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The sun is free! 😎
Clearly you’ve never been to Britain.
I have not. ☹️
If its powered by the sun, its a no go.
Does this actually work? Looks amazing. Hope you don’t accidentally put your hand in the focal point.
Joke’s on you guys, I keep a red hot iron poker in my kitchen forge at all times. Just quench and cuppa.
Meh my British kettle heats a cup of water to boiling in 30 seconds.
Faster than a microwave
Is your microwave powered by a hamster? /s
No, but there are no 3kW domestic microwaves on the market. Yet every kettle is 3kW.
No my point is, as a British person that uses the kettle A LOT we went out and bought one that heats up a single cup at a time, which is quicker than boiling a whole kettle.
I fill it up like a kettle and it has a little chamber underneath that it fills and heats, then the boiling water comes out of a spout into the cup.
After owning this type of kettle for over a decade I don’t think I can go back to a conventional kettle.
Induction cooktop master race. Both 'merica and 240V, boils water fast as fuck.
Btw, what is the peak power you can get for a single induction zone in the US?
Dunno, but on my particular cooktop (one of the cheaper ones you can get) the most powerful zone on it goes to 3600W.
Ok, good to know, thanks.
I just got an induction and everything is so fast BUT for boiling water. It’s weird, it’s seems to take way too long. I’m not in America though, if it’s a question of power not speaking American…
Use a different pot. I have a small 2.5L “induction ready” pot that takes significantly longer than my stainless steel 11L to boil, because the former has a steel plate between layers of aluminium, and the latter is fully steel.
Lid the pot. Evaporative cooling is a bitch.
Though it also has the potential to flash boil. https://youtu.be/0JOxuS0SBHc?si=BnKVZWw5xcjalQy_
So be careful out there.
Being careful in this case meaning don’t boil distilled water in the microwave.
It’s quicker if your electricity is a feeble 110v and not a mighty 240v.
But the molecules are wiggling in the wrong way!
The molecules are jiggling in imperial, not metric.
They will jiggle how I tell them to jiggle.
I’ve microwaved water and there is always this foam at the top. Furthermore I think the kettle takes away some of the Particles since mine always has timescales after a few days.
Using a kettle is not just a British thing, it is always a good idea to boil water, let it cool down and then drink, I recently read that it also reduces micro plastics by at least %70
MFW the colonials butcher your language with the use of “Britishers” when “The British” or “Brits” are perfectly acceptable.
Sorry mate, American English is more logical. Let them have that at least. I still prefer spoken British English though.
Aww, the britishian hasn’t had their slow tea yet.
It’s ok, once it’s brewed I’ll sip it and watch you do some target practice at your local school or mall.
Introduce the Americans to buckfast tonic wine aka “wreck the hoose juice”. I bet it pairs well with firearms.
I make fun of your tea and you bring up mass shootings.
I’d say you’re salty but we both know you don’t season your food.
Yes I do because they both occur at about the same frequency. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the US section of BBC news without at least one mass shooting story per day, you guys really should do something about that.
Perhaps more guns will solve the problem, like how in your cuisine adding “cheese” or Ranch Dressing counts as adding flavour.
Who needs guns? That other person made the Michigan joke so you’re already dead.
You’re just mad because you used to own the world and have now been reduced to a country the size of fucking Michigan.
I’m not mad just having some banter, it’s funny how easily for the Americans it goes from having a laugh to hurt feelings.
Speaking of empire, be sure to enjoy yours whilst it lasts, and good luck with your second civil war.
You’ve never heard “lol you’re just mad…”? You new on the internet? I’m also just fucking with you dingus.
“Empire?” We have no such empire, we have a country and for some reason we call PR and Guam territories iirc but that’s it, and idk why we do even that we could stop any time as far as I’m concerned. The other countries we have bases in are all sovereign, unless I missed one, and even then idt we control Guam and PR the way y’all did India.
2nd civil war may happen, but at least we can do it. If a cult of personality takes your country over what’re you gonna do about it throw crumpets at him?
Sorry I thought you were being literal with the “mad” it’s hard to infer tone over text.
