Quality tea drinkers might want to put their cup and teapot somewhere safe and sit down. Not for those of a delicate nature...

Make sure you have your lawyers number close to hand, you never know how much psychological damage this might cause!

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/british-gas/microwave-tea-114714870.html

I doubt it would work for infusing tea directly, but you could heat a cup of water in the microwave then drop the teabag in afterwards.

Actually it would be nice to be able to sack off my kettle as its a pain in the arse having to descale it, the water down here is awful for it.

Try changing your kettle then, I've got one with a flat metal base inside, the element isn't visible and it has a mesh filter on the spout. It is always easy to clean out and I don't get bits of rock in my cup.

I can see what they're getting at but well that'll not be a great cuppa.

Quote from: Serious on February 22, 2012, 14:26:58 PM
Try changing your kettle then, I've got one with a flat metal base inside, the element isn't visible and it has a mesh filter on the spout. It is always easy to clean out and I don't get bits of rock in my cup.

My kettle is the same sort, but you live up north in a soft water area so you don't have a limescale problem. I never used to have any issues until I moved to the south coast.

The missus reliably informs me that hard water is better for teeth and hair though.

It contains a lot of calcium so good for your bones.

Although excessive consumption can lead to kidney stones.

Well its not even as readily absorbed as by the calcium found in dairy anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. I do actually filter the water with a Brita, but it seems to make sod all difference in all honesty.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on February 22, 2012, 15:55:05 PM

Quote from: Serious on February 22, 2012, 14:26:58 PM
Try changing your kettle then, I've got one with a flat metal base inside, the element isn't visible and it has a mesh filter on the spout. It is always easy to clean out and I don't get bits of rock in my cup.

My kettle is the same sort, but you live up north in a soft water area so you don't have a limescale problem. I never used to have any issues until I moved to the south coast.

The missus reliably informs me that hard water is better for teeth and hair though.

I bought a Brita filter kettle for the same reasons.

On the subject of electricity costs, the differences are negligible per month so i'll take a nicer, more convenient cuppa every time.

Hard water is actually quite good for you, I've always lived in hard water areas bar when I stay at my parents house in Scotland. For some reason soft water brings me out in spots 

You should see the kettles in mallorca.
I could build a house with what's in their kettles.

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as long as the water is boiling when it hits the tea, and hasn't been boiled for too long (removes the oxygen you know), I don't see that it matters how it comes to be hot.

The sentance in that article which gets my hackles up is

Quotemodern laptops use far less energy than old-fashioned desktop computers

and the implication that going from a desktop to a laptop is automatically an upgrade.

Most modern PSUs are very clever and power conservative too.

If you can get yourself to Bristol...

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