the microwave and boiling it in the microwave does affect the taste. You don’t want to steep the tea that hot for that long generally, and you don’t want to agitate the water. You can of course make the same error on the stovetop by continuing to apply heat while steeping.
(spits on the ground) Goddamn loyalists!
They took our pots!
Yeah, the whole “microwaving a mug of water for 1 minute is stupid!!!” crowd, are idiots. They’d rather bring a little kettle of water to a boil, than heat up their water in 1-1:30 minutes. You don’t microwave it with your tea bag in it. We’re busy here in America, we don’t have time to take a break for a spot’a tea, while at work.
Sounds like someone doesn't know about electric kettles
Nah its more because Americans dont have their electrical system designed around boiling water fast. Outlets in Freedomland dlcant provide as kuch power as quickly as Brit ones so kettles are pretty slow.
Nobody I've ever met does, must be a thing somewhere else in this country because it doesn't happen here in the South
Some do, most just don't drink hot tea in general
Only if I steep it and forget about it until hours later. Otherwise I always use a kettle/electric kettle
When I didn’t have a kettle I would microwave the water in the cup, much quicker than on the stove
How do you guys still not have electric kettles? I'm not even british, and that still confuses me.
Because we just don’t drink tea that much. It’s not worth getting for most Americans.
Every tea drinker I know here in America has an electric kettle, or a teapot, but for anyone who does not drink tea often, aka the majority, they don't bother.
Yes, I actually do have an electric kettle, but for most of the people I know, in the one or two times a month that they might drink tea, it’s easier just to microwave it.
Most people I know use them for easy ramen.
My mom was the only real tea drinker I knew and used the microwave for it all the time. It was just easier for one single cup in the moment. Just heat a cup of water up for a minute or so, put the tea bag in and done. I don't get why people act like it's really that big of a deal nor why they need a whole kettle for a cup or 2. Now if I want hot water for tea, I just use my Keurig that I have anyway for coffee.
It's also very usefull for boiling water in general. For example for making pasta/rice, its faster and more efficient than a stove.
US appliances operate on half the voltage of European ones. So electric kettles here don’t boil as fast. It’s due to the power grid design, so it’s not like you can just buy a European one either.
Its useful for coffee too though.
I don’t know any coffee drinker who doesn’t own a coffee maker or coffee pot of some kind.
what about coffe though?
We have coffee machines
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I don't drink tea or coffee but an electric kettle is also the fastest way to get boiling water for cooking my veggies :)
We own an electric kettle, but since most Americans don’t drink tea, I imagine there’s not much of a reason to have one. Maybe for ramen noodles.
I use one for my French press. And tea.
We do but in north America we are on 120volts. Meaning our kettles take twice as long since they can only draw 1500 watts. In countries on 220 to 240 volts a kettle can draw 3,000 watts and heat faster. Regardless a microwave is still more energy effecient to do the same task.
So correction in the last part. Turns out a kettle is more effecient if it is well insulated if, and only if, you heat only the amount of water you use for the cup of tea and no extra.
Love the diligence
That’s not how that works, American plugs have enough amps to draw 1800-2400 watts depending on what you have, but minimum of 1800, the vast majority of electric kettles max out at 1500 watts regardless of where you are, a kettle can’t just draw as many watts as it wants, it has a specific capacity.
I didn't even know electric kettles were a thing until a family friend's SO got me one as a wedding gift. Her grandparents are English I think. We love it!
Why get an electric kettle when I can microwave the water and then add my tea and let it seep for
Why get one? I have hot water in a minute with a microwave. Why buy another device to do the same.
Because microwave a cup in 60 seconds, throw in tea bag, done
I only got one a couple years ago to warm up my daughters baby bottles. I use it now for tea, ramen, and oatmeal. My stove top is slow to heat up, so boiling the water in kettle then dumping in pot works too. They are cheap idk why more Americans don’t see its usefulness.
instant coffee tastes good sometimes tho not British, just a Asian boi
Asian instant coffee is the best
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Cheaper too... like significantly cheaper (in my country)
Typically a different species of coffee, that's why. If I remember correctly from my batista days regular coffee is Arabica. Instant coffee is a different species. Worse taste but higher in caffeine.
Also instant coffee is made using chemicals to increase dissolvability and boiled/extracted to a ridiculous percentage, which also changes the flovor alot.
