Coffee snobs who use those plastic capsule machines that produce bitter tarmac pishwater
I tried tea for the first time a couple years ago, I was surprised how bad it tastes. I’ll stick with water.
That’s like saying I watched a movie once, and I was surprised at how bad it was, I’ll stick with books.
Tea and coffee both taste mostly horrible. I unironically do believe that. Sometimes I find some good tasting stuff, but it’s mostly additional flavour providing agents, otherwise it’s bleh
You haven’t had good tea or coffee then. The quality of the tea or beans, water temp, steep time, water quality, brew method can make or ruin any cup of coffee or tea. Get yourself to a nice local roaster or tea shop and have them brew you a cup. Can’t speak thoroughly on tea but for the best coffee order a pour over (chemex or v60 if they offer options) of a single origin bean (usually on their specials menu) that has tasting notes that sound good to you. Alternatively get an espresso of a single origin bean if you’d rather get punched in the face with coffee flavor. Guaranteed it’ll be unlike any coffee you’ve had before
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Tea quality really matters. Almost all of the supermarket stuff in ultra fine bags is literally the leftover dust from actual tea making. (Looking at you, Tetley)
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Steep time and water temperature. Oversteeping make it bitter, which is unfortunately how most older people grew up serving it. Some teas need 5 minutes at 95C(Rooibos); other need a minute at 80C(most greens)
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If you have to add milk to it to enjoy it, then you like drinking milk. This brought to you by the lactose intolerant gang.
But in reality I actually love a good jasmine green tea, nothing added. Black is fine with some sugar.
Yes, I do also like drinking milk.
I sometimes even add some tea to my milk.
I call it “Tilk”
The taste of tea is heavily dependent on how it gets brewed. Correct brewing temperature and time steeping play a huge role on making sure too many tannins aren’t extracted and it ends up tasting like hot garbage.
Same could be said about coffee but I feel like people are more willing to forgive all the garbage coffee out there than the tea.
I enjoy a good high quality cup of either.
I can practically guarantee that people who say they hate tea haven’t tried brewing any kind of loose leaf tea at the proper temp and time.
I got a 1kg brick of the cheapest loose-leaf black tea I could find for ~$3.50, and it’s delicious. I drink it almost every day, I bought it in June last year, and I’m just now running low. I brewed a bag lipton black tea at work recently, took one sip and I dumped it the fuck out. Absolutely foul, that stuff.
So I can see why people hate tea if they’ve only ever tried cheap bags with boiling water
What you mean? Just dump the damn teabag in the hot water in your cup and a spoonful of honey.
Tastes like honey every time
The boiling water gets poured over the tea.
Don’t forget the water quality itself. Plays a major role too.
Yup, green tea is great if you’re not drinking factory floor dust and you haven’t oversteeped it. If your tea is bitter and is leaving you with a dry mouth, something is wrong.
And if you don’t leave it to infuse for too long. Unlike black tea that can be left to infuse indefinitely green tea gets bitter after few minutes.
left to infuse indefinitely
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Absolutely not
Cold green tea with light sweetening is very refreshing.
Properly brewed cold green tea is best enjoyed without sweetening
My British half: Utter balderdash thou toadspotted codpiece!
Is your British half about 500 years old?
Representative of our population demographics
Last remaining Tory voters
It really depends on the tea, I’ve had some black tea that’s absolute dog shit but I’ll murder someone for Jasmine tea or god forbid some homemade chai
I’m still more of a coffee drinker tho
Flower water is best water. Hibiscus tea with optional dash of your preferred sweetener.
Coffee and tea are both delicious.
Energy drinks, on the other hand, taste like battery acid and bile. That’s where your scorn should be directed.
What else would give you energy if not literal battery juice?
Pure uncut methamphetamine.
You’re goddamn right.
Plenty of teas aren’t even made of leaves.
Then it’s not tea, it’s an infusion or decoction.
Tea is made from a specific plant, the tea shrub (Camellia sinensis).
These infusions might be called tea, but they are tea in the same way as a hotdog is a heated companionable mammal.
Except if you talk about Kukicha, then it’s made from the stems of the tea shrub. The important part here is the tea shrub. Without tea in it, it just ain’t tea.
Technically, these are all decoctions, and “decoction of tea (the plant)” has become just “tea”, which is now colloquially replaced “decoction”.
So in the sense I was using tea, as a replacement for “decoction”, coffee is a “tea”, insofar that the replaced word, “decoction”, boiled plant matter drink.
Language isn’t quite as black as white as we’d sometimes wish it was.
So you’re not wrong, per se, but neither am I.
Non-tea teas are usually referred to as tisanes by those who care enough to make a distinction between the two
Asian cultures called various hot beverages tea 茶 before some Westerner decided that they are wrong. Sure there is green tea from that plant but Asian cultures also had mint or chrysanthemum tea using the same 茶 character (pudina chai in India for mint tea).
If anything, the Westerner who decided that beverages made from only that specific shrub is called tea was the wrong one. Broader uses predate your definition.
Thanks for correcting me then
Yeah, like coffee.
It’s just bean-tea.
If coffee is a tea then I’m going to demand the pasta tea not be poured down the drain
Apparently tea made of leaves and fruits from coffee plants is a thing.
Perfect response.
SMH y’all just making water worse. Pure, undiluted water with just enough crap in it so that it doesn’t literally strip your ions or something and kill you. That’s the best drink.
I don’t know… nothing cools me down on a hot day quite like liquid methane.
I heard it’s waxy in consistency once and have wanted to swim in it to confirm ever since.
Thing is, I like both but much prefer unsweetened hot tea to black coffee. Unsweetened cold tea is horrible though. Sweetened & hot? I’ll swap between.
Stop flagging posts as political. If you do it again, you will be banned.
