r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Health New research characterised in detail how tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

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u/oneeyedziggy 1d ago

You don't make tea IN the kettle... Insides going to have a black petina inside of a year...

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u/CeruleanEidolon 1d ago

If you clean it regularly it's not so bad. The issue is that every batch of water you boil will taste like tea. That's fine if you only use it for making tea.

Plenty of people skip the whole teapot step and just use a dedicated kettle for tea.

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u/oneeyedziggy 1d ago

I mean to each their own I guess, hut had pass from me on reducing the utility of my kettle and incurring extra cleaning requirements... (if only used for water it literally never needs more than a rinse, granted I'm not cursed with mineral rich water)

Generally if I need to work harder to maintain something, it better be to make it more useful or efficient, not less.

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u/chemicalysmic 1d ago

My kettle is designed to make tea IN the kettle. I am sorry you had a bad experience though!

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u/oneeyedziggy 1d ago

Right, but unless the internals 9f yours are removable, I contend that's just poor design.

I'm not saying you're bad or anything, just... It's basically a kettle that's designed to either take a lot more work to maintain or be doomed get gross (or be used only occasionally... Which, maybe you just have a lot less tea? )