/a/ - Animu & Mango

I think green or white teas are perfect for watching slice of life anime. Especially if they have a nice aroma which you can enjoy while you watch cute girls. So my first choice is usually jasmine for those kinds of shows. Some herbal teas can also be nice for SoLs which are more on the healing side, like mint or camomile. Usually I drink those when it's late and I don't want to be up much longer. Oolong can be nice too, especially if you brew it on the strong side.

Black tea with brandy is required for watching LoGH.

Holly tea is super comfy and not too bitter, and drinking it through a straw allows you to keep your eyes on the screen and not have to look away to get near the edge of your cup. I can fully reccommend trying Yerba Mate for watching anime under several layers of blankets. It was a welcome break from bog standard PG tips.

Insert some argentina is white shitpost here.

>>775258

Well, there needs to be some upsides to living near Paris.

How do I into tea if all I have is a drip coffee maker and some pans for boiling water? Do those tea ball things work? Any brands I should try or avoid?

My favourites are sencha and oolongs, specifically iron goddess.

>>775295

Yeah the tea balls work good and are easy to clean plus are cheap. Just make sure to brew for the right temp/time or to how ever it fits your taste.

>>775295

Tea balls or these things >>775316 work pretty well. Just wash them out in the sink when you're done. You might want to get a kettle rather than use a pan though I guess it wouldn't really make a difference in the end.

Tea is gross and every flavor is just a different variation of bitter.

>>775335

What the hell country are you from? Even the worst teas I ever tasted never come anywhere close to bitter. Or you're just confused and the word you're looking for is astringent. This can exist in some teas, especially if you oversteep them, but it's far from the norm.

>>775295

If you're feeling ballsy, you could probably try to make the tea with your coffee maker. You'd want to know how much water goes through a single cycle, and then calculate how much loose leaf tea you'd need to steep with that water. The only reason I mention this is because this is how Tim Horton's do their "Steeped Tea", and I'd like to know if this horrifies tea drinkers, or if it's actually not that bad a practice for a fast food joint.

To answer OP, I've only ever really had Jasmine tea, and it's been a while since I've had a cup, now that I think about it.

My go-to is sencha, a nice leafy-flavored green tea ideal for everyday drinking. It also makes a good base for a hot toddy (add honey, lemon, and bourbon), which is perfect for comfy winter anime watching.

>>775360

Good quality sencha is mindblowingly delicious.

I usually drink mint tea, since it is cheap I usually choose the bigelow one.

>>775316

I use those types of strainers as well and they work better than anything else, in my opinion.

>>775360

>>775370

Yeah, sencha is so delicious. I've taken to mixing it with a tiny bit of matcha to increase the flavour.

>tea thread

fuck yes

Black tea with honey is the best. Fite me.

>>775406

And I thought I was a disgusting slob so utterly beyond redemption that it makes even the rats puke.

Turns out I haven't hit rock bottom yet.

>>775406

>>775409

You can be a lazy slob the right way by keeping small camping stove next to your bed and a bottle of water so you can make tea without having to leave your bed.

>>775415

A thermos flask works just fine if you've got a tea ball ready. Good for mornings.

The only tea I drink is Barry's Gold. It's black tea and I add milk. Drink two to three cups a day. Bought an electric kettle to make my life easier.

>>773915

I drink water.

>>775432

Anon, that's just really shitty tea.

>>775446

Isn't it an American cultural thing to use standart kettles?

I am European and always use an electric kettle, but I hear often that Americans always use a non electric kettle for their hot water.

>>775457

>kettle

Just boil water in a pot on the stove if you do not have a kettle.

>>775457

Yeah. Everyone has an electric coffee maker and a traditional kettle.

>>775457

Everyone I know here uses something like an electric kettle but you press a button to dispense hot water instead of pouring it. Every refill lasts a week and the device is always keeping the water hot.

>>775348

>>775355

From the united states and literally every single different type of tea I have tasted is bitter.

>>775570

>There's one thing no one will tell you about with these water boilers. Over time. the steam coming out of the top vent breaks down the plastic in the lid.

No it doesn't. That's complete bullshit. Many electric kettles are almost entirely out of plastic.

Water doesn't get hot enough to break down the type of plastic used in electric kettles.

Any amount of plastic you would actually get from the kettle, because of natural wear is so small that it's completely irrelevant

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>>775573

Water doesn't get hot enough but the steam apparently does. On mine it broke down the plastic in the steam vent that's next to the lid hinge. I had to take out the little sealing marble in there. But then the water evaporated quickly and it used up too much electricity trying to keep temperature since the vent was no longer sealed.

>>775577

Ah sorry, it's my mistake.

