• Audacious@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I’m a tea drinker and have been looking for a good pot that’s easy to clean for ages. I have hard water, which leaves a lot of residue behind. And I would like to avoid chinese manufacturing. Currently I just boil water in a small sauce pot on the stove, which doesn’t have the ability to stop heating at certain temps needed for certain loose leaf teas.

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      7 months ago

      Am using a Philips kettle for over a decade and have no plans is stopping. Of course that means nobody will ever buy another so the model is not available anymore. I would still suggest, though.

    • bitwaba@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Hard water is easy enough to deal with. Just use a Britta filter, I live in London and our water is very hard. I’ve only had to descale my kettle once in the last 4 years since I bought it, which was a mystery until I realized my girlfriend was making tea using tap water.

      My kettle is just a 0-100 kind, so in order to do 80-85C for my morning coffee, I use my meat thermometer with the alarm set on 76C. By the time I flick the kettle off and the energy finishes dissipating into the water, it’ll be ~82C. YMMV