/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4954571]

tea or coffee?

[Anonymous No.4954592]

Tea. Any day of the week.

[Anonymous No.4954599]

Cofftea.
33% strong brewed Taiwanese red (IE black) tea.
33% strong brewed Taiwanese coffee
33% evaporated milk
+1% love ('n_n')
_________________________________________
100% milk cofftea = delicious

[Anonymous No.4954602]

>>4954571
brewed coffee with two extra spoons of instant in the cup for the first one of the day. Just brewed after that

[Anonymous No.4954605]

>>4954602
i have coarse grinds and was gonna boil them in a small pot on the stove.

[Anonymous No.4954621]

Both.

I prefer tea mostly, but there are days when I just don't give a fuck about anything else and want a nice pure black gold cupajoe.

[Anonymous No.4954628]

>>4954621
do you think 4 minutes for steeping is too much?

[Anonymous No.4954632]

>>4954592
I thought this post was bad. Then I saw the two following it. Getting the fuck out of this thread ASAP.

[Anonymous No.4954639]

>>4954602

Oh god please stop drinking coffee you don't deserve it

[Anonymous No.4954678]

Tea

[Anonymous No.4954704]

both. coffee for caffeine in the morning. tea for staying cozy under the blankets on a cold day

[Anonymous No.4954716]

>>4954632
>implying >>4954599 is a bad post
>implying half a billion people can be wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffTea

[Anonymous No.4954801]

Beer, please.

[Anonymous No.4954829]

>>4954639
need the extra caffeine.

[Anonymous No.4954844]

Coffee in the morning, tea throughout the day.

[Anonymous No.4954951]

>>4954844
COFFEE IN THE MORNING
COFFEE IN THE EVENING
COFFEE AT SUPPERTIME
WHEN COFFEE'S ON A BAGEL YOU CAN EAT COFFEE ANYTIME

[Anonymous No.4954983]

I don't want to derail your thread, ck is shitty enough these days

but how do you acquire a taste for coffee or tea?

I'm 26 and I can't stand either

[Anonymous No.4954984]

spirits or wine.

[Anonymous No.4955057]

>>4954983
I started drinking it at breaks when I got a job. had nothing else to do and everyone else was drinking it.
I never drink it at home though, and I don't crave it like most other coffee drinking cocksuckers do.
I can live with the taste and it's actually pretty nice with a sandwich or some fika

[Anonymous No.4955489]

>>4954983
For tea you could start with lighter greens and whites which are hard to fuck up. Silver needle isn't a bad one to start with, you can brew it any way with excellent results, if done correctly

[Anonymous No.4956796]

best koth ep

[Anonymous No.4956801]

>>4954983
try good coffee and good tea.

that sounds obvious but most people force themselves to enjoy bad coffee and bad tea.

[Anonymous No.4956803]

I only drink coffee to fit in, I dont actually like it

[Anonymous No.4956809]

Hot coffee in the morning and ice tea in the afternoon.

[Anonymous No.4956811]

>>4954571
Tea

[Anonymous No.4956812]

Hot coffee before 11am. Any later and it fucks up my sleep patterns (which are inconsistent enough with ever changing work schedule).
Iced Coffee if it's summer.
Hot tea during afternoons and evening.
I rarely have iced tea, and only ever with meals if I do.

[Anonymous No.4957158]

>>4954983
>but how do you acquire a taste for coffee or tea?

Don't force it. If you don't like it, you don't like it.

Drink good coffee, though. Quality beans, quality roast, properly and freshly made. Makes all the difference in the world.

[Anonymous No.4957172]

>>4957158

>Don't force it.

What? Yes you do, force everything. Force everything you don't like until you like it.

[Anonymous No.4957192]

>>4957172
>Force everything you don't like until you like it.


"I'll fuck you till you love me, faggot." -Mike Tyson

[Anonymous No.4957342]

>>4954983
yo. your missing out. coffee is dank. but as for your question. thinking back on the first time i drank it; it was gross. but i grew up drinking tea (knowing coffee was nastier/for adults). basically doing shit in the morning and knowing it could help me be less in like zombie mode. def helps and is quite delicious if made right

[Anonymous No.4957348]

>>4957172

[Anonymous No.4957510]

>>4954571
Both: Coffee in the morning and during day.
Tea at evening.