I just saw that you talked about a water boiler of the type >>775405 posted. I have no experience with them and thought you were talking about a normal plastic electric kettle like >>775446.

>>775581

Ahh ok. To be fair though, it took about 3 years of constant use to get that way. Then I took it to my work place and used it as a hot water dispenser to wet down rags to wipe glass counter tops with. It managed to last 4 more years in that environment before finally dying.

I usually drink my coffee and tea from a coffee cup, but I've found a new love in using a cup without handles. Its really nice wrapping both hands around it.

>>775567

>Anon praising my local tea

Oh gosh!

>>775596

Metal ceramic coated kettles are good, especially if you have hard water since you're right, the minerals end up coating the ceramic. You can get electric kettles that are like that. The one I have is metal with a ceramic coating. It heats up water really qucikly, no weird tastes and it looks nice

I only drink earl grey tea, and only black.

What kind of water does everyone here use for their tea? Tap? Filtered? Bottled?

>>777013

Bottled water makes more plastic waste and it's been shown to be just filtered tap in many cases. Buy a filter for home or a portable filter to take with you.

>>777013

Filtered/distilled, mostly because the pipes around here are lead.

Green or white, though I've been looking to expand. Tea isn't something I indulge in often but I always try to aim for lower caffeine.

>>775335

>>775477

Try berry tea. Go for the one that's red and smells fruity. It's sweet and tastes like mild fruit punch.

>>777024

Or just get a reverse osmosis water filter system and not waste so much energy.

I like green, white, black, lemon, berry teas, clipper makes some good stuff.

>>777048

That 12 dollar one is made of lower quality plastics anyways, meaning that all that boiling water will have leeched chemical residues in it.

Who Orange Pekoe with milk and sugar here? Preferably Tetley's and just leave the bag right in the cup.

>>777060

Perhaps in America, but in the EU many cheap plastic kettles were tested and had no chemical residues at all.

>Why not just boil the water in a normal pot over a stove?

Because it takes longer, 45 seconds are enough to get 1/2 liter with an electric kettle.

>>775357

Timmies steeped tea is OK. No reason to get it though, they offer tea in bags.

>>777060

Do you guys have no consumer watchdogs or something?

>>776635

Earl Grey is sweet enough without the lemon, especially if you get the good stuff you get a nice hint of sweet bergamot with every sip

>>777081

>bergamot

>Sweet

do you literally have something wrong with your sense of taste?

Bergamot is bitter and perfumy as it is toxic in large amount.

>>777102

Yeah and in small amounts it compliments the tea and makes it slightly sweet, has your tastebuds been ruined by eating too much sugar all your life?

>>777106

Twinings makes the only decent teabags in my experience. I think they sell looseleaf too though I've never tried.

>>777116

>has your tastebuds been ruined by eating too much sugar all your life?

Possibly, I can't stand black tea without sugar and milk.

>>777118

Twinings is kinda shit tier tea for the masses.

Mcgrath reserve blend or Dorset tea are both nicer blacks.

>>777126

>sugar and milk in your tea

Plain or nothing.

>>777126

>Possibly, I can't stand black tea without sugar and milk

Well no wonder, if you stop your sweet intake you can notice a lot more subtle flavours like the subtle sweetness of bergamot

>>777126

>tea without sugar and milk

Its okay. You aren't alone. I can't take coffee beer or strong teas without at least sugar. Light teas like green, white, and various herb/flower are tolerable to good.

>>777131

Thank christ there is someone here who isn't a fucking peasant.

>>777134

This should be required reading: http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

You don't like it without sugar because sugar is a poison. You have to go without sugar for long enough to let your sense of taste heal.

I like st. john's wort in the evenings

green tea in mornings. there's some cinnamon apple teas i like too. sometimes i have some bedtime tea before i go to sleep.

>>777308

murican contributions to the culinary arts.

>>777301

>white rice, which is 90% pure glucose

What the cock are you babbling about? Starch is NOT the same thing as glucose at all, it's a complex chain of glucose molecules that takes a completely different process to digest than monosaccharide glucose does. Either way, glucose isn't the poison in sugar to begin with. It's the other half, fructose, that has to be processed in your liver like alcohol.

Picked up a box of Twinings English Breakfast and Numi organic green tea. Just taking those first steps after being on coffee all my life and wanted to start somewhere

>>777326

Friendly reminder it's 100C for black and 80C for green and white.

>>777332

Should one use a bag per 8oz cup? Seems a tad wasteful to me?

>>777317

Blame starbucks, any hot drink served there is a fucking sugar bomb. Fuck starbucks

>>777343

Starbucks has brewed normal coffee, but its so bitter and cheap it's undrinkable.

>>777342

Yeah, teabags are fairly cheap.

Your favorite tea is now personified as a cute girl. What do you do?

