“Kymethra: Kettles typically boil in about 3 minutes or under, particularly the tiny ones you get in hotel rooms (more like 2 minutes, if not full to the max. The mugs are usually ridiculously small as well, barely two mouthfuls of tea, and it…Hahaha. Mostly in the sense of the sheer volume of words.
I keep seeing people saying things like this. So I decided to be…thorough. XD
Also I wanted a chance to bitch about Keurig machines. YOU DON’T KNOW MY HATE.
Yes. Though I have witnessed before how posts about tea-making can spiral out of control. Somebody British always goes ‘wait, what do you mean Americans don’t have kettles’, at which point all bets are off.
All I was trying to do was to make sure kettle use in the fic accurately reflected the experience one would get in a British hotel 🙂
Yes, and I didn’t tell you how I admire you for your thoroughness!
Because no lie, I am the one at the other end of the story, going, “…Dude, stop brewing your tea, IT WILL BE SO BITTER AND ICKY BY THE TIME YOU DRINK IT (oh please have them make a face, writer, oh please).”
I mean. It’s not like it’s a back-button issue or anything. But I notice. >.>
Snippets: prettyarbitrary: persian-slipper: “Kymethra: Kettles typically boil in…