[idf motherfuckers No.4957516]

>>4954571
cofee in university, to stay awake, and tea at all times, for the taste.

but if I am somewhere with superb coffee, I will drink it for pleasure, too

[Anonymous No.4957524]

>>4954571
Milk tea in the morning or afternoon. Coffee at night. I heard coffee works best when you're working and all, since it stimulates ideas and shit.

[Anonymous No.4957530]

>>4954983
Try tea that's light to the taste, I guess. I started out with Lipton's Yellow Label for the heck of it. Added warm milk and some sugar, though I skip this now, and it should taste comfy. You can change the amount of tea so the taste won't be too harsh.

[Anonymous No.4957538]

Tea
Way cheaper and has an amazing shelf life.
I do have some coffee a couple times a week though.

[Anonymous No.4957542]

>>4954983
drink less soda

[Anonymous No.4957558]

>>4954571

I drink both and I like both. I haven't been drinking much coffee lately because I can't stand the crummy coffee at work and don't have time to brew/press my own in the morning before work (I'm just not a morning person).

But Coffee in the mornings and on weekends for me. Sometimes after dinner depending on the night. But I usually stick to tea after a cup of coffee or two in the morning. I'd rather drink decaf/herbal teas than decaf coffee so that's a big deciding factor.

[Anonymous No.4957582]

>>4957538
Tea is NOT cheaper than coffee.

[Anonymous No.4957612]

>>4957582
>2 euros for 100 grams english breakfast leaves
>2.40 eyros for 100 grams earl grey green leaves
>5 euros for 100 grams decent coffee

[Anonymous No.4957638]

>>4957582
The golden cup ratio of coffee to water is 21.3g of coffee grounds to 12 ounces of water.
The tea I use tells me to use 2.1g of tea leaves to 6 ounces of water. (A tad less than half a tea spoon of leaves)
My super market coffee of choice is $8 for 340 grams (12 ounces), I can get high quality Indian black tea leaves at $8 for 200g.
So I can get ~571 ounces of decent quality tea for $8 or ~191 ounces of super market coffee for $8
In my case tea is a little bit cheaper.

[Anonymous No.4957646]

They're both gross.

[Anonymous No.4957704]

Ready aye ready

[Anonymous No.4957707]

I like coffee,
I like tea
I like girls,
and the girls like me.

[Anonymous No.4957711]

>>4957612
That better be some great coffee.

>>4957638
Maybe the large amount of tea I consume was misleading me. Either way, calling tea 'way cheaper' than coffee is a dubious claim.

[Anonymous No.4957717]

>>4957711
Yeah, it's really great coffee. The smell was orgasmic

[Leeroy !!a7jTuTqVRaX No.4957742]

How many tea spoons of ground instant coffee should I add to my coffee to get the full kick/flavour without being too strong?

[Anonymous No.4957754]

>>4957711
But tea IS cheaper pound for pound.
When you get up there in high quality tea leaves and coffee, to get a good cup you have to use the same amount of coffee to water, where as high quality tea leaves can be resteeped. Doubling or tripling the amount of tea you can get.

[Anonymous No.4957764]

>>4957754
>high quality tea leaves can be resteeped
what

[Anonymous No.4957813]

>>4957764
yep, it's true. some high quality teas you actually scald before you steep too. you'll see it a lot in HK, China, Taiwan, etc

[Anonymous No.4957873]

[Anonymous No.4957892]

I actually love coffee and tea but mostly have to stick to tea since I can't handle coffee anymore as it seems.
My face always starts to get red and itchy when I drink coffee, might be a coffee allergy.

[Anonymous No.4957915]

>>4957707
>and the girls like me.
No they don't you liar.

[Anonymous No.4957923]

>>4957764
If you don't mess up the tea in a previous brewing, you can usually steep the leaves a few times. I usually get two good cups out of my Assam tea. Some people even prefer the second steeping to the first, and I think the Chinese toss out the first steeping.

[Anonymous No.4957968]

coffee in the morning
generally tea after midday

it's a shame that they stain my teeth so

[Anonymous No.4957985]

>>4957873
>Pilon

Cuban?

[Anonymous No.4958020]

>>4957985
Yeah

[Anonymous No.4958128]

>>4957923
puh-erh tea you drink 2nd batch, throw out 1st cause it can be fishy (tea is fermented) if you get good puh-erh and make it right, you can taste the earth.

