Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3331-3335 (17 to 21 October 2016)
hedgie:
--- Quote from: brasca on 18 Oct 2016, 05:47 ---How is tea supposed to be prepared? Aside from restaurants that serve Asian cuisine I always drink tea from a cup and a bag. The only difference is I never use a pot. Always the microwave.
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And future forumites will speak of the days where the UK contingent tore each other into tiny pieces arguing about the specifics.
TheEvilDog:
Honestly there's only one way this discussion should go before the torches and pitchforks are broken out....
Also, you should never use a microwave to make tea; you have no control over the temperature of the water. You're going to end up with incredibly hot water that cools far too quickly, point is you aren't going to get uniformly heated water. Its best to just use an electric kettle or stove-top kettle.
BenRG:
How you boil the water is meaningless so long as you take steps to ensure the water has had time to even out its temperature across the container. In my view, it is how you actually brew the tea that strongly influences the aroma and taste of the resulting beverage.
Additionally, as Hedgie points out, people develop strong preferences to certain methods and certain outcomes. Sometimes these are hereditary traditions, handed down from mother to daughter for generations and take on the form of identifiers of your social acceptability. Indeed, deviating from these assumed 'norms' are a cause of horror completely out of proportion to their actual effect on the drinking experience.
A good example: When making a bag-in-the-cup picnic tea, when does one put in the milk (for English tea is commonly diluted by a small amount, say about 50-100ml, of milk)? To me, putting the teabag in with the milk is ridiculous as it will completely change how the brewed tea tastes; yet, to my mother, not putting milk into the cup before the tea (a reflexive pattern that assumes you brew the tea in a separate pot - either with bags tea in a strainer) is unthinkable and, indeed, a gross social indiscretion as well as a cause for personal shame. We have had quite serious public arguments about it.
War Sparrow:
I was told milk and sugar go in first because the milk has time to melt the sugar. Google says it's because hot tea could potentially crack hot cups in the days when tea cups were poorly manufactured, and putting the milk in first was to ensure the cup wouldn't crack.
hedgie:
I'm out of milk, and don't really do sugar, so I'm just drinking it straight at this moment. Although I'm sure that Akima will be inwardly laughing at how I'm drinking lapsang souchong right now (and probably my Romanisation as well).
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