Yes I expect the accuracy may not be down to the nearest 1p and if the true value is intermediate you will also get rounding errors. But evidently you are in the UK so 240V applies. Or 230V - seems there was some fudging done to achieve EU harmonisation some years ago, whereby the official nominal voltage in the UK dropped, at least on paper, from 240 to 230. I think the real voltage varies a bit: it's the frequency that has to be rock-solid, so voltage can be allowed to vary with load to some extent. But in the UK your kettle won't be 250W, for sure. It will be 1kW +/- a few %.
Especially in the USA, where nobody has any idea how to make tea! Ever since the Boston Tea Party they've always viewed it as vaguely unpatriotic and treacherous. (Like being called Benedict. My brother Benedict used to introduce himself as "Ben" when he travelled round the USA.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
Most of the Americans I worked with on Offshore Oil Rigs went with jugs of Iced Tea Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes, but what about when you tip the whole thing to pour? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The cinders should pretty much stay on the ground when you pick it up. And you shouldn't have to tip it that far over anyway.
Oh, come now! You're telling me this is not how to make tea? https://twitter.com/whatforholl/status/1269711618163838985 *Disclaimer: I could not resist!
Is that video for real? Not an April Fool's joke? Not a statement of post-modern irony? The only thing they could do worse would be to use hot water from the tap instead of microwaving the cold water.
It's real. A lot of Americans don't know how to make hot tea (such as with milk). I'm not a huge tea drinker, or coffee for that matter. I prefer cold to hot drinks, but sometimes I savour a hot cup of tea and the smell that wafts up with the steam of pouring boiling water over that tea and allowing it to steep properly. There's nothing quite like it. I savour it when I have it.
Extremely doubtful you would get anything close to brewing tea leaves in a billy can over a open wood log fire Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian/101017275330154165 (Yes I know you are joking) However boiling water in a cup in a microwave has some danger attached (Sorry cannot shake off being nurse / safety officer) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes indeed! We've had this one before but the risk of superheating if you try to microwave pure water in a clean vessel is non-trivial. The explanation for why an American might try it is, I think, that they don't as a rule have kettles for boiling water. When we moved for a while to Houston TX, we had a lot of difficulty finding a kettle. When I asked at work what people did, they said they just boiled a pan of water on the cooker. But as for the billy can I don't see a problem. You get the water boiling and then you pour into a teapot or mug with tea leaves in it. My very limited experience is that to boil water for tea over a camp fire, it is best when some charcoal has formed. It gets hotter.
I'm guessing my experience of billy brewed tea would be less than yourself I recall it being said the wafting odour of the brewing leaves was the moment to take the billy off the fire Did not hear anything about charcoal. Did get a strange look when I fished out the tea leaves with a spoon Never looked back when I found coffee Them's were the days we were lucky Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Boiling the water with the tea leaves already in is almost as bad as that American TikTok video. You boil the water in the embers of the fire, then decant the freshly boiling water onto tea leaves in whatever you are using to brew the tea - a teapot or individual mugs. It's not hard. As I recall, what we did last time (quite a few years ago now) was get the fire to the hot ember stage, so no flames or smoke, then embed an opened tin of baked beans at one corner, put a saucepan of water directly on the embers in another corner and then, when the two are getting nicely hot, put some bacon on a grill supported on stones across the top , so all is ready at once. And then you have a nice breakfast, ready for a day's mountain walking.
exchemist - from above - Does not want to come down as a quote ??? "embed an opened tin of baked beans at one corner,put a saucepan of water directly on the embers in another corner and then, when the two are getting nicely hot, put some bacon on a grill" For me that and a couple of slices of toast would be lunch. Breakfast would have been Cornflakes a few hours earlier We were lucky Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's even easier if you camp next to a McDonalds! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (Although their tea was pretty awful back in the day... not sure what it's like now that it's all gone coffee-shop style... but nor do I care to find out!)
Not if you are walking in the Lake District. You need a solid breakfast for that - and you will have the appetite for it.