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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

People are heating up coffee in microwave? TIL.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

I mean how else would you reheat a cold coffee?

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

You wouldn't. You'd make new coffee. Not trying to be condescending. I literally wouldn't reheat coffee because if it's been standing long enough to get cold, it no longer tastes good.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't think what you said was condescending, it just sounds wasteful to me tbh. I'm not throwing it away just because it got cold and it doesn't taste fresh anymore.

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah, so it's a sort of punishment for yourself for not drinking it while it was hot? You made it, so now by god you'll drink it? Maybe invest in an insulated cup or thermos then. 😂

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

People do shit like that but then they bought the brown coffee filters instead of the white ones so they're still saving the environment 🙄

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

It's about creating less waste for me and not really about saving the environment. I just don't like to be wasteful.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

It was a general comment on the duality of people's attitudes towards environmentalism. Didn't really mean to aim it at you specifically.

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A drink needs reheating so they use a convenient household equipment to reheat it. How controversial. How sacrilegious.

[-] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago

I am not sure about coffee, but heating water in a microwave may result in superheated water, which is above the boiling point without boiling. This can be quite dangerous, as it might start boiling at any time. In chemistry you usually put a boiling chip in the water when heating it in a test glass to avoid this.

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

It shouldn't happen with coffee, superheated water requires there to be nowhere for the bubbles to form but even tap water normally has enough minerals dissolved in it for that to not be a problem.

[-] elfin8er@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Doesn't this only happen with pure distilled water though?

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

I'm pretty sure it also has to be contained in a pressure chamber too. If it's not, the steam just disperses into the atmosphere along with the excess heat.

[-] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago

Might be. I am actually not quite sure about this

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[-] li10@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

How much is a cup of instant coffee tho?

Just make a new one and have a nice, fresh coffee.

[-] Squeak@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Who said it was instant coffee? And there might also be milk. Why waste perfectly good coffee?

[-] li10@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

I disagree that it would be perfectly good coffee after being reheated in a microwave, it would be passable though.

Heating up good coffee is sacrilegious though, Italy may declare war if they found out.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

I think Americans boil their water in the microwave.

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I don't, but can I ask why that's bad? The water gets hot, lol. Are people afraid of the microwaves getting in their water or something?

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because there's no temperature control and it can explode.

My kettle will heat water consistently to boiling point every time without going over.

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

No, don't act like it's because you're worried about their safety. It's clearly just another item Europeans use to condescend towards Americans. Both you and I know it.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

1: I'm Australian.

2: Go take your victim complex and shove it.

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The fact that you're australian barely changes what I said. It changes the least important part. Sorry for the assumption. My bad. The main point still stands though.

You're only kidding yourself if you don't think there's an air of condescension towards Americans online.

[-] Gordon@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

It really takes some very special conditions for that to happen. Every time I've boiled water in the microwave it's always boiled fine just like on the stove.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

It takes leaving it in a bit too long and either moving or adding something to your water, it's not that difficult.

Third-degree burns aren't something I'd really want to risk just for some coffee.

[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

I just press the 2 minute button and out comes perfectly hot water every time

[-] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago

It is because you might create superheated water, which is not boiling while being above the boiling point. Since it can start boiling at any time, it can be a little dangerous to handle superheated water.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

That’s what really happened in Flint, MI. There was no contaminated water, it was only an experiment in public safety to add supplements to the water to prevent the hideous catastrophe of explosive boiling. It will soon be rolled out nationwide

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago

Maybe some use the microwave, but most Americans have a stovetop kettle. I use an electric kettle myself.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Turns Out, America Only Just Discovered The Electric Kettle & The Internet Is Going Wild

I remember this sweep over the internet. Considering the speed and simplicity of kettles for decades, what a weird thing to see of Americans. Especially since they made the first one ever.

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[-] Gordon@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Historically kettles never really caught on because we only have 110v power, so our kettles are bogus compared to nearly everywhere else in the world.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have to believe it’s also the popularity. Maybe it’s too much my own experience but:

  • most people drink coffee
  • tea drinkers historically didn’t have a high end

Maybe I’m not sure how to phrase it but in my lifetime, coffee went from hideous burnt crap to something where we care about a high end. Coffee in general has gotten much better, there are way more choices, and there is a visible niche of people who spend way too much time and money looking for the perfect brew.

In the US, tea is following this path, but much later. Most of my life tea drinkers may have argue over the best brand of tea bags, but it was the same old swill their Moms may have used (they may disagree with that characterization). It’s only much more recently that tea in the US has become a “thing” something people pay attention to, something with a “high end”. At the grocery, tea choices are not as wide as coffee, but now you have a much greater variety of brands, sources, flavors, preparation methods. Tea is only in recent years enough of a “thing” to get excited over, pay too much time and attention to.

Or in my house, I don’t understand my teenagers and their weird tea drinking ways, when I have three different ways of making coffee. However this kettle thing is great for hot chocolate and caffe mocha

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of how electricity works.

Voltage is only half the power equation. The other half is current. Power = voltage x current

So if a kettle on 110V can draw twice the current, it will have exactly the same amount of power and will heat the water in exactly the same amount of time as a kettle on 220V that draws half the current.

[-] Gordon@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Bro, 15a is pretty much standard with 20a outlets being the exception. Still, most appliances are only 1500w in the US.

Yes obviously you could custom make a 4500w kettle that ran on 115v but nobody sells one.

Your comment demonstrates a fundamental ignorance... What? Who talks like that. Stupid pedantic fool.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

Aw, did I hurt your feefees? :(

[-] seth@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hey man, that's not true! I can go into the laundry room, unplug my dryer, and plug in a 220V kettle with a special adapter, or go out in the garage and unplug the table saw. Convenient options!

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Oooh. That actually makes a lot of sense.

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[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I swear this ruins the coffee

Instead of reheating it, put a little ice in it and call it an iced coffee.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

It definitely tastes worse but I think it's still fine. Also it's partly a punishment from having forgotten to drink it in the first place 😔

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