More Global Unrest

[Gyakuto]

This really does produce the perfect cup of (English style) tea. Use good quality tea and I personally add skimmed milk.

We also have a variation here called ‘Builder’s tea’.

I used to take 17 teaspoons of sugar in my tea! Seventeen! Eighteen and it was too sweet 😉😄

When I visited America, I was really looking forward to tasting traditional ‘American coffee‘ the way you make it and I’d seen on Starsky and Hutch, Kojak and Rhoda! Coffee in a NYC ‘diner’…free refills served by a grumpy server who doesn’t want to be there, the the frisson of being shot at any moment. Imagine my crushing disappointment when I discovered it was universally disgusting! Bitter, a rancid after taste having been left to sit on a hot plate for hours on end and a slick of something oily on the surface🤢 Italians and the French, on the other hand make wonderful coffee.

 

[JowGaWolf]

But I have never heard anything like an association with bitterness and health. If you can find any link to get me started, I am super curious

I have but I don't know if those foods are just healthy or if the bitterness is what makes it healthy.

However there are medical studies that directly look at bitterness.

 

[Steve]

This really does produce the perfect cup of (English style) tea. Use good quality tea and I personally add skimmed milk.

We also have a variation here called ‘Builder’s tea’.

I used to take 17 teaspoons of sugar in my tea! Seventeen! Eighteen and it was too sweet 😉😄

When I visited America, I was really looking forward to tasting traditional ‘American coffee‘ the way you make it and I’d seen on Starsky and Hutch, Kojak and Rhoda! Coffee in a NYC ‘diner’…free refills served by a grumpy server who doesn’t want to be there, the the frisson of being shot at any moment. Imagine my crushing disappointment when I discovered it was universally disgusting! Bitter, a rancid after taste having been left to sit on a hot plate for hours on end and a slick of something oily on the surface🤢 Italians and the French, on the other hand make wonderful coffee.

Good coffee exists (as does good tea, for that matter). But, as in Europe, bad coffee exists here too. I roast 95% of the coffee I drink, but have plenty of good options for that remaining 5%. 😀

The Italians do make delicious espresso.

 

[Dirty Dog]

I have a kettle, I have about 3 actually, and they are for tea... not coffee.... I have other things for coffee...not for tea......

Multiple kettle owner here, as well. For their proper use - tea.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Multiple kettle owner here, as well. For their proper use - tea.

What part of I have a Chinese wife, from mainland China, are you not understanding

 

[Xue Sheng]

OK, I just have to post this, ever since I saw this thread title and then started reading the posts, I have had this running through my somewhat demented noggin

Ok, I'll go now

 

[Gyakuto]

Everyone knows tea belongs in the proper place. The Boston Harbor, for example.

And that’s exactly how tea is served in the US to this day.

 

[Steve]

And that’s exactly how tea is served in the US to this day.

Harbor mouth is what you get after eating ramen, not drinking tea.