/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12007101]

>on a whim, buy a ceramic pot and loose leaf black tea
>Swap out my daily coffee with a 2 tbsp pot
>Literally no difference in energy levels save for lack of the occasional coffee jitter and crash
>quicker, easier, tastes better, no more bullshit grinding
>Considering dropping coffee all together

Why isn't this shit bigger in the States?

[Anonymous No.12007150]

Because we were at war with the chief importers/tea merchants when our nation was founded and coffee took hold at the birth of our country and then kept it's hold in the frontier and manifest destiny years

[Anonymous No.12007175]

>>12007150
Oh ok

[Anonymous No.12007235]

>>12007101
Tea is objectively better. People can enjoy the taste of coffee, but it's not very good for you and makes you pee way too much wew

[Anonymous No.12007240]

>>12007101
assam with oat milk is the best

[Anonymous No.12007246]

>>12007240
Assam is the kind I got. I'll have to try it with oat milk.

[Anonymous No.12007271]

just had a pu'er, warm and comfy AF

[Anonymous No.12007277]

try gongfu brewing OP
pu'er master race

[Anonymous No.12007285]

>>12007101
>Why isn't this shit bigger in the States?

Patriotism, you commie fuck

[Anonymous No.12007333]

>>12007101
>Tastes better
Nope.

[Anonymous No.12007339]

>>12007285
Are you trying to say the British where communists?

[Anonymous No.12007353]

>>12007339
Still are, the limey shits.

[Anonymous No.12007359]

>>12007101
It's funny how the American revolution was started in part by tea taxes and now nobody drinks it

[Anonymous No.12007374]

>>12007101
I love both tbqh.
Coffee in the morning if I want to skip breakfast, or afternoon if I'm getting too hungry before dinner. Tea after almost every meal.

[Anonymous No.12007376]

>>12007101
Yes welcome to enlightenment brother

[Anonymous No.12007455]

>>12007376
>>12007101

[Anonymous No.12007480]

>>12007101
I like coffee and tea for two very different purposes. Coffee is for when I want a meal-like drink (probably because it suppresses the appetite). For example, right now I'm drinking coffee for breakfast.
Tea is more what I drink at any time of the day that I want a hot beverage. Every night when I cook dinner, I have a put of puerh or Yunnan black or something at hand. After dinner, more tea. In the afternoon...tea.
Not sure why it never got bigger here, but my hypothesis is that it's a combination of (1) us being at war with/wanting to gain independence from Britain and (2) the weird "NO VACATION WORK WORK WORK" culture here in the US not allowing for any kind of cultural tea ritual (like High Tea in Britain, for example) to take shape.

[Anonymous No.12007505]

>>12007235
I like the way my peepee smells after a few shots of espresso

[Anonymous No.12007530]

>>12007101
>tastes better
Absolutely not. Maybe if your palate is overwhelmed by strong flavors like a woman's.
>quicker, easier
You can spend just as much time or more autistically making tea as you could spend autistically making coffee, but at the height of convenience, coffee beats tea ten to one.
Plus, coffee is better with liquor than tea.

[Anonymous No.12007596]

>>12007101
Tea has extremely high fluoride content, BTFO

[Anonymous No.12007600]

>>12007150
>he is familiar with american history

so uh you looking for a boyfriend or what

[Anonymous No.12007616]

>>12007596
If tea is calcifying my penal gland then why does it make so woke?

Checkmate, libtard

[Anonymous No.12007627]

>>12007101
drink coffee like a real man

[Anonymous No.12007634]

People who drink tea are more intelligent than those who drink coffee.

[Anonymous No.12008327]

>>12007596
source: your ass.

>bu-but that ONE study of a lady with skeletal fluorosis!
She was drinking a gallon of tea from a pitcher with 150 earl grey teabags every single day for 17 years. The bergamot was as much of a factor as the tea, not to mention fluoridated tap water and toothpaste et cetera.

