• Max@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Apparently I’m committing all the tea sins. I definitely make tea in a kettle. But if I do that, I boil the water before adding the tea bags. Isn’t that pretty standard? I’d only do so if I’m making a lot of the same tea (or iced tea), usually for a group of people

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      12 days ago

      For that there is a teapot. Some can be continuously heated up, just through external heating methods, such as a candle!

      Making tea in a kettle severely decreases life of the kettle and even after washing, some amounts of aroma compounds will remain, affecting the taste and aroma of whatever you boil water for next

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        11 days ago

        I think we may have different definitions of a kettle. I mean something like this:

        Which you put on the stove. I can’t imagine that having tea in this is a problem at all. It’s just glass.

        I’ve also done this with something like:

        Which I could imagine keeping more of the taste/being a problem.

        I assume you mean something like this by a kettle?:

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          11 days ago

          Yes, I mean an electric kettle indeed, the last one

          No problem brewing tea in glass, that’s how teapots work.