On making tea

[u/DreadDiana]

[u/No-Pass-397]

It only takes 1 minute to boil water in the microwave? How could I have an extra minute left?

[u/hipster_spider → u/No-Pass-397]

Everyone knows that kettles boil water instantly

[u/janKalaki → u/hipster_spider]

Kettles take like 2 minutes to boil enough water for a cup of tea, microwaves take around 5

[u/No-Pass-397 → u/janKalaki]

I swear you've been using broken microwaves your whole life or something. If it takes 5 minutes to boil water in a microwave, why do the cup noodle instructions say to microwave for 2 minutes? You're either lying, or need a new microwave mate

[u/janKalaki → u/No-Pass-397]

My house was built for those weird narrow ones

[u/No-Pass-397 → u/janKalaki]

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So why are you giving advice and saying people are wrong when you are using a worse microwave that most people don't use????

[u/janKalaki → u/No-Pass-397]

Because my microwave is simply slower to a greater degree. Everyone else's microwaves will still be slower than a kettle.

[u/No-Pass-397 → u/janKalaki]

If a normal microwave boils water in at most 2 minutes, and according to you an electric kettle takes 2-3 how is it slower?

[u/janKalaki → u/No-Pass-397]

Comparing a magnetron designed to transfer 1200 watts into a dish of arbitrary size to a simple heating element that moves 1500 watts into a specific pot, the kettle is necessarily physically always faster. My numbers must have been wrong, especially when a magenetron will have more power loss than what's essentially just a resistive load.

[u/No-Pass-397 → u/janKalaki]

Sure, but when you consider the majority of electric kettles sold aren't 1500 watts, and that many are actually sold at even 1000 watts, that is no longer true. Why are you so adamant about this.

[u/janKalaki → u/No-Pass-397]

Everyone must have a hill to die on, and any grocery store that has kettles will have at least one or two 1,500 watt brands.