• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Regular tea drinkers do. Otherwise, they aren’t useful.

    Light tea drinkers don’t have a use for them because for single cups now and then, you’re better off nuking the water to temp.

    Hell, I have a cup almost every day, and that’s still not worth having another thing on the counter for.

    The U.S. is more into coffee than tea overall. But I know plenty of people that drink tea often enough to merit having one and using it.

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      7 months ago

      It’s also faster than boiling a pot of water on the stove so you can save time if you run it through the kettle and then poor it into a pot on the stove to boil whatever you were making.

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        7 months ago

        Which can also be done with the microwave without having to get an extra device

        Microwave can heat MORE water than a kettle, too. Unless your microwave is oddly small or your kettle freakishly huge, that is