Somebody put milk in the tea kettle.

To be entirely fair, I'm sure nobody from here has ever seen a kettle, let alone used one.

*raises hand* owned, used, have, and use one so 🤷‍♂️ 😂

@ScribeOfGoD but never have I put milk in one.

Shit, are we showing our age here?

Efficiency is rarely genius, and sometimes it's just plain stupid.

Milk goes in *after* you've steeped your cup.

I'm not even British and I fucking know this.

@ScribeOfGoD I meant here as in where I worked. Only two tea-sipping brits to tell the rest how it worked.

@C0D4 Do people microwave their tea water now or something? Even I'm feeling old if thats the case...

Gross

Anyone with half a brain knows you can't put milk in a electric kettle or anything without a special treated surface and even then it requires quite some cleaning.
If someone is stupid enough to heat milk in an enclosed metal thing you can't clean like a kettle. Well it's too stupid to be alive.

ewwwww

@sudo-woodo

> Do people microwave their tea water now

This might be baffling to a brit, but many people go about their lives without ever consuming tea.

Personally, if I want tea, I open the "cooking hot water" knob on the faucet in the kitchen, and 95c water comes out, because there's a water cooker in the cabinet underneath.

@sudo-woodo I don't have a tea kettle, I use a... how do you guys call that... it's a type of pan that's used to heat milk 🤔

Nice

@darksideofyay non stick sauce pan
You rebel!

@darksideofyay @hjk101 absolute legend!

@Milk what have you done now? SMH!

@sudo-woodo and others, not sure why everyone is losing shit over this. In India, we normally have our tea with milk. It's a normal cultural thing here.

I know many countries drink tea without milk but that is not something one should flip over about.

@Floydimus unless I have misunderstood the problem, it's not milk with tea. The problem is the order of operations.

Tea, with milk, yes.

Tea with milk, no.

Cleaning a kettle is already hard business, but add in milk scum after a long boil? No thanks, toss it out.

@sariel WE add milk to our team while the boiling activity.

Check this: https://youtu.be/FRnLwIB30Ms?t=92

NSFL for some of you.

@Floydimus so sorry guys, it was me 😔🤚🏼 milk jugs aren’t enough for my milk tea recipe which is 90% milk

@milk I see what you did there.

@Floydimus You're not supposed to put milk in an electric kettle, it's just for boiling the water. If you're pan-boiling it, sure, add the milk, but don't break the machine