[Anonymous No.12008872]

Teagen?

Are there any sites that have cheap sample packs for a large variety? I know it's cheaper to get in bulk but yeah

[Anonymous No.12009647]

Tea is for sissies who can't handle a stout brew. The honest man who works for a living drinks coffee.
Have fun sipping leaves faggots.

[Anonymous No.12009661]

>>12009647
Fuck no. Honest man would be fucking excited for a cup of warm water, if he's really been working. Anything to hold the cold at bay after trudging in after a long day in the snow.

[Anonymous No.12009666]

>>12007101
Nice. Now try flavored. Cinnamon is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.12009670]

>>12009647
Imagine taking a break before you've finished plowing every field. Lazy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.12009683]

I'm Swedish and I grew up drinking tea and have only drank coffee a handful of times in my life. I drink tea everyday. I'll never understand why people willingly make themselves addicted to coffee though.

[Anonymous No.12009687]

>>12009683
more socially acceptable than crack

[Anonymous No.12009849]

>>12007101
>Why isn't this shit bigger in the states?

Fuck off you tea nigger. Coffee will always be better than your leaf water. Tea is for fags, brits are fags, canadians are fags, indians are fags, asians are fags.

You know what feels good? Waking up in the morning, getting fully dressed just to eat breakfest even though no one will see what I look like besides me, Pour ground beans into french press and stew it for a good 5 minutes or more, slowly press down and watch my coffee come to fruition, pour a cup, walk outside and and do a stretch whilst observing the immediate area for blacks and then head back inside after the scanning for the blacks.

You people will never truly understand what it means to be an American.

[Anonymous No.12009863]

>>12009849
you ain't american until you pick up a gun and shot someone, you giant crybaby

[Anonymous No.12009888]

>>12008872
check out vahdam, one of there assorted packs got me into tea and you'll be buying straight from the indian producers instead of middle men

[Anonymous No.12009894]

>>12007101
coffee and tea both taste terrible
they need to be served sweetened and chilled before they're even palatable

[Anonymous No.12010251]

>>12009894
Hello child

[Anonymous No.12010294]

>>12009647
A stout brew is pretty much the last thing I want to drink hour 16 of a 22 hour shift.

Tea and /sip/s are the only thing that go down and stay down.

[Anonymous No.12010303]

>>12010251
t. non-TAS2R5

[Anonymous No.12010328]

>>12009647
This nigga drinkin beans

[Anonymous No.12011174]

>>12010303
Lmao do you really think people who drink coffee and tea just can't taste the bitterness? Have you considered that maybe we just enjoy it? (And that well brewed coffee and tea aren't very bitter in general)

[Anonymous No.12011261]

Try Yerba Mate. Perfect coffee replacement, and the caffeine releases slower I believe so you get a more natural energy rather than a spike and a crash. Love it.

[Anonymous No.12011511]

>>12009666
as expected of satan

[Anonymous No.12011575]

>>12009683
>I drink tea everyday.
>I'll never understand why people willingly make themselves addicted

[Anonymous No.12012420]

>>12010328
beat me to it

[Anonymous No.12013082]

>>12007271
based puerh and white tea

[Anonymous No.12013096]

>>12009647
t. crack addict

[Anonymous No.12013103]

[Anonymous No.12013117]

>>12007101
Welcome to the light, OP. I gave up "morning coffee" in favour of a couple of cups of black tea a day a few weeks ago and i feel better already. It's literally just drug addiction.

[Anonymous No.12013126]

>>12009849
>sitting down and writing all this
Jesus Christ the insecurity is palpable. Can you imagine associating your choice of caffeine addiction appeasement with your national identitiy? Your brain is completely scrambled.