Yes you because the domination of the British empire was leveraged through the pound-sterling being the world reserve currency. Now it’s the US dollar and, when it comes to the energy, the petro-dollar. Not to mention that the US securities markets are favoured over UK or European ones.
And no, we throw milkshakes.
Look at this lil brish crybaby.
Britisher used to be fairly popular back in the day. Yanks are usually behind everything so it makes sense they’d still be using it
If you didn’t want us butchering the language, you should have tried harder in the war.
Well now you butcher the language and your fellow countrymen. I’d say you learnt everything we had to teach you, aside from how to spell properly.
For a single mug microwaves are quicker in America. Potentially even for 2 mugs.
BUT in America kitchen appliances have a power limit (usually) of 1,500W. This is usually higher than a standard microwave (1,000W). And since an electric kettle in America is just a heat source in water, it’s very efficient. So if you’re regularly heating multiple mugs worth of water, or just boiling water for cooking often, an electric kettle is definitely better. They are also pretty cheap.
Now in Europe and the UK, electric kettles are faster since they can often be around 3,000W or higher. But that doesn’t mean American kettles are useless. American kettles a way faster than heating water on the stove. And WAAAY faster than heating water on a gas stove.
Why wouldn’t a microwave in the UK also be 3000W? Maybe it would instantly vaporize water and kill you when you open it?
It sounds like the issue is that UK may have weak microwaves compared to their kettles.
I genuinely can’t tell if this is a joke or not , but I really hope it is because its so perfect
They absolutely do. Many microwaves in the UK are about half the power of built in American microwaves. (Portable/countertop microwaves are extremely common, being around 700-800W usually)
It would burn your food. Microwaves heat the outermost layer that contains water. That heat conducts inwards. It’s the same reason you don’t bake everything at 500F.
I’m not supposed to bake with oven’s self clean feature?! Huh
I call it Basque Chicken
I love my electric kettle. I can get 5 cups of boiling water in about five minutes (less for less water).
And while a microwave is likely faster, it also heats the container. For a quick, single mug, it’s not an issue. Run that thing for five to heat a lot of water, and the container itself could be scorching hot.
I prefer the kettle every time.
It’s not. The kettle attracts and holds heavy metals and lime that would remain in the water of your glazed or glass mug after microwaving.
Which is why you should descale your kettles and coffe machines every now and then
If your water has heavy metals I think you have bigger problems than how you heat it up
What if I like heavy metal? Can’t I have some Sabaton in my water?
FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD
FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY
You’re right. I meant minerals. Thanks for the correction.
I don’t think anybody seriously thinks that hot H2O can have a different formulation. What, are we postulating the existence of isotopes for molecules now?
depends what container you boil it in
Yeah if you boil it in the plastic container then you’re going to have problems.
I had a fucking chemistry teacher who told the class that microwaved water was different (and linked to cancer)
I had a coworker who watched some idiotic water where someone showed “proof” that microwaved water kills plants. I never saw that video so I imagined they poured the boiling water onto the plants. He was adamant that it was true. “I know what I saw”, blabla.
Well, microwaves can affect your food. Though only a handful (of hundreds) of antioxidans in berries, same as if you leave them a few days in the fridge. But no issues with water.
The water itself doesn’t care (to my knowledge). The container on the other hand…
Right! Let’s microwave all our food and drink in plastic! No harm when all the BPA and garbage leaches into it.
“Plastic in every testicle they tested…” once again comes to mind!
There’s no BPA in plastic food containers.
Anymore. We banned it.
But we didn’t ban BPS.
Yeah, I prefer my (ceramic) plates and bowls for that purpose. I HOPE those don’t leak anything too nasty into my food when microwaved.
That’s why you should use metal bowl
Good luck getting your water to the right temp in a microwave without toeing the flashboil line, though.
I tested my microwave with various volumes of water, took temperature readings, and developed a mental model. 450ml of water takes 5:45s to get to 193±1°F.
Yeah. Coffe mug once handwarm, the next time boiling, isn’t nice.
Lol, only clean water flash boils. Our dirty pipes aren’t a bug, they’re a feature.
Gotta admire this level of foresight, for sure. :)
the problem with microwave is it doesn’t get as hot uniformly
lol