>>777362

Drink her.

>>777861

>It still as a GI of around 80-100. Or am I missing something?

Glycemic index is a pretty big meme. If it actually mattered at all, the entirety of Asia would be diabetic or pre-diabetic. It also just lends more credence to the notion that it's not glucose that's the problem at all, but fructose. Fructose doesn't instantly spike your blood sugar like glucose does because of the slower route through the liver, but it does orders of magnitude more damage to your body.

>>777308

It’s a southern thing it is made to be mixed with bourbon.

>>777131

>>777138

You are the true plebs, thinking that drinking it black makes it better. Black tea without milk or sugar is gross, tea tannin in a watery solution is gross and it can make you nauseous/vomit. That's why the best way to drink black tea is the way the English way, with milk and sweet biscuits and cakes.

>>784478

Eat sweet cakes with your tea all you want, but never ever not ever shall you ever put sugar in your tea.

>>784478

>an make you nauseous/vomit

Maybe if you're a little bitch, but yeah, pastries are nice with tea.

>>784478

>Black tea without milk or sugar is gross

>gross and it can make you nauseous/vomit.

Does it hurt being this much of a faggot?

>>777048

Not the other guy and I usually drink tea, but how is coffee with some sugar (three spoonfuls) and regular milk (after shaking it, so it becomes foamy)?

>>773915

Double or triple bag for a big cup, with sugar, milk, cream and rum. Yeah, it's pure heresy but I need it to stay sane.

>>777343

I thought you were exaggerating until

>Starbucks Cappuccino 20fl oz with non-fat milk

>14g of sugar

versus

>Starbucks Mocha 20fl oz with non-fat milk

>44g of sugar

versus

>Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha 20fl oz with non-fat milk and whipped cream

>67g of sugar

versus

>Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino 20fl oz with non-fat milk and whipped cream

>84g of sugar

versus

>Pepsi 20fl oz

>69g of sugar

How does someone manage to get 44 grams of sugar out of non-fat milk, espresso, and "mocha sauce"? For reference their Americano, which should be espresso and water, is listed with zero grams of sugar and non-fat milk is about 13 grams of sugar per cup (8 fl oz). The "mocha sauce" must be literally 30 grams of pure sugar. The other stuff I listed is just for show compared to Pepsi as normalfags love those long "coffee" drinks.

>>786251

They add that much sugar because their coffee is shit so they mask it with sweeteners.

>>786269

It also causes the energy to dissipate, I wonder is there a point where the energy in is greater than the energy out.

>>786261

Amazon had a really good deal on some 100 euro kettle the other day, made me wish mine was broke so I could get it.

>>786253

Actual brewed Starbucks coffee is absolute vomit. I don't know how you can make coffee have a burned and hella bitter flavor but they have. I tried it once.

I've moved to organic coffee and Tea now. It's tastier.

>>786348

Energy in is always greater than energy out. Entropy.

>>786348

>a really good deal

>100 euro kettle

How much do you spend normally?

>>786351

She meant that the water was heating up faster than it was losing heat to its surroundings.

>>786354

>heating water by mechanical energy instead of application of heat, faster than it can lose heat to its surroundings

That'd be a microwave? Technically they don't apply heat to things, they excite the molecules inside them so the molecules vibrate and the food/drink heats up. It's not applied mechanically, like an arm stirring the cup, but it is heating via vibration.

>>786354

As in it was 100 euro and it was cut down to like 40 or something.

>>786269

>>786348

>>786351

>>786361

In this hypothetical case you have a perfect thermal insulation on a container of water with some kind equally adiabatic mixer in there. The mixer would add kinetic energy to the water by moving around (say a spinning propeller). The water would dissipate any added kinetic energy to internal energy and entropy. This is where the problems begin. Internal energy is not always "heat" in the hot or cold sense as it is related to various forms of molecular motion (translation, rotation, vibration) and these depend on the phase of matter of the substance. I think for liquids the translational mode of motion is most relevant to temperature. However the energy of this mixer will flow primarily into the rotational and vibrational modes via viscous dissipation. This ends up doing nothing of value and gets dumped into entropy or non-infrared (non-heating) radiation if you are lucky enough to manage to excite the electrons in hydrogen and oxygen.

It would be great if someone better at molecular physics could clarify this

>>786534

I let it cool down a bit before drinking. Either that or wait for it to become iced tea if I want something cool or for the road.

Cold and bitter is nice for me.

>>786534

I have a few very thick-walled cups with a small diameter (relative to their size). So my tea usually doesn't cool down too quickly. Maybe you should go shopping for better cups.

>>786534

>>786576

I used to brew bitter before realizing you can have strong tea without ruining it.