[Anonymous No.12013133]

is aged tea legit or a meme?
it seems like a meme

[Anonymous No.12013136]

>>12007150
It's also cheaper and you didn't need to import it from fucking China

[Anonymous No.12013156]

>>12013133
depends on the type of tea. Puerh is meant to be aged. Younger ripe or raws are sometimes almost undrinkable , they are so bitter and astringent meanwhile a 10-20 year+ aged puerh is divine. Oolong and white tea doesn't really matter that much they just tend to mellow out more and become a tad sweeter which isn't always a good thing especially if you like highly roasted oolongs.

[Anonymous No.12013163]

>>12007101
>coffee jitter and crash
I get coffee jitters when I drink too much but never the crash. Maybe the crash is from added sugar?
Tea is very based though.

[Anonymous No.12013240]

>>12013163
OP here. I don't add sugar to coffee. It doesn't taste right.

[Anonymous No.12013356]

>>12011261
This.
Yerba mate is fucking great.

[Anonymous No.12013390]

>>12007101
Because tea tastes like horseshit steeped in hot water.

[Anonymous No.12013400]

>>12009894
I drink both my coffee and tea black lmao

[Anonymous No.12013410]

I like drinking tea on by itself after a meal and I like drinking black coffee in the morning while I smoke some pipe tobacco.

[Anonymous No.12013416]

>>12013156
What kind of tea is it that has those giant fat leaves? I just started /tea/ and I've only had sheng puerh and it has much smaller and darker leaves.

[Anonymous No.12013563]

>>12013416
probably any tea that is rolled or twisted

[Anonymous No.12013576]

post teacups. im up to 15 cups a day lads.

>>12013416
i've had jasmine and osmanthus oolong that both gave big fat mostly undamaged leaves once seeped

[Anonymous No.12013579]

>>12013390
if you're open to trying new things, give jasmine tea a shot

has a very elegant slight sweetness and floral quality instead of the leafy kale taste of a lot of mass-produced green tea

[Anonymous No.12013594]

Anyone have a decent black loose leaf tea on Amazon a first timer can use? I'm buying a kettle, strainer and tea for some milk tea. Also does kettle construction matter at all?

[Anonymous No.12013640]

>>12013594
see >>12009888. get a kettle thats easy to clean i.e wipe open top, also temp options are nice for different types of tea, this is what i have.
amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078JQQVZ2/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Anonymous No.12013645]

>>12013576
Told my girlfriend I wanted a really tacky teacup for Valentine's day. She delivered. I love this cup.

[Anonymous No.12013657]

just drink free coffee at work

[Anonymous No.12013664]

I love both

[Anonymous No.12013668]

>>12007374
My brethen of nubian descent

[Anonymous No.12013693]

>>12013645
dam son
I'd feel afraid to use it

[Anonymous No.12013785]

>>12013693
They're a diamond dozen at thrift shops dude

[Anonymous No.12013825]

>>12007285

> Patriotism, disguised as Mohawks

Congratulations

[Anonymous No.12014029]

>>12013416
It's from a wild Arbor tree.
Really good stuff. Tastes like smoky wood mixed with plums.

[Anonymous No.12014056]

>>12013645

[Anonymous No.12014096]

We need those TeaGeneral threads back . we have much to discuss

[Anonymous No.12014189]

>>12013645
based cup, I believe that I have seen you post this before in another thread

[Anonymous No.12014221]

>>12009661
fucking this, i work outside year round, i'd drink cold piss in the summer if it was the only cold drink around

[Anonymous No.12014226]

>>12007101
Because it's not quick and doesn't deliver nearly the same jolt as coffee. Tea takes far too long to work.

[Anonymous No.12014238]

>>12013136
at the time of the revolution, most of the world's coffee was coming out of Africa and the Caribbean. no matter what it was going to take a lot of effort to get your drink of choice to you

[Anonymous No.12014272]

I'm getting into tea as a hobbyist and really love Teavana, but it is expensive that I can't drink it every day.

[Anonymous No.12014309]

Friendly reminder to brew Green tea with 165 degree temp water and never boiling water.

