Sean Carroll

Also, if I may ask a follow-up question, I heard a rumor that electric kettles are not a thing in the U.S.

As a Brit, this is hard to comprehend.

How do you make tea?

Good.

I'm mostly a coffee kind of guy.

I like tea, too.

I'm not actually that...

doctrinaire about these things.

After many years of experimentation, I had my coffee making routine down to a routine, I guess.

I went through lots of different possibilities and actually settled on the lowest tech simplest one, which is I do grind my beans.

Um, I think there, I am convinced that grinding your beans right before you brew the coffee, uh, makes it a little fresher than if you bought the pre-ground beans.

And then I just do a pour over.

I just have a big old mug and a plastic cone that I put a filter into and I put the beans in there.

Sometimes I'll put some Turkish spices in with the ground beans and I'll pour hot water right over it.

Um,

How many cups a day?

Always at least one, as many as three, not a huge number, really, like usually two, two or three, maybe.

As far as the kettle situation is concerned, you're completely right.

Americans generally don't use kettles.

And our household is an exception to that.