• Sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    “Preparation purist” is wrong. You don’t boil the tea, you steep it in hot water. For some teas, like black tea, you usually boil the water before pouring it over the tea, but other types of tea use water that isn’t as hot (e.g. around 70-80°C for green tea).

    Also, if you actually want to be an ingredient purist, tea must be made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis (or a closely related species).

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    4 months ago

    I’m sorry, but BOILING? You do not BOIL tea leaves unless you are an absolute heathen. You may pour just-off-the-stove, formerly boiling water over black tea leaves, making the tea about 210 degrees Fahrenheit. But you do NOT put allow water with tea leaves in it to BOIL unless you are seriously deranged.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Beef tea was when people would boil jerky to rehydrate it. I actually do that at work sometimes! Most nights I enjoy bouillon broth on its own, but occasionally I’ll spruce it up with a little jerky, and it actually thicken up and get more tender! It also GREATLY enhances the flavor of the broth. When the dry night air of the office is bothering my throat, nothing satisfies quite like warm broth.

    (I get hot water by not putting any coffee grounds in the coffee machine. I also use this to prepare tea on occasion, and also ramen cups every once in a blue moon)

  • psilotop@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s only tea if it’s made from the tea region of the plant. Anything else is sparkling suspension

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    4 months ago

    So because i make cold berry tea in summer and think coffee is a tea too, i’m a “crude oil is tea” sort of guy? 🤨

  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    except… with “pure” tea you don’t consume the original ingredient. (eating tea leaves or coffee grounds? eeww.)

    pho, etc you do. ergo, not tea.

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    4 months ago

    I guess I’m an ingredient purist, preparation rebel. If your house is surrounded by tea plants, and the tea leaves fall in the gutter, how is that different from brewing tea the normal way?

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      4 months ago

      Water isn’t the ideal temperature. Everyone knows black tea must be made with water that’s 212-210 degreases Fahrenheit

      • Agrivar@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        JFC, for someone so bent about the proper way to prepare tea, one would think you’d be able to spell “degrees”

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          4 months ago

          LOL I know how to spell degrees. I probably hit the wrong key and spellcheck autocorrected it to something random. Welcome to 2024.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Coffee ≠ tea. Coffee is made from beans and tea is made from leaves. That’s why tea tastes like grass clippings.