• The Vegan Werewolf@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The taste of tea is heavily dependent on how it gets brewed. Correct brewing temperature and time steeping play a huge role on making sure too many tannins aren’t extracted and it ends up tasting like hot garbage.

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      9 months ago

      Yup, green tea is great if you’re not drinking factory floor dust and you haven’t oversteeped it. If your tea is bitter and is leaving you with a dry mouth, something is wrong.

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        9 months ago

        And if you don’t leave it to infuse for too long. Unlike black tea that can be left to infuse indefinitely green tea gets bitter after few minutes.

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      9 months ago

      I can practically guarantee that people who say they hate tea haven’t tried brewing any kind of loose leaf tea at the proper temp and time.

      I got a 1kg brick of the cheapest loose-leaf black tea I could find for ~$3.50, and it’s delicious. I drink it almost every day, I bought it in June last year, and I’m just now running low. I brewed a bag lipton black tea at work recently, took one sip and I dumped it the fuck out. Absolutely foul, that stuff.

      So I can see why people hate tea if they’ve only ever tried cheap bags with boiling water

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      9 months ago

      Same could be said about coffee but I feel like people are more willing to forgive all the garbage coffee out there than the tea.

      I enjoy a good high quality cup of either.