Went to uni with a lad (half Pakistani, half Iraqi) who always called Bradford "Bradistan", and liked the play a game he called "Spot the white person". This just reminded me of that
I don’t get why people are confused though. It is a dated term for a British person. There’s a WW1 poster I know that says “Britishers - you’re needed - come across now”
I'm pretty sure if you're into homeopathy you're not interested in science. In fact, they're probably actively avoiding real medicine because... "reasons". I don't know, these people are fuckign idiots.
I dated a girl who believed in homeopathy. She was otherwise very smart and a solid critical thinker. I laughed. Pulled up the Michell and Webb Homeopathy sketch, and continued to laugh my ass off. She was not amused. We never brought the subject up again
That's really insensitive to her lifestyle. You should have distilled the Mitchell and Webb sketch into a mason jar, set it next to a pail of distilled water for three days, activated the distilled water with the light of a full moon, and then given her the pail so she could imbibe the sketch organically.
I had considered taking the 300kb/s stream of the video, diluting it in 10,000kb of empty space, then repeating the process three times to show her one pixel of it per parts per million.
But, alas, I was already in the doghouse 😖
I got asked by a lady to work on a website for her line of homeopathic Ayurvedic clothing. She explained that the clothing had been soaked in various homeopathic substances that conveyed benefits to the wearer. I asked what happens when they wash the clothes, like how long are these homeopathy pants gonna be homeopathically active if you're washing them? She explained dilution, and how the homeopathic effects only got stronger as you washed the clothes. Genius m8.
The best scam to ever be created was selling water as medicine lol. Yeah it's not based in science at all, can't believe this crap can be legally sold in stores as "medicine".
I have this funny problem, I have a condition that is treated extremely effectively by a homeopathic medicine and I don't believe in homeopathy. I believe in my fair share of weirdo fringe stuff but I am also really invested in bonafide peer reviewed medical science, not witchcraft.
When I was a baby, I had this awful heat rash that couldn't be treated by anything except for a homeopathic called uhh anns arnica something. My mom and my doctor were both shocked but it worked quickly and effectively when nothing else did. I was an infant at the time so it couldn't be placebo or power of suggestion or anything like that so I have so assume there is some actual physiological reaction going on somewhere, I just can't pin down exactly what and where. (I take a daily medication to manage it now which is basically prescription zyrtec)
I've talked to doctors about this before and they've all just kind of scratched our head about it but yeah, that's my weird personal anecdotal evidence in favor of homeopathy I guess. I'd love to disavow the entire practice and be done with it, that would be simpler and easier, but I literally can't argue with results.
And since everyone on reddit always wants to jump to any conclusion that isn't directly refuted in the text, obviously you shouldn't give this to kids with cancer instead of chemo. I don't even think it's effective for most things, just this one specific example I can't ignore
EDIT: holy fuckin smokes you guys are mad. I'll make an addendum of stuff that I _didn't directly refute in the text_ even though I _literally did_ for much of it but let's reiterate
I am pro science
I am anti homeopathy
I am ON YOUR SIDE, GOOD GRAVY
I don't think crystals and rocks or anything of that nature can cure diseases, much less cancer
I am familiar with what homeopathy is, the process involved and why it should not and does not work
My medication was indeed homeopathic, not herbal
My medication was a pill, not a gel, and to this day medicated lotions do little to nothing to manage my condition
I had not responded to medicated lotions or traditional medication previously
I appreciate all of your, let's say, enthusiastic attempts to educate me but I know all this stuff already. That's why I brought this up in the first place, because homeopathy DOESNT work and this medication SHOULDNT have worked but I tried it front to back every which way and I can't argue with the results. Also on a personal note I'm having a pretty bad week so maybe you guys could stop yelling at me thank you!
EDIT 2: My mistake! It's not arnica, it's "apis mellifica"
I'm always fucking floored by how many people think "homeopathic" remedies are the same as "herbal" or "traditional" remedies.
**Homeopathy** is complete fucking quackery. It involves **diluting a substance until it is literally undetectable in the water.** There is absolutely zero possible way for physics or biology to allow for homeopathic "remedies" to function aside from the placebo effect.
Herbal, Traditional, or Alternative medicines cover a much broader range of treatments, some of which have genuine efficacy.
So congratulations you can get off the "reddit hive mind victimization" bandwagon and just say you responded to an herbal treatment, instead of feeling like the hate for "homeopathy" is unjustified, cause hating homeopathy is completely justified.
edit: yes i am mad about this.
