As standard in all American hotel rooms, there should be a bedside drawer, containing a Gideon's Bible and a selection of guns.
Simply fire one of the guns repeatedly out of the window, and the barrel should heat up - then dip the heated gun barrel into the cup of water, and the water should boil.
This is the American way.
if you want the full american experience, pay $10 + tip for a lukewarm (by the time you get it) cup of water and a lipton tea bag from room service.
Stay where you are and we’ll have someone there with chocolate digestives in a jiffy. The important thing is to not panic.
You got a microwave in your room? Lucky, must be upscale.
microwave the water separately and pour it in.
Use the coffee maker to heat water?
My sister once tried to tell my aunt that there was 0 difference between tea which had been heated up in a microwave with the tea bag already in it versus tea that had been made to my aunt's specifications (boil the water, not in the microwave, and then put the tea in it and let it steep).
They had a vigorous disagreement about it, which ended with my sister making up two mugs of tea as a blind taste test and then presenting them to my aunt. My aunt instantly told her which one was the microwave tea and which was the proper tea. My sister admitted to the correction and from then on made the tea according to specifications.
if I want tea I have to microwave it.
Wtf do I do?
Uh, microwave it?
There’s no Keurig in the room for hot water?
Judging by what I hear people do to hotel kettles in UK perhaps it's a good thing. I'd assume all kettles have had bodily fluids in them much too recently.
Call up the office, ask them if they have a kettle for guests to use. Might get lucky.
Pro tip. Microwave the water, THEN steep the tea.
Aight, a few suggestions so you can have something approaching a decent cup.
Assuming you're stuck with bags, which isn't the best tea, how you heat the water only matters a little and you can get a fairly similar state with a microwave.
Nuke the water twice. It's going to vary depending on the microwave, obviously, but this the low powered stuff in most hotel rooms, go with 1:30 twice. The water should be just under boiling after the second zap. Stir in between, then stir before dunking bags. This also assumes a "coffee mug" sized vessel, which is usually about 8oz (y'all brits still use those liquid measures? I'm not sure, but I can calculate the CCs if you don't have access to an app for that). If the cups are smaller, maybe do two one-minute zaps and check the temp.
Now, if you've got loose tea and your own steeper, it's about the same, but you can go a little hotter (more hot? My brain can't parse the right grammar) since the steeper will suck up some of the heat, and do so quickly.
Tbh though, the difference in nuked tea and more properly steeped is likely moot if you're using the bags the hotel provides. Most of those are utter crap even by US hot tea standards.
That's also assuming the front desk doesn't have kettles. They aren't usually in rooms, but some places do have them available on request, particularly in cities, and even moreso in cities they have a lot of European/British visitors.
You'll likely need to warm the cuppa
Use the clothes iron.
I had to live in one of those hotels for almost two weeks. I ended up going to a hardware store for a bottle of yellow HEET and a soda can to make an alcohol stove. I carefully situated it on top of the sink drain and balanced my camp cup on two crossed coat hangers above it. I made soup. That was what it took to make fucking soup.
No, not from out of the country, I live here. I was homeless, and needed to make some fucking soup in the only place I could stay.
You use the coffee maker. Just don't put coffee grounds in it and it makes hot water. Its a bit slow but it does work. Or use the microwave, it works too.
More importantly, what's the brand of tea you've been given?
Unless you've snuggled some Yorkshire in?
A lot of hotel rooms have a coffee pot. Put water in it with no coffee to get hot water.
Does it matter how the water's heated? I've used microwaves (with a Pyrex measuring cup) and a kettle, for both coffee and tea, and it's fine.
A comment in this thread mentions microwaving the water with the tea bag in it. Don't do that. Heat the water to boiling in glass, put tea bag in cup (or coffee in filter in pourover cone) and pour. Steep to taste.
Can't you just smoke meth like everyone else?
I think you answered your question, microwave it.
I usually carry my hiking backpack with me when I'm away from home so that has a little mess kit I can use, if I need to cook something I can place it on the hotel iron, comes in clutch at times.
Be very hesitant about microwaving water, it can become supercritical.
Suicide.
Murder/suicide if you're with company.
You microwave a cup of water for 3 minutes.
Or use the coffee pot and make coffee, like an American.
They have a machine that does it for you, it's voice activated, but it's a bit naff. Take the phone on your desk, dial zero and instruct it to bring boiling water to your room for the purpose of brewing tea. Then, for a small charge it will arrive 10 - 45 minutes later.
Depending on the hotel they might have hot water in the lobby or wherever they serve breakfast.
While tea was a reflection of America’s Colonial heritage, consuming coffee was considered both a patriotic alternative and an act of outright defiance against British rule in the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party.
However, it was coffeehouses themselves—defined simply as places where men of all backgrounds and statuses could come together and converse about a wide range of topics over coffee, chocolate, tea and sometimes alcohol—that served as breeding grounds for political discussions and resistance against the British.
You'll be wanting to look for your nearest Starbucks.
Lol lucky you even had a microwave
>Be british.
>Food on my island has no flavor.
>Conquer half the planet looking for spices.
>Accidentally find tea leaves along the way.
>Adopt tea as national drink.
>FFW
>All the brits with ambition and ability don't want to return from conquered lands.
>No one on this inbred island brave enough to cook with spices.
>Emprie crumbles.
>Travel to former colonies to experience sun and flavor.
>They let me enter for some reason.
>Go to hotel.
>It's not like home.
>wtf
Is this the point where you are the traveler who cannot adapt? I kid as this is a minor issue to address and you deserve tea.
I don’t know but every instance I’ve been told is that I’m the traveler, Im the asshole… I am the person who should buck the fuck up… not because I’ve done anything wrong but assumptions were made.
I’m well travelled and appreciate all cultures but when I receive European travelers they mock me incessantly about the imperial system while I smile and nod…
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