LOL! This hilarious thread full of people who don’t know how to boil water has me dead. I have no idea how these people have lived this long without figuring out how to properly boil water, but here we are. And then another commenter rewrites the thread into a scene from a Shakespeare play and it is perfection. “You cause me tears – is this how thou dost live?”
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Do none of these people own a kettle?
If they’re in the United States, their electrical outlets only output 110-120 volts, not 220-240 like most of the rest of the world. An electric kettle takes twice as long to boil water in the US than just about anywhere else, it’s quicker to boil it on a gas-powered stove-top.
[For anyone flabbergasted about the way USians do things]
1. Quicker… if one has a kettle – that is to say, an unpowered one. Conventional electric stoves also work pretty fast; I have barely enough time to prep a pour-over from a standing start, before the water’s up to temp. Not as quick, though, on a glass-topped electric. That takes me almost four minutes. Maybe someone can weigh in on the performance of an induction stove, which I figure must be either blazing-fast or maddeningly slow.
2. Beverage culture in the USA – notwithstanding its population of strongly-opinionated folks – doesn’t amount to much. Thirsty? Drink something. Count on it being served either hot or cold, unless you ask expressly for something at room temperature.
3. One thing ubiquitous in various parts of the USA is iced tea. That ubiquity is owed to the taste profile of the local tap water – in most cases, overwhelmed by calcium carbonate – rather than any particular regard for tea. Procedure: brew in 4L+ quantity, refrigerate, serve over ice by offer or request. Sweet tea is created by adding copious quantities of table sugar, simple syrup, or corn syrup immediately after brewing.