Best way to make tea is to use loose leaf tea. Not always practical I know but when I make a pot that's the way to go.
A relative gave us some fancy water pot. Brings it to a specific degree of your choosing, with recommended settings for various teas.
I was forced to admit that I did seem to notice a little difference with oolong, but honestly, I'm happy with Hitchens' recipe: "Boil water. Add tea"
Ah, but Hitch said that the water must be added to the tea. I agree with that, however, in the early morning, I commit the sin of boiling water in the cup in the microwave, then adding tea. I am a tea head, at least 3 large 2 bag cups per day. Usually its Irish Tea, or some English Breakfast, with the occasional Earl Grey. Must go make some now...
Silly person just brew up a pot of tea, wasting a lot of tea using 6 bags.
A pot would be wasted over the course of the day.
Sometimes 2 cups of tea, sometimes 3. Much less in the summer when you wake up at 0530 and it is already 92 degrees outside.
You are wasting 6 bags of tea a day. Make a pot use 2 teaspoons or 3 if youi want it strong. If you dont drink the whole pot you have saved some tea and wasted a bit of water. Until water becomes more expensive than tea you are better off with a pot.
I use a pot with a remouvable strainer, easy to clean out afterwards and no need for silly teabags.
I used to do loose leaf, but I kept losing strainers and all that.
A relative gave us some fancy water pot. Brings it to a specific degree of your choosing, with recommended settings for various teas.
I was forced to admit that I did seem to notice a little difference with oolong, but honestly, I'm happy with Hitchens' recipe: "Boil water. Add tea"
Loose leaf tea, always. I like green tea, green tea and coconut, or organic black tea. I have never tasted coffee, I can't stand the smell of it so I have never been game enough to try it, so it's tea for me.
Had a friend a few decades back who hated coffee but liked to get the used grounds from local diners to add to his garden. Seems it helps improve certain soils.
IMO coffee requires a LOT of sugar, too much for me.
I do like hot tea with 2 or 3 tsps. sugar and some powdered malt as a "creamer".
I erred in my post, my cup is actually 2 cups, so 2 tea bags, then the 3 sugars, or 3 artificial sweeteners...I used to drink my coffee with a LOT of sugar, as I was hooked on those sweetened coffee flavorings. But blood sugar considerations caused me to cut back, and now I only use about a quarter teaspoon of sugar and some lowfat half and half, and I love it. Sweet coffee now tastes nasty to me. Same with tea, I've never acquired a taste for the English style of adding milk to tea (yuck), but just a little sugar in a cup of Earl Gray is muy bueno.
I like it tooOh, definitely.
I also like to blend them. Darjeeling with a bit of Jasmine is one favorite.
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