My parents were old time hunters and trappers who were born in the wilderness ... so they weren't up to date with the latest pediatric recommendations at the time.

Babies can't process caffeine in the same way as adults. If anyone is reading this and thinks it's a good idea to give your child black tea of any sort, you should absolutely wait until the kid is at least 10-12 yrs old... The kiddo will be absolutely wired and it negatively impacts their ability to sleep. Overall this is a very bad idea.

Edit: also refined sugar is a big no no for kids younger than 2 yrs old.

This was an old time diner style highway restaurant .... they were using the same hot water to make tea as they were using to wash the dishes

Yeah I learned that the hard way washing my hands at my buddies house one time in the kitchen.

In the US there is sometimes sludge at the bottom of the water heater that collects. You shouldn't drink hot tap water in the US.

Very neat .... we actually have a survival drink we made with the things we got from Europeans. Old time hunters and trappers travelling in the wilderness would make a drink called 'Tea Ploss' .... a mixture of making really strong, hot, boiling tea (usually over a camp fire) and then quickly mixing in flour, sugar and lard (all raw food items you got from the Hudson Bay Company).

It's absolutely disgusting and I've tried it many times. My parents loved it but I think it was more nostalgic than anything. About the only time I ever enjoyed it was being out in the wilderness in the winter time, freezing cold, tired, hungry, worn out and sipping on this drink.

Yeah dont think ceramic mug would survive.

I mean if it's proper ceramic it's going to be very heat resistant because it's literally clay that's been fired in a kiln hot enough to melt glass. On the other hand the heat from the stove is going to be super uneven, regardless of resistive electric or gas (and of course induction will do jack all because there's no metal for it to induce)

If I had mugs to waste I'd do an experiment for science but...I don't want to be picking up broken ceramic in my kitchen this evening...

Don't be ridiculous, you pour water through the flame and collect steam in the upside-down mug.

US electric stoves are wired into higher power circuits. The stove built-in to the kitchen is just as powerful, though there are transmission losses heating the kettle.

Countertop kettles use less power here because of the plugs, and it takes about the same time as a resistive stove.

Gas stoves here have nozzles that shoot the flame from the center away from the pot you're trying to heat. You have to choose between slow heating from a tiny flame, or slow heating from heating the air next to the kettle and the handle instead of the kettle itself.

lasts multiple times longer

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Every study I've seen comparing gas and induction stoves shows induction stoves boiling water more quickly. Have you measured it?

Edit: Are you thinking of electric or induction? They're different.

Induction doesn't need to get hot, it heats up the pot directly. Maybe you're referring to electric heaters? The ones that glow red/purple?

Fuck gas stoves. Takes more than twice as long to boil water compared to induction.

Something is wrong with your stove.

You might have hotplates just like me. It's electric but my god does it suck ass. I wish I had induction tops

then you got something wrong with your microwave, they literally work by heating the water molecules in the food

My electric kettle boils 2 cups in 2 minutes.