Loose leaf can get about two or three cups out of one set of leaves, so that's what I mostly drink. It generally tastes better too.

Did anybody here ever get drunk on tea? My coworker once told me that she used to get drunk on black tea when she was younger. I thought she was just bullshitting me, until I looked it up. I think some character in Love Hina mentioned that too.

Also, does anybody know any tricks on how to clean your cups and teapot from those dark stains? Sure, they go away if I just scrub them hard enough but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.

Lastly, does anybody here drink "Russian Tea"? As in, sweetened with jam. I think I tried making it once. Didn't hate it but it wasn't something that I wanted to make a second time either.

>>786534

I often drink it cold, simply because I often forget about the cup I just prepared until it is gone cold.

>just milk

Never. I often only add sugar or honey, without milk but never the other way around. The same goes for coffee.

Alternatively, both hot and cold tea can be amazing with just a dash of lemon.

>>778823

>mixed with bourbon

Alright, that seems rather nice. Might try that this summer.

>>786631

There's actually some reason behind the madness. Burgers crave all that sugar because of the huge amounts of vegetable seed oils they consume. The oils contain high amounts of polyunsaturated fats which cause oxidative stress and inflammation. Excess sugar consumption, in that context, actually works to mitigate that stress response. This is mainly because the body prefers burning carbs over fats. So eating a caloric surplus of carbs causes the fat to be stored instead of burned, mitigating the oxidative stress that would otherwise occur from metabolizing the fats. The obvious side effect of this is weight gain and eventual obesity. It's basically a positive feedback loop of weight gain cause by the negative effects of chronic pufa consumption and the resulting attempts by the individual to self medicate with a continually increasing sugar intake.

>tl:dr Burgerland dietary lesson:

Don't consume seed oils.

>>786648

>Also, does anybody know any tricks on how to clean your cups and teapot from those dark stains? Sure, they go away if I just scrub them hard enough but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.

Those stains, like the ones on your teeth, are permanent. Tannin is an incredible stain-setter.

>>786709

I regularly use canola oil in cooking for various things like making sure food doesn't stick to the cookware. It's usually only a tablespoon or two at a time though. But I don't constantly crave sugar and I also dislike milk and sugar in my tea, and in general don't eat very much sweet stuff. That anon is spewing some bullshit and I honestly tried searching up what he said and couldn't find any references about the correlation between polyunsaturated fat and sugar intake. Your poorer friends are honestly more likely to enjoy sweet stuff because sweet food is cheap and that's what they're used to.

To keep this post somewhat on topic though, what herbal teas does everyone enjoy? I personally am a big fan of Linden tea, growing up my mom bought it a lot as it was available in the store near us. One day the store stopped stocking it and I didn't have it for years. I later found out it's a supposed medicinal tea when I tried finding it again. I mostly just like the flavour though.

>>786714

Linden flower tea is fantastic. Few plants have such a pleasant aroma, in my opinion.

I once heard a doctor tell my grandma that it will make you go crazy after a lifetime of daily drinking, but I have zero evidence to support his claims. I'm pretty none of us drink it daily anyway.

>>786715

It's really sad because I can only find it in specialty tea shops in the city, and it's quite expensive, and it's my favorite tea so it's more like an occasional treat I get now since it's too expensive and too much of a hassle to buy it regularly. It's too bad that it isn't more of a common tea, I think a lot of people would really like it if they got the chance to try it. But I think it being marketed as some sort of medicinal tea holds it back from being a commonplace herbal tea like chamomile tea is.

>>786705

Yeah, that's what I use. It's still a pain to get the stain out of a big teapot, if it's black tea that was in the post for longer than a day.

>>786718

It all comes down to linden trees not being planted more commonly. Which is a real shame because let me tell you my friend, you haven't lived life until you've experienced an entire city smelling like linden tree flowers in bloom.

In Canada, for example, I've only seen them in Vancouver (although I can't speak for the eastern coast). While in Eastern Europe they're a much more common sight, I'd say. In Also in Germany there are quite a number of documented linden trees that are over one thousand years old.

A single one of these trees, and a smaller one at that, growing on the side of the road makes enough flowers to fill a couple of potato sacks or more each year.

>>786727

>While in Eastern Europe they're a much more common sight

I guess that's why my mom bought Linden tea when they still had it at the store, she's Polish and she said it was a common tea there. It's really too bad, it isn't common. I should try growing a Linden tree and then in two decades I can have all the tea I want

>>786430

That girl is holding that bat all wrong and her stance is trash. Clean it up or I shall bully you a second time.

Oh yeah. I completely forgot that I still have an unopened box of Genmai Cha. I'm going to try one later for the first time.

>The water to brew genmaicha should be about 80–85 °C (176–185 °F). A brewing time of 3–5 minutes is recommended, depending on desired strength.