[Anonymous No.4958137]

Tea because I'm a faggot who can't handle a lot of caffeine.

I do drink it sometimes, but not as much as I could before (like 3 double straight shots in one morning), I miss it.

[Anonymous No.4958165]

>>4958137

Green teas can be as potent or even more potent than most coffees.

[Anonymous No.4958186]

>>4958165
I thought a normal cup of green tea had about 25mg of caffeine. That's like 4-6 times less than a normal coffee.

[Anonymous No.4958187]

is tea making my teeth more yellow

[Anonymous No.4958191]

Caffeine is a shit tier stimulant.

Coca maté master race.

[Anonymous No.4958206]

i drink mostly coffee. i dont particularly need to wake up i just like how it tastes.

[Anonymous No.4958216]

Love both for different reasons, but I drink a lot more tea than coffee.

Happy to say that I've gotten to the point where I don't need any kind of sweetener for my tea (sugar, honey, agave, etc). I just appreciate the tea.

[Anonymous No.4958230]

>people saying the NEED the caffeine in the morning
>implying tea doesnt have theine
>implying the human body naturally is in need of caffeine ever
>implying most coffee drinkers arent just addicts telling themselves they can't get up w/o a cup of coffee

[Anonymous No.4958234]

>>4958191

i drank that when i was in bolivia and the effect is a thousand times stronger than when drinking coffee plus it tastes better in my opinion

[Anonymous No.4958237]

>>4958230
>>implying tea doesnt have theine

>implying theine actually exists and isn't just caffeine
lrn2 19th century

[Anonymous No.4958238]

>>4958191
is that just shredded coca leaves in hot water in a mug?

[Anonymous No.4958255]

>>4958237

lmao i didnt actually know this. my parents always told me there was a huge difference.

[Anonymous No.4958358]

>>4958230
When people say they need coffee in the morning they do not mean. "my body naturally needs coffee for me to function properly".

They mean, "I really want some coffee", you autistic twerp.

[Anonymous No.4958372]

>>4958358
Psychological addiction.

[Anonymous No.4958376]

coffee especially those caramel macchiattos! they are soooooo yummy!

[Anonymous No.4958377]

>>4958372
Here we go.

[Anonymous No.4958408]

>>4958376
That's not a caffeine high. That's a sugar rush.

[Anonymous No.4958414]

>>4958377
You're right. No such thing. Also, this thread is now /scientology/ general.

[The Kind Life No.4958534]

>>4954571

tea. it's classier and it's better for you. plus, with tea you don't have to pretend to like it when it's plain. people who drink coffee on the norm usually put a snickers bar in it and call it coffee.

black coffee is gross. plain tea is good.

[Anonymous No.4958541]

>>4958534
>black coffee is gross
Says you. What is a preference to bitter stuff

[Anonymous No.4958542]

>>4957348
>nobody likes beer at first

Only if you drink shitty beer.

[Anonymous No.4958545]

>>4958408
>there is such a thing as a sugar rush

[Anonymous No.4958602]

>>4958534
>it's classier
>tips fedora

[Anonymous No.4958623]

if i had a choice i would drink tea, especially in the morning where it takes 2 minutes to heat a cup of water unlike coffee.

[Anonymous No.4958701]

>>4958534
>it's classier
>and it's better for you.
>plus, with tea you don't have to pretend to like it when it's plain.
>black coffee is gross.
All of these are wrong, and this is coming from a mostly-tea drinker.

Of course, this is probably a troll, but whatever.

[Anonymous No.4958703]

Tea please.

[Anonymous No.4958711]

>>4958534
Please keep your shitposting in your vegan threads.

[Anonymous No.4959457]

Guy's I'm new to Tea what is the correct procedure?
Do I leave the bag in the cup while I drink it?
How do I Tea?

[Anonymous No.4959460]

>>4959457
Boil water. Put teabag in cup. Put water in. Leave for a few minutes. Take out bag, add milk. Drink.

[Anonymous No.4959461]

>>4959460

Thank you kindly.

[Anonymous No.4959463]

I like both, but usually when I'm drinking coffee it's explicitly for the caffiene.

>>4959457
The temperature to which you should bring the water and the duration you should steep your teabag varies with the type of tea you're using.

