• @Raab
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      357 months ago

      Wash your microwave. Checkmate.

          • @[email protected]
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            -27 months ago

            You do this every time you use your microwave? Because we’re talking about making around 6 - 10 cups of tea every day for everyone who happens to be in the room. It’d be a little odd to go and clean your microwave before every round of tea, not to mention microwaves don’t heat things evenly so you can’t do them all at once, it very quickly becomes way more effort than just flipping the switch on a kettle that is only ever used for that purpose.

            • @Serinus
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              67 months ago

              First, clean your microwave. If things are picking up flavors from your microwave, that’s a you thing, not a microwave thing.

              Second, just cover things that you put into the microwave. You can get reusable covers, or you can often use a paper towel.

              Third, a kettle is still better than a microwave for water.

              • @[email protected]
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                27 months ago

                Tea is an odour sponge. Russian caravan in it’s original form obtained a distinctly woody smokey flavour just from being too close to a campfire. It’s simulated today by mixing kemun, lapsang soushong, and oolong. But tea will take on the flavour of anything it’s left with.

            • @[email protected]
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              27 months ago

              Oh, I use an electric kettle for tea and coffee for that matter. I was just giving the method I use to clean my microwave. I clean it whenever it gets dirty enough to bother me. I don’t use it often and I mostly cover my food if I do heat it up. So about every 2-3 months?

            • @[email protected]
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              37 months ago

              do you cook odorous food in your microwave that often ? otherwise i dont see what your argument means

                • @[email protected]
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                  17 months ago

                  again, an unrelated point. how frequently do u use your microwave ? i would have to guess at most once or twice a day ? unless you only eat microwave meals, or think that the microwave is the only way to cook things…

        • @Raab
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          27 months ago

          You don’t clean your kettle though? Same amount of time

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              57 months ago

              That doesn’t transfer in my experience though I don’t do it with wet bleach in there. Maybe that is the ticket to my success: Drying it out first.