That's according to wikipedia. Is that correct?

>>786817

I had oi ocha while I was over there, once hot and once cold. It was an okay green tea but I can't remember it being bitter. As for mugicha, that stuff is great. I brew it in big containers in the fridge during the summer. Actually, I buy the tea itself from the same company that bottles that tea in your pic.

>>786838

>Santory BOSS Black coffee

I drank that once, it had a decent amount of caffeine in it.

>>786838

>Perhaps further reading from sources that aren't kikepedia is required?

Thanks for the info but I didn't want to make it that big of a deal. Tried it at about 80-90 °C for three minutes and it tasted alright. Too bad I'm not able to find the brand online or I'd post a picture.

>>786888

>a slight lightheadedness

>a slightly altered state of mind

>very energetic (I'll assume that was the caffeine at work) but without the jitters that coffee would give you

That's pretty much how my coworker described it, though she was apparently also feeling a bit "amused". Just like when you are tipsy.

>>786893

>a bit amused

Yes, yes, I can definitely vouch for that as well. You do feel a little giggly. But I think it stems from the elevated mood I mentioned, opposed to something like "schoolgirl smoking pot for the first time" type of giggly.

>>786888

You could take a 2mg nicotine lozenge and get similar results if you're like me and maybe smoke a pack's worth of offered cigs in the course of a year.

>>786914

Oh forgot to mention, brush your hair while taking the lozenge for maximum enjoyment, even if you have super short hair.

>>786914

I might give it a try.

>[spoiler]

I never smoke at all. I tried both cigs and weed, neither really work for me.

>>786888

I once overheard someone speaking about how he had tried this one tea, and then had really vivid dreams and nightmares. Anyone know the name of it? Tea that you drink before sleeping.

>>786925

That's a really vague description anon. For all we know he could have brewed mushroom tea before bed.

There are lots of teas that are nice before sleeping, from chamomile to houjicha.

>>786925

I know people like to use herbs like valerian root, passionflower, and holy basil into a sort of tea for lucid dreams.

>>786935

It started with an "m".

>>786940

No, but I think it might have been menthol tea, though I don't see anything as to why it might have induced nightmares/vivid dreams for him and those others who drank it.

Where do you guys get cheap black, green, and white teas? Don't mind loose leaf or bagged.

I'm up for more expensive brands later.

>>786868

>Pretty sure they have a lucrative export business. I've seen the green bottles in the ethnic food section of local grocery stores at stupid high prices.

I buy about 50 sachets of the stuff off amazon for about eight bucks. When it comes to bottled tea, you can get more tea of better quality by buying and brewing the stuff yourself anyway. How much were they selling the bottles for?

>>786962

>When it comes to bottled tea, you can get more tea of better quality by buying and brewing the stuff yourself anyway.

The point of bottled tea is so you can grab some on the go without having to brew it yourself. It'll always be a ripoff compared to that in the same way that buying coffee at a coffeeshop will be more expensive than just brewing it yourself.

>How much were they selling the bottles for?

The equivalent of about $2-3 USD depending on where you get it. Not cheap, especially considering that you can get then in Japan for 100-150 yen.

>>786945

The store. Outside.

>>786945

>Bagged

Literally any grocery store that has a coffee/tea section. They even sell 100 packs of green tea at Costco. King Sooper's Private Selection brand of teas are a good bagged tea for beginners and relatively cheap. Celestial Seasonings is fancy fru fru shit in the tea world, but they have a couple good combos among their herbal teas. Pretty much just do a cost estimating and each tea bag should cost less than 13 cents for it to be a good price.

For loose leaf the only "cheap" brand worth drinking is maybe Twinings brand Earl Grey. Otherwise I get my loose leaf tea from or local international store- tea is one of those things that can be dried/stored for years, so it's one of the few things the international stores stock that isn't complete crap even if your state is landlocked.

>>786703

>>787018

Isn't rinsing your mouth with water after drinking enough to avoid stains?

>>786714

This idea was just my 2+2 conclusion from a lifetime of watching how southern Californians eat. So it's not surprising that there aren't any studies. But regardless, the inflammatory nature of seed oils(mainly omega-6) and the body's preference to burn carbs over fats is well established. It's a reasonable mechanism that could explain how people get so fat, and also explain why it's so hard for people to lose weight. Curiously, I have never seen anyone eat a large serving of oily food without gorging on an equally large amount of carbs. On the flip side I regularly see people eating large amounts of carbs in isolation. Small amounts of pufas may not have any noticeable issues but large quantities equivalent to the standard American diet definitely do in my experience.

Also back in the 1940s or so, American farmers were trying to figure out ways to make their cattle gain weight. They found out that feeding them saturated fats like coconut oil kept them thin, but feeding them soybeans and corn made them rapidly gain weight.

