Teas... please post what you drink

[Dubious]

1. What do you use to brew tea?
- boiling water into a pot of tea and put tea leaves in?
- boil with tea leaves?

I have done both...I guess I am not an enthusiast since I felt no difference

2. If you take milk with tea?
- put milk and boil tea with it?
- put milk in cup before adding brewed tea
- put milk after adding brewed tea in cup

Nope! No milk!

3. Do you put other herbs or salt/sugar
- lemon grass/mint/cardomon/thyme

O we have lemon grass kahwah! It is lemon grass tea!

Might be camomile tea.

Probably!

 

[ghazi52]

Annual Tea Day | Special Report

 

[punit]

Darjeeling 1st flush ( FTGFOP1) and newly bought tea maker !!

 

[punit]

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I have done both...I guess I am not an enthusiast since I felt no difference


Nope! No milk!


O we have lemon grass kahwah! It is lemon grass tea!


Probably!

If u love black tea..Use this type of tea maker !!

 

[Dubious]

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I usually just boil the water and throw in some teabag! Very rarely do I use tea leaf!

At restaurants and afternoon teas, then tea leaf all the way

 

[punit]

I usually just boil the water and throw in some teabag! Very rarely do I use tea leaf!

At restaurants and afternoon teas, then tea leaf all the way

Never use tea bag. They use waste quality tea.
With this maker it's more convenient to brew tea than even tea bags !!
I make tea chinese way : tea leaf ( 8g) , 200 ml of water boil for only 10- 15 sec. @Chinese-Dragon

 

[Toppo900]

My favorite tea is Green tea. I drink it after I eat a good meal, lol.

 

[denel]

Mauritinanian Tea:

Horribly addictive.

• 4 Tablespoons gunpowder tea.
• 12 cups water
• 1 cups sugar or more
• as much mint as can be housed.
• 1 medium cast iron tea pots and 5 glasses

Instructions:

1. In a tea pot boil water with green tea leaves, mint, sugar - 10 teaspoons (yes, that is correct)
2. once boiled - pour tea from pot to glass and back in multiple times; more times the better.
3. Pour into glasses from top to get the bubble foam.

I sometimes drink up to 4 cups in a go and then get a good buzz...

 

[Al-zakir]

kashmiri chai winter morning , doodh paati in the regular morning and green tea at night.

 

[ghazi52]

The Frontier Post
Ayla Coşkun


ISTANBUL: It’s the most wonderful time of the year, indeed! As the weather is getting colder with each passing day, here are some delicious teas to warm you up as well as a special cake
Before I discovered the wonderful world of coffee at the ripe age of 30, I was an avid supporter of tea. To be honest, I still love tea and have a wide collection of various varieties lining my kitchen shelf. I love how there are so many different flavors and how at least some of them offer other benefits through their special properTEAs, like calming the nerves or helping soothe a nasty cough.


Traditional Turkish tea. (Shutterstock Photo)

How to brew black tea the Turkish way


The Turks love their black tea, and whatever I’m about to write here there will be a person vehemently saying it is wrong and their way is the right way of doing it. I can only share what I’ve been doing and I can only say one thing: The tea matters a lot. I have had brand names that tasted bitter and then I have had the best flavor with a cheap, no-name brand from a wholesaler. I’m no tea expert, so I can only recommend trying out different brands and finding the one you like the best.

The right equipment is important as well. The two-tiered teapot is what you want to have for the right taste and experience. The lower pot is the bigger one and holds the water that is used to dilute the very strong tea on the top tier. Depending on how strong and how much you want to drink, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of tea in the top tier and wait for the water in the lower tier to boil.

Turn the heat down and let the water “calm down” a bit and pour it over the tea and refill the lower tier and bring it to a boil again. At this point you can turn the heat off or leave it on a low burn, depending on how hot you want to keep the tea. Give it about 10 minutes to steep and then pour yourself some of the black beauty.

A little thing I want to point out here is that some people like to wash their tea before pouring the hot water onto it, but to be honest for me personally, it doesn’t make a difference, or not noticeable at least.

Other teas to try out

Melissa herbal tea. (Shutterstock Photo)


Melissa or lemon balm: I’m no health specialist, doctor or alike, so I can only speak for myself when I say that this tea has helped me calm down a lot. Imagine it was a very stressful day, and you feel like you have the jitters. No amount of fresh air helps, and the prospect of going to bed in this state is not a pleasant thing at all. Usually, I resort to this tea to get calmer. The absolute plus with this is that it has a sweetish taste, and you simply don’t need to add any sugar at all. Or at least I don’t.



Valerian root tea. (Shutterstock Photo)


Valerian root: If I’m feeling sleep deprived or the overall quality of my rest has been particularly bad, I’d drink this one. The downside is that the tea in its dry form is … well, stinky is the right word. I keep mine in an airtight jar. But contrary to the smell, the tea itself tastes pretty good.


Hatmi çiçeği, or mallow blossom. (Shutterstock Photo)


Hatmi çiçeği: Known as mallow blossom in English, as someone who has allergies and gets an itchy throat, this is my savior. The taste is earthy but not unpleasant. If you want to buy this at your local “aktar,” inspect the bag (or if you can fill the baggie yourself) to get the ones in full bloom. The blossoms are generally pinkish-violet; the buds are not as effective.


Rosehip and fruit teas: Now if I have a craving for something sweet but I want to keep it on the lean side I go for these. Especially apple tea along with rosehip is a favorite of mine, but berries are great as well. The best with this is that you can make these easily yourself. For example, don’t throw away your apple peels. Dry them and you’ve got yourself some apple tea ready. Why spent exorbitant amounts of money when you can do it yourself?

 

[Maula Jatt]

Best out there

I once had an Indian tea- I don't know the name but it looked fancy and smelled like vanila
2nd best

 

[xuxu1457]

 

[Paitoo]

3 cups every day. Very relaxing

 

[denel]

I have taken a liking to Turkish tea of late. Just black.

 

[Aesterix]

Dudh patti