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What, boiling water? The Chinese have been drinking tea for thousands of years.
by resolutebat 2y ago
What, boiling water? The Chinese have been drinking tea for thousands of years.
- hnlmorg 2y agoYou don’t make tea to kill bacteria. You make it because of the flavour.
- actionfromafar 2y agoSometimes people do things for a certain reason but it can also have other positive effects. In a way, it doesn’t matter why a trait or behaviour spreads, as long as it’s beneficial.
- hnlmorg 2y agoI don’t disagree with your sentiment but the literal topic of conversation here is the “why” part. Sometimes conversations can have practical applications. Other times they’re just academic for academics sake. But both are perfectly fine conversations to have.
- resolutebat 2y agoPorque no los dos? And as noted, in China drinking hot water is common, while drinking cold water is (traditionally) frowned on.
- hnlmorg 2y agoSomeone has already addressed how that wasn’t for health reasons until relatively recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418347
- dmoy 2y agoYea but for routine consumption, drinking exclusively hot (boiled previously) water wasn't as much of a thing, especially in Northern China, prior to like mid 1800s. It was after a particular outbreak (cholera?) somewhere in the 19th century that hit northern China way worse than southern China that they figured out the major difference was the hot water habits in the South. Even in the 1930s there was still a push to increase boiled water usage.