[Anonymous No.4959469]

>STRONG COFFEE 1 EXTRU SPOON COFFEE FOR ME IM A MAN YEAAAAA

[Anonymous No.4959484]

>>4959461
Milk isn't necessary and is disgusting in green teas, I do prefer black tea with milk and no sugar though. Also, black tea can be enjoyable at almost any price range but any other type of tea you should never buy the cheap crap with

[Anonymous No.4959490]

cawfee w/ milk

[Anonymous No.4959522]

>>4954571
>saucepan
>mug of milk
>heat milk
>add 2 tsp coffee
>add 1 tsp cocoa powder and 2 sugar(or 3 of drinking chocolate)

does anyone else do it like me?

[Anonymous No.4961461]

>>4959457
Boil water, let it cool to the correct temperature (or add the proper amount of cold water), steep tea in water for the appropriate time (1:20 has always worked for me), then remove the leaves and drink the remaining liquid.

Appropriate temperature is about 90-95 degrees celsius for black tea and about 75-80 degrees celsius for green tea. If you start using loose leaves, make sure you steep them in a vessel that leaves them room to expand and use a strainer of some sort to remove leaves.

[Anonymous No.4961466]

tea

[Anonymous No.4961479]

I drink both. If I had to choose one it'd probably be tea.

[Anonymous No.4961480]

This is tangentially related.

I work in a coffee shop. You would be fucking amazed how little actual coffee is sold at a coffee shop. My job literally consists of chores, preparing baked shit (loaded with calories), and steaming milk.

Maybe four times in an hour does someone order a black coffee. Every single other person orders some bullshit that is loaded with sugar and milk. Pro-tip; the longer the name of the drink, the more calories. And don't get me started on people who order some ridiculous shit loaded with calories and then specify that they would like nonfat milk used.

Don't get me wrong, I like food, but I watch what I eat because my body is important to me. You fuckers are buying just cups full of coffee flavored hot ice cream.

From a coffee-shop guy concerned about your health: order a black coffee.

Also, yes, we judge the fuck out of you. I make fun of fat people who order breve to my coworkers.

[Anonymous No.4961489]

>>4961480
Most people don't go to a coffee shop to buy black coffee, which they can make just as good and cheaper at home. They go for a treat, something they couldn't have at home. You're just an asshole

[Anonymous No.4961522]

>>4961489

There are coffee shops and there are "coffee shops"

Real coffee shops serve espresso as a mainstay to hard core coffee drinkers, and will make lattes, macchiati, and cappuccini or single cup black coffee if requested. They usually have a few cookies or similar too. The clientele is quiet, respectful, and tastefully dressed.

"Coffee shops" have a huge bakery and pastry cabinet, and their mainstays are blended drinks which may or may not contain coffee, $4 bottled water, and coffee beverages containing mostly sugar syrup. Lately they've begun serving things like 'white tea" and "matcha lattes" too. The clientele usually involves a lot of strollers, fatties, and uggos wearing tacky exercise clothes despite their owners never having broken a sweat.

[Anonymous No.4961571]

>>4961522
This guy has it. I work at a "coffee shop".

[Anonymous No.4961606]

>>4961522
Completely exagerrated, but somewhat true.

[Anonymous No.4961612]

This thread makes me want tea right now. I really want spiced chai, but I like pretty much any good quality tea.

[Anonymous No.4961627]

>>4961480
I'm one of these people, haha. Whenever I go to Starbucks I get a nonfat salted caramel mocha frapuccino. I don't give a fuck because it's delicious.
Although I don't claim to like coffee.

[Anonymous No.4961662]

Coffee when busy. Tea all other times. Both always black.

[Anonymous No.4961938]

tea because i want to. coffee if i have to.

[Anonymous No.4962024]

>>4954571

>>Tea.

Coffee is the drug of capitalism.

Coffee represents the old outdated system we're in --- bitter and muddy. It looks like something out of the oil tycoon days or something that falls out of a car.

Man, i'm really bleak on view for coffee right now.... might be because of the tea ignorant society i'm in here in the states. People here demand tea the same way they desire coffee..... black tea which is the most caffeinated.

I prefer tea because of the aroma. A nice cup of Rooibos red tea is such an elegant delicate essence of Earth at its most simplistic form in a cup of steaming water. Drinking tea is about inner peace, the feeling is comparable to sitting in a Jacuzzi as the calming warmth washes away my anxiety, fear and doubts. It helps me garner inspiration as introspection emerges within me.