[Anonymous No.12014315]

>>12007596
That just means my teeth will be stronger. Fluoride being evil is a meme

[Anonymous No.12014423]

>>12014226
I think you have other problems to worry about if you need that 'jolt' of energy so instantaneously

[Anonymous No.12014560]

>>12014423
anything that is a low vibration addiction should be cut out. Anyone who drinks Coffee for "energy" is nothing more than an addict.

[Anonymous No.12014583]

>>12014309
Why?

[Anonymous No.12014619]

chamomile is my favorite :3
regards to flavor, good oolong a close second.
coffee is tasty too, also utilitarian for wakefulness.
beer has my favorite effect though
this post is guaranteed to make someone mad~ o3o

[Anonymous No.12014663]

>>12014583
hot water burns the green tea and makes it very bitter.

[Anonymous No.12014768]

>>12014096
Back a few tea generals died on their own. So no, we don't have much to discuss here.

[Anonymous No.12014799]

>coffee
good morning ritual if it motivates you to wake the fuck up. decent appetite suppressant

>tea
any time you would drink water there's no reason it shouldn't be tea instead.

[Anonymous No.12014857]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTDcWi1dzoM
reminder to take the /teapill/

[Anonymous No.12015646]

>>12014583
boiled water also lost some oxygen and for some reason that affects flavor

[Anonymous No.12016323]

Finishing up the last of some holiday tea I had called nutcracker. It's pretty good. Tastes like almonds.
>>12013693
It's not too expensive. Like 20 bucks or something. I love it though. Came in a nice box too.
>>12014056
Absolutely based
>>12014189
Most likely. The tea threads are my favorite part of /ck/

[Anonymous No.12016331]

>>12007101
It stems from the Boston Tea Party

[Anonymous No.12016770]

>>12016323
Thanks , you and your gf also have great tastes.

Here are some of my tea ware collection in better quality.
These are my Gaiwan style teacups

[Anonymous No.12016772]

[Anonymous No.12016777]

Here are some of my western style teacups
This set is really old from Germany

[Anonymous No.12016780]

One on the left is from Japan the one of the right was from France I believe

[Anonymous No.12016782]

last one

[Anonymous No.12016792]

>>12007240
How is Assam I just ordered some?

[Anonymous No.12016808]

>>12016792
It's the basic bitch western black tea.
Every bagged tea you've had so far has been a blend of assam and ceylon.

[Anonymous No.12016814]

>>12016792
Its the most basic Indian tea . I guess you got to start somewhere.

[Anonymous No.12016822]

>>12016792
Some of it is decent but most of it is trash. Show which product you ordered.

[Anonymous No.12016833]

>>12016808
That's fine I like basic bitch black tea.

[Anonymous No.12016846]

>>12016833
I wasn't judging you m8, just saying it should be pretty familiar to you.

[Anonymous No.12016933]

>>12016822
OP here (not the guy you're talking to).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GA0QVMA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

I ordered this one. It tastes quite nice, or at least better than most bagged black teas I've tried like PG tips, and the tea leaves are large and full. Not really any 'dust'. If you have any recommendations for other black teas or even Yerba Mate, let me know so I can try them out.

[Anonymous No.12016945]

>>12014799
/thread

[Anonymous No.12016976]

>tfw you order a matcha from a cafe and it has clumps

[Anonymous No.12017076]

>>12016933
TGFOP is mid grade as far as Orange Pekoe goes. I suggest checking to see if you have a good loose leaf tea shop around you. Not one of the chain ones like Davids tea but a little locally owned one. They should have a decent selection of unflavored tea to choose from so you can get 20 grams of a couple to try out. Some of my favorite black teas are Mao Feng, Sun Moon Lake, and Laoshan black.

If you want to order online this is where I order from https://verdanttea.com/

Prices are a little higher but they are all very high quality and 100% organic which is good because China uses some bad pesticides. They even have a 5 for $5 sample pack for new customers and it has free shipping (at least it did when I got it 2 years ago) so I suggest getting that to start.

