TEA TIME
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- traut0
iced earl grey!
- CygnusZero40
There is a such thing as tea connoisseurs? Jesus.
- zaq0
how about tea hacker?
http://teahacker.com/
- Miguex0
CygnusZero4
There is a such thing as tea connoisseurs? Jesus....................................
No, there's only people that like to think they know more than anyone else in the room about tea, they call themselves Tea Connoisseurs, but we call them Virgins
- HijoDMaite0
Question for the folks across the pond. Which tea is best when adding milk? Black Tea? Early Gray? Oolong? and do you add processed sugar? raw sugar? or Honey? Also milk or half and half? I know there will be differences of opinion but I am trying to find out the most authentic blend.
- exador10
monks blend.
best. tea. ever.(my opinion anyhow....get it from Say Tea in Bloor West Village, toronto...which is run by a couple of elderly ladies...place looks and feels like going to grandma's house for a cuppa, it's awesome)
- DrBombay0
- http://www.amazon.co…DrBombay
- I have the same kind. That stuff is expensive. I found it helps to sift it into the cup.seed
- I'd like to get some proper tools for it like a wisk.seed
- seed0
I just got all my new tea in yesterday. Anyone like Typhoo? I prefer it to Yorkshire and PG Tips so far.
I bought some Matcha green tea yesterday. It was expensive and I think I need a sifter because it was sort of lumpy in the water.
- flashbender0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/199…
BS 6008: the abridged version
Use 2g of tea - plus or minus 2% - for every 100ml of water.
Tea flavour and appearance will be affected by the hardness of the water used.
Fill the pot to within 4-6mm of the brim with freshly boiling water.
After the lid has been placed on top, leave the pot to brew for precisely six minutes.
Add milk at a ratio of 1.75ml of milk for every 100ml of tea.
Lift the pot with the lid in place, then "pour tea through the infused leaves into the cup".
Pour in tea on top of milk to prevent scalding the milk. If you pour your milk in last, the best results are with a liquor temperature of 65-80C.
An official six-page guide on how to make the perfect cup of tea yesterday won the British Standards Institute an international award for long windedness.
The 5,000-word essay, BS6008: Method for Preparation of a Liquor of Tea, saw off a host of wordy opponents to win the Ig Nobel literary award - an American spoof on the prizes for scientific and artistic excellence. The guide was selected after meeting the criterion of being a feat that "cannot or should not be reproduced".The institute's Washington representative was symbolically pelted with dry tea bags as he accepted the award at a ceremony in Massachusettes. In London, the institute reacted with good grace. "We are delighted to have been recognised for what is the very important task of setting out the standards required to produce a proper cup of tea," said a spokesman, Steve Tyler.
"We do not take these matters lightly. A group of experts was convened to decide on the procedures necessary to make the perfect brew, and explaining the results to the world is a task that needs to be done in the fullest detail."
BSI 6008 was drawn up to set a standard for professional tea testers. The pot must be "of white porcelain or glazed earthenware, with its edge partly serrated and provided with a lid, the skirt of which fits loosely inside".
Accompanying scale drawings show how "a small hole to allow air to enter when the liquor is being poured" is required, before adding: "Tests for sensory perceptions are not to be rushed."
Among other winners were Len Fisher of Bristol university, who took the physics prize for finding the best technique to dunk a biscuit before it reduces to a sticky mess and naming the most suitable brands, and a Canadian academic who picked up the sociology prize for his PhD on doughnut shops.
- 74LEO0
My Favorite from TEAVANA
Samurai Chai
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- Waka0
Utopian Tea for tea - http://utopiantea.com
Bodum for glass tea ware - http://bodum.com
- pillhead0
PG Tips, know make the fucking Tea.
- could not said have better.mydo
- PG Tips is terribe, terrible tea. all about TwiningsBaskerviIle
- sacrilege!mydo