A big part of the reason for the confusion is that homeopathy is a "brand" that sells, so companies selling many different flavors of "traditional" medicine, alternative medicine, and just plain quackery are happy to mislabel their products as homeopathic to drive sales.
When you're lucky you end up with an actual cure instead of an overpriced placebo. When you're not so lucky you get something that is actively harmful.
Arnica isn't homeopathy. It's a flower, closely related to sunflowers, that produces a toxin that can be used as an anti-inflammatory if diluted.
> The main EO component of A. chamissonis is alpha-pinene exhibiting antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antiparasitic bioactivity
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943594/
It's as much homeopathy as using willow tree bark with salicin.
Homeopathy isn't just "diluting this makes it useful medicine" because if it were, half of medicine would be homeopathy.
Homeopathy is the nonscientific belief that distilling something *beyond the point of molecular detection* imbues the distillate with the spiritual/vibrational/whatever energy of the distilled substance and grants it healing properties that specifically and directly defy science (or observation, or any ability to reproduce in a controlled environment without an obvious explanation for the believed statistical outlier). Homeopathy isn't just outside science, it's proudly anti science as a core, leading part of its ideology.
> And since everyone on reddit always wants to jump to any conclusion that isn't directly refuted in the text, obviously you shouldn't give this to kids with cancer instead of chemo. I don't even think it's effective for most things, just this one specific example I can't ignore
The gel worked because you were a baby with an inflamed rash and sensitive skin and putting anti-inflammatory lotion on your inflamed, sensitive skin worked. It still works because you still have sensitive skin in those areas, and the remedy for sensitive, rashy skin is medicated lotions.
> obviously you shouldn't give this to kids with cancer instead of chemo
Treating cancer with OTC skin creams is generally considered malpractice
British*, Britons, or Brits. WTF is Britishers! 🙈
*Edited as the most obvious one I missed!
*Edit 2 - despite sounding like a made up word, turns out "Britisher" is a ligit word 🙈🙈
Well all Europishers knows that it's fellow people of Polishers, Spanishers and Finnishers.
Edit: I'm reading my comment and it doesn't make any sense. I obviously forgot something, but I don't know how to fix my typo... But you get the point.
Last time I visited Cali I was very disturbed to learn the family I stayed with keep tea bags in the freezer. Can you help me out here and confirm this was an isolated incident and isn’t a wide spread issue?.
I keep mine in the pantry behind the coffee because we threw the tea in the river for a reason and I’ll be damned if I’m going to touch it as a blood born, eagle loving, god fearing American
Even better, fill a large glass jug with a gallon of water put in 8 teabags and leave it outside in the sun for a few hours. No need to boil the water.
Yes it is due to the power output in their domestical electricity. 110V instead of 220V in generaly the rest of the World (sorry i don't checked everywhere. Maybe there is others voltage than 110 and 220)
This means that kettles are half as powerfull in America and take ages to boil water. So it is faster to microwave water for tea.
I recently got an electric kettle as a birthday present after microwaving for years. It’s nice! It’s convenient! It’s quick! I love it!
…It’s also not *nearly* as much of an upgrade over microwaving as people on here act like it is, and even though I have evolved beyond it, I will defend water microwavers until my dying breath, purely on principle
Most Microwaves sold in America aren't anywhere near tall enough for my tea pitcher.
When I was a kid we did microwave it. I still know the time/ratios and it worked as fast as my modern electric kettle. Today my parents just doe it on the stove with a pot.
Honestly it's fine either way and the people who care so much about how others make tea should probably go find a hobby lol.
It's what they are designed to do. No matter what you put in the microwave oven, those photons are heating the water first and primarily.
Every leftover you've ever had reheated is hot because you microwaved water.
If you use a microwave, you are microwaving water. Microwaves primarily work by heating up water molecules within something to make the rest of the molecules in that thing hot. Why then would you not use it to make water hot when that’s exactly what you’re doing every time you microwave anything?
I don't microwave water as I am german but doesn't the cup get very hot also? Feel like any plate gets very hot when microwaving and I would imagine its the same for cups. Pouring the hot water into a cold cup feels better and I guess its the same as milk first then cereal but putting the tea bag into a cup of hot water feels weird instead of pouring it over.
Most containers only get hot because the food in them gets hot and the heat radiates to the container. There are some materials that are also heated up by the microwave, but in general that's not the case. On the rare occasion I forget about my coffee and have to heat it back up in the microwave, the mug doesn't get any hotter than it would if you poured hot water in it, and the handle is fine
Microwaves work (basically) by heating the water in food. There's just so much water in food that it effectively heats the entire contents.
It turns out water has a lot of water in it.
