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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by laurencerowe on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:18PM (#37311766)
What is tea temperature for you? As I understand it black tea which Brits drink should be made with water at close to boiling (100 C) while green tea should be made with water at 80 C.

My pet peeve in the US is ordering a cup of tea and getting a cup of cooling water and a teabag by the side. Fine for herbal or green tea but terrible for black tea.

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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by jedberg on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:06PM (#37312356)
My boiler lets me set the hold temp at 208f(97.8C), 195F(90.5C), and 175F(79.4C). So basically you can do all the different "ideal" temps depending on which tea you make the most.

We keep it at 195 since we don't make black teas, and then we can let it cool down to whichever tea we want or just mix it with some filtered cold to get it to temp.

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Re:Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? by hot_gril on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:20PM (#37313392)
My pet peeve is ordering hot tea and finding out they only have coffee or iced tea. I've also gotten hot tea in a plastic melting cup a few times.
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