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Truth be told, boiling tea leaves continuously does extract all the tanins and could lead to gastric distress for some. Better to make the tea the usual way an
by mordae 3y ago
Truth be told, boiling tea leaves continuously does extract all the tanins and could lead to gastric distress for some.
Better to make the tea the usual way and then keep it warm. You can use the leaves multiple times, though.
- trilbyglens 3y agoReheating tea though has been shown to correlate with the utter upheaval of the social order though. Using the leaves again is even worse, and is correlated with _communism_.
- UtopiaPunk 3y agoTea drinking commie here. Can confirm, I resteep the leaves.
- bartislartfast 3y agoI remember when the TV show Broadchurch came out, and David Tennant's character made tea in the microwave, and there was national uproar in Britain. Later several scientific articles pointed out this is actually a better way to make tea. This event, along with Brexit and Covid, will surely be recognised by historians as the beginning of the downfall of the UK
- mandmandam 3y ago> a better way to make tea. 'Extracting more beneficial compounds' is not the same thing as a better cup of tea. Microwaved tea is a travesty. And, to be fair to David Tennant, he didn't brew the tea in a microwave, merely heated it up in one. Which is still horrific, but not quite the atrocity that brewing tea in a microwave would be.
- cameronh90 3y agoMicrowaving tea makes it foamy and taste "weird". Not sure what constitutes better, objectively, but subjectively it can get in the bin.
- me_me_me 3y agois it boiling just water in microwave or water and tea bag? First sounds ok, second abomination.
- Grumbledour 3y agoMaybe i am just showing my age or tea snobbery, but don't tea bags have metal clips anymore?
- mrob 3y agoPotential for gastric distress from tannins is greatly reduced by adding milk, which is the usual way to drink tea in Ireland and the UK.