ole news. this is why this type of cancer is more prevalent in japan
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Did I mispost on the bullfighting thread or something?
― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
12 oz is not really big enough for me thoug, they should have a mega size for americans
― (lbrah) (harbl), Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:12 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
12 oz. ends up being plenty though, because you can reinfuse two or three times.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 27 March 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no,libcrypt, just aiming my silly anger at newspaper. SORRY
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Friday, 27 March 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
science needs to take a fuckin hike. i'ma drink my damn tea
― Surmounter, Friday, 27 March 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't like my tea super-hot anyway, let it hit that magic temperature where I just chug it.
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
ew
― Surmounter, Friday, 27 March 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
me too, i let tea and coffee cool to the point where it's like soup temperature. i have a magic timer in my head that tells me when it's ready. no esophagus tumors for me
― (lbrah) (harbl), Friday, 27 March 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
soup temperature should be hot too!
― Surmounter, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i get this from my aunt. she can't drink her coffee unless it's like scalding
― Surmounter, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Guardian blog post about 'artisanal' teas. Anyone here get seriously into that stuff? I'll drink peppermint or green in the evenings, but otherwise it's English Breakfast.
― Bathtime at the Apollo (G00blar), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
not really but these people have a shop in NY's chinatown where they sell some kinds of black tea for $250 a pound -
http://www.tenren.com
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
tea is taken way more seriously outside of the UK, which is interesting given how much we drink. i have mentioned elsewhere that i was told off by a barista in pasadena for not letting a cup brew for long enough. i must drink 30+ cups per week, but apparently i don't know what i'm doing. i can't even remember the last time i got loose leaf tea here outside of a restaurant.
― caek, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yeah the only time I've been around Brits getting persnickety about steeping time it was that I let the teabag steep for too long (like, longer than three mintues).
― Bathtime at the Apollo (G00blar), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
that can taste kind of bitter so i understand
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
What is with the sudden popularity of white teas? I don't understand it at all.
― my ghost ixi wants to read more books (Viceroy), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Ten Ren has a shop in Chicago's Chinatown as well, and yeah, some of the prices are astounding.
As someone who can't abide caffeine most of the time but doesn't really like a lot of fruity herbal teas, my everyday tea is Roastaroma, made by Celestial Seasonings. If I go out to a cafe, I'll usually order a rooibos. My favorite is probably Octavia Tea's Winter Mint Rooibos.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
now drinking: tulsi sweet rose
it is so lovely!!!
― tehresa, Friday, 30 October 2009 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
tea is delicious
― how rad bandit (gbx), Friday, 30 October 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Okakura Kakuzo to thread!
http://songoftea.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/okakura_kakuzo.jpg
― Aimless, Friday, 30 October 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Tza that sounds delicious. Still can't find any of the Aztec sweet chilli btw. Booooooo.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 30 October 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
awww, i found it at whole foods!
― tehresa, Friday, 30 October 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I will keep looking. I'm on a mission. I realize I could just order online but I'm up for the challenge.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 30 October 2009 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i got this bigelow lemon ginger tea and it tastes like oatmeal cookies to me?maybe it's my sinus congestion masking flavors. still... weird!
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 December 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
making my friend drink kava kava tea to calm her down from her panicky stuff today
― kingfish, Saturday, 12 December 2009 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
question, so I make tea at the office but sometimes I only have half the pot or only one pot. is it safe to leave the tea leaves in overnight and make more the next day? or will some kind of bacteria/mold start growing.
― Face Book (dyao), Friday, 21 May 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that's incredibly parsimonious
shdn't imagine that you will die tho, in any case you will be immersing the leaves in boiling water right?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 21 May 2010 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol not parsimonious! I'm a firm believer that tea tastes better on the second brewing
― Face Book (dyao), Friday, 21 May 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
never heard that before, my only association w/ reusing tea is this story
However, he was very indignant that the police who searched his house said he was so mean he kept tea bags in order to re-use them. That is typical, he says, of the evil lies the police and media put about. The tea bags were on the draining board because the previous police made tea, but couldn't find the rubbish bin, and the reason they couldn't find it is because he doesn't have one - disgusting things, standing around breeding germs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2006/jan/15/features.magazine97/print
― nakhchivan, Friday, 21 May 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
resteeping tea bags, now that's a practice of disgusting savages
― Face Book (dyao), Friday, 21 May 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
new us politics thread title amirite
― nakhchivan, Friday, 21 May 2010 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I did this until I got married, because my parents did it (and reused straws, and did a couple of other depression-baby type things) and I didn't know any better.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 21 May 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
My (chinese-american) boss assures me that in China everyone discards the first steeping after a couple of minutes and only actually start drinking with the second pot.
