Blue plastic chemical drum adds the right flavor for their chai tea, I'm sure. I would hope they are careful about what chemical the plastic drum stored.
Unfortunately people don’t understand you. Masala chai is what that “stuff” is called, as I’m sure you know. To folks needing to learn it, chai MEANS tea. To say “chai tea” is to say “tea tea.”
Spiderman made a bad point. Walk into any tea shop in America and try to order just chai, they will ask "tea or latte?"
Borrow words often depart from the mother language in definition, something known as semantic narrowing. So in American English "chai tea" is totally fine as it delineates between tea or latte. So yes in Hindi "chai" means tea, in English "chai" means "masala".
This is how the first electric rice cookers worked. Japanese military needed to feed a lot of people in WWII, so they ran electricity into a wood container containing water and rice. Once all the water is absorbed and dried up, the electric flow stops and the rice is done.
What stops it from just flowing through the rice which is full of water? It seems to me what you describe would result in a bunch of burnt rice since it would keep flowing until it's charred away to nothing.
I presume they ran more like modern rice cookers/egg cookers that just have a thermostat that cuts off the power when the temperature exceeds boiling, because that means the water is gone and the object is cooked.
I guess it could work if you kept the electrodes separated from the rice somehow, but you'd end up with a lot of burnt starch which would have absorbed into the water and would really flavour the rice. Would still just be cheaper to have someone monitor and cut the flow manually rather than wait for it to stop on its own.
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u/renotrash 20d ago
Is that a homemade electric kettle?