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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Proof, who in their right mind would put milk in their tea!?!?!?!?
I’m not a tea drinker, but was in Taiwan doing field work. Out in the jungle, but a half-mile down the road was a tea farm and a man and wife that lived there.
They invited us over one day for tea. We ended up doing it every day for our lunch break.
I don’t recall it all now, but it was very much a ritual. IIRC they would brew up the tea leaves, pour that into the special clay(?) tea pot. Then brew that same bunch of leaves again.
Once those leaves had been brewed the second time, they threw out the first brew that had been sitting in the pot the entire time - then put the second brew in and served it.
In the meantime we would eat our sandwiches and whatever snacks and fruit that they would offer.
It was very much against my idea of a lunch out in the field to take that much time to eat. But my client enjoyed it. I learned to enjoy it too - and enjoyed the conversations with my client and the couple.
Funny — I wonder if that’s actually a thing in Germany or if it was just their best guess at what they thought the group was requesting?
My Grandmother liked Ice Tea with milk and sugar. Adding vanilla Ice Cream to a glass of tea would be something similar. I like ice cream so I would probably chill the tea before adding the topping.
LOVE my sun tea. Water, gallon of water, sun, 4 hours.
Sugar, lemon, ice to taste.
They figured it was the latter. I don’t know if that’s the German term for ice cream, but I bet the waiter thought, “Those strange Americans!”. :o)
My tip for brewing tea, iced tea in this case, is to let it cool to nearly room temp before you put it in the fridge. This will let it stay clear instead of going cloudy.
Also, I’ve started cutting up lemons and juicing them into the pitcher to avoid having to add lemon to individual glasses at the time of serving.
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My mother-in-law taught me her tea ritual and we still use it at least nightly.
However, for all the care given to proper tea brewing, this was the same woman who would take 6 or 8 Red Rose tea bags, put them in a Pyrex stove top tea kettle and boil the Hell out of the tea. It would be dark as tar but tasted uniquely wonderful
Thank you. I was about to go off on a MORON’s post, but your good humored and amusing post de-fused the Dragon I was about to become,
You are a blessing. Thank you again
Well that’s true—it would be similar. Course you’d also get a bunch of emulsifiers and stuff with modern ice cream. OTOH maybe German ice cream is free of that kind of stuff.
I have a large glass beer mug that holds somewhat over a quart. I put in multiple bags and zap it for 4:44. Never a fire, great tea.
Is this something the anal retentive autheor is familiar with?
I am not a tea drinker, but that bit of hyperbole just jumped out.
Hehe, yeah, probably so. Or they may have even have done it as a bit of a joke.
That is because the presentation looks more appetizing, more natural, and because cutting part and returning another day causes the lettuce to rust meaning you have to cut off and lose the unappetizing part before serving the remainder.
I hate to tell you but there are issues with metal knives on lettuce. Very quick browning of the cut edges and oxidative bitterness from those edges. Hand torn or plastic knifes are better.
1. Freeze the tea leaves
2. Take leaves and smash with hammer (this puts iron into the leaves.)
3. Boil water in iron pot (not aluminum pot) (This puts iron in the water.)
4. While boiling the water, place the leaves on an ironing board and heat the iron to 180 degrees F. (This puts more iron into the leaves).
5. Iron the leaves until perfectly flat.
6.Remove iron pot from stove and place over large neodymium supermagnet. (This creates a magnetic pot which lines up the iron atoms in the water.)
7. Take the ironed out leaves and the place them in neat little rows, in a ceramic glazed teacup, North to South like a British army marching.
8. Using insulated hand gloves, gently place the teacup containing said ironed out tea leaves into the magnetized iron pot of water. Let sit for 2 minutes.
9. Remove magnet from under iron pot and rotate 180 degrees to flip the tea leaves polarities South to north.
10.Remove teacup from iron magnetized pot.
11. Pour water into teacup after testing temperature with your little finger.
12.Voila! Perfect polarized tea!
Sun tea has a very different flavor from regular brewed tea.
There’s always the option of making that then heating that up.
That said, I have no use for the opinions of self-declared connoisseurs who think they are the end all and be all and Final Word on all things pertaining to life.
Make tea the way you want and how you personally like it is the way that you *should* make it. Enjoy what you like and don’t worry about the opinions of others.
As long as something is a social convention, not a moral matter of right and wrong, it’s nobody else’s business what I like to watch, read, listen to, eat, drink, wear, and I’m not interested in your opinion of it.
I’m confused about Gordon Ramsay’s sticky toffee pudding tea with gravy.
“A true friend will squeeze your teabag.”
I miss her.
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