― Is it far? Is it far? Is it far? (Jon Lewis), Friday, 21 May 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
that is true of the tea ceremony. I'm not sure how many bother with doing that if they're just casually drinking tea.
― Face Book (dyao), Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
largely quit coffee a couple years back (still have a cup now and again, but just one, and even then it's like -- once in a few months) and got really into tea, there's this whole world of aged pu-erh & hei cha brick teas and methods of steeping -- like, there's the ceremony, but you don't need a ceremony to brew gong fu style, which you're gonna wanna do when you're drinking a pricier aged tea to get the most out of it -- and while this sounds like snobby terrain, which I avoid, the bottom line is that great Chinese tea is some of the most delicious stuff I've ever had in my life, like a huge daily joy to me, and it's like a never-ending world of goodness
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 30 April 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
I usually like to brew a cup in the afternoon (I still stick to coffee in the morning). Lately the teas I've been most into are Autumn Flush teas from India. There's a company online you can order and have shipped directly from Darjeeling. They even have an oolong which is made from a blend of autumn flush teas, I believe. It's most similar to the red, more-oxidized oolong style from China. I've never tried pu-ehr, but heard good things about it.
― o. nate, Friday, 30 April 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
Is there a difference between what is sold in U.S. or U.K. markets as English tea and Irish tea? I've tried Bigelow English tea and Twinings Irish tea from tea bags and think the latter is slightly maltier and enjoyed both.
― youn, Friday, 7 January 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
never really got this myself.
also weirdly, in Canada at least, what is sold as English breakfast tea is generally not what a British person would consider as standard tea, tea that is marked as "orange pekoe'', which I believe is a grade rather than a type of tea, is generally what I think of as "regular tea". I mainly just drink british tea like tetley or Yorkshire mind
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 January 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
Thanks! I'll look for Tetley. (To be honest, I think I preferred the Irish tea or at least I saved my one remaining tea bag until I was nearly out of the Bigelow.) But I have a strong feeling Tetley is just what I am looking for ... something to which you can add milk and drink hot during the winter.
― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
I was curious about Irish/English tea as well and so made a cup of Barry's Gold and one of Yorkshire Gold to compare. Slightly preferred the Barry's and I guess maltier is as good a word as I could come up with to describe the difference. Mind you I'm a coffee drinker so I'm not very tea sensitive.
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 January 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
I've not tried Barry's but I've not seen it for sale in the South of England anywhere.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 8 January 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
Barry’s Irish Breakfast is my current favorite tea (ahead of Barry’s Gold for sure) followed by Yorkshire Red. Barry’s Irish is like the fruition of what the usual Irish breakfast Twining’s etc only hint at
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 8 January 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
Barry’s is very easy to find in Brooklyn, surprising that’s not the case in the South of England
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
Yeah I saw Barry's way more in the US than in where I live in the UKSame with Irish pubs.
This past year I've stopped having a cup of normal tea first thing in the morning and have a gentle fruit tea instead. Feel better for it. Still have loads of tea during the day/evening though.
― kinder, Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
Tetley British Blend turned out to be just what I was looking for. Thanks!
― youn, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
There should be a thé au lait; (certain kinds of) tea could be just as deserving. In a translation, presumably from French to English or written by a native speaker of French, I was amused to find a reference to pipper mint.
― youn, Sunday, 13 February 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
I think my favorite part of making tea is the forced meditation of the steep
― calstars, Sunday, 23 April 2023 10:13 (one year ago) link
Loving the hojicha lately...Roasted goodness... mmmm...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 23 April 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link
loving Constant Comment lately!
― Swen, Sunday, 25 February 2024 17:12 (two months ago) link
Prince’s favorite tea!
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 February 2024 05:04 (two months ago) link