• @Matriks404
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    337 months ago

    People are heating up coffee in microwave? TIL.

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      7 months ago

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

        • @Squeak
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          77 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          Mmmm, all that fresh freeze dried coffee… So fresh… Instant coffee is an abomination. So many crimes comitted in the name of lazyness convenience.

      • @[email protected]
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        -37 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.

        • @elfin8er
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          247 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            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.

        • @Voyajer
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          157 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.

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          47 months ago

          Would be really rare with coffee since there would be a whole lot of nucleation sites, that is the dissolved coffee itself plus bubbles.

          Even when I’m heating water in the microwave, it’s just habit that I tap the mug or peck with a teaspoon before having it near my face.

        • @MataVatnik
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          17 months ago

          How hot are you microwaving your stuff?

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

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        177 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 😔

      • @danc4498
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        67 months ago

        Ice coffee is not the same vibe as hot coffee at all. I can drink hot coffee black, for instance, but I need sugar in ice coffee.

        • @[email protected]
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          57 months ago

          Try maple syrup in the iced coffee, total game changer! It’s pretty much the only way I drink it now.

          • @[email protected]
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            47 months ago

            I don’t know if this was supposed to be a rebuttal or if you’re just sharing what you like in your coffee, but maple syrup is literally sugar.

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              27 months ago

              Not a rebuttal, just saying if someone needs sugar in their iced coffee that maple syrup is a really good option

              • @[email protected]
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                27 months ago

                Gotcha, personally I don’t like it as I find it takes on a burnt flavor. I love maple syrup on lots of other things though.

          • @danc4498
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            27 months ago

            Still not the same vibe as hot coffee, but I’ve never thought of maple syrup in coffee. Sounds tasty!

      • @aulin
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        47 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.

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          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 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 🙄

          • @aulin
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            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. 😂

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              17 months ago

              Not really, it would just feel like unnecessary waste. Though I did make a comment about punishment as a joke.

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          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.

          • gordon
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            157 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.

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              -57 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            I’ve not heard of this before but I also never boil my water in the microwave since it takes too long. Usually just warning it up (so 1 or 2 minutes depending on what I’m doing)

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          -37 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
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            -27 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

        • gordon
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          117 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.

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            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!

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            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

          • @AA5B
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            17 months ago

            Plus they were boring and plain, who wants that in a kitchen. Now we have glass and chrome, cool electronics, blue LEDs, phone apps

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            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
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              07 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.

          • @saltesc
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            -17 months ago

            Oooh. That actually makes a lot of sense.

              • @saltesc
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                You actually read it? I doubt any of us did. It’s Marie Claire too; you really didn’t have to.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

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

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        17 months ago

        I mean if you don’t have a kettle, it’s a fine way of accomplishing the task.

        And if you don’t have a microwave?

        a) what are you doing with your life? You’re missing out!

        b) the stove top is the next option.

        If you don’t have a stove top?

        a) ok, now you’re most likely living rough. Sorry bro.

        b) light a campfire. If you also don’t have a pot, go get one, or use some other heatproof container.

      • @suction
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        Yes and that’s why they’re so fat

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