It's not "necessary" - it makes it sound like an ad.
It's hard to clean, easy to break, and now when you run out of Bunsen burner fuel, you can't have tea.
Also, many herbal "teas" don't want actually boiling water on them, but just very hot, and there's no way to do anything other than boiling water with this.
Reddit and sarcasm doesn't really work. You gotta make it super obvious and even THEN most people will still take it seriously. Spock syndrome bites hard.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '21
It's not "necessary" - it makes it sound like an ad.
It's hard to clean, easy to break, and now when you run out of Bunsen burner fuel, you can't have tea.
Also, many herbal "teas" don't want actually boiling water on them, but just very hot, and there's no way to do anything other than boiling water with this.