/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4934069]

How do you enjoy your tea, /ck/? With honey? Lemon? What about Milk?

I just got my hands on some loose leaf french vanilla, black cranberry, toasted amaretto, Yunnan black needle, and some generic black peach and black raspberry. I usually put only honey in my tea but would like to try other ways to prepare them. I'd love to hear your suggestions.

[Anonymous No.4934072]

If it's a blend intended for milk I'll use a bit of milk and sugar.
Everything else I'll drink plain.
I never buy any tea with some sort of flavoring.

[Anonymous No.4934077]

I really like white oolong anything. White peach oolong is probably my favorite. I'd love to try rooibos for its health benefits, though!

Some mango/peach teas are really good too, but some of them taste too perfumy.

I don't add anything to my tea and my friend thinks I'm being an elitist fucktard because of that...

[Anonymous No.4934081]

>>4934072
How do you determine if it was meant for milk? Obviously no fruity blends or anything heavily flavored.

>>4934077
I mixed my peach tea with the french vanilla and it was wonderful. Not adding anything to your tea sounds a lot healthier than a shit load of honey like I do.

[Anonymous No.4934084]

most teas i take plain.
assam is nice with milk and sugar though.

[Anonymous No.4934088]

>>4934081
Any tea blend with an Assam base usually goes well with milk (Very high quality Assam is usually sold single estate, and just like any high quality tea and should be drunk plain). And teas named after regions that often drink milk with their tea like Irish, Scottish, or English breakfast. Or any East Frisian blend.

[Anonymous No.4934113]

Has anyone had any good experiences with Teavana ever?

[Anonymous No.4934116]

I used to drink my tea with lots of sugar, and now I just drink it all plain. It's just something you get used to.

My favourite is Mao Feng green tea, because Teapigs do a great tea temple which is much easier to brew and drink casually than loose leaf.

I love white teas, especially ones flavoured with light fruits like peach and apricot. I like plain Ting Tung oolong just as a smooth drink in the morning.

I don't drink black tea, because I'm lactose intolerant and I find it a bit astringent without milk in it.

[Anonymous No.4934118]

>>4934113
IMO overpriced. So is lupicia, but I think I prefer Lupicia over Teavana.

Or look up on yelp to see if you have a local tea shop. I like the tea shop near me; hand made loose leaf teas, and they offer sample packs.

[Anonymous No.4934166]

I drink my tea plain for the most part, but I occasionally add honey or drop mandarins into my tea.

[Anonymous No.4936209]

>>4934116

>>I used to drink my tea with lots of sugar, and now I just drink it all plain.

Same here. I'm trying to get used to accepting the tea for what it is instead of covering it's true essence with sugar.

[Anonymous No.4936212]

>>4934118

Teavana is beginning to open up Teabars.

Yes.... tea bars... where it's pretty much the tea version of Starbucks (starbucks now owns Teavana). So hopefully this will jumpstart the tea market here in the states where most people literally only know Black & Green tea with many spoons of sugar.

However, Teavana uses pesticides which is bad for our health. People should really purchase organic if they can because it sets a good example of how food should be made.

[Anonymous No.4936262]

I like mine with gin, tequila, rum and vodka

[Anonymous No.4936272]

I don't like hot tea. So any tea that tastes good iced works with me and just a hint of sugar, I still like to have that tea flavor.

Hot tea if I'm out at a teashop with friends, there's actually a Victorian tearoom in my little town.

[Anonymous No.4936279]

twininjgs irish brerakfast. plain, inna mug.early. or after that, any kind with a bit of milk and splnda or sugar.

[Anonymous No.4936339]

honey if anything besides lemon

[Anonymous No.4936742]

>>4936212
That's awful. You got a source for their use of pesticides?

[Anonymous No.4936747]

I only drink yorkshire tea, steeped for fucking ages with only the tiniest bit of milk. If you don't drink tea the same way as me then get the fuck out of my face.

[Anonymous No.4936756]

A dollop of heavy cream and two tablespoons of sugar

I just think it's too bitter sometimes

[Anonymous No.4936760]

>>4936756
What sort of tea are you using? Tea usually isn't supposed to be bitter unless you're brewing it that way.

[Anonymous No.4936813]

>>4936756
Yeah I used to add a lot of sugar to mine because I thought it was too bitter, turns out I was just adding too much tea to the pot and letting it steep too long.

[Anonymous No.4938883]

>>4934081
English professional tea blenders actually include milk in the cupping process. If it doesn't take milk well, the blend is rejected.

[Anonymous No.4939490]

I like to drink black teas like Assam, Irish Breakfast and Earl Grey with a sip of milk and maybe a bit of honey.

All other teas and rooibos i prefer plain.

[Anonymous No.4939513]

>>4936212
>However, Teavana uses pesticides which is bad for our health. People should really purchase organic if they can because it sets a good example of how food should be made.

another appeal to nature argument

[Anonymous No.4939538]

i like all teas, but most of the time i take it simple
i simply couldnt go without my earl grey tea with one sweetener. :3

[Anonymous No.4939570]

What's the perfect way to brew green tea?

[Anonymous No.4939577]

>>4939570
180F water
Steep for two minutes.

[Anonymous No.4939584]

So I have this bagged green tea that doesn't have the string on it. How do I get the teabag out after it's done seeping?

[Anonymous No.4939585]

>>4939570

actually it depends on the tea. the usual gunpowder or chinese green tea is one teaspoon of tea per cup steeped for 1-2 minutes at 190F.

for Japanese green teas like sencha or goyuko you should take 2 heaping teaspoons and steep at 180F for 45 sec, increasing 30 sec for every additional steeping.

[Anonymous No.4939591]

I never put anything in my tea. I usually drink barley tea and green tea though.

[Anonymous No.4939593]

>>4939584
Use a spoon/fork to fish it out?

Pour it out into another mug through a strainer?

Use that empty space you have in between your ears?