Well, I’ve been reduced to boiling water in the microwave. With a Dammann sachet, which is crazy. Man can you tell the difference. Years ago, before I was actually “into” tea, I used to boil water in the microwave at work and steep my teabags in them. These days I’ve always wondered how I was able to stand such bitter, yucky tea, but now I realize that microwaved water totally neutralizes any tea you put in it. I brought a bunch of Dammann sachets with me but it’s totally not worth using them in this, because while there are still hints of how good they are, it’s basically a waste. Oh well, if only North American hotels all had electric kettles like Asian hotels!
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If you have one of the little personal coffee pots, you can just run it with no coffee, and it’s a passable kettle. Not great, but probably better then the microwave
Here is a trick I learned with the microwave – after heating your water pour it into another vessel. The mixing of the hot water and air puts life back in the tea. Still not as good as a kettle but as you know, one is not always handy.
Dylan—I took one sniff of the plastic water container for the coffee maker and quickly put it back down again. It smelled so powerfully like coffee, and I’d rather have “flat” tea than tea that tastes like coffee blech
KS—I remembered you saying that and I poured it from one mug to another, although perhaps I need different sized vessels and better control over the pouring.
If you have one of the little personal coffee pots, you can just run it with no coffee, and it’s a passable kettle. Not great, but probably better then the microwave
Here is a trick I learned with the microwave – after heating your water pour it into another vessel. The mixing of the hot water and air puts life back in the tea. Still not as good as a kettle but as you know, one is not always handy.
Dylan—I took one sniff of the plastic water container for the coffee maker and quickly put it back down again. It smelled so powerfully like coffee, and I’d rather have “flat” tea than tea that tastes like coffee blech
KS—I remembered you saying that and I poured it from one mug to another, although perhaps I need different sized vessels and better control over the pouring.