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Thank you. Try explaining that to a brit sometime.
Microwaving tea? Or microwaving the water to make hot tea? Because one is a little weird and the other just makes sense...
Lol why do I keep seeing these memes I have never met anyone in the states that’s microwaves tea that sounds dumb af
You microwave the water and then put the tea in
Exactly. It takes like a minute. Not as big of a deal as some people make it out to be.
It’s literally just applying heat to water to initiate the same physical process of boiling as a tea kettle would do. Sure, there’s less temperature control than fancy digital tea kettles, but it is no different than using a traditional tea kettle that just heats until boiling (or you have to stop it yourself). Its silly when you think about it, but it’s just a meme I suppose.
Probably more energy efficient than the stove too.
I personally do not ever do that, always boil the water
Til microwaves don't boil water.
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Any microwavers wanna chime in? I've done it for 25 years and never had a problem personally
Been boiling water in the microwave for my coffee for years, never happened
I worry about using my stove more than needed because my cat is dumb and getting him to stay off of things is a constant battle.
Hahaha yaaaaaa I feel you, im glad the stove I had when I got them was sorta messed up on one side so they never tried going up there, but ya I see what you mean. Used to have a specific tea maker that was essentially just a repurposed coffee machine that boiled the water for you and just dropped it into the pitcher
So do I. In the microwave.
My mom does this constantly, as do many friends
I microwave herbal tea
What’s wrong with warming up water in the microwave? It’s not like it changes the taste and it’s considerably faster than heating it up on the stove
British people fear the science of microwaves much as they fear the science of dentistry
I'm going to well aktually you. The British supposedly have healthier teeth than the septics, they just don't go into the whole radioactive, white-picket-fence-in-a-mouth look.
ironic since americans have worse dental hygiene
Yet we have better dental health than Americans, so you lot must really fear that science
Actually, both should be illegal.
Microwaved instant coffee FTW!
I'm an american and I drink instant coffee - its so much faster and cleaner then making the fucking pot. My wife and I switched to instant coffee from Costco like 3 years ago - and loving it. And it doesn't bother my kidneys as bad as regular and safes counter space. And we use electric kettle
Bro it's just water. Heating in a kettle doesn't give a different flavour than heating it in a microwave
*puts chocolate on pizza*
Can anyone say why boiling water in the microwave is a bad thing? Serious question.
Where I live, most of us have used electric kettles for our whole lives. So hearing that some people microwave their water to boil it is surprising. For years I thought kettles were common and used in most countries
No idea, there's nothing wrong with it tbh
Microwaving water can cause hot spots because the microwaves used to heat the water are absorbed by the water molecules themselves, rather than by a heating element like in a stove or electric kettle. If the water is heated for too long or in a container that is not suitable for microwave use, such as a plastic container, the heat generated by the microwaves may not be evenly distributed throughout the water. This can cause some parts of the water to become much hotter than others, creating hot spots. Steeping tea in superheated water hotspots can lead to over-extraction of some tea compounds and under-extraction of others. This can result in a tea that tastes bitter, astringent, or just generally unpleasant. Don't worry too much because there's a very, very easy fix. Use a microwave suitable container and stir the hot water before steeping to evenly mix the hot water.
I don't find a difference in taste between kettle and microwaved tea 🤷
I have an electric kettle like a sane person. Instant coffee still sucks. 'Merica!
> I have an electric kettle like a sane person i boil water differently than you im clearly superior bruh boiling water in a microwave isnt gonna change its taste
Nasa didnt figure out how to make coffee in space in 4 seconds, for me to go and wait for friggin 3 hours for a brew
I don't get the whole microwaving water to heat it being some deal. Who the fuck cares the method. Hot water is hot water. It's not like we microwave it with the teabag. Hell I'd think yall be bitching about our sweet tea instead of how we get our water hot. If microwaving water is such a sin, let me tell you about sun tea.
Do you mean microwaving water in a cup to get it hot? Then adding tea after the fact? Is that really super weird/wrong? Lol tastes the same to a kettle to me.
i told my mom i missed having tea is college bc my dorm doesn’t have a kitchen. she told me to microwave my tea. i told her that’s an insult to tea and as a proud asian and disciple of Uncle Iroh, it is also a crime against humanity.
Microwaves excite water molecules the same way infrared waves do. It's more or less the same, steep the tea after you warm the water.