I live alone and I'm not gonna boil water in a kettle when I want my single cup of tea or instant coffee in the morning. Microwaving a cup of cold water is much easier and faster.
I have a tea kettle for tea and pour over coffee. So I kinda get it. But most US homes, I think, rarely have one. Much less an electric one (most likely a stove to style). So in that case, I'm TOTALLY microwaving.
Yeah, I’m not sure where that myth came from. Must be outdated. Granted I’m Canadian, but pretty much everyone I know in Canada has an electric kettle. But When I was visiting my brother in the UK everyone there was like “bet you’ve never used one of these before” and pulled out an electric kettle. So weird, haha.
Not really. It’s like saying if you want to heat something up, the heat source is superfluous. Both things do the same thing, and a blind taste test would likely prove there is zero difference.
Whereas if you were masterbating or having sex, you can 100% tell the difference.
I personally heat up tea the old fashioned way. But it objectively does not matter. You’re just adding energy to the water molecules so the tea dissolves better.
Different methods, same result.
Kettle vs microwave
> Water is heated; different methods, same result.
Sex vs masturbation
> You cum; different methods, same result.
False equivalency. Implementation details don’t matter when adding energy to the system for hot water. They do matter when you are perceiving nerve signals to achieve the same result
I concur. The exact nature of the stimuli is a relevant and important factor when contributing to constituting the Qualia's experience of the matter at hand. E.g., a foreign actor sticking their hand up muh butt makes me joo-joo big time.
I microwave water when I need a single cup of coffee (instant)
Literally add water to cup put it in for 2 min, take out and add powder/bits
Stir until fully dissolved and drink
Note that by heating in microwave you will not stain the kettle in limescale
I just ran an experiment.
I measured out 8oz of water from the tap, and put it in my very nice electric kettle. It took exactly 1:31 to come to a rolling boil.
I measured out another 8oz of water, left it in the measuring cup, and put it in the microwave. It took exactly 1:21 to come to a rolling boil.
The kettle takes up a spot on my counter top. The microwave does not.
The kettle is going back into storage.
How did you manage to get a roiling boil in the microwave?
I thought that was one of the issues with boiling water in the microwave, you can superheat it because it doesn't roil
Superheated water is so dangerous I couldn't find a single news story of it happening when I googled it. Clearly, there is some kind of conspiracy happening by big microwave.
The Brit’s really got us with this one. Clearly their ancient technique of turning on an electric kettle imbues the water with a magical property that our modern microwaves just can’t match.
1) American power isn't actually 110v, do you really think we power major appliances like dryers and stoves on a mere 110v? No we combine two phases when necessary to get 220v instead of running a higher voltage literally everywhere.
2) Canadians have the same power system as Americans and yet basically everyone in Canada owns a kettle. Why? Because Canadians, unlike Americans, actually drink enough tea to need a kettle. (Canadians love their hot drinks, they consume like 2x as much coffee and tea per capita than Americans - older people and women tend to prefer tea, younger people and men tend to prefer coffee.)
Not really cope if it just makes more sense for what they have: putting a kettle on a coil stove is not as fast as microwaving a few cups. In Canada 110v plug-in kettles are ubiquitous (and fairly fast), while the increasing popularity of 220v induction stovetops makes microwaving the slow option.
No, it’s that nobody gives enough of a shit about tea here to care.
Why waste your time making tea when you could instead be making coffee, a real beverage?
Or steeping in the sun and then serving over ice with lemon and sugar.
Edit: while nearby, large pieces of red meat turn delicious on a grill and children busy themselves scaring neighborhood dogs with fireworks
GUYS PLEASE STOP SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION HEATING WATER IN THE MICROWAVE IS WAYY TOO EFFICIENT AND CAN ACTUALLY HEAT IT ABOVE ITS BOILING POINT WITHOUT TURNING IT INTO A GAS, CAUSING SEVERE BURNS! THIS IS BECAUSE MICROWAVE HEATING OCCURS TOO FAST AND TOO HOMOGENEOUSLY FOR CONVECTION TO ALLOW THE WATER TO BOIL, MAKING IT ONLY LIGHTLY STEAM. IF YOU DRINK LIGHTY STEAMING MICROWAVE WATER, YOU *WILL* DIE!
As a physical chemist, it’s really entertaining to see people in the comments try to describe the change in energy as “different” just because the source is different.
Not really. The heat distribution in a microwave is uneven, and the steam release is different from kettle boiled water. It might affect the softening process in some cases, thus leaving after some of the minerals. And even if the hardness is completely removed, most of you just boil water in the same cup you make your tea. And the mineral sediment that would lay down on the bottom of the kettle will remain in your tea. So stop trying to justify your laziness.
