|
|
Trying to find a tea kettle today
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Okay, so I bought a French Press the other day at Starbucks. Best damned coffee I ever had. But the tea kettle we had started falling apart and I got tired of using a pot to boil water with. So out I trekked in the rain today to try to find a freakin tea kettle.
I go to Farm Fresh, because I need cat litter. They didn't sell tea kettles.
Walgreen's, both of them on the road, didn't sell tea kettles.
Food Lion didn't sell tea kettles.
Rite Aid didn't sell tea kettles.
Rose's didn't sell tea kettles.
WalMart didn't have any in stock, if you can freakin believe that.
I figured, ****, does anyone still use these things???
My last stop before ordering from Amazon, my old standby, was KMart. They had them. I couldn't believe it took that long to find a tea kettle.
But damn, the coffee is great.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
what the hell is a tea kettle?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
ah, a device for boiling water.
We call them kettles, never heard "Tea Kettle" before, must be an American expression?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, it's what I've always called them. I'm from The South.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
I was about to ask where in the world you saw a Rose's, but then I saw that you're down in Newport News. Question answered. I had no idea they were still in business.
And I grew up right across the river from ctt; I also call it a "tea kettle".
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Madison, WI
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yup. This northerner calls 'em teak kettle as well. Sometimes just kettle but usually tea kettle. And I use mine to make tea or to boil water for coffee-drinking friends when they visit.* But yeah, it is for boiling water. The tea pot is what your pour water into to make tea after it had boiled in the tea kettle.
*I am not a coffee drinker--I have had maybe 5 or 6 cups of coffee in my entire 38-year life--I drink just tea and the very infrequent cappuccino.
|
One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by vcutag
I was about to ask where in the world you saw a Rose's, but then I saw that you're down in Newport News. Question answered. I had no idea they were still in business.
And I grew up right across the river from ctt; I also call it a "tea kettle".
You go to VCU? My stepdaughter goes there. Great school. Bit pricey, but then again who isn't?
And yes, the only Rose's I know of here. First time I've been in one in almost 20 years. After seeing this one, I know why. It's a ghetto.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Minnesota
Status:
Offline
|
|
We purchased ours from Target. They had only two models to choose from. One had an indented bottom, which was fine for stoves with raised burners, but our stove has a flat surface. This required a second trip to Target later to get the flat bottomed tea pot.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2007
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
You go to VCU? My stepdaughter goes there. Great school. Bit pricey, but then again who isn't?
And yes, the only Rose's I know of here. First time I've been in one in almost 20 years. After seeing this one, I know why. It's a ghetto.
I used to live on the east coast of NC and remember fondly going to Roses with my mom in Morehead City. Shockingly, the store is still there. Haven't been in one since the early 90's though.
|
MacBook Pro 13" 2.8GHz Core i7/8GB RAM/750GB Hard Drive - Mac OS X 10.7.3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Madison, WI
Status:
Offline
|
|
(
Last edited by dcmacdaddy; Mar 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM.
Reason: for sake of clarity.)
|
One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Central New York
Status:
Offline
|
|
My wife and I love press pot coffee. We have had one for a few years now. If you are a tea drinker and buy loose leaf teas, the press pot can also be used to brew good tea.
Yes, it is a tea kettle to this northern farm boy. The coffee pot we used on the farm when I was a young boy was a manual drip type where you boiled the water in the "tea kettle" and poured it over the coffee grounds to drip. The spoon would stand on its own in that stuff. I started drinking it at eight years old.
|
macforray
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Coincidentally I just got back home from the Le creuset showroom in Hong Kong, they have some fantastic Kettles all with Lifetime guarantees - FYI I don't work for them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Admin Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by turtle777
Get an electric kettle
Fantastic advice. There is no faster (or more efficient) way to boil water, not an electric, gas, or induction stove, not even a microwave.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm quite bemused to hear that a Kettle seems to be a novelty to you guys.
You won't find ANY home or office without a Kettle (electric of course) in the UK.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: The Rock
Status:
Offline
|
|
Breville electric kettle.
You're welcome.
greg
|
Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
ctt,
? Why were you looking in pharmacies and grocery stores anyway for kettles?
Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Coincidentally I just got back home from the Le creuset showroom in Hong Kong, they have some fantastic Kettles all with Lifetime guarantees - FYI I don't work for them.
I have a couple of nice stainless steel kettles that I use on my gas stove. However, I tend to leave them on the stove, and they get dirty just by virtue of them being next to my pans when I'm cooking, cuz I'm too lazy to put the kettle away every time after I use it. So I'm thinking of just getting an electric one instead.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
You go to VCU? My stepdaughter goes there. Great school. Bit pricey, but then again who isn't?