[Anonymous No.12018682]

The only time I want coffee is when tea would be thinner than I want. Would love to find something with that sort of body. Would probably have to be herbal.

[Anonymous No.12020243]

>>12018682
There are some teas--some black and ripe/aged pu-erh--that feel really thick in the mouth, if that's what you mean.

[Anonymous No.12020256]

A free sheng teabag was thrown in with my most recent order. What am I supposed to do with it? Gongfu it like any other sheng?

>>12014056
Zomba Pearls?

[Anonymous No.12020541]

>>12020243
Do you know any in particular? I've had a few and none have been thick like coffee.

[Anonymous No.12020547]

>>12007376
Is this some kind of asian Yakub shit

[Anonymous No.12020557]

>>12013645
Thumbnail made me think it was a gravy boat

[Anonymous No.12020754]

>>12008872
health tea house/tealife2015 on ebay

[Anonymous No.12020772]

>>12007101
>britcucks actually drink tea
lol just drink espresso

[Anonymous No.12020842]

>>12020772
Coffee is just a tisane (discount herbal tea).

[Anonymous No.12020981]

>>12020541
Here's one I'm thinking of getting from Yunnan Sourcing: https://yunnansourcing.com/collections/black-tea/products/jinggu-da-jin-ya-camellia-taliensis-black-tea-autumn-2018?variant=12791656775783

It sounds delicious.

[Anonymous No.12020989]

>>12013825
>implying false flagging isn't the american way

[Anonymous No.12021008]

>I have to either like one thing completely or the other
>Liking both coffee and tea is impossible
Fuck is /ck/ autistic.

[Anonymous No.12021024]

>>12009863
you ain't american until you maximally leverage your LIBERTY to maximize the FREEDOM for every goddamned fucker who has the good luck to hear about AMERICA, centrist coward

[Anonymous No.12021278]

>>12021008
It's the American way!
Everything is a sports team! If your team isn't winning, you're losing!

[Anonymous No.12021364]

>>12015646
Water doesn't loose oxygen, it just burns the tea

[Anonymous No.12021506]

>>12014619
I chuckled

I moved to a new town and now my only options for tea are grocery stores or internet. I miss being able sniff the different loose leaves and buy an ounce of something new whenever.

[Anonymous No.12022609]

I mean i love a good cuppa tea but does anyone else enjoy buttering their coffee?

[Anonymous No.12022614]

>>12022609

[Anonymous No.12022617]

>>12007101
>lack of the occasional coffee jitter and crash
I keep hearing about “coffee jitters” and “crashing” but I still have never experienced either of these and I drink 3-4 cups of strong coffee a day.

[Anonymous No.12022627]

>>12020754
Shit their 35 sampler looks perfect, thanks

[Anonymous No.12022669]

>>12022614
Your're telling me youve never stuck a little bit of butter in your coffee?

[Anonymous No.12022686]

>>12022669
no, why the hell would anyone do that?

[Anonymous No.12022693]

>>12007101
congrats you're more british than the britbongs anon

[Anonymous No.12022729]

>>12022686
>puts sugar in coffee

why the hell would anyone do that?

[Anonymous No.12022844]

>>12021008
When did I ever say that in the OP, retard?

[Anonymous No.12022850]

Bongs, what's the best tea to take with milk?

[Anonymous No.12022856]

>>12016770
>>12016772
>>12016777
>>12016780
>>12016782
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous No.12022884]

>>12022850
dont put milk in your tea or else

[Anonymous No.12022935]

>>12022884

You're right. Milk waters it down too much. Only use sweetened condensed milk.