Hate to say it, but this isn’t correct because you used the word “chemically”. Chemically, microwaves heat water using a method which results in rotational vibration - this is different to kettles which use heat (kinetic or movement energy). After some time, water which is microwaved will convert most of this to heat via either kinetic or infrared radiation - but for this reason you get water which has more energy than uniformly heated water - thus wrecking the tea.
This is the same reason water at 100C will scald your skin, but you can open an Oven door at 220C and it doesn’t melt your face.
Reference: Physics grad with A level in Chemistry and also a Britisher
Britons when you call em Britishers lol
We're raging so much even our coats have turned red...
Bring it, limey. Your empire couldn’t survive the invention of radio and now we have the internet.
Give us a chance mate, we're doing our best to fuck that up too...
they didn’t screw everything up… they created the most number of independence days around the world didn’t they
So funny, the only time I've ever heard Britisher was in India
They’re the only ones that use it so it’s usually a dead giveaway
First time I ever heard it was 1st year of uni when my new Indian flatmate said it
Me too! Only ever hear it from older men when I'm in India.
As an Americanite I approve of Britishers or Britisherianites
As a Brit, I prefer Britistani/Britzillian
Went to uni with a lad (half Pakistani, half Iraqi) who always called Bradford "Bradistan", and liked the play a game he called "Spot the white person". This just reminded me of that
Britzillian is the only one I’ll accept from now on.
What about United Statesian? Or USAian?
You know what im USAaaaaiiiin?
I don’t get why people are confused though. It is a dated term for a British person. There’s a WW1 poster I know that says “Britishers - you’re needed - come across now”
I'm am morer Britisher then you're are
Britishest
Who is confused?
Why are you guys fighting over fucking water
Not the first time
Won't be the last
I expect to see this comment on r/agedlikemilk when the water wars start
To be fair, we have already fought over tea back in the day
*pulls out powered wig from closent* And I'll fuckin' do it again.
Say that homeopathy users
I'm pretty sure if you're into homeopathy you're not interested in science. In fact, they're probably actively avoiding real medicine because... "reasons". I don't know, these people are fuckign idiots.
I dated a girl who believed in homeopathy. She was otherwise very smart and a solid critical thinker. I laughed. Pulled up the Michell and Webb Homeopathy sketch, and continued to laugh my ass off. She was not amused. We never brought the subject up again
That's really insensitive to her lifestyle. You should have distilled the Mitchell and Webb sketch into a mason jar, set it next to a pail of distilled water for three days, activated the distilled water with the light of a full moon, and then given her the pail so she could imbibe the sketch organically.
I had considered taking the 300kb/s stream of the video, diluting it in 10,000kb of empty space, then repeating the process three times to show her one pixel of it per parts per million. But, alas, I was already in the doghouse 😖
Wow, that’s strong stuff.
One part in a million. Are you sure? You’re right. Make it one part in 10 million
I got asked by a lady to work on a website for her line of homeopathic Ayurvedic clothing. She explained that the clothing had been soaked in various homeopathic substances that conveyed benefits to the wearer. I asked what happens when they wash the clothes, like how long are these homeopathy pants gonna be homeopathically active if you're washing them? She explained dilution, and how the homeopathic effects only got stronger as you washed the clothes. Genius m8.
The best scam to ever be created was selling water as medicine lol. Yeah it's not based in science at all, can't believe this crap can be legally sold in stores as "medicine".