>>786983

I never knew you could make mugwwort tea. I wonder if anyone's done studies to see if it contains any psychoactive compounds. I only knew of it though my grandfathers moxibustion practices. The smoke the moxa gives off has an oddly pleasing smell.

>>784498

>>784489

Drink 3 strong cups of black tea on an empty stomach before you call me a faggot.

>>787213

>I never knew you could make mugwwort tea. I wonder if anyone's done studies to see if it contains any psychoactive compounds.

I've be trying to find out ever since that anon linked the /x/ thread, but nobody seems to know. It contains thujone but there's a big debate as to whether that is psychoactive in any way.

I really want to try it now, but at the same time I think it would be horrible having a night of non stop vivid dreams.

Doesn't coffee make you retain weight? Is it OK in moderation as long as you keep up exercise?

>>787211

Baking soda is really bad for your enamel, Jasón, some US brand makes good fluoride free paste.

>>787255

>baking soda is really bad for your enamel

Not so. It is regarded as a very mild abrasive. Not only is enamel twice as hard on the mohs scale but since baking soda neutralizes the acidity in your mouth, it actually prevents tooth decay. Unless you are stuffing a spoonful in your mouth every time or dipping your toothbrush into it, there should be no reason why a relatively small amount diluted in coconut oil would have any negative effects. Feel free to look more into it yourself. I think Colgate's website is one of the only places that I've read that says it damages your enamel without giving any evidence to back up the claim. In addition, they included this sentence which makes it very clear what the cocksuckers are really shilling for:

>"In addition, baking soda doesn't contain fluoride, which helps strengthen teeth and prevent dental cavities, so you will still need to use regular toothpaste."

They're not even fucking trying.

>>787290

Register the code on the manufacturer's website

I am a former tea-bag-only-fag who is looking into trying out tea leaves. I was going to get an infuser, (sort of like the ones in >>775596 but smaller and not built into a kettle.) However, many people such as George Orwell report a large difference in flavor between unrestrained leaves and leaves in an infuser. Can anyone here attest to this?

Also, I recieved a set of tea bags that were all Disney themed from a relative for Christmas. Surprisingly, the Disney themed Earl Grey is far more aromatic and flavorful than Twinning's brand Earl Grey.

>>786648

>Russian Tea

You mean the super concentrated tea they make for their samovars? If so yes and its the reason why my blood pressure is through the roof. Drinking it without diluting it isn't good for you as I've found out. I like using lemon marmalade to sweeten it though.

>>787471

>>787464

I think you guys might be on to something. I've been noticing in videos that some heavy tea drinkers dump the leaves straight in a little kettle to brew, after which they pour that into another little pot (leaving the strained leaves back in the first one, awaiting a second flush) in which it sits to be drunk. No infusers present.

>>787228

>>787213

Anon who linked it, I don't dare try it because most of my dreams end up as nightmares.

>>787240

No, but most people add shit tons of cream and sugar to their coffee which is pretty much empty carbs that would cause weight retention. Coffee is a diuretic and caffeinated beverage, so if anything the increased loss of water and increased heart rate should have the reverse effect if you're drinking it straight.

Honestly the only thing worth adding to coffee is sometimes whole milk to make "coffee milk." Otherwise it tastes better straight as a social drink or as a means of keeping you awake 2-4 hours into working. The bitterness is what keeps you awake though, not the caffeine. I think a lot of people don't realize that.

>>787464

I've used an infuser and I've used more "loose" metal contraptions (never left the leaves completely unrestrained). I have to say the "mesh" brought out the flavor more, but you end up throwing out the last half ounce of tea because it's mostly leaf particles that get stuck in the back of your throat.

The leaves matter more than the infuser at the end of the day.

>>777024

>distillation

Enjoy your calcium carbonate or flouride.

At least soften the water (preferrably well water) by boiling uncovered at +100C for more than 5 minutes after first boil to reduce hardness then use vapour distiller or reverse osmosis filter.

>>786703

>not drinking it in a way it won't touch your teeth

>>786709

Rapeseed is even worse (literally rapes you).

If you're experimental enough you can do a before-after blood test for TGL/HDL

Worse is you consume an abnormal protein chain from castor/canola-rapeseed that may induce abnormality in protein your folding thereby causing lots of ailments.

>>786714

>canola

...

>>786940

muscaria I guess

>>787511

>Canola

It's not so bad if you use it properly (lightly spraying a pan and using a paper towel to rub it along the surface, forming a light film that won't really mix with your food). I agree for general use that rapeseed/canola oil is a shit though.

>Muscaria

Anons, don't fuck with those red and white mushrooms. I know the Japs and Russians boil out the toxins and then dry/eat them, but it's not worth it.

