/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Beer

>>6331464
your opinion is wrong
vodka

>>6331467
>vodka
>better than beer
get out of here stalker

You're all wrong.
>Fiery Brazilian cachaca

A good early gret or jasmiin erspecially perls.

Pleb tier: black tea
Hipster faggot tier: green tea
Patrician tier: white tea

prove me wrong

>>6331661
>implying that white tea is not hipster faggot tier.

>M-my antioxidants!
>The subtle flavors!

go fuck yourself.

Why do girls pretend to like tea?

>>6331661
Aw, I really like gunpowder, green tea is pretty good

>>6331692
nah. hipster tier is yellow tea.
What, never heard of it?
That's why they like it.

>>6331703
Girls tend to like flower-based teas. I respect people who drink leaf teas straight up without adding sugar or milk.

Green tea gets old fast. I can drink more black tea than green tea, but I don't really have a personal preference. I hear that red teas are pretty sweet naturally but I haven't really tried any myself. Roobios? Something like that. The last tea I've had was from Taiwan, some black dragon pearl jasmine tea. Pretty cool watching it open up while in warm water. Barley isn't a bad choice either.

Oolong and Rooibos

red fucking tea, the stronger, the better
>m-muh whithe faggy is for emperors can fuck themselves

>>6331765
Ma nigga

>>6331463
The green tea I picked up in bosong korea and the white tea I picked up in some decrepid shop in souther japan were both on my top.

Also some tea I got on clement street SF called blue people was amazing.

>>6331765
Is that hibiscus? Hibiscus tea+honey is top tier. Its the only tea I put anything in.

Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Orange Pekoe are all good. I prefer black teas to any other, though I'm kind of a tea casual so if there's more specific classifications for those three teas, then I don't know them.

>>6331692

pleb pls go

>>6331792
>Orange Pekoe
You realize that this just describes how big the leaf is cut, right?

sencha or pu'er for day to day/with meals, chai by itself.

also can anyone direct me to some good resources to learn about teas?

>>6331736
That wasn't the question.

>>6331729
Is that a term for urine?

>>6331882

There's a very good episode of good eats on it, at least as an introduction.

>>6331882
http://www.amazon.com/The-Story-Tea-Cultural-Drinking/dp/1580087450

Best overall? Persian
But Earl Grey in the morning is great

>>6331931
Earl grey is an afternoon tea.

I drink gunpowder green and golden monkey

Tie guan yin is one of best tea.

>>6331463
try Yellow Tea, it taste like a buttery tea.

>>6331792
Tasteless white piggu

>>6331982
Oh shit, this nigga knows about the steel buddha. U a chink?

>>6331463
I've been enjoying smokey black teas, but winters coming to an end so I'm going to find something a little lighter soon.

>>6331463
there is no definitive answer of course...tea is tea. we judge it, hence it is subjective.

personally, i love a wonderful rose tea for flavor.
jasmine is wonderful for groups to serve.
matcha is amazingly good and healthy, i keep a can at work.
i drink a lot of mugicha also, a wheat tea, when going out for the day or exercising. i love the strong taste. some don't..

>>6332080
I drank your mom last night.

She was salty.

Lemon Ginger

I really like rose tea, but super earthy teas are really good. You got to buy the expensive shit for that though.

this is like my favorite

3xth for any herbal tea that has blue berry in it.

As an Anglophile, these are the correct power-rankings of tea (assuming all are Indian or Ceylonese - fuck Chinese tea):

>black
>oolong
>white
>green

Black tea is for getting shit done

Oolong is for that mid-day break where you reminisce on getting shit done

White tea is largely for patricians and hipsters (I don't really care for it, but can appreciate it)

Green tea is exclusively for hipsters and dirty slant-eyes. Tastes like grass, has no caffeine and is the favorite of weeaboos.

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>>6332253
>fuck chinese tea
hah, ok...

anyways, though, how can any of us prove you wrong? you have an apparantly strong personal opinion on what you like; how could any of us sway you out of that? The fact that I think you are a dipshit is irrelevant to your tastebuds and nothing I could ever say will change that.

enjoy your tea.

>>6332260
>>fuck chinese tea
>hah, ok...