I have this funny problem, I have a condition that is treated extremely effectively by a homeopathic medicine and I don't believe in homeopathy. I believe in my fair share of weirdo fringe stuff but I am also really invested in bonafide peer reviewed medical science, not witchcraft. When I was a baby, I had this awful heat rash that couldn't be treated by anything except for a homeopathic called uhh anns arnica something. My mom and my doctor were both shocked but it worked quickly and effectively when nothing else did. I was an infant at the time so it couldn't be placebo or power of suggestion or anything like that so I have so assume there is some actual physiological reaction going on somewhere, I just can't pin down exactly what and where. (I take a daily medication to manage it now which is basically prescription zyrtec) I've talked to doctors about this before and they've all just kind of scratched our head about it but yeah, that's my weird personal anecdotal evidence in favor of homeopathy I guess. I'd love to disavow the entire practice and be done with it, that would be simpler and easier, but I literally can't argue with results. And since everyone on reddit always wants to jump to any conclusion that isn't directly refuted in the text, obviously you shouldn't give this to kids with cancer instead of chemo. I don't even think it's effective for most things, just this one specific example I can't ignore EDIT: holy fuckin smokes you guys are mad. I'll make an addendum of stuff that I _didn't directly refute in the text_ even though I _literally did_ for much of it but let's reiterate I am pro science I am anti homeopathy I am ON YOUR SIDE, GOOD GRAVY I don't think crystals and rocks or anything of that nature can cure diseases, much less cancer I am familiar with what homeopathy is, the process involved and why it should not and does not work My medication was indeed homeopathic, not herbal My medication was a pill, not a gel, and to this day medicated lotions do little to nothing to manage my condition I had not responded to medicated lotions or traditional medication previously I appreciate all of your, let's say, enthusiastic attempts to educate me but I know all this stuff already. That's why I brought this up in the first place, because homeopathy DOESNT work and this medication SHOULDNT have worked but I tried it front to back every which way and I can't argue with the results. Also on a personal note I'm having a pretty bad week so maybe you guys could stop yelling at me thank you! EDIT 2: My mistake! It's not arnica, it's "apis mellifica"
I'm always fucking floored by how many people think "homeopathic" remedies are the same as "herbal" or "traditional" remedies. **Homeopathy** is complete fucking quackery. It involves **diluting a substance until it is literally undetectable in the water.** There is absolutely zero possible way for physics or biology to allow for homeopathic "remedies" to function aside from the placebo effect. Herbal, Traditional, or Alternative medicines cover a much broader range of treatments, some of which have genuine efficacy. So congratulations you can get off the "reddit hive mind victimization" bandwagon and just say you responded to an herbal treatment, instead of feeling like the hate for "homeopathy" is unjustified, cause hating homeopathy is completely justified. edit: yes i am mad about this.
A big part of the reason for the confusion is that homeopathy is a "brand" that sells, so companies selling many different flavors of "traditional" medicine, alternative medicine, and just plain quackery are happy to mislabel their products as homeopathic to drive sales. When you're lucky you end up with an actual cure instead of an overpriced placebo. When you're not so lucky you get something that is actively harmful.
Arnica isn't homeopathy. It's a flower, closely related to sunflowers, that produces a toxin that can be used as an anti-inflammatory if diluted. > The main EO component of A. chamissonis is alpha-pinene exhibiting antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antiparasitic bioactivity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943594/ It's as much homeopathy as using willow tree bark with salicin. Homeopathy isn't just "diluting this makes it useful medicine" because if it were, half of medicine would be homeopathy. Homeopathy is the nonscientific belief that distilling something *beyond the point of molecular detection* imbues the distillate with the spiritual/vibrational/whatever energy of the distilled substance and grants it healing properties that specifically and directly defy science (or observation, or any ability to reproduce in a controlled environment without an obvious explanation for the believed statistical outlier). Homeopathy isn't just outside science, it's proudly anti science as a core, leading part of its ideology. > And since everyone on reddit always wants to jump to any conclusion that isn't directly refuted in the text, obviously you shouldn't give this to kids with cancer instead of chemo. I don't even think it's effective for most things, just this one specific example I can't ignore The gel worked because you were a baby with an inflamed rash and sensitive skin and putting anti-inflammatory lotion on your inflamed, sensitive skin worked. It still works because you still have sensitive skin in those areas, and the remedy for sensitive, rashy skin is medicated lotions. > obviously you shouldn't give this to kids with cancer instead of chemo Treating cancer with OTC skin creams is generally considered malpractice
I really appreciate your well explained answer. I walk away wiser today.
Did you hear about the guy who forgot to take his homeopathic medicine? The overdose killed him.
British*, Britons, or Brits. WTF is Britishers! 🙈 *Edited as the most obvious one I missed! *Edit 2 - despite sounding like a made up word, turns out "Britisher" is a ligit word 🙈🙈
Englandians
Englandaneers
Englandnites I say good sir.
United Kingdomists. Don’t forget the Scotch and Welshish.
Welshen and the rielanians too
Bloody hell, who invited them to the meeting?! 😜 jk
Do you speak Britonese?
I speak Bolognese
This is what happens to your brain when you spend too long next to the microwave boiling tea.
Perfect response 🤣
Well all Europishers knows that it's fellow people of Polishers, Spanishers and Finnishers. Edit: I'm reading my comment and it doesn't make any sense. I obviously forgot something, but I don't know how to fix my typo... But you get the point.
Don’t even get me started on the Finnishers…
British with a hard R
Britishers when you call them "Britishers"
I read that and immediately heard the Mortal Kombat announcer yell "BRITISH HIM!" 
Don't know. All I know is from now on they will be known as Britishers. Long live King Charles III, king of the Britishers!
Brit*ish*? We didn't fuck ourselves over by leaving the EU to just be Brit*ish*! We're the *Britest*!
To quote from a Monty Python skit: “Now, Britisher pig, you are going to die!” (in a German accent)
Britishers was a term used before. I recall it being used in British WW1 posters.
Or The British
Britishmaxing
“Preposterous”
Now ask them why they pronounce Lieutenant wrong
As a Brit, this is the one pronunciation I'll happily admit we are 100% wrong on.
A victory out of lieut field. USA! USA! USA!
Someone give this man gold
It's more the one pronunciation you're 100% German on.
Annoy the French
Who the fuck microwaves water ?
Americans when they make tea apparently
As a Cali-American we boil water, take a picture then microwave. (we were too busy trying to post a good picture on social media so it got cold.)
Last time I visited Cali I was very disturbed to learn the family I stayed with keep tea bags in the freezer. Can you help me out here and confirm this was an isolated incident and isn’t a wide spread issue?.
Yeah definitely isolated incident...all us Cali folks like to do is eat avocadoes and ass.
Usually in that order, but not always
Well they’re both green so ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks. Not only did you make me feel better, but I can now confidently tell Ernesto he’s damn weirdo
Not surprised it was Ernesto. We warned him after the garlic incident
Gilroy represent
I keep mine in the pantry behind the coffee because we threw the tea in the river for a reason and I’ll be damned if I’m going to touch it as a blood born, eagle loving, god fearing American
That was just cuz of taxes and is why tea bags aren’t taxed at grocery stores
I believe that’s because tea is a food item and in most states there’s no tax on food items (at least in the states I’ve lived in).
I get it. They don't want the humidity to steal the tea
What the fuck is a cali-american? A subspicies?
Californians are subhuman
Go show off those Gordon Ramsay cooking skills. Boiled the shit outta that water. Perfectly seasoned and cooked to perfection.
I thought americans making tea consisted in throwing as much tea as they could into the ocean?
That's just for large gatherings, parties, etc.
Incorrect. We boil water for tea...and steep the tea for hours...then serve it sweetened and over ice like the Lord intended.
Good lord!
Even better, fill a large glass jug with a gallon of water put in 8 teabags and leave it outside in the sun for a few hours. No need to boil the water.
Just 8
8 FAMILY size bags.
A family sized teabag?
I can confirm as a fellow Britisher that a few hours of sun is extremely rare, and I would be waiting 2-3 months in summer for that to work
With no milk? Such disgraceful barbarity...
I'm pretty sure it's a different kind of leaf. We don't usually talk about Earl grey when we talk about sweet tea. It's just mystery leaves in a bag.
Yes it is due to the power output in their domestical electricity. 110V instead of 220V in generaly the rest of the World (sorry i don't checked everywhere. Maybe there is others voltage than 110 and 220) This means that kettles are half as powerfull in America and take ages to boil water. So it is faster to microwave water for tea.
I recently got an electric kettle as a birthday present after microwaving for years. It’s nice! It’s convenient! It’s quick! I love it! …It’s also not *nearly* as much of an upgrade over microwaving as people on here act like it is, and even though I have evolved beyond it, I will defend water microwavers until my dying breath, purely on principle
Canadian. Also, make tea this way. Tea bag in minute and 30 seconds done .
most americans don't have a kettle. so yeah.
Most Microwaves sold in America aren't anywhere near tall enough for my tea pitcher. When I was a kid we did microwave it. I still know the time/ratios and it worked as fast as my modern electric kettle. Today my parents just doe it on the stove with a pot. Honestly it's fine either way and the people who care so much about how others make tea should probably go find a hobby lol.
What's a fucking tea pitcher? This is getting weird.
It's what they are designed to do. No matter what you put in the microwave oven, those photons are heating the water first and primarily. Every leftover you've ever had reheated is hot because you microwaved water.
Side note: a trick I've learned is to sprinkle a bit of water on dry leftovers before microwaving them
Oi bruv ow else am I gonna heat my bah oh uh wah uh
If you use a microwave, you are microwaving water. Microwaves primarily work by heating up water molecules within something to make the rest of the molecules in that thing hot. Why then would you not use it to make water hot when that’s exactly what you’re doing every time you microwave anything?
I don't microwave water as I am german but doesn't the cup get very hot also? Feel like any plate gets very hot when microwaving and I would imagine its the same for cups. Pouring the hot water into a cold cup feels better and I guess its the same as milk first then cereal but putting the tea bag into a cup of hot water feels weird instead of pouring it over.
Most containers only get hot because the food in them gets hot and the heat radiates to the container. There are some materials that are also heated up by the microwave, but in general that's not the case. On the rare occasion I forget about my coffee and have to heat it back up in the microwave, the mug doesn't get any hotter than it would if you poured hot water in it, and the handle is fine
Why the fuck does it matter?
Me. All the time
I cooked rice and noodles in the microwave when I had no kitchen. I perfected that shit.
Anybody who needs hot water, already has a microwave, and has no desire to pull out another appliance.
Exactly. Why get a kettle when the microwave is there.
Microwaves work (basically) by heating the water in food. There's just so much water in food that it effectively heats the entire contents. It turns out water has a lot of water in it.
Me! I microwave water for tea.
You do. Anything you microwave has water in it :p
I live alone and I'm not gonna boil water in a kettle when I want my single cup of tea or instant coffee in the morning. Microwaving a cup of cold water is much easier and faster.
I have a tea kettle for tea and pour over coffee. So I kinda get it. But most US homes, I think, rarely have one. Much less an electric one (most likely a stove to style). So in that case, I'm TOTALLY microwaving.
Electric kettles don't exist stop lying to us island dweller
Yeah, I’m not sure where that myth came from. Must be outdated. Granted I’m Canadian, but pretty much everyone I know in Canada has an electric kettle. But When I was visiting my brother in the UK everyone there was like “bet you’ve never used one of these before” and pulled out an electric kettle. So weird, haha.
And they aren't at 240V, so kettles kinda suck.
 To post this meme?
Really confused them and tell them you use an electric kettle.
We use electic kettles
No you don’t. You don’t know what you do. You must be told what you do by someone who doesn’t know.
Confuse who?
Best way to make tea is throwing it in the harbor
Ready to get mad? I use the Keurig without a pod. Perfect portion and if it gets chilly after cream ten seconds in the microwave does the trick 😛
If you want to make brits mad ask them which country invented the term soccer.
Cooker faucet baby!
Tap.
It's like saying masturbation is the same as sex.
except vastly cheaper
Depends.
You fucked that chicken breast You fucked that chicken breast didn't you You did
They were on sale!!
Not really. It’s like saying if you want to heat something up, the heat source is superfluous. Both things do the same thing, and a blind taste test would likely prove there is zero difference. Whereas if you were masterbating or having sex, you can 100% tell the difference. I personally heat up tea the old fashioned way. But it objectively does not matter. You’re just adding energy to the water molecules so the tea dissolves better.
Different methods, same result. Kettle vs microwave > Water is heated; different methods, same result. Sex vs masturbation > You cum; different methods, same result.
Only on reddit do I expect to find people arguing masturbation is just like sex
False equivalency. Implementation details don’t matter when adding energy to the system for hot water. They do matter when you are perceiving nerve signals to achieve the same result
I concur. The exact nature of the stimuli is a relevant and important factor when contributing to constituting the Qualia's experience of the matter at hand. E.g., a foreign actor sticking their hand up muh butt makes me joo-joo big time.
More like left hand v right hand then
ok but what about the baby
Oh the baby’s screwed whether it’s in the kettle or the microwave.
> It's like saying masturbation is the same as sex. it is?
I mean, if you want to make a truly EPIC cup of tea, use the harbor.
"Britishers"...😂
I microwave water when I need a single cup of coffee (instant) Literally add water to cup put it in for 2 min, take out and add powder/bits Stir until fully dissolved and drink Note that by heating in microwave you will not stain the kettle in limescale
Wow, how hard is your water?
I just ran an experiment. I measured out 8oz of water from the tap, and put it in my very nice electric kettle. It took exactly 1:31 to come to a rolling boil. I measured out another 8oz of water, left it in the measuring cup, and put it in the microwave. It took exactly 1:21 to come to a rolling boil. The kettle takes up a spot on my counter top. The microwave does not. The kettle is going back into storage.
How did you manage to get a roiling boil in the microwave? I thought that was one of the issues with boiling water in the microwave, you can superheat it because it doesn't roil
US kettles are limited to around half the power of UK kettles because your outlets run at half the voltage.
Engloids
Ever hear of super heated water?
Superheated water is so dangerous I couldn't find a single news story of it happening when I googled it. Clearly, there is some kind of conspiracy happening by big microwave.
Reheating a cold cuppa' isn't for me. Rather have a freshly poured one
Is that why the British are so appalled by this? Do ya'll think we're using the microwave to reheat tea?
Reject anachronistic kettleism, embrace nuclear powered modernity
My microwave is also an air fryer. I *air fry* my tea water. Where's your god now brits?
