10 minutes to boil a cup of water? How is that considered good in any way?
it’s sarcasm.
Air fryers suck at boiling water. They’re basically anti-microwaves. Everything a microwave is good at, they suck at, and vice versa.
Air fryers are for putting a crust on things. Basicly a miniature convection oven
Air fryers are just Easy-Bake Ovens for adults.
That’s because it is basically a convection oven, it just has a basket and a few extra customizations. But, as the video notes, a convection toaster oven is not a suitable replacement for an air fryer in most cases.
That’s because it is basically a convection oven
Technically it’s closer to an impingement oven than a convection oven. I’m surprised Alec didn’t mention impingement ovens at all in the video.
Techcon is quickly becoming the XKCD of household appliances
Thats why I got a Convection Microwave. Best of both worlds!
I put microwavable things in my microwave halfway, then in my air fryer to finish.
Perfect for little pot pies. Gets the top crispy.
How do you close the door and start it if you only put the food in halfway?
Oh I don’t close the door, I just jam something in the little hole the door goes into and start it
No, no no. Lmao 🤣
Not halfway into the microwave, you silly.
Halfway into the air fryer.
Wait, you can fit your airfryer fully inside your microwave?
So they are dead silent then.
No they’re very differently loud. They’re mechanically loud while microwaves are electrically loud
My microwave is bad at walking a dog. Schould I buy an airfryer? Especially in winter, I would like a machine for that.
You’re attempting to automate pet ownership?
We’re kinda skipping the whole point, like people that grind in RuneScape?
Only in winter
Pfff I was wondering whne the mug will explode or crumble in the person’s hands…
Americans will do anything other than buy an electric kettle.
Americans who drink hot tea have them (source: have had one for like 20 years).
Americans in general are just more hot coffee cold tea people. Exceptions abound of course, but in generalities.
I drink hot tea and cold coffee lol. I also drink hot coffee though.
We have replaced your American passport with Vietnamese to better accommodate your beverage preferences, please enjoy your new citizenship.
Pourover coffee is the shit though
🤷 I think all coffee is shit, personally
There’s literally the handle of an electric kettle on the left side.
No this is something far worse: someone in the UK whom has strayed from the light and committed heresy!
May the Tea Gods have mercy upon them, for I shall have none!
I am an American and i own an electric kettle and use it frequently. I switched to an electric kettle after accidentally turning my microwave into a smoke bomb when I put instant ramen in there and forgot to add the water. Now I only make instant ramen with hot water from a kettle or on the stove.
American here breaking stereotypes i have two electric kettles. A bright orange secura and a nice gooseneck
There is literally a kettle on the left lower side of the image (likely deliberately as it seems awkward having it in front of the air fryer like that)
in my experience, it is quite hard to find a place for a kettle that isn’t at least a little awkward
this. they are always in the way and fit nowhere.
As opposed to an air fryer, which is a way better use than the food prep space it takes up?
I’ve heard electric kettles are slower here because of the limits of our electrical system. I do have a kettle for the stove, though. I also rarely drink tea.
My friends just put a euro style 220 outlet on their counter and ordered a kettle online. Since they were building the house new it was basically no different than buying a 110v kettle.
You can install a European outlet in a US home? How is it compatible?
American wiring is center-tapped ~240V; typical 120V outlets are from line on either side of the tap to the neutral, while dryers, stoves, etc. are 240V line to line. So they would have wired it like a stove, but then put in a euro style plug instead of a stove plug
You just run 220 from the panel to it. Almost every US house has 220 outlets for the dryer and stove anyhow. All you’re doing is using a different shaped plug, and like, wires are wires, they fit into a euro plug the same as they fit into a NEMA plug.
That’s true, because you use a 110V based system you have less power available to the kettle. It’s still a lot faster than an electric stove though. Not faster than an induction stove, probably.
We have a 2 phase, 120v or 240v. Standard wall outlets only have 1 phase at 120v and a 15amp limit.
Split phase; two phase is something else that’s not really used because it’s a massive pain in the ass compared to single or three phase
Residential service is a single split 240v phase off of a 480V 3-phase line, while something like an apartment is 2 phase 208Y, with a single phase is 120V.
2 phase 208Y
3 phase 208. But I imagine you know that, and just fat fingered the wrong key
Ah, I guess I meant that you’re getting 2 of the 3 phases, which is 208V phase-to-phase, or 120V phase to neutral.
Ah, that makes sense
Standard outlets in the USA are 120v at 15A (1800W max peak, 1440W max continuous). In comparison, standard UK outlets are 230v at 13A (2990W peak)
This also affects other things. For example, standard electric heaters (resistive heat) can’t get as hot in the USA.
Edit: Also, dryers in countries like UK and Australia don’t need a special type of outlet.
Due to a quirk of unifying 2 standards, Europe and the UK, the range is 216.2 volts to 253.0 volts.
That encompasses infrastructure built to a tighter tolerance around 220V in Europe and infrastructure built to a tighter tolerance around 240V in the UK (and Australia).
We expect 3150W out of a kettle most of the time. Our heaters will say 3kW.
Usually you’ll find a few volts over 240 out of our outlets and that’s to design spec.
Thanks for the info! I’ve never actually lived in the UK so I was just guessing based on what I’ve read online.
I was going to use Australia as an example (since I was born there) but standard outlets in Australia are only 10A so they’re not quite as powerful as the UK ones :). There’s 15A outlets but they’re not very common.
