UnderOpenSky
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Yeah, you're clearly not allowed an opinion.
Is it every acceptable to microwave tea.
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skyscraper101
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Poll needs some sort of 'yes but only for warming up already made tea that's gone a bit cold, and not for some wrongun version of making tea from scratch' option.
crossthebreeze
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My friend's American husband used to make tea in the microwave as he didn't know what a kettle was. The result was disgusting. He knows better now.
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If I attend a client and helped them, if I make them tea afterwards, this is what I do. It certainly speeds up the steeping process
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Suitably amended.
JimW
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Still going strong and often in our local paper, as he is a hometown boy. Just brought out a series of portraits of old soldiers who served with the Glosters in Korea:
Video: from Stroud to Korea and back - Jack Russell's portraits of war veterans | Stroud Times
Former England cricketer and artist, Jack Russell MBE, is exhibiting a series of portraits at the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum in Gloucester.
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Stroud and Proud: Jack Russell - tea, painting, and Oliver Twist | Stroud Times
Stroud's favourite sporting son Jack Russell, the former Gloucestershire and England wicket-keeper has recently turned 60.
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skyscraper101
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Must be all that tea.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
when i visited friends in the USA in the 90s, I was genuinely shocked that they made tea in the microwave. Turns out they don't routinely have kettles! 
Since then, though, I have stopped drinking Proper Tea, and only drink fruit infusions. I use a kettle, and teabags, but I often seem to forget that I have made it, so pop it in the microwave to heat up. It is fine. Sometimes, I have to do it several times, if I am busy. Sometimes, I find a forgotten cup of tea in the microwave.
Hmm - am I getting forgetful in my old age?
Since then, though, I have stopped drinking Proper Tea, and only drink fruit infusions. I use a kettle, and teabags, but I often seem to forget that I have made it, so pop it in the microwave to heat up. It is fine. Sometimes, I have to do it several times, if I am busy. Sometimes, I find a forgotten cup of tea in the microwave.
Hmm - am I getting forgetful in my old age?
Eric Jarvis
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Look, it's dead simple. Some tea is always better than no tea at all. However good tea is better still. Good tea can only be made using decent loose tea leaves in a brown Rockingham style tea pot and brewed for just over 3 minutes. This is science. A mate of mine did his Chemistry PhD on the subject. Which doesn't mean you shouldn't make crap tea when you can't be arsed to make it properly because some tea is better than no tea at all. Currently I am drinking instant coffee. However it is Douwe Egberts not Nescafe because I have standards.
Eric Jarvis
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US domestic power supplies can't actually boil an electric kettle. How they qualify as an advanced nation baffles me.when i visited friends in the USA in the 90s, I was genuinely shocked that they made tea in the microwave. Turns out they don't routinely have kettles!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Is that true? They have coffee machines - do they not use the same amount of power?
now I think about it, people outside of the UK, if they have a kettle at all, do seem to have one that sits on the cooker.
skyscraper101
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Not true.
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I am not a coffee drinker but am guessing you should not use boiling water to make it
jontz01
taking refuge in the loft
I bet you get 3 brews out of one bag too eh.
Eric Jarvis
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According to my coffee addicted cordon bleu chef mate, coffee should be made with water that is as close to boiling point as you can get without it actually boiling, apparently because when it starts boiling you begin to de-aerate the water and the volatile chemicals in the coffee that produce the flavour have to oxidise to taste right. Which apparently doesn't apply to instant coffee which he defines as not really coffee anyway.
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I think you can get kettles which have settings to allow you to heat up the water to different temperatures depending on whether you want to make proper coffee or tea.
skyscraper101
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For when a forgotten/half-drunk cup needs reheating.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
So that it steeps at the correct temperature. Mugs cool rapidly. A teapot stays hot for longer.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Good God No!
(Can we have that as a 4th option?)
(Can we have that as a 4th option?)
Voley
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Same here. I'm only 53.I use a kettle, and teabags, but I often seem to forget that I have made it, so pop it in the microwave to heat up. It is fine. Sometimes, I have to do it several times, if I am busy. Sometimes, I find a forgotten cup of tea in the microwave.
Hmm - am I getting forgetful in my old age?
Quite often go to the microwave and find a half-full mug in there. Will have made oodles of cups of tea in the meantime obvs.I reheat tea in the microwave but my BASIC DECENT MORALITY prevents me from actually making it in one.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
she loves a cup of tea and would just drink it if she found half a cup of cold tea so now she has her own cup 
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
You're a mug amateur. Just boil a little extra water next time, then preheat your mug by filling it halfway with boiling water as soon as the kettle boils. Swish it around in the mug for 10 seconds, then discard the water. Your mug is no longer cold. Immediately chuck in your teabag, sugar to taste and a mugfull of hot water. Agitate with spoon. PROTIP: cover the mug with a coaster while it brews to reduce cooling.
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Just like babies and small animals, tea should never be placed in a microwave.
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