{"id":3057,"date":"2025-07-23T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/gen-zers-chosing-to-make-tea-in-microwaves\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:46:57","slug":"gen-zers-chosing-to-make-tea-in-microwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/gen-zers-chosing-to-make-tea-in-microwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Zers chosing to make tea in microwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-23 13:46:55<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Gen Zers are making cups of tea in microwaves instead of using kettles, a study finds.<BR><br \/>\nA poll by Uswitch, a price comparison service, discovered that almost two-thirds of the demographic cohort that were born between 1997 and 2012 like to use this method, with 28 per cent of people being from London and South East England.<BR><br \/>\nGen Zers from the East Midlands are less likely to use a microwave to make their brews.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, Doctor Tim Bond, from the Tea Advisory Panel, warned that heating a cup of tea in a microwave takes longer than using a kettle, and it can extract an &#8220;inconsistent&#8221; amount of tea bioactives that improve consumers&#8217; &#8220;health and wellness&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;Heating a mug of water in a microwave takes about two minutes 40 seconds &#8211; significantly longer than the 48 seconds required to boil the same volume in a kettle.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Microwave heating can produce uneven temperature and inconsistent extraction of tea bioactives, which are packed with health and wellness benefits.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The brew is flat with a stewed flavour.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHowever, Natalie Mathie, from Uswitch, argued Gen Zers in university may be opting to use microwaves to make cups of tea because kettles are banned in their student accommodations.<BR><br \/>\nBut, she added that it is a &#8220;growing trend with each new generation&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-23 13:46:55 Gen Zers are making cups of tea in microwaves instead of using kettles, a study finds. A poll by Uswitch, a price comparison service, discovered that almost two-thirds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}