“The downside is that the mug is also 180°C now.”
Somebody had been considering what could be worse than microwave tea.
Americans will do anything other than buy an electric kettle.
Americans who drink hot tea have them (source: have had one for like 20 years).
Americans in general are just more hot coffee cold tea people. Exceptions abound of course, but in generalities.
I drink hot tea and cold coffee lol. I also drink hot coffee though.
We have replaced your American passport with Vietnamese to better accommodate your beverage preferences, please enjoy your new citizenship.
There is literally a kettle on the left lower side of the image (likely deliberately as it seems awkward having it in front of the air fryer like that)
in my experience, it is quite hard to find a place for a kettle that isn’t at least a little awkward
this. they are always in the way and fit nowhere.
I’ve heard electric kettles are slower here because of the limits of our electrical system. I do have a kettle for the stove, though. I also rarely drink tea.
my electric kettle takes maybe 20 seconds to get to boiling water here in the USA
My friends just put a euro style 220 outlet on their counter and ordered a kettle online. Since they were building the house new it was basically no different than buying a 110v kettle.
You can install a European outlet in a US home? How is it compatible?
American wiring is center-tapped ~240V; typical 120V outlets are from line on either side of the tap to the neutral, while dryers, stoves, etc. are 240V line to line. So they would have wired it like a stove, but then put in a euro style plug instead of a stove plug
You just run 220 from the panel to it. Almost every US house has 220 outlets for the dryer and stove anyhow. All you’re doing is using a different shaped plug, and like, wires are wires, they fit into a euro plug the same as they fit into a NEMA plug.
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We have an electric kettle, husband uses it for instant coffee; before we got together he used the microwave to boil water. The kids use it for tea. I use it for hot water for Moka pot, boiling water for grits, whatever needs hot water.
Electric kettle, microwave, and coffee grinder are the only appliances that live on the kitchen counter, all the other things are in the pantry.
There’s literally the handle of an electric kettle on the left side.
No this is something far worse: someone in the UK whom has strayed from the light and committed heresy!
May the Tea Gods have mercy upon them, for I shall have none!
Implying Americans know what the metric system is.
I am an American and i own an electric kettle and use it frequently. I switched to an electric kettle after accidentally turning my microwave into a smoke bomb when I put instant ramen in there and forgot to add the water. Now I only make instant ramen with hot water from a kettle or on the stove.
American here breaking stereotypes i have two electric kettles. A bright orange secura and a nice gooseneck
Really though, so many Americans would have their cooking lives enriched by an electric kettle.
My parents told me, “be careful the heating elements catch fire, there’s little to no safety mechanism, you can’t leave them alone!”
It’s a kettle…
People either don’t know they exist or have some weird thing with them. Gives me the same vibes as cultures that don’t sleep with the fans on lol.
Well they aren’t wrong. They just come from a time with a lot less consumer safety. And we’re headed back with fake UL stuff being sold in stores. We kind of grew up in a golden age of consumer safety. We even made jokes about “don’t use grandma’s extension cord”.
My weird thing with them is a lack of counter space
Not sleeping with the fan on is a way to save face, at least in Asian cultures. In which it’s basically the families out to admit their loved one committed suicide.
They say if you have a fan on in the night and the door closes, it creates a vortex and somehow sucks out all the oxygen.
Not Usonian but I’ve never understood the electrical kettle, I just use the microwave for infusions and the like. And for everything else cooking related the stove.
Am I missing something?
I prefer kettle as a microwave is slower, and turns ceramic cups into lava.
Very true tho.
You can accidentally superheat your water in the microwave.
For me it’s just quick and accurate. Every tool for a job. I can make a cup quickly, to the temp I need (green/black teas, coffees etc.)
No guessing of temps or times. No need to ramp up the stove and burn all that energy.
10 minutes to boil a cup of water? How is that considered good in any way?
it’s sarcasm.
Air fryers suck at boiling water. They’re basically anti-microwaves. Everything a microwave is good at, they suck at, and vice versa.
Air fryers are for putting a crust on things. Basicly a miniature convection oven
That’s because it is basically a convection oven, it just has a basket and a few extra customizations. But, as the video notes, a convection toaster oven is not a suitable replacement for an air fryer in most cases.
Techcon is quickly becoming the XKCD of household appliances
My full size oven has a convection feature that does the same thing my airfryer does but at a much slower speed since it has to warm up for about 5 minutes first so yeah the airfryer works faster but has a smaller capacity than most toaster ovens as well as all full size ones
Thats why I got a Convection Microwave. Best of both worlds!
I put microwavable things in my microwave halfway, then in my air fryer to finish.
Perfect for little pot pies. Gets the top crispy.
How do you close the door and start it if you only put the food in halfway?
No, no no. Lmao 🤣
Not halfway into the microwave, you silly.
Halfway into the air fryer.
Wait, you can fit your airfryer fully inside your microwave?
My microwave is bad at walking a dog. Schould I buy an airfryer? Especially in winter, I would like a machine for that.
You’re attempting to automate pet ownership?
We’re kinda skipping the whole point, like people that grind in RuneScape?
Only in winter
So they are dead silent then.
No they’re very differently loud. They’re mechanically loud while microwaves are electrically loud
Pretty sure that counts as a hate crime against the English
I played a game online with a British person and another American. British guy was talking about tea time or something tea related. I have always heard that the British took their tea VERY seriously, so I decided to test it. I asked him if he heated his water in a microwave. Don’t ask the British if they heat their water in a microwave. What followed was a man who was very passionate about tea talk just as passionately about his kettle.
Microwave for water?! I am going to spontaneously combust with rage, and you can use the heat to boil the water for your tea properly! 😡🥵🔥☕👍🏽 🇬🇧
Tea time might’ve meant dinner
Professor Elemental even wrote a song about it
Brb buying an air fryer
Good, they deserve it.
Boiling a mug of water by blowing hot air on it is going to take a while. My guess is if someone was to try this (which I don’t recommend) it’s going to take longer than 10-12 minutes.
This is 100% a meme. There’s a kettle in the lower left corner of the picture, place awkwardly in front of the second frier drawer. and the cup would be scaldingly hot upon removing it from the air frier.
A meme? On a shitpost community? How dare you??
Shout out to Asian water boilers and warmers.
Hot water on demand, no fuss.
Asian? I mean, I know they exist in Asia, as I lived in SK and JP when I was younger, but we’ve had them in Australia for as long as I can remember, and I’m in my 40s. Westinghouse, Breville and Philips all offer countertop models, and nowadays you can also get them installed directly into the kitchen sink/counter as part of a water filtration system. (Most people prefer a kettle at home, though - they’re cheaper and less fuss to repair/replace.)
Like infrastructure designed for providing hot water (>75C) directly to the kitchen?
Damn, that’s amazing.
We only got saunas.
Me using a hardware store heat gun:
Patheticy’all don’t stick your soldeing iron inside the cup?
The flux residues give it that exta taste
I just bought a new graphics card.
Place the teacup next to the PC exhaust, and let er rip.
This is as dumb as people ‘marinating’ diet coke by leaving it in the fridge. Can’t level with this level of absurdity.
Coke taste better at room temp anyway.
It tastes like pickles at room temp.
Sorry i meant to say its supposed to taste better at room temp, then pepsi tastes better cold.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of pop?
Ewww
This is probably just bait but I can’t help myself. A pot of water and a stove would do it in less time and you won’t have to deal with a burning mug.
But the warm mug helps keep the drink warm. Doesn’t everyone drink their tea/coffee with oven mitts?
Pfff I was wondering whne the mug will explode or crumble in the person’s hands…
How do you hold the haf mug?