>First of all, one should use Indian or Ceylonese tea. China tea has virtues which are not to be despised nowadays — it is economical, and one can drink it without milk — but there is not much stimulation in it. One does not feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after drinking it. Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.
>-George Orwell

>>6332266
george orwell had a strong personal opinion too, how nice.

enjoy your tea.

>>6332260
not even that guy but chink detected.

>>6332278
enjoy your tea.

>>6332270

>>6331878
It actually refers to the pluck. 1 bud x 2 leaves.

>mfw looking at brokers for tea and see a tea literally named orange pekoe.

>>6332266
Breaking news, British dude insists that British custom is superior to that of other cultures.

>>6331463
Earl grey. English breakfast.

>>6331467
Alcoholic girl detected

Coffee

Yorkshire Tea

>>6332402
yup, this.

Jasmine tea is best tea imo.

>>6331463
WHITE TEA
ASSAM
ENGLISH BREAKFAST
LADY GREY

/THREAD

I had a stir fry for tea tonight. Though I'd much rather have a good steak or lasagne.

>>6332534
>ASSAM
I'm glad true best tea is getting some recognition

>>6331878
>>6332302

I had no idea. All I know is I get a tea labeled Orange Pekoe and it's deliciously earthy and strong but not too strong. It's nice.

Chinese/Japanese green or white every time.

If I wanted something strong and full bodied I'd brew some coffee.

>great for your stomach
>boosts immune system
>tastes great
>smells great
>no pleb caffeine
>tingles in your mouth

Ginger is best. For variety try milk oolong, tarry lapsang souchong, yellow needle yunnan, jiaogulan, lapacho or cactus.

>>6331661
black tea is my go tea when I'm falling asleep at work, but I usually dirnk white tea

Chinese oolongs are the best. My favorites are Wuyi oolongs or the Phoenix Mountain oolongs from Guang Dong.

I drink mostly Chinese tea, though. I don't know much about Indian/English tea, and I am not a big fan of Japanese tea either. Of course every once in a while I enjoy it, and I like preparing and drinking matcha.

>>6332370
When it comes to tea, the British know best.

lapsang souchong is pretty good if you like smokey stuff

>Britain knows better about tea then China
>Britain, who sources their tea from India, only drinks black tea, and adds milk to it
HAHAHAHAHAHA. China is the cultural hearth of tea, it is the only country in the entire world that produces every kind of tea - black, oolong, green, white, puer, yellow. They have been growing tea since before Britain was a place, and the entire world has China to thank for tea, Britain included.

>>6334491
You can actually use it to make tea smoked duck. I've made it a few years to bring to Thanksgiving with a hoisin glaze and oddly it goes really well with mashed potatoes.

>>6334042
why do people have this mindset? is it because the british liking tea is a dank meme, or are they that dumb?

African rooibos god tier. Especially with the cinnamon mixture makes it so good. I drink around 1.5 litres of that per day (0.5 litres just with breakfast)

>>6336204
>rooibos
>tea
cmon anon

>>6336167
Ignorance

Anyone who has any idea of what they are doing knows "British" tea is boring olde black tea blends

>>6336207
>Tea is hot water with flavour.
>Flavour won from plants.
>Cares about which plant

>>6331463
why do diners/fast casual/etc places say they have tea when in reality they only have that sugar water brisk shit?

i said tea, not iced tea, and definitely not flat soda 'tea'

>>6336224
Get out of the south

>>6336219
>2015
>not knowing difference between tea and tisane

>>6336219
>implying that vegetable stock is tea

>>6336227
i'm in western ny

>>6336241
>>6336244
>b-b-but muh herbal teas

get wrecked herbalfags

>>6336344
I get being pedantic, it's fun. But don't shit on rooibos, it's great.

>>6336348
sorry, I haven't quite woken up yet today, lemme go make some coffee

>>6336247
this guy gets it. western NY masterrace.
hell. we should create a WORLD of western new yorkers.

>>6336360
Leave TX alone and you can have the rest of the world for all I care.

every tea thread, every time, i cringe at most of the posts i see... so much arrogant judgement, even /b/ would blush.

>>6336379
>even /b/ would blush

have you ever even been there?

>>6336385
almost every day, for years.

that is how bad i think these tea threads are. disagree and shove a jasmine pearl up your ass if you like.

>>6331703
It does not stain your teeth as quickly as coffee does, making it a valuable caffeine alternative.