Fesshole 🧻I'm a brit living in America. At my office there's no kettle, but we have a hot water dispenser. Today it's broken. When I lamented I can't make a cup of tea, a colleague suggested I microwave the water. Trump is not the only thing that makes this place a hellscape.
Axel Gutmann@fesshole Honest question: why not? The tea won't care how the water got hot.
David Todd McCartyI wondered the same. It can’t affect the taste. Is it a principle thing? I boil a kettle on a stovetop every morning for coffee I make in a French press because that’s how I like to do it, but I’d microwave a cup of water for tea in a pinch.
Also don’t really trust the hot water from the tap. Idk why.
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Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦@BenAveling If boiling water drives out oxygen...that means all you have left is a cup of hydrogen?
Science class was a long time ago for me. But I think a cup of hydrogen would have some interesting side effects. Nevermind what it would do to the taste of coffee or tea!
Heating a compound so it goes from solid to liquid to gas doesn't chemically change the compound. Whether it is heated up on the stove, in a kettle, or in a microwave, hot water is hot water.
Richard Nairn@charette @BenAveling it is actually true. What you are removing is the dissolved free oxygen. You aren’t cracking water like hydrolysis.
Nicovel0 🍉@RichardNairn @charette @BenAveling you’re also removing the dissolved CO2, so if you need still water but have only sparkling heating it up turns it flat. (YMMV some sparkling waters also have high % of minerals like Perrier that alter the taste)