[Anonymous No.4962562]

>>4962024
faggot

[Anonymous No.4962569]

>>4962024
>black tea which is the most caffeinated.
green tea can have just as much caffeine as black tea. generally it is about half but it varies widely.

[Anonymous No.4962593]

>>4962024
Hey, you know when people call you a faggot? They aren't lying, you are a faggot.

[Anonymous No.4962617]

Coffee, no sugar, a LITTLE cream for when I'm working on something

Tea, orange pekoe, sugar and a splash of 2% milk when I'm relaxing before bed.

[Anonymous No.4962619]

>>4962024
I'm going to assume this is bait. There is no way anyone can actually have their head this far up their ass and still type at a keyboard.

[Anonymous No.4963278]

Caffeine is caffeine. Lesser, greater, middling. It makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary, the definitions blurred. If I'm to choose between one caffeine drink and another...I'd rather not choose at all.

[Anonymous No.4963417]

So fucking good.

Instant too, no brewing required

mmmm. Drinking some now

[Anonymous No.4963421]

>>4963278
Maybe some people drink it for the taste as well?

Go drink some monster, faggot

[Anonymous No.4963423]

>>4954571
Tea

[Anonymous No.4963467]

>>4958238
Pretty much. You can order coca tea bags off if Amazon.

[Anonymous No.4963514]

>>4962024
>Coffee is the drug of capitalism
>... the tea ignorant society i'm in here in the states
You realize why we ditched tea for coffee here in the states? Because tea was a capitalist financial instrument wielded by the corrupt British Parliament and East India Company's Tax Act over which we had no say. Saying "fuck you" to tea on a cold December evening in Boston Harbor in 1773 was a turning point in our country's very foundation. Whatever our present faults, the "tea-ignorant society" you lament carry on a proud coffee-drinking tradition born of revolution and defiance of oppressive corporate rule.

[Anonymous No.4963546]

>>4962024
>Calling tisanes tea

[Anonymous No.4963720]

>>4962024
>Rooibos
>Tea

[Anonymous No.4963723]

>>4962024
Rooibos tastes good, but it aint tea

[Anonymous No.4963732]

>>4963514
Actually, we ditched tea for coffee because tea was hard to get across the Pacific during WWII. Before that, Americans drank plenty of tea.

Though you are right, the tea industry is just as much a capitalist machine as the coffee industry and always has been (moreso actually, as tea was a major part of British imperialism, both catalyzing and funding its expansion). If you are a communist faggot not living your ideology in North Korea, stick to locally procured tree bark.

[Anonymous No.4963812]

Both

[Anonymous No.4963813]

>>4954599
noice

I like both, irish cream with my tea, and whiskey with the coffee

[Anonymous No.4963854]

>>4963421
I like the taste of coffee. I don't like that part when the acid burns trough my stomach.

[Anonymous No.4964610]

Scotch whiskey all day, erryday.

[Anonymous No.4964635]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2KkpF1n3Q

[Anonymous No.4964694]

Tea & Coffee are the complete opposite.

>Coffee
---Is about waking up early for a long day ahead. It is brewed to awaken the senses to their full functionality. It's a task beverage for preparation, it keeps people going strong throughout the day. It's very practical, and represents fuel to push forward.

>Tea
---Is about relaxation and inner peace. It's usually sipped on during breaks or when the mind needs some rest. Soothing by taste and sensual for enlightenment of wondering thoughts. It acts as a protective aura from the chaotic world for some quiet moments.

[Anonymous No.4964698]

>>4963723

>>4963720

Tea is tea. I understand that your'e referring to the camellia plant in China.... however that's like saying
Pepsi isn't Soda because Coke was the first Soda.

I consider herbal plants to be in the tea category.

Therefore Rooibos is tea.

[Anonymous No.4964959]

>>4964698
this.

Not to go full autistic, but a lot of people are tea-tarded and believe what teavana shoves down their throat is actual tea, and not just sprayed leaves.

I have no respect for the average tea consumer, who drinks gallons and gallons of "black tea" or "green tea" for muh health, while having no idea what type of herb is used, only the color of the drink.

Most of my xtreme hipster tea friends were in shock and awe when I showed them that you can make tea from pine needles, blackberry leaves, raspberry leaves, oak leaves, or willow bark. And gasp, they all made a green tea!

[Anonymous No.4964960]

>>4964694
Yet they both contain the same drug, some teas even end up stronger by caffeine than coffee
Perception and taste are powerful things.