And yes, the only Rose's I know of here. First time I've been in one in almost 20 years. After seeing this one, I know why. It's a ghetto.
Yeah... I did from 2000-2005. I really need to get around to changing my username, come to think of it. I kind of dropped off the face of the earth (read: MacNN) for a few years and just started reading/posting again after getting a 24" iMac back in November.
When I started at VCU, you could live on campus with a meal plan and everything, and it was around $8k. I have no idea what it costs now, but if it hasn't doubled in the last decade, I'd be shocked.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The back of the room
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Eug
ctt,
? Why were you looking in pharmacies and grocery stores anyway for kettles
You can buy a surprising amount of non-grocery items in grocery store chains here.
I also say tea kettle. Well, I don't actually say either, but if I were to, it'd be with the "tea."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Eug
ctt,
? Why were you looking in pharmacies and grocery stores anyway for kettles?
.
Well, sometimes you can find stuff like that in there. The Farm Fresh grocery store here sells cooking pans and stuff for pasta so it was worth checking out.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by vcutag
Yeah... I did from 2000-2005. I really need to get around to changing my username, come to think of it. I kind of dropped off the face of the earth (read: MacNN) for a few years and just started reading/posting again after getting a 24" iMac back in November.
When I started at VCU, you could live on campus with a meal plan and everything, and it was around $8k. I have no idea what it costs now, but if it hasn't doubled in the last decade, I'd be shocked.
I think it's a *tad* bit higher than that now.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
You can buy that stuff at grocery stores and pharmacies here too, but usually the selection sucks and the prices are no better than elsewhere. So, I usually don't bother wasting my time shopping for that stuff there. If I'm in there anyway to buy milk, I might walk by the housewares aisle, but I don't specifically search out grocery stores and pharmacies to look for that stuff.
Oh wait, I lie. I was searching out the local pharmacy chain for HD DVDs last month. However, that's because they were selling combo HD DVD/DVD discs for $4.99 specifically at that chain. Even though the format is dead, other places are still selling that stuff for higher prices.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
I read the thread title as sea kitten instead of tea kettle.
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by olePigeon
I read the thread title as sea kitten instead of tea kettle.
Fair enough. You can boil water in sea kittens, too.
But only once.
-t
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by turtle777
I second that.
|
I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by seanc
I'm quite bemused to hear that a Kettle seems to be a novelty to you guys.
You won't find ANY home or office without a Kettle (electric of course) in the UK.
Yes, it's a bit strange, how do they make tea and coffee?
Perhaps they all have vending machines, or mostly drink coke.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Coffee is usually made in a coffee maker of course.
We also have stove-top espresso maker.
I make tea in my teapot, and use the kettle just to boil water.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Most Tea and Coffee over here consists of this:
Tea:
Coffee:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Your post contains no images of tea OR coffee, as far as I can see.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Spheric, The pictures load up fine for me.
seanc, I can't drink instant coffee. It's terrible. I'm not a huge fan of Tetley either, but it's much, much better than instant coffee. I generally drink loose-leaf teas, mostly green tea though.
P.S. A little bit of history. British teas are generally blacker/redder because the green teas were not oxidized enough to survive transport from Asia to England.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Eug
Spheric, The pictures load up fine for me.
*whoosh*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Ah. I get it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by seanc
Coffee:
Yuck, I don't get why instant coffee is so popular in the UK.
-t
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Central New York
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by turtle777
Yuck, I don't get why instant coffee is so popular in the UK.
-t
I agree, especially when there are so many different and easy ways to brew good coffee.
There have been times in my past where the only coffee available was instant. I drank it, but I didn't like it.
|
macforray
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: U.K.
Status:
Offline
|
|
The worst cup of tea I ever had was in a Canadian food chain, (can't remember name) where they didn't boil water, it only came hot, for coffee.
Plus for safety ?
They had tea bags, but tea made with warm water .... YUK
|
iMac Intel Core i5, 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 21.5" Monitor 10.8.3.
iMac 17" 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo w 3gb memory (White one) 10.6.8.
Internal 500gb / 8x external HDD's 250GB - 3TB (4x Time Machine)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by turtle777
Yuck, I don't get why instant coffee is so popular in the UK.
-t
Just like in The South, you won't find instant grits. Nothing good is "instant."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
Just like in The South, you won't find instant grits. Nothing good is "instant."
