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These are the same people that got their knickers in a twist about microwaving water for tea. Logic is not found in these types, only vibes.
I know what you mean but also there is a viseral vibe around microwaving water in particular that feels very caveman coded in the weirdest way.
A microwave oven's function is literally to heat water in any food item.
I'm aware but there's this weird visceral unga bunga energy to it. It'd be like using a diesel generator to farm crypto it just feels fucking weird.
The aura comes from yourself and your culture, lol.
Well also I've grown up around microwaves with questions wattage so rather than boiling or near boiling water you get slightly hotter than the tap water.
That sounds pretty awful, ngl!
Eh it only really a factor for heating up water in particular due to the square cubed law. Doesn't take that much energy to reheat leftovers or nuke two hot pockets.
For me it is faster to boil 1 mug of water in the microwave than to boil 0.5 L in the kettle (the marked minimum).
But personally I usually use the kettle especially I the winter. I fill it up first thing and do other things while it boils.
Fair enough. Should probably note I'm Californian and derived from non tea drinking stock, that's for the Asians and Brits or my grandmother since she picked it up from her very British grandmother.
Where do you think the 'caveman energy' association came from for you?
Probably my older cousins back in the early 2000s when I was like 3. Watch one of them repeatedly microwave a bowl of water till the glass fractured causing the water to all spill into the microwave which long story short resulted in an electrical fire inside a camper trailer. No I don't remember what the fuck he was trying to do, may have been as mondane as making top ramen.
Lol that does sound like ooga booga caveman energy lol
It really was. If he had just microwaved it once or twice I would assumed bad luck, but I'm pretty sure he was on his fifth or sixth time by the point the glass shattered. I even asked him a couple years ago if he remembered that whole thing and according to him he only remembers the fire, though according to his dad he was probably high on edibles.
Holy shit lololol
Best part is I'm the only living person who witnessed the whole situation. Note the microwave caveman is the son of my great uncle, so cousin once removed if memory serves right don't really keep track of trite terms like that. But my great grandfather and my uncle (mother's brother) just were watching the whole repeatedly microwaving thing just kinda waiting to see what would happen, took about 20 minutes but it resulted in the so called microwave incident.
This whole thing will be with me for the rest of my life despite happening when I was 4, I am now 26. You may see why I directly associate microwaving water with unga bunga caveman energy. It ain't just cultural it's probably part of my personality foundation.
You shouldn’t microwave water though, because there’s a chance that it could be superheated to the boiling point without looking like it and that can be dangerous.
A really small chance that is only somewhat significant for distilled water and can be very easily mitigated by lightly tapping a teaspoon for a test.
I do this everyday. The danger is not knowing but it's not really riskier than being splashed by boiling water because you poured it too hard from a kettle.
I think you got that backwards - the caveman is the one scared of the microwave and its spooky woo-woo magic that damages the water's aura