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xkcd #3022: Making Tea
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Do Americans make tea in a kettle? Teabag inside the kettle?
Surely putting tea inside a kettle would stain the kettle?
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
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
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?:
Yes, I mean an electric kettle indeed, the last one
No problem brewing tea in glass, that's how teapots work.
At my university time I had some student friends who brew loose tea in a kettle. Was kinda disgusting tbh.