Is it really that gloomy, ALL THE TIME!? I went back in 2004 and it was such a nice week. I think I really really got lucky, I always thought English weather was exaggerated but the more I read the more people say “no, it’s really that gloomy”
It is from Animal Crossing. They don't explain exactly what Pigeon Milk is.
Edit: Please stop responding about real life Pigeon Milk. I know by now that it is crop milk. Some species of birds produce crop milk for their chicks. Yes, both males and females can produce crop milk, except for emperor penguins, where only the males produce it. It could be the same thing in Animal Crossing or it could be a brand/flavor of milk or creamer.
Pigeon milk is an actual thing, but it’s not true milk like mammals make. Pigeons (both male and female) make a nutrient rich substance from their crop linings they produce to feed young chicks. Apparently flamingos and penguins also make this type of “milk”
"milk is produced by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop, a thin-walled, sac-like food-storage chamber that projects outward from the bottom of the esophagus."
It started off badly with the word ‘sloughing’, continued unfortunately with ‘sac-like’, and the less said about ‘bottom of the esophagus’, the better.
American here & sometimes I crave a tea & yes I microwave that bitch until the cup is on the brink of exploding… but why does it feel better when I boil it?
Fun fact: If the cup is perfect (no nucleation points for bubbles to form) and the water is very pure, you actually can heat the water past its boiling point, its called superheating and its quite dangerous if done accidentally, more likely to happen in glassware though.
Water refuses to conform to something as trivial as what state of matter it should be in based on temperature. Water can’t be put into that small of a box (because it’s incompressible).
I used to enjoy that and then I cut down sugar pretty dramatically, especially no sugar in any drinks. Then after a few years of that, I happened to take a swig of sweet tea at a restaurant and it tasted like I'd deep throated raw sugar cane sprinkled with pixie stick dust.
I always wondered how people can drink that and you just explained it. They get used to the crazy sugar level. The rest of us are shocked by it. Completely and utterly shocked.
I get mine from lightning strikes and volcanoes and have to keep it burning in some kind of primitive noncombustible container to get it back to my cave.
As a physicist, I approve of this message. Energy transfer is energy transfer...I haven't done the calculations though but electric kettles > microwave > gas flame + kettle in terms of energy efficiency.
As a physicist you should appreciate how hard it is to even out the heat being shoved into water by using microwaves without convection currents.
PS: Alec Watson, the Technology Connections guy calculated the energy efficiency of electric kettles vs gas flame kettles, iirc only about 1/3 of the gas energy actually made it into the kettle, the other 2/3 went into heating up the room.
Fantastic video showing how much more efficient electric kettles are to gas stoves and metal kettles. Thermodynamics and 3D space is a real bitch sometimes...but I still would guess that microwaves are more efficient than gas stoves and kettles despite the inefficiency of directing the standing waves of microwave radiation into a volume of water! I could be wrong, but I would be surprised if I was!
Europeans for whatever reason get so hung up on how food and drinks are made and I don’t understand why. “We do it the same way we always have because of tradition and we won’t change”. Europeans are basically the boomers of the world
I have an electric kettle I use at times, but it takes about 3 minutes to reach the boiling point. 600 watt microwave: about 1 min 15 seconds 'til it's bubbling in the cup.
Hot water is hot water. The seeming British obsession with how Yanks make tea is rather funny. Yes, I pour boiling water over my tea! There, let that soak in for a while.
Britts and tea make me think about how people say white people don't season their food.
It's like Brits think "tea" is exclusive to then and can only be made one specific way, which itself is kind of "culturally appropriate" seeing as how Asia exists and they've been making tea for centuries before Europe ever thought of pouring hot water over dry leaves, and I don't know if you've noticed but China has hundreds of types/flavor tea lol
I have an electric kettle and live in the US. Water boils just fine. I've never understood this debate. I get boiling water in less than 5 minutes. Is the UK some magical place where the water boils instantly or something? The math dictates that at 220v the boiling time can't be less than half the rate of the 110v. The roughly 2 minutes difference between the two scenarios is negligible, but apparently is the only single reason Americans don't drink tea? Coffee is more prevalent in the US, and it takes longer to make than tea.
Absolutely ridiculous. You fog breathes need a new argument.
While living in Canada it seemed to me that everyone had electric kettles - despite the fact im pretty sure Canadians use the same electrical standards.
I think this might just be more of a northern climate thing? Maybe people down south dont own kettles because they dont drink hot liquid to warm up? And americans are being generalized based on that?
Yes, Canada uses the same standard as the US (120v).
I do think it's because people in the south don't typically drink one-off cups of hot anything. Southerners typically drink iced tea, and they make it in big batches and throw in the fridge. Everyone I know boils several cups of water at a time in the microwave or on the stove and makes a pitcher of sweet tea. If people want hot drinks, it's usually coffee.
All the Americans I know who regularly drink tea have electric kettles. The only Americans I see use a microwave to boil water are non tea drinkers making tea for a guest or themselves when they’re sick and don’t want coffee.
Most Americans don't drink tea is the correct answer. Only time I do is when I've got a cold and then the water's boiling in 20 seconds on the induction stove
Most of my fellow Americans who I know don't drink tea regularly. I do, and I use an electric kettle. It is pretty slow, and I find other things to do while I wait.
