No, of course we don’t microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

https://explainxkcd.com/3022/

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17 points

I’m an American who drinks tea. I’d love to hear from our distant countrymen on how accurate this is.

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26 points

100% spot on. Microwaved tea is comparable I would say to microwaving a steak

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8 points

The state of education is extremely depressing holy shit.

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6 points

It’s foul. Cup of Tannin, more like.

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17 points

… wait, there are some americans who put the tea BAG in the microwave with the water?!?

I’ve MADE tea using a microwave before and it was ALWAYS “heating the water in the microwave, then adding the teabag to the hot water”, it never even crossed my MIND to have the tea bag inside the microwave, and frankly that sounds AWFUL.

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2 points

Aww fuck. Now that you put it that way, I get it.

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16 points

For a start, you don’t make tea in a kettle, you boil the water in that, then either pour into a mug or a teapot

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6 points

I refuse to believe that Randall doesn’t know how tea is actually made, so it has to be a meta-joke / troll.

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5 points

That’s how I do it. Electric kettle. Glass.

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Jokes on you, my kettle comes with a built in steeper, so I make my tea in the kettle!

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3 points

Not British, but in my experience… accurate.

I mean, I’m also not British and am roughly aligned with this spectrum myself.

Look, if you can tolerate the absolute nonsense you hear from Americans about how to make coffee you can deal with me having a spice rack specifically to make tea.

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3 points

What nonsense do you hear about making coffee?

Everyone has their own way, but there’s no wrong way.

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7 points

I make coffee by drinking hot water, then chewing whole coffee beans and swallowing them. I then wash it down with milk.

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