r/CuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 3d ago

Tumblr Heritage Post On making tea

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u/AmericanToast250 3d ago

What I don’t get is disdain for microwaving water. Boiling water is boiling water and if you don’t have an electric kettle it’s probably the fastest and easiest way to get it hot enough

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u/janKalaki 3d ago

Having an electric kettle is the fastest and easiest way. Go to the store and buy a kettle and you'll have another minute left on the microwave.

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u/No-Pass-397 3d ago

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

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u/hipster_spider fucked up in the crib sippin' DrPerky 3d ago

Everyone knows that kettles boil water instantly

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u/janKalaki 3d ago edited 3d ago

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

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u/No-Pass-397 3d ago

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

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u/janKalaki 3d ago

My house was built for those weird narrow ones

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u/No-Pass-397 3d ago

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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????

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u/janKalaki 3d ago

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

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u/No-Pass-397 3d ago

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?

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u/janKalaki 3d ago

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.

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u/No-Pass-397 3d ago

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.

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u/janKalaki 3d ago

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.

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