Yunnan gold.

The earthy flavour is essential for a good tea.

>>787545

>So you'd be at 5mg/day just by brushing your teeth twice!

Do you swallow your toothpaste or something? There's a pretty significant difference between flouride being topically applied to your teeth and then spitting it out compared to ingesting it in tea. Don't be stupid, if you actually care about flouride then stop drinking tea. Because everyone already knows you aren't supposed to swallow toothpaste

>>787552

>When a chemical comes in contact with the mucous membrane beneath the tongue, it is absorbed. Because the connective tissue beneath the epithelium contains a profusion of capillaries, the substance then diffuses into them and enters the venous circulation. In contrast, substances absorbed in the intestines are subject to "first-pass metabolism" in the liver before entering the general circulation.

>Sublingual administration has certain advantages over oral administration. Being more direct, it is often faster,[quantify] and it ensures that the substance will risk degradation only by salivary enzymes before entering the bloodstream, whereas orally administered drugs must survive passage through the hostile environment of the gastrointestinal tract, which risks degrading them, either by stomach acid or bile, or by the many enzymes therein

>>787555

Alright so tell me how much of that flouride is absorbed then. I think you're vastly overstating the amount that gets absorbed because you've already made up your mind about toothpaste and you're giving tea a pass because you like tea

>>787557

I made it quite clear I have no way of providing an exact absorption amount. But you already know that.

Yes, I am giving tea a pass because based on the evidence I posted I consider the amount of fluoride contained in what I personally drink to be within acceptable limits. And because I like tea.

That's what works for me. The information is for anyone to do whatever they want with.

>>787545

The fluoride content depends on the age of the leaf.

Even if you drink the cheapest bag tea, as long as you live in a country which isn't retarded (fluoride in tap water), it should be safe.

But tea bricks should be entirely off limit, the stuff contains 7mg/l of fluoride and is entirely made out of old leaves.

You can also just drink herbal or fruit tee, which both only contain miniscule ammounts of fluoride.

>>775277

>Mate

muh nigga. best tasting shit I've ever had. first had it at a argentinian empanada place. bought the gourd and everything, but it's just too easy to make in just a standard coffee pot, so that's what I do.

>>787557

To be fair (guy who originally mentioned flouride in tea), from personal experience the gums absorb shit a lot better than the stomach. That's why chewing a piece of caffeine gum or chewing on coffee beans gives you the caffeine jitters a lot faster than drinking coffee/tea.

>>787746

Try adding steamed milk to it. After my local tea shop stopped carrying green tea with steamed milk, I asked them to mix steamed milk into my yerba mate. It was fucking delicious.

>>787767

>mixing milk with green tea

I can get doing that with black teas, but for green tea that just sounds disgusting and likely to overpower the actual taste of the tea. It's like drowning a good steak in ketchup.

>>787769

Only steamed milk with a macha green tea. Steamed milk in general is milder, and it comes out pretty good. I typically drink my green tea straight, but milk tea can be pretty good from time to tiem.

>>787565

How would fluoride get into tea anyway?

>>787816

It can naturally occur in water. The flouride is then absorbed by the plant.

>The tea plant (Camellia sinensis L.) is a known accumulator of fluorine compounds, released upon forming infusions such as the common beverage. The fluorine compounds decompose into products including fluoride ions. Fluoride is the most bioavailable form of fluorine, and as such, tea is potentially a vehicle for fluoride dosing.

Flouride is only dangerous if you consume large amounts of it but I don't think anyone drinks enough tea to intake entire grams of flouride.

>>787566

For those that do have to deal with fluoridated water. you can treat it with bone char carbon filters or reverse osmosis filters. You can build a countertop RO filter for around $60 so it's not much of an issue.

>>775555

>>775588

If i remember correctly, and i might be wrong, those mexican/hispanic specialty stores often have wooden untensils, but be warned that they can probably be had just as cheaply online; the carnerias and specialty stores have a language monopoly on the food market for illegal immigrants. Because so many don't know a word of english, they have to shop at the carnerias and pay very high prices. Picture $1.50 for a pound of beans that is only $1.12 at the english ;anguage store right next door.

>>776572

oi.

I drink NEXBA.

>>787863

Having looked that tea up, it apparently treats "computer disease".

>>775254

>honey

Yeah, definitely. I like to use different honeys as well.

>>789191

>different honeys

I might not have the palate for it but I can't taste a big difference between honeys.

>>789203

It's sort of like milk. Unless you ingest it pretty often, you won't learn the differences short of something that's gone bad (but honey doesn't go bad).

>>788441

Oh boy I could sure use a couple of jugs of that fucking shit if that's the case, let me tell you.