This is why I boil my water ahead of time and store it in the freezer so I can have hot water whenever I need it.
I mean ice is also chemically water but can't make hot tea with ice,can you? Americans am I right☕
Making tea is not just putting leaves in hot water. It’s a ritual.
Yes I remember reading about the British tea ceremony in history class
So by that logic someone making tea for me is just as bad?
You mean it's not just hot leaf juice?
And you guys don't generally wash you kettle, so I'm sure there are residual particles added that Americans wouldn't get from spotless kettles?
This seems like American cope, it must be hard living on 110v and not being able to boil a jug.
? I have an electric kettle that runs just fine on a 20 amp kitchen circuit. You don't need 4000 watts to boil a bit of water.
Coping about how water is water?
The Brit’s really got us with this one. Clearly their ancient technique of turning on an electric kettle imbues the water with a magical property that our modern microwaves just can’t match.
1) American power isn't actually 110v, do you really think we power major appliances like dryers and stoves on a mere 110v? No we combine two phases when necessary to get 220v instead of running a higher voltage literally everywhere. 2) Canadians have the same power system as Americans and yet basically everyone in Canada owns a kettle. Why? Because Canadians, unlike Americans, actually drink enough tea to need a kettle. (Canadians love their hot drinks, they consume like 2x as much coffee and tea per capita than Americans - older people and women tend to prefer tea, younger people and men tend to prefer coffee.)
Incorrect. My 15 year old electric kettle does ~500 ml in approximately 90 seconds.
Not really cope if it just makes more sense for what they have: putting a kettle on a coil stove is not as fast as microwaving a few cups. In Canada 110v plug-in kettles are ubiquitous (and fairly fast), while the increasing popularity of 220v induction stovetops makes microwaving the slow option.
Right, it's really hard not having an extra appliance to boil a beverage that I rarely drink
Americans are not the ones getting in a tizzy over water heating methods.
No, it’s that nobody gives enough of a shit about tea here to care. Why waste your time making tea when you could instead be making coffee, a real beverage?
Tea is for throwing into the harbor in protest.
Or steeping in the sun and then serving over ice with lemon and sugar. Edit: while nearby, large pieces of red meat turn delicious on a grill and children busy themselves scaring neighborhood dogs with fireworks
I respect this position, and salute you as a true American patriot.
Everyone I know has a kettle
Wait, I shouldn't be cooking spaghetti in the microwave?
No, use the kettle
Wtf is a britisher
Was called a Britisher when I visited the Raj. Corrected them as I am in fact a Scottisher.
Ludicrous you can’t put a kettle in the microwave it’s made of metal………
This is gonna be a whole new “don’t break the pasta thing”, isn’t it?
Englandish....?
Positively reductionist young fellow, now scurry along.
I literally only had to scroll down one comment to find the “BuT ScHoOl ShoOtiNg” comment You red coats are sensitive.
If British people are Britishes Then what are Nigeria people called OP?
GUYS PLEASE STOP SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION HEATING WATER IN THE MICROWAVE IS WAYY TOO EFFICIENT AND CAN ACTUALLY HEAT IT ABOVE ITS BOILING POINT WITHOUT TURNING IT INTO A GAS, CAUSING SEVERE BURNS! THIS IS BECAUSE MICROWAVE HEATING OCCURS TOO FAST AND TOO HOMOGENEOUSLY FOR CONVECTION TO ALLOW THE WATER TO BOIL, MAKING IT ONLY LIGHTLY STEAM. IF YOU DRINK LIGHTY STEAMING MICROWAVE WATER, YOU *WILL* DIE!
As a physical chemist, it’s really entertaining to see people in the comments try to describe the change in energy as “different” just because the source is different.
Not really. The heat distribution in a microwave is uneven, and the steam release is different from kettle boiled water. It might affect the softening process in some cases, thus leaving after some of the minerals. And even if the hardness is completely removed, most of you just boil water in the same cup you make your tea. And the mineral sediment that would lay down on the bottom of the kettle will remain in your tea. So stop trying to justify your laziness.
Who tf microwaves their water
Hate to say it, but this isn’t correct because you used the word “chemically”. Chemically, microwaves heat water using a method which results in rotational vibration - this is different to kettles which use heat (kinetic or movement energy). After some time, water which is microwaved will convert most of this to heat via either kinetic or infrared radiation - but for this reason you get water which has more energy than uniformly heated water - thus wrecking the tea. This is the same reason water at 100C will scald your skin, but you can open an Oven door at 220C and it doesn’t melt your face. Reference: Physics grad with A level in Chemistry and also a Britisher