Originally Posted By: hikermor
True, it doesn't have to boil but how else will you make that nice cup of tea (without which civilization as we know it would be impossible)?

Tea??? I think you mean coffee. Coffee is a survival essential, at least for some of us. Without coffee we would be faced with TEOTWAKI
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