We have an electric kettle, husband uses it for instant coffee; before we got together he used the microwave to boil water. The kids use it for tea. I use it for hot water for Moka pot, boiling water for grits, whatever needs hot water.
Electric kettle, microwave, and coffee grinder are the only appliances that live on the kitchen counter, all the other things are in the pantry.
OOP uses centigrade and spells color as “colour”; they’re probably not American.
And you call Celsius centigrade, which means you’re probably not young.
I did just drink some Metamucil…
“The downside is that the mug is also 180°C now.”
“And it tastes faintly of the bacon I made for breakfast.”
Nah see they’ve got one of those fancy dual air dryers in the picture. One side is clearly for food and the other for beverages.
Yeah but you’re not supposed to put the cup in with it. You pull the tray out and pour it into one.
Or maybe the 2 cup method?
No that’s 2 girls and only one cup
How is that a downside?
Somebody had been considering what could be worse than microwave tea.
There’s nothing wrong with microwaving water. It’s all just getting water molecules to move faster.
Thats how I make my teas. Boil it in a glass measuring cup, then pour it into a mug with the tea.
TechnologyConnections made a video about it.
How do you measure glass in a cup?
Carefully.
Edit to clarify: you pour the glass in a cup like this
As someone in a Commonwealth country, it is so weird to me that people would microwave a jug of water to make a cup of tea instead of buying a $5 kettle.
Counter space, cabinet space.
Yes, but this is something you are using 5-10 times a day… right? Something else can go.
For someone like me, no.
I’ve seen microwave tea as putting the tea bag in the cup and then microwaving it, which is slightly not ideal imo, but to each their own
That is probably for safety. If you microwave water without anything for it to nucleate on, then it can be liquid above the boiling point. If you then put a tea bag in, it will explode into steam in your face.
That’s really only an issue for microwaves that don’t have the turntable.
Bad idea if there is a staple in the tag on the tea bag.
But really is just boiling water. Heat is heat.
microwaving anything is microwaving the water it contains
You have just united the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom blind rage. Congratulations.
Okay this is a shitpost, but ffs don’t try this. That’s a small electric fan-forced oven. There’s a nonzero chance the airflow will splash water all over the inside, which is absolutely not liquid proof. Water + electricity == bad.
I see your point. But how the hell is the mug not going to be hot either and you are able to just lift it out?
Just stick it in a plastic bag, duh
Not liquid proof? How can you cook moist things in there then? Or things like chickens or beef joints etc that drip so much liquids?
Are you sure about the waterproofing? You can usually steam in an oven.
Yeah, its basically just a heating element with a fan, there should be nothing to break even if exposed to liquids.
Got an air fryer here with a steamer mode, so that definitely doesn’t have moisture-sensitive electronics inside the cooking part!
Probably depends on how fancy the air fryer is.
I’ve got a small, cheap air dryer. I think it was maybe $25 when I got it? It’s just got two settings - a knob to set the temperature and another knob to set a timer (analog timer that makes a ding noise when it’s done)
Inside it’s just a heating element like the ones you’d see on an old-school stove top, and a big fan to blow the hot air downwards. I doubt there’s any electronics in it - it’s probably just basic electrics. I don’t think the heating element would like being splashed with a liquid.
This is as dumb as people ‘marinating’ diet coke by leaving it in the fridge. Can’t level with this level of absurdity.
Coke taste better at room temp anyway.
Ewww
It tastes like pickles at room temp.
Sorry i meant to say its supposed to taste better at room temp, then pepsi tastes better cold.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of pop?
Shout out to Asian water boilers and warmers.
Hot water on demand, no fuss.
Asian? I mean, I know they exist in Asia, as I lived in SK and JP when I was younger, but we’ve had them in Australia for as long as I can remember, and I’m in my 40s. Westinghouse, Breville and Philips all offer countertop models, and nowadays you can also get them installed directly into the kitchen sink/counter as part of a water filtration system. (Most people prefer a kettle at home, though - they’re cheaper and less fuss to repair/replace.)
Like infrastructure designed for providing hot water (>75C) directly to the kitchen?
Damn, that’s amazing.
We only got saunas.
Least redundant air fryer usage.
This is 100% a meme. There’s a kettle in the lower left corner of the picture, place awkwardly in front of the second frier drawer. and the cup would be scaldingly hot upon removing it from the air frier.
A meme? On a shitpost community? How dare you??
Me using a hardware store heat gun:
PatheticBoiling a mug of water by blowing hot air on it is going to take a while. My guess is if someone was to try this (which I don’t recommend) it’s going to take longer than 10-12 minutes.
Pretty sure that counts as a hate crime against the English
Good, they deserve it.
I played a game online with a British person and another American. British guy was talking about tea time or something tea related. I have always heard that the British took their tea VERY seriously, so I decided to test it. I asked him if he heated his water in a microwave. Don’t ask the British if they heat their water in a microwave. What followed was a man who was very passionate about tea talk just as passionately about his kettle.
Tea time might’ve meant dinner
Microwave for water?! I am going to spontaneously combust with rage, and you can use the heat to boil the water for your tea properly! 😡🥵🔥☕👍🏽 🇬🇧
Brb buying an air fryer
This is probably just bait but I can’t help myself. A pot of water and a stove would do it in less time and you won’t have to deal with a burning mug.
But the warm mug helps keep the drink warm. Doesn’t everyone drink their tea/coffee with oven mitts?
