Microwave : boils water
Stovetop : boils water
Electric stovetop : boils water
Induction stovetop : boils water
Electric kettle : boils water
Open flame : boils water

Bri'ish "people" : *pretending they have any sense of taste* "mIcRoWavE wA'eR taSte difFerenT."

Bri'ish people: Conquer half of the world in the name of spices

Also Bri'ish people: Refuse to season food

This isn’t true, Americans make tea by boiling a stovetop kettle pouring that into a pitcher with 5 teabags adding 1-3 cups of sugar after about 3 minutes and then filling that pitcher to the top with hot tap water. And then pouring that over ice after about 5 minutes

Americans who drink tea generally use a stovetop kettle. Sometimes they use an electric one. But what does it matter how the water gets hot, if the water's hot? Microwave radiation doesn't leave a taste in water or something

Electric kettles have been available at every American ~~supermarket~~ superstore for literal decades.

Yes they aren't ubiquitous here in the way they are in the UK and elsewhere, but they're absolutely not a rarity at all.

Sincerely, somebody who has been using an electric kettle for almost two decades.

edit: wrong word. I meant places like Walmart, not places like Safeway.

No we don’t. We don’t drink tea at all

Lol, no we don't. We just don't drink tea. Unless you're in the south n it's more sugar water than tea.

I have an electric kettle and actually go out of my way to get good tea thank you.

I have an electric kettle, AND I season my food, lol

I’m British and was shocked to learn that other countries don’t even have 3000W electric kettles.

Britain, do you really want to compare appliances?

I could put most of your fridges in my fridge.

I could put the whole bayuex tapestry in my washing machine.

I don't even know if y'all can fit scrooge's Christmas bird in your ovens.

I'm kidding around but the one thing y'all definitely have is better kettles that's for damn sure.

I use a kettle at home, but I’ve used a microwave at work. I don’t understand what’s remotely laughable about doing so. Boiling water is boiling water.

I’ll tell what is laughable is how America restaurants typically serve hot tea. They draw a small metal container of hot water from the spigot on the side of the coffee maker, and bring it to the table with an empty cup and a teabag. By the time the bag goes in the water, the water is far too cold to infuse properly.

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Most people I know use a kettle as well as I. Hailing from Michigan!!

I have a machine that keeps hot water on tap. You peasants heat your water up? I pour mine in the cup already boiling hot from the tap. Kettles are so 90s early 2000s.

I only make tea with water from Boston Harbor.