hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip to Dull Men's Club@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoI bought an electric kettlelemmy.zipimagemessage-square97linkfedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down19file-text
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minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months ago Wrong temp for tea How so? Air pressure aside, boiling is boiling.
minus-squaresanta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·2 months agoIt isn’t heated evenly. Top and bottom would have different temperatures as a result. Kettle is evenly heated and has a consistent temperature.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoThat doesn’t make any sense. Heating will cause the water to circulate, as will adding the tea, a spoon, whatever. By the time it’s becoming tea, any temperature gradient within a cup is approximately zero.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoIf you use boiling water for tea you are wrong. Or drinking some herbal infusion instead of loose leaf green tea.
minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoYou’re right for green tea, which demands a more delicate brew, but black tea needs boiling water.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoIndeed I am drinking neither. Black tea is more my speed, and for that boiling or fresh off the boil is just fine.
How so? Air pressure aside, boiling is boiling.
It isn’t heated evenly. Top and bottom would have different temperatures as a result. Kettle is evenly heated and has a consistent temperature.
That doesn’t make any sense. Heating will cause the water to circulate, as will adding the tea, a spoon, whatever. By the time it’s becoming tea, any temperature gradient within a cup is approximately zero.
If you use boiling water for tea you are wrong. Or drinking some herbal infusion instead of loose leaf green tea.
You’re right for green tea, which demands a more delicate brew, but black tea needs boiling water.
Indeed I am drinking neither. Black tea is more my speed, and for that boiling or fresh off the boil is just fine.