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I have a fairly bad problem. I really, really enjoy the white teas, and while I can get passable at home (over the course of a loving long time experimenting with dropping pieces of ice into the water to attain the right temperature, then working on narrowing down the steeping time) at work we've got a hot water tap (you know, the kind they slap on the side of a coffee machine, it typically has a red handle, the water is basically superheated) which I am almost positive shoots out water that has no damned business being that loving hot (it makes my local tea shop's Irish breakfast taste like a mouthful of sticks and grass after ~4 mins steeping) yet somehow isn't immediately boiling. Basically I'm wondering if anyone has any tips so I don't have to look like a prick with a thermometer and a stopwatch as an alternative to the current "drown that grassy taste in sugar" tactic I have.
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Sep 18, 2011 12:23
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NihilCredo posted:Wait, what? When I see cane sugar in stores (or in small packets in coffee bars), it's brown, coarser, and has a noticeably different taste from regular white beet sugar. Yep. The brown color is actually what didn't get refined out into molasses (which is the leftover gunk from making beets or cane into sugar).
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Oct 18, 2011 13:35
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areyoucontagious posted:I started drinking english breakfast tea and earl grey with a coworker, and now I can't get enough. I see people put milk in their tea- how does that change the taste? I'm curious to try it, but really I'm afraid of change. It's amazing.
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Feb 1, 2014 05:36
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milpreve posted:Making iced: Teavana's Snow Geisha, with a pinch of dried stevia. Light, cherry, sweet; perfect iced tea. I seem to prefer white teas iced, though. And only Snow Geisha because I work at Teavana and get to make drinks on my shift. I've also been having our Monkey Picked Oolong iced because I can't bear to throw down the drain our sample when it's made right. Seconding monkey picked oolong for iced tea, it's amazing. Maybe not as good as the Ceylon Star blend from The Tea Smith (possibly local to me, not sure) but that's probably the price talking.
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