Kiid Wrote:If it's tea it has to be made right... No one knows how to make tea. If it's regular gumboot tea it has to bee steeped for about 3min and then with the smallest about of milk! If it's any other tea the water has to be the right temperature and has to be steeped for 3-4 min any longer and it'll taste too tanniny.
The correct way to make tea is to boil water (in a kettle), pour a bit in the tea pot to heat the pot, add the tea, pour hot water over the tea - seep a few minutes until the desired strength, pour into pre-warmed cup, enjoy.
Preheating the teapot and adding the hot water to the tea releases the flavor faster than the tannins.
Now days people just pour hot water over a tea bag in a mug, the water gets cooled to fast, thus slowing the seeping process releasing the tannins. Worse is those people who plop a tea bag in a cup, add COLD water then nuke it in a microwave. The cold water really releases the tannins way before the color and flavor.
Its an art form, and I fear its becoming a lost art, few people actually have a tea pot nor a kettle, those who do happen to have a tea pot don't pre-heat the damn thing. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk....