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oliverstoned 
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 Posted: June 25 2011 at 14:06 |
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oliverstoned
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 14:05 |
 M@X wrote:
White Down Silver Needle White Tea (Loose leaf)
> Plain.
The perfect mid-afternoon drink for me ! |
Good stuff, best quality
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Dean
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 14:05 |
oliverstoned wrote:
I was pretty sure that you were about to come out with a complicated scientific theory proving that my tea apreciation was only the fruit of my fertile imagination.
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No, but I can come up with one for why it's not if you want 
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What?
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oliverstoned
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 14:02 |
Dean wrote:
oliverstoned wrote:
Dean wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
But I've way too many UK citizens pouring boiling water over the tea, and that's not doing youself a favour either...you're over-brewing it... especially black teas....
although with over-smoked lapsuchong or watchemacallit teas, it doesn't matter anyway... you feel like drinking from an ashtray)
Nope if you're waiting for your water to heavy boil, it's way too hot... The water should be simmering (frémissant in French), which means roughly 95°C... so the surface should have ripples, but not boils
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As I said - it depends on the type of tea, and even in black teas it depends on the variety - Brits prefer strong Indian tea, and that requires freshly boiled water (between 98-99°C) that still contains plenty of oxygen in it (never re-boil the water). The way the French brew tea is okay - that odd 3°C isn't going to make as much difference, it just takes a little longer to brew - anyway, the French (and Belgians) brew far better coffee than tea - we're getting better at coffee, but still tend to over-roast the beans to bitterness. |
The infusion time, the temperature and even the teapot shape (which influences temperature according to its shape) depends from one strain to another. For example, white tea (the best) is not easy to prepare well, requires 70°C and from 10 to 25 minutes of infusion; several passes can be made. |
For once we agree 
(pre-heat the pot of course, never make tea in a cold teapot).
The more I drink it, the more I'm liking white tea - (no milk, no sugar) - but yes, not boiling water and long infusion.
Flavoured teas are an abomination - that's like some demented new-age nonalcoholic alcoh-pop. |
I was pretty sure that you were about to come out with a complicated scientific theory proving that my tea apreciation was only the fruit of my fertile imagination.
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himtroy
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 13:16 |
If we're talking hot tea then I add milk. I can handle it without it though. I haven't put sugar in tea since I was a child. Regular iced tea is also fantastic. I always did sugar that (nobody does milk in iced tea) until recently. Don't even get me started on the godlike stature of Arnold Palmers (half iced tea and half lemonade). Dear god is that a sacrament if I've ever tasted one.
If we're talking that dominant Chinese tea I get at restaurants (forget the name) then I put nothing in.
Edited by himtroy - June 25 2011 at 13:16
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Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell?
I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 11:37 |
Mikerinos wrote:
depends on the tea:
chai or black - can go any way, usually at least cream, sometimes with sugar (preferably raw honey)
green - nothing unless its a fruity type of green tea, then I might add honey
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Wow, haven't seen you in a while. Hope things are well.
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Epignosis
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 07:55 |
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I'm having a mug of hot Lipton right now with my style of huevos rancheros.
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M@X
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 07:48 |
White Down Silver Needle White Tea (Loose leaf)
> Plain.
The perfect mid-afternoon drink for me !
Edited by M@X - June 25 2011 at 07:48
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Prog On !
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 06:33 |
Usually no milk, no sugar. But sometimes, e.g. in wild cherry tea, I do rock candy into it. 
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 02:00 |
Eärendil wrote:
Moogtron III wrote:
Nothing in it. I'm a purist. Not that I chew on tea leaves  . I mean I do put some hot water on it. |
Of course you don't chew them. You just swallow them whole!
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Now, why did nobody tell me?
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Mikerinos
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Posted: June 25 2011 at 00:58 |
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depends on the tea:
chai or black - can go any way, usually at least cream, sometimes with sugar (preferably raw honey)
green - nothing unless its a fruity type of green tea, then I might add honey
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zappaholic
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 19:59 |
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If it's ice tea, I take it unsweetened, often with lemon (or lime as available). Hot tea - almost always straight up.
Milk in tea isn't a common practice in America. The only time I'll have milk in tea is if I'm in an Indian eatery.
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Earendil
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 19:50 |
Moogtron III wrote:
Nothing in it. I'm a purist. Not that I chew on tea leaves . I mean I do put some hot water on it. |
Of course you don't chew them. You just swallow them whole!
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Slaughternalia
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 19:12 |
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It depends on the tea. I'm not going to add milk into my green tea, but I will to my earl grey
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I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 18:53 |
oliverstoned wrote:
No LEMON, please in a real tea. No milk as well and no sugar please, except in maroccan mint tea of course. |
Kind of disagree with you... in Earl or Lady Grays (my fave black tea mixes ), freshly squeezed citrus fruits are very welcome
green teas are best drunk slightly sugared, IMHO, but that's all
Indeed morroccan mint teas are about the ony way I can ingest mint.
white tea, I like it, but I must say that it's difficult to brew it good
in special tea shops, there are mixes (morrocan mixes with dates, flowers) that can be brewed 20-minutes at room temperature ... awesome
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Not much a coffee man though (except beans crushed in chocolate), but once in a while an expresso in which I add cream (not milk) and sugar >>> I tried some of those origin cups of coffee like Blue Mountain Jamaica or Costa Rica in specialized shop... I sip it black at first, and then I drown it in cream and sugar.... simply can't enjoy it black... I guess it's not my cuppa... 
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Evolver
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 17:00 |
Tea?
Uh, “far out”, Catherwood, just roll us a couple of “bombers” and leave them on the side table.
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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topographicbroadways
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 16:18 |
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Always milk. Never sugar
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 16:16 |
Nothing in it. I'm a purist. Not that I chew on tea leaves . I mean I do put some hot water on it. |
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 15:10 |
90% of the time no milk no sugar. It pretty much ruins the tea unless you're drinking dirt in the first place.
When I make a white tea / fruit iced tea I'll use a little bit of raw honey to counter the tart of the fruit.
When I drink Irish Breakfast tea I use a little milk and rock sugar to counter the initial taste of that blend which is uncharacteristically strong and designed to be used with milk.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: June 24 2011 at 14:47 |
Eärendil wrote:
Milk in tea? 
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Yeah man! My family's been doing it for years  I was ostricised once for having my tea black... never again.
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