What will the chinks think of next?

Irish Breakfast Tea.

>>789259

>Irish Breakfast Tea

What the fuck is wrong with you, anon? Are you 16? Anything stronger than regular black tea really Earl Grey and you might as well just drink coffee since you're drinking it for the caffeine/social experience anyways.

>>789345

Sorry for the unrelated picture and the email field, I accidentally screwed up.

>>789305

Earl Grey is black tea though, it's like saying adding lemon to your black tea suddenly makes it not black tea anymore. It's still primarily black tea but with the bergamot as a twist. Like you said yourself it's a blend, but it's still a black tea.

>>789281

Herbals are really good, I was the one who was espousing the virtues of Linden tea. Bit have you ever heard of a chain called David's Tea? It's the most terrible place I've been. They just have a variety of bullshit herbs and blend them together based on whatever you think smells good. No real rhyme or reason, just whatever smells good, and they sell these terrible blends for a premium to stupid hipsters who don't know any better. My brother's girlfriend brought me there once and I was just disgusted, she had the worker there make up a random blended tea out of a bunch of things and sure it smelled like potpourri, but I figured it would taste weird. Sure enough when we got home and tried it, it tasted super funky and weird just like drinking potpourri. The whole chain seems to operate off of the assumption that if it smells good it will taste good, which in my opinion is retarded since a lot of the best teas don't smell particularly good but the actual flavour comes out when prepared

>>789441

No, you don't get to call Earl Grey "regular black tea". It's decisively irregular.

>>789281

I always call herbal infusions "pregnant teas." I actually really like my herbals because I use too much caffeine between the gym and work. They're pretty much my go-to tea after 6PM unless I'm drinking white tea since the herbals generally don't have any caffeine in them. I currently have an Eleuthero blend, Hibiscus Lemon blend, Chamomile blend, Lavender blend, Rooibos blend, and cinnamon blend in my cupboard. I'll usually drink about 24-60oz of tea in a given evening after a long day at work. My biggest issue with herbal teas is that it feels like the companies producing them always add lemongrass to them. Every time I find an herbal tea that isn't single-blend or mint-based, there's lemongrass mixed in. Why?

I've heard opium tea can be really relaxing if you get the contents right without the other effects of opium. Waiting on a package of Fly Amanitas to show up so I can make a Ibotenic Acid/Muscamol infusion.

>>789305

>You should be able to understand the difference between robust pure Assam and delicate pure Darjeeling.

I do understand the differences. I also understand that Irish black tea is shit since there's just as much variety in coffees, and coffee is a better social/caffeine drink. English black tea isn't as bad and I keep it around for use in cooking, but the whole purpose of Irish black tea is to get as much caffeine out of it as possible. People who like black tea without citrus usually add milk to it, which is a recipe for stained teeth and kidney stones. Green Tea varieties and White Tea varieties are the only ones with actual flavor to them for drinking outside of social settings. I like bitter, but if I wanted something bitter I'd just oversteep a citrus blend of black tea, drink coffee, or drink blended hot whiskey.

>>789474

Who ever said it was a regular black tea? I certainly didn't, I was arguing that saying it isn't a black tea at all is wrong

>>789474

I never said it was "regular black tea" in the post you got flared up over, anon.

>>789486

>never said it was "regular black tea"

>>789261

>regular black tea really Earl Grey

>>789491

Let me use British grammar for you since you misinterpreted that, faggot.

<Anything stronger than regular black tea, really anything stronger than Earl Grey tea, and you might as well just drink coffee since you're drinking it for the caffeine/social experience anyways.

>>789491

He should have separated the spoiler with a comma as it's a separate idea. I think it's supposed to be read as. "regular black tea, really Earl Grey" As in any regular black tea is strong, but really anything stronger than Earl Grey and you should be drinking coffee

>>789871

>Has hints of whiskey

Probably the little girl trying to act mature and failing.

>>787470

I don't want this to go shill mode, but where do people find things for tea as a hobby? I guess Amazon?

I'm looking to get into tea more, I have a kettle, but I want to try the loose leaf tea, aside from tea types, samovar/teapot designs and cups, is there much else to enhance the experience?

Some may consider it effiminate, but I really want a fine china tea set, shame I'm poor. But I just like the atmosphere. I also want a samovar to try Russian tea, and special jams, because I tried it once before and maybe it was the cheap jam, but it wasn't pleasant. It was still very bitter, maybe I overstepped the tea.

I'm also wondering, what are good brands? Not many options near me, ironic given my country has a reputation for love of tea, but I can't find much "speciality" tea, outside of Twinings. I enjoy their earl grey, but I want to try more types to see the differences.

>>790439

>Some may consider it effiminate

Only plebeians of the worst kind.