• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot

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      2 months ago

      That at least has the weight of tradition behind it.

      Wait, you do mean a stove kettle, don’t you? You don’t mean just a normal vegetables pot? You can’t mean that, surely?

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        2 months ago

        I do mean just a saucepan with some water in it. I ended up getting an electric kettle…

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          2 months ago

          Congratulations: civilisation has arrived in your home. We’ll talk no more of what happened before.