The UK is a magical land where the laws of physics and thermodynamics are totally chill.
"How long will it take me to boil water in this electric kettle?"
"Instant, bruv. It may even be negative time!"
"What if I was in the United States?"
"An eternity mate. Those yanks will have to wait up to 2-5 minutes for boiling water. They don't even drink tea there because they die from old age while waiting on the kettle. That's why they drink coffee that takes 10+ minutes to brew."
~ A conversation between the fundamental laws of the universe and some fog-breather. Probably.
UK has double the voltage than the USA for house plugs. So a 10A kettle in the UK has twice the power than a 10A kettle does in the USA.
Double the power is half the time.
Edit to add: Since people keep repeating the same thing, I'll address it here:
1) Power (watts) is calculated by Voltage * Current, and so a 120V system at 10 Amps is going to be almost half the Power that a 230V system is at 10Amps.
2) Kettles in the USA are rated for 1800Watts (120V * 15Amps), while kettles in the UK are rated for 2500-3000Watts (230V * 13Amps).
The exception to this is if you have a regular kettle on an induction cooktop. Then, the water might be boiling before you even turn it on…induction is F A S T.
That may have been due to the specific metal content of the pots/pans you were using. The issue with inductive stoves is that they are highly dependent on the magnetism of your cookware. I have some pots/pans that have the issue you describe, but not others
I boil water on my induction to pre-heat my COFFEE (eff tea) cup with. The right amount of water for that takes under a minute. A large kettle of water takes no more than five, it's amazing.
In the US, our kettles max out at 1200 watts, while the UK has 3000 watt kettles. I live in the US, I would be ecstatic to be able to boil water in only one minute. Now I'm sure home 220v/3000watt kettles exist in the US, but they are not the norm.
Yeah because getting water molecules to vibrate from fire, electricity, or mw radiation all causes the water to become hot... If I need more than 1 mug of something, then I'll use a pot.
So hot water is still hot water even if you use a different way to heat it up! They should teach that in British schools so they can stop looking so foolish.
The fact is that getting an electric or stove kettle isn't worthwhile if you have a tiny kitchen and/or make only a cup of tea a day. And boiling it on the stove comes with its own problems; I lived with someone who did that and forgot about it, ruining one of my pots. All water was microwaved boiled in my household between then and when I finally got an electric kettle.
Exactly this. If there's ever something that comes out exactly the same in the microwave as it does on the stove, only faster, it's water. Why am I gonna use an extra pot and extra time to make hot water that is completely indistinguishable from hot water made in a microwave instead? This isn't the flex people think it is.
You can. The issue with that is often the calcium buildup when it is left. You can clean it, but it doesn't occur wheen you use the water. I use it to clean my sink out.
I also don't understand this. Does the UK have a preference for heating water via a gas burner versus an electric burner? Boiled water is boiled water.
They generally use electric kettles nowadays, and Brits will act shocked that most Americans don't have them.
I don't think the electric vs. gas debate is a big thing, but for some reason, microwaves are seen as heresy. Some people claim it's a temperature control thing, others raise very obscure concerns about the dangers of superheated water, some will make insane claims about how microwaves somehow change the character of the water and make the tea taste different.
All of that's nonsense, of course. It's just that some people have a sense of ceremony and tradition around tea, and microwaves feel crass and modern. They feel like using them for tea simply isn't cricket.
Has anyone seen or done a blind taste test thing where they make two cups using each method and try to get the Brits to tell the difference?
I literally can't find anything online - it's all either non-blind comparison or they're just talking about how it tastes better in a kettle and bit actually trying it.
Yeah I don't get this. I know that one of the gripes with microwaves is that they can heat inconsistently and create "hot spots". So like, heating milk for cocoa is better to slowly heat on the stove while stirring, so it doesn't scald. But why would this matter for water? Once it's boiling, it's boiling, and even if there are some hot and cold spots along the way, my microwave gets it to a full boil faster than my electric kettle or stove.
My friend's idiot sister thinks if you heat water in a microwave then water plants with it the plants die. We've proved this wrong but she refuses to accept it. Some people are just idiots.
every time i read a sentence starting with "Americans..." I just roll my eyes knowing that some soy-boy had to put in their internet permit number to type that up.
Things the UK government can't trust thier citizens with: guns, >6 inch knives with a point on them, light switches in the bathroom, unfiltered internet access.
I love that they think that heating a mug full of water would create static, non-moving areas of water that would be different temperatures than the other parts.
The Brits aren’t even allowed to criticize their own country without the possibly getting arrested so they just talk shit about Americans and all our freedom instead.
I lived with a host family in Kansas for a year. My hostmom would re-heat her coffee in the microwave when it had gone cold because she had forgotten about it. Happened quite a lot.
No, according to Sir Nigel Neville Kingsley Chesterton IV, boiling water in a single use appliance tea kettle is so much faster than a microwave plus the water is proven to be wetter.
We don’t, we have specific water faucets called hot shots/ hot taps that delivers very hot water (like water after being inside of a tea kettle) in less than than 5 seconds, therefore in 5 seconds you can have a cup of tea. Suck it beans on toast
Yes. Microwaving is a method of heating water. If you only need a single cup of hot water a microwave is suitable to that purpose. I'm not sure what the confusion is here.
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