Posted on 09/27/2020 8:17:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Martin Isark, a professional food and drink taster has revealed the most common mistake we're all making when it comes to making a classic brew - and it's so easily fixed
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Although the amount of milk and sugar varies from person to person, we all tend to follow the same method, one which is explained by Yorkshire Tea, with boiling the water and prepping your mug with a tea bag being the first steps.
When the water is hot enough, pour it into your mug and wait patiently for it to brew - four to five minutes.
Gently squidge the tea bag against the side of the mug and add as much milk and sugar as you please.
But according to Martin Isark, a professional food and drink taster, we've all be doing it wrong - including the tea connoisseurs.
Martin says that you should never use boiling water to make a traditional brew because it will make it taste 'no better than cabbage water.'
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Gordon Ramsay slammed after furious diner's sticky toffee pudding comes with 'gravy' Instead, he says you should let the water cool down to 80 degrees.
He explained to Daily Mail that boiling water was originally used when it was necessary to make sue that the water was safe to drink.
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Breville makes a One Touch tea maker that completely automates making a pot of tea. You add the right amount of water, fill a basket with the right amount of tea, you select the type of tea you are brewing, green, semi-fermented, or black, push a button and wait. It heats the water to a pre-programmed temperature, submerges the basket for the a determined amount of time and pulles it out, and then keeps the tea warm. It really does do everything for you.
180 deg measured with a thermometer. Same for coffee. I use a French Press for the coffee. The Cap’n prefers teabags or (lately) powdered green tea (not dehydrated...but powdered...it’s from Japan)
The secret is...hot the pot...
and then yes, use boiling water...
loose tea...no tea bags...
Either way, nothing changes; no difference in vitamins, calories, Nothing!! What silliness.
Say WHAT! You mean all these years I've been doing it for free when I could've been bilking money from people for doing it? What an evil genius this guy is.
Hat's off to you Mr. Isark ,you magnificent bass turd.
Autres temps, autres moeurs.
Well, if you forget to put water in your mug, you could burn out your microwave. (Ask me how I know this.)
Or you could forget to put water in your kettle, and burn out your kettle. (Ask me how I know this.)
But a submerged teabag doesn’t catch fire. As long as you submerge it in water, anyway. 150 proof vodka or cooking oil might be a problem, but I’m just guessing; I don’t actually know this.
Or do your teabags come with really, really big staples? You could have an arcing problem there.
Frozen raspberries sometimes cause arcing, but they don’t have staples...
Macha.
CC
There was a whole series arc of Capt Jean Luc Picard deciding which kind of tea to be his favorite.
This needs to be edited!
As I recall, he always ordered the tea 190 or 194 degrees?
Tea snobs? Whouda thunkit? Heeheeheee
You never did make me a cup of tea ... New Zealand style.
And stay away from Russian tea.
I do know that you should never use distilled water because it can super heat and then explosively boil when you add tea bag. (Do NOT try this at home)
A friend years ago told me about a time they traveled to Germany and their group all ordered “ice tea” at a cafe. The waiter brought them glasses of tea with a scoop of ice cream on top!
lol me too- 2 minutes for me though-
Boil the water to kill the e-coli on the tea leaves. Sun tea is very susceptible. No matter how swanky it is...
Brits have no clue about making the American way.
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