Is it really necessary to make tea with boiling water?
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Simpo Two said:
Go for it; part of my degree was organic chemistry and biochemistry so I can go beyond nice and nasty 
I did Geography, but I drank a lot of tea.;)All I know is that if you leave a teabag in for ages it tastes horrible, but if you get the bag out fast it keeps the flavour quite delicate. I assume this is something to do with less soluable (or miscible) flavouring chemicals not tasting so nice, but I would be glad of further enlightenment. This is one of those important issues upon which the nation's best and brightest should be concentrating their efforts for the good of humanity.
whippy930 said:
Hey simpleton two... It's your likes that stop me from posting in sections like this! It wasn't even you who used those terms above. Your a right little nettle... Go pick a fight with your nostril there... I bet you even look like mr burns too... What a dork ! Is being a dorkie nettle all you have to do on a Sunday morning?
Grow up, you tool.Edited by whippy930 on Sunday 17th July 12:50
Pints - the one cup thing simply dispensed a single cup of hot water, it's just that under water wasn't anywhere near hot enough to let the tea infuse properly. Iirc it was around 85 degrees. Leaving the teabag longer didn't make much difference.
I've gone back to a normal kettle and now get a lovely brew, albeit not as rapidly. Good things come...etc etc. The Tefal thing was fine for coffee though. My only issue was that I couldn't find replacement filters for it anywhere - nowhere stocked them. I use a Brita water filter with my kettle as their filters are stocked pretty much everywhere.
Edited by Funk on Sunday 17th July 13:04
whippy930 said:
Hey simpleton two... It's your likes that stop me from posting in sections like this! It wasn't even you who used those terms above. Your a right little nettle... Go pick a fight with your nostril there... I bet you even look like mr burns too... What a dork ! Is being a dorkie nettle all you have to do on a Sunday morning?
Unfortunately, it didn't work. Epic. Fail.
whippy930 said:
Hey simpleton two... It's your likes that stop me from posting in sections like this! It wasn't even you who used those terms above. Your a right little nettle... Go pick a fight with your nostril there... I bet you even look like mr burns too... What a dork ! Is being a dorkie nettle all you have to do on a Sunday morning?
Not an impressive reply from a Company Director, a title which usually requires an IQ into three figures.
Let's all please keep this thread on topic. We don't need it dragged to the gutter (we have the Lounge for that 
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I should try using our hot water machine at work to make a cup. It dispenses water at 88-90C so should be a fair test. So far I've only used it for instant coffee (which is not a great test).
).I should try using our hot water machine at work to make a cup. It dispenses water at 88-90C so should be a fair test. So far I've only used it for instant coffee (which is not a great test).
Edited by Pints on Sunday 17th July 17:04
whippy930 said:
Neither tea or coffee should be brewed (drawn) with boiling water- nothing to do with oils or any other such jibber jabber.... It just burns (shocks) it. Coffee should extract at between 87 and 92 degrees C. Tea a couple of degrees higher... Although the average consumer (in this part of the world) does enjoy tea to be "pipping" hot- take it from me, the flavours have not extracted as they could have if it had been brewed when a little cooler! Indeed - when "cupping" single origin coffee's or special tea's at our well renowned roastery (that's the bit that's supposed to tell you this is a bit more than a drunken opinion... :-) ) - we do so a little above Luke warm only... Flavours are at their very best here...
It's important to state this is for classic or "black" teas. Green or White tea's will certainly like being extracted (not dissolved???) at much lower temp.'s - they are very fragile!
For domestic use a good enough rule of thumb is count 30 secs after it clicks off boil and only then pour over either (black) Tea or Coffee....
All that said- make it how you like to drink it yourself dude.... :-)
HTH.
all those edits and you still spelled 'piping' wrong.It's important to state this is for classic or "black" teas. Green or White tea's will certainly like being extracted (not dissolved???) at much lower temp.'s - they are very fragile!
For domestic use a good enough rule of thumb is count 30 secs after it clicks off boil and only then pour over either (black) Tea or Coffee....
All that said- make it how you like to drink it yourself dude.... :-)
HTH.
Edited by whippy930 on Sunday 17th July 04:41
Edited by whippy930 on Sunday 17th July 04:42
Edited by whippy930 on Sunday 17th July 04:44
Edited by whippy930 on Sunday 17th July 04:47
PugwasHDJ80 said:
gudjohn said:
yes, for puerh tea and oolong tea, i recommmend make them by boiling water, for green tea and oolong tea, cold water to brew them is okay too
Holy s
t that's good going- 2 posts and the second drags up a trehad from 8 years ago. Bravo my good man- hats off to you!
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