[Anonymous No.4965493]

>>4964698
>Tea is tea.
Right, but Rooibos (which is not tea) is not tea.

You're essentially calling Pepsi Coke because Coke is a soda, and therefore every soda is Coke.

[Anonymous No.4965531]

>>4964698
>>4965493
Not that it matters, but every leafy thing steeped in hot water is not tea. I mean it has to be tea steeped in hot water for it to be tea.

[Anonymous No.4965538]

>>4964698
You couldn't be more wrong.

Do you think that tea from dust is the same as tea from orange pekoe? Have you even had tea that didn't come from a bag before?

[Anonymous No.4965544]

What point is there in making such a binary choice?

I drink both. I like coffee in the mornings because of the whole roasty toasty goodness of it and on a few occasions in the afternoon if the weather is rough, I have work to do, or I want to relax after having a dinner out.

I drink tea when i'm not drinking coffee or just when I want that more.

[Anonymous No.4965548]

Tea.

Coffee is awful.

[Anonymous No.4965549]

I like all three hot drinks (coffee, tea, hot chocolate).

HOWEVER, the only one I care about the nuances of is coffee. I'm fine with PG Tips and Swiss Miss until I die, but I go out of my way to get quality coffee beans.

I did go through a phase where I bought quality tea from places like Harney & Sons, and to be honest, the difference between that and tea bags wasn't so great that I felt the need to pay so much more. Again, this is all my opinion. I can see that tea can be crazy varied and nuanced.

[Anonymous No.4965550]

>>4954571
propane, you pleb

[Anonymous No.4965555]

>>4965549
>not making your own delicious hot chocolate

You're missing out.

[Anonymous No.4965605]

>>4965549
If you ever feel the desire to check out tea again, I really suggest checking out uptontea.com
H&S are definitely a step above supermarket teas but they're far from high quality.

[Anonymous No.4965799]

>>4965493

>>4965538

Why isn't it consider tea then?

This is something everyone argues about yet cannot give me a simple reason why.

If you're going to call the Camellia plant Tea then just call it Camellia instead of Tea.

[Anonymous No.4965804]

>>4965799
Tea is the camellia plant steeped in hot water
We don't call it camellia because that's just some scientific name for the tea plant
We don't call tomatoes solanum lycopersicum for the same reason

[Anonymous No.4965806]

>>4964959

The crap people buy in those giant jugs such as Arizona Tea is essentially coolaid. Nothing but sugar and some "natural flavored tea" which pretty much means artificially synthetic flavor enhancers. Here in the states Americans do not care about their health, they just want to satisfy their tongue for a cheap price.

[Anonymous No.4965811]

>>4965804
>>4965804
>>4965804

Well then if that's the case then the term Tea should evolve to the definition of plant matter mixing with water as a beverage.
I will continue to call anything plant based mixed with water to drink a Tea rather than just sticking to the definition of 1 particular plant.

[Anonymous No.4965818]

>>4965555
Ewwwww clean your mug.

[Anonymous No.4965820]

>>4965811
Ok well good luck trying to convince people that the water left over from boiling potatoes is tea. It's just to simplify things, if I tell someone I'd like a cup of tea I don't want them bringing me carrot water or some shit.

[Anonymous No.4965844]

>>4965820

They won't know the difference either way. Most people only know of Green & Black tea, anything else is new to them so it won't be hard to convince them.

With companies such as Teavana (bought out by Starbucks and now opening up Tea bars) they're going to pretty much redefine the definition of tea.

People don't want to have to constantly define the thousands of plants into different categories. They just want to say "i'm gonna get some tea want to come with?"

No one wants to say "i'm going to Teavana to buy some Tea and some other herbal based tea-like drinks hururururur".

[Anonymous No.4965854]

>>4965844
Well no one wants to say "I'm going for some camellia sinensis beverage, want to come?" either. Sorry you have to be so "fuck the corporate man, tea is whatever it wants to be" about it, but people want to drink tea that may end up being boiled root of daffodil if they don't explicitly state what type of plant they want in their drink.

[Anonymous No.4965860]

Tea with milk, no sugar.

I do like coffee, but I don't drink it because you can only have one of them and then you are jittery, with tea I can drink as many as i want and still be okay.

[Anonymous No.4965866]

>>4965854

I have a solution to this dilemma.

