radishnt
which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?
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mothman-misato
y- you were putting it in cold water???
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boimgfrog
Radish. Answer the question radish.
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radishnt
yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason
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boimgfrog
#u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ???
You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???
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catsnraincoats
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why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it
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boimgfrog
Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove
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catsnraincoats
Its takes less than a minute
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boimgfrog
Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun
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catsnraincoats
How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove
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boimgfrog
Like seven minutes
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catsnraincoats
Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…
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boimgfrog
Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ??? On medium heat??? Ur stove is enchanted
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pidoop
Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic
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silverjirachi
Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief
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wizardlyghost
(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS’N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)
RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell
Of diff’rent flavours gained by simple act
Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?
MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!
FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.
RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?
Without the guide of others I assumed
That heat was merely added for the sake
Of expediting this solution’s brewing!
Half a decade I have spent, or more,
Not questioning this worldview I had made.
In fact, I am myself a bit surprised
That you might think that I, your dearest friend,
Might have a patience of sufficient stock
To wait until a pot of water boils.
FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?
The microwave will beep when it is done!
CATS’N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!
Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!
FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know
That I have not the patience, like our Root,
To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?
CATS’N: It takes less than a minute!
FROG: On what plate?
Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?
CATS’N: How long can take your stove to fill the task
Of boiling but a single cup alone?
FROG: In minutes?
CATS’N: Yes!
FROG: I counted seven, once.
CATS’N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!
If on a middle heat you place the cup
You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.
Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate
Or even less, if you should have a pot.
FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?
You place upon the iron stove a mug?
A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?
How do these flames, though medium in height,
Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?
Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched
With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!
(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)
KING: Ev’ry single person in this group
must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.
Guys this took me way too long to transcribe but I could not go without posting it. wizardlyghost wrote that shit in iambic pentameter. This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone use iambic pentameter when imitating Shakespeare, and they did it fucking flawlessly
ETA Y’all magpiecrown illustrated this and it’s the best
I greatly appreciate you posting this. That was extremely impressive and absolutely hilarious!
I act’ly think they may have done better
Than William Shakespeare often did himself.His lines are full of near approximates
Of perfect iambic pentameter.Well in Shakespeare’s defense, he has to write full plays like that, while this person just got to focus on a scene.
And Shakespeare did not have chatgpt
Worth it. Thank you kindly!
Delightful. I love how catsnraincoats speaks through their phone, like they have to translate from meows or something rofl
To be honest I would use the microwave before I’d use the stove. Stove takes ages because it has to heat up the bottom of the mug before it actually starts transferring into the water.
But holy shit guys. Kettles are literally designed for this purpose.
Kettles are literally designed for this purpose.
Fuck yeah. Love me a @[email protected] vid. As a non-American, before I first saw that one, I didn’t even know microwaving water was a thing Americans did.
But since seeing it, I now actually use my kettle to boil water for other purposes, like cooking pasta, too. It’s great. Both much faster, and also uses less water than my old method, which was pouring hot water out of my kitchen tap (which required waiting a long time and a lot of wasted cold water for the hot water to get through the pipes from the water heater to my kitchen), then pouring that into a pot, then putting the pot on the stove and bringing it the rest of the way to the boil.
I’m slightly too young to get away with making this joke honestly, but
You drink the water that comes out of the hot tap?
I don’t get the joke I’m afraid.
Oh wow, very interesting. I’m not British though I’m afraid, and I do have a mixed tap. I think from memory we had separate taps though.
I have this, instant boiling water from the tap!
On one hand that thing is cool, on the other hand I don’t want to have to memorize a fucking Konami code to get it to dispense the right kind of liquid.
It’s just pushing and turning. There’s no buttons on it or anything.
I have one (though only for boiling water, not cold/filtered) and it’s really not difficult or complicated. I have friends with kids who have one and they know how to use it.
They’re cool but also cost like a grand instead of £30 for a kettle
This American uses an electric kettle. (Granted, I first had to use one in the UK to understand its glory.)
Y’all catching up on kettles like it’s 1995 instead of getting your boiling water directly from the tap 😂
Electric kettle ftw.
The americans are crying in 110V right now.
I used to use the microwave because I was a kid and my family didnt have one of those fancy electric kettles. But then I moved to Ireland and never again can I live without one.
My microwave takes 80s, my kettle takes at least double that.
I use the kettle a lot for pre-boiling water for soups far more than using it for tea, unless I’m making 2+ cups.
Are you people putting your mugs directly onto the stove top?
Honestly some comments I saw made me think people were actually doing that, yeah.
