If you want your tea to actually be drinkable and not taste like just bitter water, you don’t use boiling water. A proper electric kettle allows you to set the water temperature to 85, 90 or 95°C.
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remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Sure, it feels a bit odd … but what’s the issue? It will boil the water.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Never seen one of those. All the electric kettles I’ve ever seen just turn off once the water is boiling.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
More to the point. They do not use temperature to do so. But instead use water pressure from the boil to turn it off.
Because water boils at different tempraturs at different altertudes etc. iE at higher altitudes the kettle will turn off at lower temperatures but the water is still boiling,
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I can confirm they exist, as one of the places I sometimes work has one - the base unit has a button for 70°/80°/90°/100°.
However, despite probably drinking in excess of 50,000 cups of tea in my life, I’ve only ever seen one of these kettles. The others have all been either “normal electric kettles” as you described, those always-on-water-boiler things you get in offices, or very occasionally, a traditional “put it on the hob or camping stove” kettle.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
True for coffee and green tea.
UK taste insist black tea must be boiled. And that dose not mean 100c but diff temps at different altitude. Hence most of our kettles use the physics of boiling water. Rather then temp to turn off.
The effect of boiled water releases certain flavours in the tea. Those who like darker tea (more tanning released) tend to be the most fussy about this.
Tanning is also the chemical in tea that calms the mind. He ce why Brits have a tradition of turning to tea in stress etc. the tanning and caffeine work well together to clear allow a relaxed but active mind.
waz@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Tannins.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I THINK they may be exaggerating, for effect and self-deprecation. They may have been looking forward to the ritual of preparing tea and having a cuppa as a bit of normalcy at the end of a day of travelling and not even that very simple ritual is possible in its usual form.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Fair. But it still beats having to boil water on stove!