Comment by Rustmilian@lemmy.world on Use a British Challenger tank to heat your water instead

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.”

Brits will scoff at microwaved water then straight up eat mushy peas at dinner.

I mean we can pick at things. Americans put marshmallows in their potatoes and eat cereal that are the same shade as crayons. Asians put cheese slices in their instant noodles. Italians eat Prosciutto and Melon, The French eat Escargot and Frog. At least most of these are consider guilty pleasures or 3am grub rather than cuisine.

Americans always shit on British food then come over and remark at how great it is.

Americans try to substitute good food with size, sugar and oil.

I’m pretty sure Americans have a panic attack when what they’re eating isn’t at least 50% high fructose corn syrup.

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Particularly bland 😄

Haha I was just in England/UK/Britain and the food was whack, in England especially. The reason England is famous for its fish and chips is because it’s the only thing that is good.

Curry is bomb though, but idk (honestly) if that counts. Colonizing India is the best thing that ever happened to England, sadly you cannot say the same going the other direction lol

Haggis fucking rules though!

Isn’t haggis from Scotland or some shit?

Yeah, but it’s in the UK. Only mentioned because the rest of the food in the UK was pretty bland.

proceeds to tell everyone how bad the food is in the uk

2 seconds later: proceeds to tell everyone how much they like food from the uk

You speak like someone that has never met a British person never mind not having been to the UK.

The national dish of the UK is curry. There is curry everywhere.

I went to an Indian restaurant in America the women actually lived in the UK and we was chatting. I ordered a hot curry and it was fine.

But the Mexican woman behind me ordered a vindaloo which is a pretty standard dish in the UK. The Indian said “you had this before? Its very hot”

But “no but it’s fine I’m Mexican. I can handle my heat”

“I’m just warning you it’svery hot. You sure you want it? Maybe you want x, y, z instead if you ve never had it”

“I’m good with heat. My family always makes things spicy”

Anyway it came and she ate less than 10% of it before getting it boxed up.

Cool story bro.

Obviously don’t know about British people though.

Keep going, we’ll make you a copypasta

Eh, there are different kinds of “spicy”. Depending on how dead your receptors are after eating that “spicy” food before.

So if you don’t notice some kind of spices anymore, and are going to try the same amount of something you’ve not tried before, it may be painful until your receptors are dead to that too.

Personally I think it’s simply bad taste and bad cuisine to put large amounts of spices and salt into food. You should feel the actual flavor of what you are eating behind spices and herbs and salt and sugar and what not.

Is this some kind of beans on toast thing I’m too colonies to understand?

Yeah I will never at all understand this weird superiority complex in the way in which people boil fucking water of all things. The result is the same.

The reason why a kettle is nice is because it boils a large quantity of water quickly. If you only want a single cup, then a microwave is a great option if you don’t have or want a kettle.

You’ve missed the way that British people actually boil water though, thus missing the true reason that we’re superior.

We get it, you boil water with your anus.

By the grace of God and our monarch we boil water however the fuck we please 🇬🇧💂🇬🇧💂🇬🇧

Ah, so with the Queen’s anus, got it.

King’s anus, at least keep the insults relevant and up to date please.

They still have a Queen. It’s just not Queen Elizabeth II, it’s Camilla.

In our defence (spelt correctly) all of the above are acceptable, except the microwave. Reasons being that a) the microwave doesn’t boil it evenly, and you get pockets of mega heated water that bubble up and splash up in the microwave, then drip off the manky ceiling of the microwave and into your cup. B) microwaves stink. I don’t know anyone that uses one for anything other than popcorn or melting butter. But if you’re using it to cook as well… 🤢

Clean out your fuckin microwaves.
Convection currents stir the water automatically, heating it unevenly doesn’t matter. A stovetop also heats water unevenly.
Stop microwaving fucking fish you dirty bastards. I will punt any mf who microwaves fish into the fuckin Gehenna.

Convection currents don’t stir water in a microwave because the heat source isn’t on the bottom. That’s the difference. You get temperature stratified water where the surface is hotter than the bottom of the cup and they don’t naturally mix.

Of course, here in America, we have this incredible technology called a spoon. Pull that bad boy out, give a little stir, problem solved.

Convection currents don’t need the heat source to be directly at the bottom to stir the liquid, it just needs cold water to be on-top of hot, because cold is more dense.
Microwaves don’t really heat top to bottom either, it’s shooting waves through the body of the water and even the cup, directly exciting a bunch of individual H2O atoms in hot spots where the microwaves peak at, (e.g. the actual microwaves not the name of the machine) heating the liquid very unevenly. The wave could very much be heating a fraction of the top, middle, and bottom at different points in 3d space. it just depends on the peak of the micro-waves.

I mean, it’s not really a matter of debate TBH. There are a number of peer reviewed journal articles documenting the temperature stratification. Here is one source, where the authors attempt to create a special cup to heat the water more evenly.

I’m well aware of temperature stratification. It doesn’t happen in a microwave in the same way.

Micro waves don’t heat purely the top surface, they penetrate the entire waters body creating super-heated localized hotpots that shift the water around from Convection currents because the hotter more excited water atoms are less dense than the colder less excited water atoms above them spreading temperature out from those hotspots.
Temperature stratification only comes into play if there’s no nucleation point, in which you get this.
Also, your link is dead.

You gotta clean the microwave regularly like anything else. There are reasons why I would probably use my stove top over my microwave to boil water (though I do use a microwave to make tea when I just want a single serving), but your points about water splashing up everywhere and dripping down off of disgusting interior surfaces of the microwave sound a lot like operator error.

If you’re microwaving water for more than 2-4 minutes you’re doing something very very wrong.
1m 30s to 2mins is already enough for 1 coffee cup worth of water to reach boiling temp in the majority of microwaves.

I’m just imagining @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world microwaving a cup of water for way too long to absolutely volcanic results and then throwing up his hands in disgust before walking away from the swampy microwave without bothering to clean the mess up like a scene out of some infomercial for a device that solves microwave issues that don’t exist lol

Like I ever microwaved a cup of water 😂 I’m not a fucking barbarian lmao

Yeeeeah, that’s not how microwaved water works. If there IS any temperature differential, the movement of the water quickly evens it out. By the time you’re dropping your tea in, it’s even.

As far as microwaves being stinky, that’s a you thing, bud. My microwave smells fine.

Really the only danger in using a microwave to boil water is superheating if there are no nucleation sites in the mug.

Which is why it’s important to put the teabag in the water before microwaving it.

Or just like gently stir the water when it comes out of the microwave. You’d really have to overcook the fuck out of the water to create a risk of superheated water explosions. Tea should be slightly below boiling anyway.

Which is why it’s important to put the teabag in the water before microwaving it.

I know you are trying to bait me and I’m not going to fall for it

I thought tap water had enough particulate in it by itself?

Usually it does, but then again there are places where people don’t drink the tap water.

Just go the whole hog: put the teabag in the bottle of water and microwave that.

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