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Tea water: heat to 80 °C or boil to 100 °C and let it cool down to 80 °C?
It's actually the opposite, you shouldn't boil water for tea unless you want it boiling. Water has dissolved oxygen in it, the more you have the nicer your tea will taste. This has been covered in ...
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How can I cool tea quickly?
What is wrong with a regular ice cube? As you state that the tea is not yet ready, you just use slightly less water and then add the ice cube, which has a fixed temperature.
I use this for large ...
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How much caffeine would there be if I reuse tea leaves in a second brewing?
In general it looks like 65-75% of the total caffeine comes out in the first steeping, while 20-25% comes out in the second steeping. This was addressed in this paper which examined different types of ...
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How can I cool tea quickly?
One solution would be to use Whiskey Stones. These are essentially stone (or metal) cubes that you normally use for whiskey to chill it without diluting it. This will also work for your tea
However, ...
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Can I drink black tea that’s 13 years past its best by date?
If the tea still smells fine and looks fine – dry, no visible change in colour or growth of any anything on the tea – then it should be safe to consume. After such a long time the flavour is likely to ...
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How to add lemon flavor to tea?
The white rind of the lemon is what causes the bitter flavour. To get simply the lemon flavour you just want the zest. Use a zester, microplane, or fine grater to scrape off only the yellow bit of the ...
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How can I cool tea quickly?
Possibly even easier than using ice or fridges or anything... pour it repeatedly from one container to another. Constant exposure to the air will rapidly cool the drink, you can get it to drinking ...
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What is the proper way to prepare a cup of English tea?
I can see you getting 5 answers to this, all correct in the opinion of the poster, with vociferous arguments developing beneath each ;)
So, let me try pre-empt them all.
Traditional, traditional, ...
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What kind of tea do you boil for 45minutes?
Chai masala variants may be boiled that long or more – they do contain black tea, but also spices (where the boiling is needed, to extract the flavor from whole spices). The tea decoction this ...
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Do tea filter bags filter out vitamins and minerals?
Nutrients are microscopic, the pores in tea bags are far too large to act as a filter. However, tea bags will absorb a very small amount of liquid, and in that liquid there will nutrients, sugars, ...
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How can I cool tea quickly?
I do this everyday before I leave for work. I can't have really hot tea. So once my tea is ready:
I put it in a tea pan (a deep pan used to make tea). You can substitute with any other clean deep ...
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How much caffeine would there be if I reuse tea leaves in a second brewing?
The answer to this depends a lot on variables in the steeping process. Steeping at a higher temperature will remove more caffeine. Steeping for longer will remove more caffeine. Doing either or ...
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How to add lemon flavor to tea?
Four additional options:
Lemon oil - be sure to get one intended for cooking, not an essential oil
Lemon extract - made from alcohol, lemon zest, and sometimes lemon oil; you can buy this or make it ...
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What is the proper way to prepare a cup of English tea?
There is no definitive way to make tea, it isn't like Italy's Accademia Italiana della Cucina declaring one recipe to be the official classic Bolognese ragu or Neapolitan pizza having the art of its ...
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How can I cool tea quickly?
Pour the tea back and forth between two cups until the desired temperature.
Adjusting the height of pouring is fun to play with to get faster results but try it over a kitchen sink.
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Remove tannins from tea without removing caffeine
In response to the answer posted by @James, I've run the following experiment:
Ingredients:
Black tea by "Tea Merchant", flavor = "Ship Ahoy"
Colorless and flavorless gelatin powder, bought from the ...
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What is the film on top of tea?
The scum on the top of the tea is due to hard water (ie calcium carbonate) deposits combining with the tea and reacting with oxygen, this article has some more details if you are looking for them. I ...
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What's the difference between Yorkshire Tea (red band) and Yorkshire Gold?
Speaking very generally, there are three bands of quality when it comes to black tea in the UK Market.
Brown (Economy) is your lowest grade, it is the cheapest in the shops and usually very dusty and ...
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How to make tea essential oil?
You have basically made tea-flavoured vodka.
The tea tree (for essential oil) is unrelated to the tea plant for the beverage.
Commercially, tea tree oil is produced by steam distillation of the ...
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How to clean tea stains from a mug with steel interior?
I had great success cleaning tea and other food residue with chlorine-free bleach (sodium percarbonate). Put a couple of tablespoons in, soak with hot water and leave overnight. Then scrub a bit, and ...
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What is the proper way to prepare a cup of English tea?
Other answers cover well the issues of whether you should use teabags or loose leaves, what type of cup to use, how long to brew for, in what order to add the milk, etc. — and why some of those are a ...
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What difference does oxygen content of tea water make?
This blog article (citing numerous sources) claims that re-boiling water doesn't have any significant effect on tea taste. Here are some key points from it:
Heating water above 50˚C already removes ...
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Remove tannins from tea without removing caffeine
Adding a 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of gelatin powder dissolved in the boiling water should do the trick. I fermented some arizona and used gelatin to remove the remaining yeast, only to find it removed the ...
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What are the consequences of infusing a tea bag longer than recommended?
The tea will be stronger than you'd like if you steep it for too long. Over-steeping sometimes gives a bitter flavor as well. (I am guilty of frequently over-steeping as I have the attention span of a ...
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I am attempting to preserve the shelf life of ice tea up to six months with citric acid, I need a perfected ratio?
If the tea was distilled water, a 5% solution would have been sufficient. That is, you'd need 50 grams of acid to 950 grams of water. The problem is, the impurities of the water and the tea itself ...
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How can I easily get water to a desired temperature?
The method we use (for coffee) is pretty simple (though it requires some compatible equipment):
Fill kettle.
Shove probe thermometer through "whistle" hole in kettle spout.
Heat until desired ...
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What is the 'malty' flavour added to tea to make it taste like biscuits?
Not something I've ever tried, but I'd be tempted towards either the bottled malt drinks popular in the Caribbean (eg Supermalt), or Horlicks.
Or, you can just buy "malt flavour" - Random ...
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How to clean tea stains from a mug with steel interior?
Yet another way of cleaning coffee/tea stains could be to use a denture cleaner, one of those tablets that fizz if thrown into some water. I personally really like this, as it's simple, safe, and can ...
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What is this tea stalk that almost every cup of tea in anime has?
I disagree with the other answer. Karigane, or the cheaper Kukicha, are indeed teas where stalks are intentional and not a fault. AFAIK they're not an obscurity in Japan, but hardly a mainstream tea. ...
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Can alcohol extraction be used to draw more of the spice flavors out in chai tea concentrate?
Your flavors can be grouped in water soluble and oil soluble. Alcohol now is a mixture - some oil soluble flavors are also soluble in alcohol. These are phenylpropanoids, like Coumarin or all flavors ...
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