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.
SkjeggtrollIt really _does_ affect the taste.
I suspect it's because boiling water in the microwave takes less time and doesn't induce convection currents so that the water retains more dissolved air than when boiled in a pot or a kettle, but that's just my personal theory.
(Re-heating a cold cup of tea in the microwave is fine.)
@skjeggtroll @dtm @fesshole Sincerely doubt that. Solubility of air in water is a direct function of temperature. Of course one should make sure the water has time to equalize the temp.
Oliver Schafeld@oliver_schafeld And how do you intend to measure "gustatory quality"?
Twotired@virbonus @oliver_schafeld Double blind taste test.
(Personally, I’m skeptical that microwaved water tastes any different)
(Personally, I’m skeptical that microwaved water tastes any different)
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