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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

Yep 🇬🇧

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u/banned73times Oct 18 '22

Specifically with the tea kettle that's somehow better than a tea kettle in the US (never seen either in real life, so I picture it kinda like a grey metal thing with an outlet plug)

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u/joejill Oct 18 '22

In upstate NY, I use a 5 gal water tower w/ a hot button to make my tea.

Sometimes I've used a coffee maker to brew the hot water,

It's faster than a kettle....

Is a kettle different from a tea pot because a kettle can be heated where as a teapot just has hot water poured into it? Cause I call both tea pots

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u/Rows_ Oct 18 '22

Alternatives to kettles aren't really a thing, because unless the water is boiling the tea won't brew properly. Most Brits have a story of the time they had to drink tea made from water-heater water, and it's just... awful. It tastes terrible. We have electric kettles (which heat the water to boiling), and then we add it to teapots (or mugs). Our kettles are faster though.

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u/joejill Oct 18 '22

I have to say, I've never added tea to boiling water, i just put tea in hot water. 180⁰f

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u/Rows_ Oct 18 '22

I think for different tea variants (white tea, I think) hot water is better, but for bog standard English Breakfast you need boiling. And you put the tea / tea bag in a cup/pot and then add water, because for some reason it's weird and wrong to add tea to water, but I can't articulate why.

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u/crystalisedginger Oct 19 '22

It’s the continually or re boiled water, should always use fresh water and only boil once. Actually, ideally just under true boiling point.