We've got a barbecue joint here that warns people "This is not fast food!" in giant letters right above the counter. I suspect they'd love a plaque of that to put up there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Eug
P.S. A little bit of history. British teas are generally blacker/redder because the green teas were not oxidized enough to survive transport from Asia to England.
I kind of think this is a fallacy, any links to prove this?
The Chinese have always drunk lots of black tea (they call it red tea), i'm sure it's a different type (or part) of the plant to the green tea.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by moonmonkey
I kind of think this is a fallacy, any links to prove this?
The Chinese have always drunk lots of black tea (they call it red tea), i'm sure it's a different type (or part) of the plant to the green tea.
No, it's the same plant. Green tea is dried immediately. Red tea is crushed, fermented, and then dried. Oolong is halfway in between.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Suffolk, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by vcutag
We've got a barbecue joint here that warns people "This is not fast food!" in giant letters right above the counter. I suspect they'd love a plaque of that to put up there.
What's it called? I might have heard of it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
Status:
Offline
|
|
i like cheap ceylon tea the most
i bought some very expensive silvertip tea in Sri Lanka (price 600 US$/kg to give you an idea) but I figured the taste wasn't at all that great. I think the quality of the water should be best too and I don't care too much about that, in Arab countries this high quality tea is popular. Ordinary Black tea (Orange Pekoe) is fine for me.
|
{Animated sigs are not allowed.}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
What's it called? I might have heard of it.
Buz & Ned's, on North Boulevard right off of I-95. It's Kansas City style barbecue, but it's amazingly good. Buz Grossberg, the guy who owns it, was on Throwdown with Bobby Flay awhile back. He won, not that it doesn't happen a lot.
(
Last edited by vcutag; Mar 15, 2009 at 09:37 AM.
Reason: Clarity.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by moonmonkey
I kind of think this is a fallacy, any links to prove this?
The Chinese have always drunk lots of black tea (they call it red tea), i'm sure it's a different type (or part) of the plant to the green tea.
Different species are supposedly often used to make black tea, but the blackness/redness has to do with the preservation/oxidation process. The tea leaves used can be exactly the same. It's sort of like light vs. dark roast coffee. Although beans used for dark roast coffee are often different, they don't have to be. You just roast the beans longer.
The bottom line though is that black tea keeps a lot longer. You can export green tea, but if your transport process takes months then you may end up having to throw some of it out if your storage methods aren't the greatest, or sell it cheaper than originally intended. In storage, black tea retains its flavour for longer and doesn't rot as easily.
I do not believe black tea was invented purely for export. Nonetheless, partially because of the reasons mentioned above, black tea became the preferred choice for export.
BTW, you're supposed to keep green tea in the fridge. I usually don't for most of my tea, but do for some of the really expensive stuff after I open the package. I enjoy tea but am not a connoisseur, but one of my friends is, and he gives me some really nice teas whenever he comes to visit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by PB2K
i like cheap ceylon tea the most
i bought some very expensive silvertip tea in Sri Lanka (price 600 US$/kg to give you an idea) but I figured the taste wasn't at all that great. I think the quality of the water should be best too and I don't care too much about that, in Arab countries this high quality tea is popular. Ordinary Black tea (Orange Pekoe) is fine for me.
Note of interest: Orange Pekoe isn't a type of tea - it's a term used for the quality of the picking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_pekoe
It's sort of like saying you only listen to "two-star music". That's nice, but rather meaningless.
Saying you like "Ceylon" tea is a rather more useful delineation, here, though.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
Thanks, I did not know this.
-t
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm a little tea pot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my... oh sh*t I'm a sugar bowl!
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Illinois
Status:
Offline
|
|
I prefer my mint tea or roobios (NO FLAVORING!) thank you very much.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
Okay, so I bought a French Press the other day at Starbucks. Best damned coffee I ever had.
.....
But damn, the coffee is great.
Just a small heads-up to note that unfiltered coffee like from a French Press can lead to elevated cholesterol. The boiling water spends too much time in contact with the grounds and you'll see the oils floating on top on the water. Here's a quote from the wiki article:
"The French press is a filterless brewing method; some compounds in unfiltered coffee are thought to lead to an increase in cholesterol.[1]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_press
the source:
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/...ntid=100110386
It all depends on whether you need to worry about your cholesterol. Espresso is better because the water spends much less time in contact with the grounds.
The whole thing is offset by the fact that coffee is by far the main source of antioxidants in the American diet:
http://www.physorg.com/news6067.html
Coffee is good. Good coffee is even better!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Status:
Offline
|
|
I can't stand rooibos. Living in South Africa, everyone drinks the damn stuff.
No, please give me Twinings Earl Grey, or any good, black tea.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|