Wtf do I do? I’m only here for one night thank fuck but it’s still very hard.
if I want tea I have to microwave it.
Wtf do I do?
Uh, microwave it?
Stay where you are and we’ll have someone there with chocolate digestives in a jiffy. The important thing is to not panic.
You are a true hero. God bless you.
microwave the water separately and pour it in.
Aight, a few suggestions so you can have something approaching a decent cup.
Assuming you’re stuck with bags, which isn’t the best tea, how you heat the water only matters a little and you can get a fairly similar state with a microwave.
Nuke the water twice. It’s going to vary depending on the microwave, obviously, but this the low powered stuff in most hotel rooms, go with 1:30 twice. The water should be just under boiling after the second zap. Stir in between, then stir before dunking bags. This also assumes a “coffee mug” sized vessel, which is usually about 8oz (y’all brits still use those liquid measures? I’m not sure, but I can calculate the CCs if you don’t have access to an app for that). If the cups are smaller, maybe do two one-minute zaps and check the temp.
Now, if you’ve got loose tea and your own steeper, it’s about the same, but you can go a little hotter (more hot? My brain can’t parse the right grammar) since the steeper will suck up some of the heat, and do so quickly.
Tbh though, the difference in nuked tea and more properly steeped is likely moot if you’re using the bags the hotel provides. Most of those are utter crap even by US hot tea standards.
That’s also assuming the front desk doesn’t have kettles. They aren’t usually in rooms, but some places do have them available on request, particularly in cities, and even moreso in cities they have a lot of European/British visitors.
You’ll likely need to warm the cuppa
This is lifesaving advice! Thanks so much
They have a machine that does it for you, it’s voice activated, but it’s a bit naff. Take the phone on your desk, dial zero and instruct it to bring boiling water to your room for the purpose of brewing tea. Then, for a small charge it will arrive 10 - 45 minutes later.
Use the coffee maker to heat water?
Don’t do that. You’ll get coffee flavored tea, which is no good at all.
Does it matter how the water’s heated? I’ve used microwaves (with a Pyrex measuring cup) and a kettle, for both coffee and tea, and it’s fine.
A comment in this thread mentions microwaving the water with the tea bag in it. Don’t do that. Heat the water to boiling in glass, put tea bag in cup (or coffee in filter in pourover cone) and pour. Steep to taste.
Judging by what I hear people do to hotel kettles in UK perhaps it’s a good thing. I’d assume all kettles have had bodily fluids in them much too recently.
I had to live in one of those hotels for almost two weeks. I ended up going to a hardware store for a bottle of yellow HEET and a soda can to make an alcohol stove. I carefully situated it on top of the sink drain and balanced my camp cup on two crossed coat hangers above it. I made soup. That was what it took to make fucking soup.
No, not from out of the country, I live here. I was homeless, and needed to make some fucking soup in the only place I could stay.
Did your room not have a microwave?
It had a bed and a bathroom, and nothing else. It didn’t even have a TV.
Lol lucky you even had a microwave
Depending on the hotel they might have hot water in the lobby or wherever they serve breakfast.
Hot water <> boiling water
Hot water <> boiling water
Does the water still reach 100 degrees… Our toilet paper must mortify you. We have workarounds for these inconveniences.
>Be british. >Food on my island has no flavor. >Conquer half the planet looking for spices. >Accidentally find tea leaves along the way. >Adopt tea as national drink. >FFW >All the brits with ambition and ability don't want to return from conquered lands. >No one on this inbred island brave enough to cook with spices. >Emprie crumbles. >Travel to former colonies to experience sun and flavor. >They let me enter for some reason. >Go to hotel. >It's not like home. >wtfIs this the point where you are the traveler who cannot adapt? I kid as this is a minor issue to address and you deserve tea.
I don’t know but every instance I’ve been told is that I’m the traveler, Im the asshole… I am the person who should buck the fuck up… not because I’ve done anything wrong but assumptions were made.
I’m well travelled and appreciate all cultures but when I receive European travelers they mock me incessantly about the imperial system while I smile and nod…
No, this is a unique case of two dog shit cultures smashing into each other. If in doubt I’m going to side with the invader.¹
So if you dont mind it being slightly coffee flavored, you can put tea bags in the drip coffee machine. Puts boiling water on leaves. But as mentioned they dont really clean the insides of those-it’s sanitary enough with the boiling water, but youll still get some coffee contamination. On the plus side, the Lipton twigsnroots tastes about the same as the cheap coffee already.
¹what the fuck else do you call someone from either of these cultures when they go outside?
Maybe a lack of kettle isn’t anything bigger than camping… assuming you can do that.
Are you advising a camping stove in a hotel room?
No sweet pea… just noting any number of ways to find hot water and poking holes in a reliance of tea?
Think of US tourists who fail to adapt to local culture and raise a stink…
Then imagine the same but based around tea time… then imagine the same folks mocking you for not being metric.
Oh yes, it’s exactly equivalent to US tourists wanting their Starbucks.
Although boiling water is much more universal than a pumpkin spiced oat milk latte.
As standard in all American hotel rooms, there should be a bedside drawer, containing a Gideon’s Bible and a selection of guns.
Simply fire one of the guns repeatedly out of the window, and the barrel should heat up - then dip the heated gun barrel into the cup of water, and the water should boil.
This is the American way.
You could also a rev up an SUV for 2 minutes and heat a glass placed on the engine.
I think that’s called the Dakota Freedom Boil
That’s a great point - especially if you’re at a proper “all-American” hotel, where each hotel room has an en-suite-car-park.
Mate I’m in a diner and I laughed so hard people turned round and looked. Thank you for helping me laugh through this traumatic situation.
Just carry around a copy of darwin’s evolutionary tomes. Toss one on top of the bible, and use the resulting fire to warm the cup of water. As the darwin tome will be unharmed by the fire due to its superiority, you can reuse as needed in your travels.
Who are the fucking Gideons? Ever met one? No! Ever seen one? No! But they’re all over the fucking world, putting Bibles in hotel rooms. Every hotel room: “this Bible was placed here by a Gideon.” When? I’ve been here all day and I ain’t seen shit! I saw the housekeeper come and go, I saw the minibar guy come and go, I’ve never laid eyes on a fucking Gideon. What are they, ninjas? Where are they? Where are they from, Gidya? Who the fuck are these people?
I’m not convinced the hotels just don’t buy the Bibles.
If it was an actual person going around providing all the bibles wouldn’t they have to book all of the rooms, surely that would mean that some rooms didn’t get a Bible, because they weren’t free at the time. But you never see that, you never see a hotel where just one of the rooms has a Bible. It’s either all of the rooms, or none of the rooms.
I think it’s probably just hotel policy to have Bibles, and it’s been like that for years, and now no one really cares anymore but they’ve still got the Bibles so they’re still in the drawers.
Gideons are a guild of Master Lockpickers, so they used to pick the locks of all the hotel rooms to leave their bibles.
These days, improved hotel security means that in many countries, the Gideon bible is less common than it used to be.
where the fuck do they come from? Gidea?
It’s a bit by Bill Hicks
All of those who give sources,
Are the same I endorses
The Gideons give out the books in bulk to the hotels, rather than using secret agents.
Imagine wanting to start a hotel and at some point in the process you have to go “and now i need to figure out how to get those bibles into my rooms” as if it is an absolutely necessary component to making a hotel like a minecraft crafting recipe