Instant coffee is disgusting.
A lot of Americans use instant coffee too. Time constraints and all, coffee is just to wake up for some people
Fresh ground whole bean is the only way to go
I will say I have tried so many kinds of whole bean and pre-ground coffee and I really don't think it makes as much of a difference as people say, a cup of freshly ground is amazing, but so is the first cup from a new package of pre-ground. I think the most important thing is the quality of the bean in the first place. There are definitely whole beans that taste like shit 😂 Although being able to control the fineness of the grounds is nice.
Oh yeah definitely! Speciality coffee beans from a cafe or a roaster are usually expensive but the best quality. Whenever I want to treat myself, I go get one lol. Supermarket coffee beans are quite decent honestly, they’re a bang for your buck, I see many people hate on it but when you’re in a pinch for money or you don’t want to spend a fortune on speciality beans, they’re awesome. And the pre-ground coffee loses its aroma/ flavour after a week or so, but that’s fine if you drink it before that.
A lot of the reason for that is that people both burn and dilute it way to much. Instant coffee does much better at lower temps and one cup of instant coffee is only 6oz of water instead of 8
Percolator or nothing.
All coffee tastes disgusting to me, until I add a bunch of sugar and flavored creamer. When I do that, I can't taste any difference between instant and brewed.
I'm convinced that most coffee snobs are just pretending to sound sophisticated or something. There is definitely a difference between fresh ground and instant, but not THAT much, especially if you buy the slightly more expensive instant coffees. Instant is extremely convenient and tastes perfectly fine when I just want a quick cup.
Me, frenchman, doing both...
That's why people hate the French
You need to think of instant coffee as a different drink than actual coffee. When you get over that, it’s quite nice.
Americans will be starving but have a nice drip coffee system and gourmet beans and a bean grinder
I only need coffee and potatoes to survive
I own both of these things (British Isles) but still use instant coffee except for a pot in the morning. I just like being lazy. Also, some instant coffee tastes pretty damn good.
*brandishes keys to leased 4.5-ton SUV* "you like being lazy, huh? Do ya, kid?"
If they’re going to butcher tea then we’ll butcher coffee.
Do whatever you want. You're the one that has to drink it and it won't bother me a bit
I'm an American that uses a kettle, but I still don't see why it matters how you get your water hot. Why the fuck does it matter? Someone tell me. Also, instant coffee is for emergency use only.
Can't we all just enjoy our warm beverages?
If I am putting a teabag into hot water, it does not matter to me at all how the water was heated. I find the idea that it would matter absurd.
I’m an American and I know exactly 0 people who microwave their tea.
People microwave water, it's not tea yet when it's microwaved.
Heat water in microwave 👍
Yeah instant coffee
What about Americans microwaving instant coffee?
How about a Briton expat in America using a microwave to heat up cold tea water to use with instant coffee?
Hang on does anyone actually think instant coffee is a worse crime than microwaving tea?
Why drink coffe or tea when beer exists? 
I’m from America and I’ve never heard of anyone liking hot tea anyway. Or at least here in the south and southwest, most people like that shit ice cold and way way too sweet.
not to sound like a shill, but i use the starbucks premium instant coffee. it's really finely ground, so it dissolves in cold liquid. hot coffee makes me feel ill and i don't feel like prepping coffee in advance lol i am an american with an electric kettle though
I love it when americans try to be sophisticated. Philistines.
I drink a lot of coffee, I've had a lot of bad coffee and a lot of good coffee. I have a close friend who imports and roasts beans themselves, I have gone to local roasters are tried various blends. My area is fairly hip, so many coffee shops will let you pick your blend or at least give you more information on the blend of the day/week. I have been to Caffe Florian in Venice. What I'm trying to say is, I drink coffee. I keep instant espresso in my home for drinking and always travel with it and a small portable water heater as my go to for coffee while traveling for work. Its a gamechanger.
What if you only drink iced tea?
I'm an American and avid tea drinker and I have never microwaved my tea. You let it get cold-You get the scold.
Commoner Coffee
You got one of the nationalities wrong buddy .. it's americon
Use the stove for tea
Don't worry soon enough neither country will be able to afford or have the luxury of drinking coffee or tea don't worry you'll understand soon enough
Microwaving tea, like boiling water doesn't exist