But me? No. Like I said, I use a kettle, that’s what it’s designed for.
I did used to boil a pot of water on my stove, for things like cooking pasta. But these days I even boil that in my kettle before transferring it to the pot.
I am decades old. And I just figured out I could use my kettle to boil pasta water faster.
That was a hell of a read. Both times.
“Boil by nuke?”
I almost disturbed an entire hospital waiting room.
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read. The king at the end sent me
It is probably ChatGPT but it is still glorious
I went in thinking no way would I think these people could all be lunatics. I was wrong.
In a British accent: “Do none of you own a fucking kettle!?”
They’re probably americans (doesn’t matter which flavour), their kettles are low powered because of that low 120V mains and not wanting to spend more on thicker wires.
Thick wires? If we don’t make new construction out of 100% “builder’s grade” trash, how will developers pocket as much money?
Just switch to 230V.
Even on 120V, countertop kettles are still faster than stovetop. They’re quite popular in Canada, and the most likely reason they’re not popular in The States is probably because The States drink less tea.
We use 240V mains with 120V wiring options for in-home outlets and 240V sockets reserved for larger appliances, in order to reduce the risk of sparking.
Europe uses 230V as regular mains and 400V for larger applications, no sparking problems, maybe get some better sockets.
The Chinese and Japanese would be appalled at what these tea hethans are up to
Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief
There’s more like this?! Where, pray tell?!
Cold brew tea is a thing. It just takes way, way longer (like 12 hours). This is how my mom used to make iced tea. Just throw a couple bags in a pitcher and have it in the fridge overnight.
We always did sun tea. Tea bags in cold water, then placed in the sun to heat up that way. Which could get quite warm in the summer sun.
I wonder how different it tastes; even when making iced tea, I still use water from the hot spout (instant hot water from a small spout on the sink) to ‘brew’ the tea. Might have to try this but I don’t want to toss out a jug of tea lol
omg I’ve naver seen this with the Shakespeare part
absolute work of art
Lol @ 115V with my 3kW kettle.
If I could get a 3-phase kettle I would do it.
I’ve barely had my morning potion, almost shopped for a 3 phase kettle thinking it was some new tech. Then I realized it was the wiring being referenced.
- GRAB!
- FILL!
- BOIL!
There you go, every kettle is a three phase kettle if you’re in marketing.
Yeah, right. 230V, 15A kettle here, but a three phase kettle? Yes please.
Although I think, that the US don’t lay three phases into private residences. Only some kind of 180° 2phase stuff from a split transformer which they then call “240V” or something.
Dunno, three phase, 400V, 100A service here at almost no extra cost (600€ or so when I built the place) and I’ve got 63kW available all throughout the house if I need it. I’m so ready for a three phase kettle.
3 phase is exceptionally rare in the US unless you’ve got a workshop or something, and even then some utilities will charge tens of thousands to run it.
240V 200A service is the norm in most modern homes now, so the disparity really isn’t a big deal. Something that people rarely point out is that we do have standards for 16A 240V plugs, they’re just exceptionally rare. The cool thing is that because of the way our split phase system works, you literally just have to move a single wire and swap the breaker, and you can convert an outlet to 240V, assuming you also change the outlet to the 240V type so you don’t accidentally fry something.
It’s kind of annoying that we never adopted some system where say, garages and kitchens were wired to have low amperage plugs with both voltages. I have a German friend that swapped a section of outlets in his house to 240V so he can use a bunch of his imported appliances, and it works great.
It really is strange in the US how we have only utilized 240V for large appliances. It’s taken the power appetite of EVs to make extra 240V outlets start to be a thing.
Fortunately, I have 220V (240V?) in my garage because the previous owner was a carpenter and needed the additional power draw. I think everything is also on a 20A circuit, so that’s nice as well.
However, I don’t really want to run a tea kettle in my garage…
The radar unit i was stationed with had 3 phase generators for the radar. When we plugged a kettle in it heated up so fast. Loved it for my cup of noodles.
sips coffee
Tea drinkers, amirite?
Yeah but do you use hot or cold water for your coffee?
Hot or cold what in your coffee?!
Water, boiling hot. Throw the coffee in, wait for it to sit down on the bottom, serve.
put the grains in first you animal
Grains? You mean you don’t mash the beans in the hot water??
The fuck you guys talking about? Grains? Beans? Coffee are grape sized fruits!
That’s hilarious. Although i am a Bit disappointed that it seems quite impossible to write a script that actually tells a story since all the characters will end up doing is describing each other
No, no, the last two were onto something with the whole Shakespeare thing.
i just want to hope that tumblr never fucking changes
