On Dec 26, 11:35*pm, Rainy > wrote:
> Apparently, no one else here minds electric water, but for me it's a
> deal-breaker! (For the record, I tried different kettles and I
> *really* wanted for it to work because that was the only way for me to
> gong-fu at the time.)

It certainly is an "ah-ha!" moment when it all clicks. Great news.

As for the water, even in most tea houses now the water is heated
electrically... I'm not saying it is the ultimate but I think it may
be a psychological thing mostly. How the heat transfers to the kettle
is mainly of no consequence since in the end it is just a heat
transfer, the only real difference is the speed and intensity of the
heating. I had mentioned in a previous post that I'd love to get a
nice charcoal fired setup but it is because I have a personal draw to
it. I love to be outdoors and the real fire element, to me, rounds out
the experience and offers me yet one more thing to enjoy and
contemplate. I really believe it is mostly personal preference over
any flavor difference, but I only heat my water (electrically) at most
twice what is needed for one brewing so that the water is only ever re-
heated once and even then it is just a slight re-heating back to boil.
Never a full pot that gets heated and reheated and left to sit and get
flat.

- Dominic