I have never seen a thread that is more dangerous to the Special Relationship and I am here. for. it. Brits just sat down to their post-dinner cup of tea and the Muricans just got up from lunch, just raging at each other. Move the nuclear clock one second closer to midnight, please.

I've microwaved water and there is always this foam at the top. Furthermore I think the kettle takes away some of the Particles since mine always has timescales after a few days.

Using a kettle is not just a British thing, it is always a good idea to boil water, let it cool down and then drink, I recently read that it also reduces micro plastics by at least %70

I make my tea as the founding fathers intended. By firing a few hundred rounds of ammunition and using the heat from the gun barrel to heat the water.

I have an induction stove. The microwave isn't quicker.

Who wants a shorter tea break? Fuck this noise.

I'd rather have a kettle anyways, less dangerous and faster. And it can also be very pretty.

Oh yes I am looking at you Fellow Stagg.

There are very good reasons not to microwave tea, first of all:

• I usually find microwaving anything in a mug adds some unpleasant flavour from the mug. Using glass eliminates this, but worth noting.

• Microwaving the tea itself will break down some compounds and release more tannins, your tea will be worse.

But even if you're just microwaving the water, the kettle wins (depending on what tea you are brewing). Black tea should be brewed as close as possible to 100°C - when you have a kettle you should pour it just as it comes off the boil, around 90-95°C. By that point the water has actually been boiling for quite a while (at least the water around the element), allowing the rest of it to heat up. It's very difficult to achieve this in a microwave, and dangerous too since you can just end up spraying boiling water around your microwave.