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Which is your preference for heating water for a brew?

  • The Kettle

    Votes: 74 91.4%
  • Stovetop Kettle

    Votes: 6 7.4%
  • Microwave

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Total voters
    81
  • This poll will close: .


A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
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Brovion

In my defence, I was left unsupervised.
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Jul 6, 2003
20,227
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Apparently one bloke here reckons he can tell how the water has been boiled from how the tea tastes
Apparently that is true. The first job my grandad had on leaving school was working for a grocery firm. His job there was to boil water for the tea taster. This was in about 1910 which was obviously before the electric kettle, and indeed was apparently before the invention of the 'whistling' kettle. All he had was an old-school kettle with a spout and he had to guess when the water was boiling. If it wasn't boiling it wouldn't correctly extract the flavour from the tea (we all know that), but also if it over-boiled that too would apparently change the taste of the tea. Either way the tea taster could tell, would be pissed off and would shout at him and make him do it again. I've tried over-boiling and he may have had a point.

Boring personal note: I say it was the 'first' job he had when leaving school, he actually stayed there his whole working life and ended up as the MD. (Fitch & Son which after his time became the Fitch Lovell group who used to run the 'Keymarkets' chain of supermarkets for those old enough to remember them)
 








surrey jim

Not in Surrey
Aug 2, 2005
18,172
Bevendean
This evening's pub debate has landed upon the best way of boiling water for a brew

Option A) The Kettle

Option B) Stovetop Kettle

Option C) The Microwave

Apparently one bloke here reckons he can tell how the water has been boiled from how the tea tastes
Where is the option for Quooker / Brita taps?
 








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