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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😂
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.
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
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.
No, don’t act like it’s because you’re worried about their safety. It’s clearly just another item Europeans use to condescend towards Americans. Both you and I know it.
The fact that you’re australian barely changes what I said. It changes the least important part. Sorry for the assumption. My bad. The main point still stands though.
You’re only kidding yourself if you don’t think there’s an air of condescension towards Americans online.
I remember this sweep over the internet. Considering the speed and simplicity of kettles for decades, what a weird thing to see of Americans. Especially since they made the first one ever.
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!
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.
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
People are heating up coffee in microwave? TIL.
A drink needs reheating so they use a convenient household equipment to reheat it. How controversial. How sacrilegious.
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.
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.
Doesn’t this only happen with pure distilled water though?
Might be. I am actually not quite sure about this
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.
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.
How much is a cup of instant coffee tho?
Just make a new one and have a nice, fresh coffee.
Who said it was instant coffee? And there might also be milk. Why waste perfectly good coffee?
I disagree that it would be perfectly good coffee after being reheated in a microwave, it would be passable though.
Heating up good coffee is sacrilegious though, Italy may declare war if they found out.
I mean how else would you reheat a cold coffee?
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.
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.
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. 😂
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 🙄
It’s about creating less waste for me and not really about saving the environment. I just don’t like to be wasteful.
It was a general comment on the duality of people’s attitudes towards environmentalism. Didn’t really mean to aim it at you specifically.
I swear this ruins the coffee
Instead of reheating it, put a little ice in it and call it an iced coffee.
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 😔
You don’t have to punish yourself for forgetting something! You deserve nothing of the sort.
Don’t kink shame me
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.
Try maple syrup in the iced coffee, total game changer! It’s pretty much the only way I drink it now.
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.
Not a rebuttal, just saying if someone needs sugar in their iced coffee that maple syrup is a really good option
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.
Still not the same vibe as hot coffee, but I’ve never thought of maple syrup in coffee. Sounds tasty!
I think Americans boil their water in the microwave.
I don’t, but can I ask why that’s bad? The water gets hot, lol. Are people afraid of the microwaves getting in their water or something?
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.
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
Because there’s no temperature control and it can explode.
My kettle will heat water consistently to boiling point every time without going over.
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.
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.
I just press the 2 minute button and out comes perfectly hot water every time
No, don’t act like it’s because you’re worried about their safety. It’s clearly just another item Europeans use to condescend towards Americans. Both you and I know it.
1: I’m Australian.
2: Go take your victim complex and shove it.
The fact that you’re australian barely changes what I said. It changes the least important part. Sorry for the assumption. My bad. The main point still stands though.
You’re only kidding yourself if you don’t think there’s an air of condescension towards Americans online.
Maybe some use the microwave, but most Americans have a stovetop kettle. I use an electric kettle myself.
Yes that’s why they’re so fat
They don’t even know about diet water.
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I remember this sweep over the internet. Considering the speed and simplicity of kettles for decades, what a weird thing to see of Americans. Especially since they made the first one ever.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
Aw, did I hurt your feefees? :(
I have to believe it’s also the popularity. Maybe it’s too much my own experience but:
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
Oooh. That actually makes a lot of sense.
Your linked article even says this
You actually read it? I doubt any of us did. It’s Marie Claire too; you really didn’t have to.