[Anonymous No.12022968]

I used to work in a fast food restaurant where we could drink all the coffee we wanted for free (for about 5 years)

We had these bigass 44oz plastic cups we used for the large drinks; I used to fill it up with straight black coffee (made double strong since I was in charge of making coffee for everybody) to the top and drank 4-8 of those everyday depending if I was working a single or double shift

I can't even touch coffee now; I swear my heartbeat is irregular and any caffeine stronger than a cup of Earl Grey sends me into a paranoid episode/tachycardia

fuck coffee brah

[Anonymous No.12024008]

>>12022968
Nigger that’s not coffee’s fault

That’s like drinking diesel and whining that your asshole caught fire

[Anonymous No.12024013]

>>12024008
this. why the actual fuck would you drink that much?

[Anonymous No.12024087]

>>12024008
>>12024013
Tolerance, m8s

[Anonymous No.12024139]

>>12011261
I love Yerba maté but it triggers my tinnitus super badly.

[Anonymous No.12024146]

>>12009849
Remind me exactly how many wars the USA has won without help?

[Anonymous No.12024148]

>>12007101
Energy levels? Eat a goddamn vegetable.

[Anonymous No.12024151]

>>12024146
Remind how America clearly just uses the word war when they just mean "fuck up shit and take resources and then leave"? There are still troops and bases all over the world cuck.

[Anonymous No.12024154]

>>12024151
Nice goalpost moving. The correct answer is ‘none’. Suck a fat one, loser.

[Anonymous No.12024400]

>>12021364
it loses little bubbles of oxygen if you let the water boiling too much, is almost like distilled water and tastes weird and a bit acidic

[Anonymous No.12024650]

What brands of green tea is best bros?

[Anonymous No.12025025]

>>12022850
Just buy any black tea. Assam/ceylon will do. With milk tea you're going to steep the leaves for quite a long time so the quality doesn't matter that much.

[Anonymous No.12025133]

>>12007359
Gee I wonder if there is a connection

[Anonymous No.12025143]

>>12007359
>and now nobody drinks it
Where do you get that misconception from? In the south most people drink iced tea (usually spiked with a massive amount of sugar). It is more popular in restaurants than soft drink brands like Coke and Pepsi are. Half the country practically runs on that diabeeetus water.

[Anonymous No.12025478]

>>12024650
>brand

This was your first mistake. Do not buy brand name tea. Get loose leaf tea from a shop.

[Anonymous No.12027121]

>>12024650
buy different varieties from a trusted source until you find something you like
yunnansourcing com/collections/tea-club-boxes-curated-samplers

[Anonymous No.12027440]

What's the best green tea to buy? I love green tea and want to start brewing my own but I don't want to buy some earl grey trash.

[Anonymous No.12027550]

>>12022968
>one and a half to damn near three gallons of coffee a day
You're either full of shit (you are) or retarded (you are).

[Anonymous No.12028169]

I don't like coffee unless it has a boatload of sugar/cream dumped into so i dont drink it and I'm trying to get away from soda/energy drinks for caffeine. Whats a decent tea to try out that doesn't have too strong of a flavor?

[Anonymous No.12028188]

>>12024146
How many times has America stopped Europe from getting utterly buttfucked by the German war machine? Just 1 really. It depends on how you define "help". Is basic trading help? Is supplying arms and munitions help? By a lot of definitions no war has ever been won without help. The Union won the civil war with no true military involvement from the outside

[Anonymous No.12028378]

>>12013103
looks likes schrooms

[Anonymous No.12028656]

>>12007285
>butthurt autists thinks hes a patriot for disliking tea
Next thing you gonna pretend to be a veteran cause you fought off a cat ?

[Anonymous No.12029554]

no thread for me to ask really.

cheapest kitchen scale with no auto off function? (mainy for pour over)

[Anonymous No.12029632]

>>12007285
>>12009647
>>12009849
>>12007627
why on earth would people be so insecure about someone drinking tea?

[Anonymous No.12029644]

>>12009849
>French press
You're not a patriot you frog loving commie.