How about instead of separating Tea and Tisane, why not just first call out the name of the plant then following up with Tea. For example---

Camellia Black Tea
Camellia Oolong Tea
Camellia Green Tea
Camellia White Tea

Rooibos Tea
Honeybush Tea
Jasmine Tea
Tulsi Tea
Etc.

[Anonymous No.4965872]

>>4965866
Because there is no dilemma, no one has a problem with this but you. Go up to anyone and ask them how much they worry about the nomenclature of tea and the discrimination against non camellia sinensis tea beverages.

[Anonymous No.4966017]

Any tea suggestions for a pleb like myself? I just moved to an area with 3 different asian markets within walking distance.

Bought this one on a whim, haven't tried it yet. Should I avoid packaging with english on it?

[Anonymous No.4966030]

>>4966017
What happened to my image moot?

[Anonymous No.4966031]

>>4966017
here's a suggestion

go find a mint plant, lemon verbena, lemongrass, oxalis, or (the easiest to distinguish of them all) a pine tree, and harvest some leaves or needles, steep them in boiling water for a few minutes and drink.

these are all alternatives to camellia and they all have health benefits, probably more than traditional tea will ever have.

doing this will teach you how to identify a few different plants and will give you the satisfaction of taking nature and turning it into something useful. just be weary not to harvest anything near highways or high polluted areas

[Anonymous No.4966036]

>>4966030
Known bug, apparently, once in a while (pretty infrequently) a different image is shown instead of the one you uploaded.

[Anonymous No.4966038]

>>4966031
I sincerely doubt that I could find those things in my area, what with the snow and all

[Anonymous No.4966043]

>>4966038
snow will complicate things however pines are hardy and mint will grow under some seriously harsh conditions. either way, try it when summer comes around

i live in a toxic wasteland and i can still find all of those listed within a mile radius of my house

[Anonymous No.4966074]

>>4966030
oh god this smells like rancid fish

I'll admit, I thought it said pear tea when I bought it.

[Anonymous No.4966097]

>>4966074
Puer is an extremely bad start for a beginner.
It's definitely an acquired taste, even for people that like tea.
Good puer is supposed to taste like dirt.

[Anonymous No.4966110]

>>4954571

Hot cocoa.

[Anonymous No.4966129]

>>4966097
Yikes. So start with green tea then?

[Anonymous No.4966149]

tea
becasue it tastes good by itself

cofee tastes like shit, thats why people put tons of sugars and fats in it

[Anonymous No.4966177]

>>4966149

Coffee tastes so good that we invented espresso, just so we could enjoy the most strong, pure, undiluted coffee flavor possible.

Almost all tea drinkers add milk and or sugar to it, because it otherwise is too bland or astringent to be drinkable.

You'll find a coffee shop at every corner. Tea rooms aren't really a thing.

[Anonymous No.4966283]

[Anonymous No.4966294]

>>4966129
Really, any kind of tea that isn't fermented is good for a beginner.
For black tea, check out tea from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and India (Assam and Darjeeling)
For green tea, check out tea from China (Bi Luo Chun, Longjing, etc.) and Japan (Sencha, Gyukuro, Matcha)
For oolong check out Taiwan (Pretty much any oolong from Taiwan is decent)
Some popular types you black tea blends you might want to try are English/Scottish/Irish breakfast, Russian Caravan, and East Frisian.

[Anonymous No.4966311]

Probably a long shot, but does anyone know if SpecialTea Company teas are any good?

[Anonymous No.4966313]

2 cups of hot of coffee with 2 tablespoons of coconut oil and 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter. Wakes me up and gives me so much energy for five hours.

[Anonymous No.4966324]

>>4965811
If that's the case then coffee is also tea, because coffee is plant matter mixed with water as a beverage.

[Anonymous No.4966326]

>>4966177

Tea drinkers add stuff to it because they drink garbage tea in bags. If they got fresh loose leaf tea from the good tea growing regions of the world they'd encounter teas which taste like candy and smell like perfume. Teas which smell and taste like honey. Even teas which have chocolate flavors! Terroir radically affects tea. Once you have the good stuff you instantly understand why Europeans started conquering foreign nations and lands that could grow the stuff. It is more valuable than gold.

[Anonymous No.4966330]

>>4966326
what the fuck are you on about

[Anonymous No.4966336]

>>4966330
>teavana/teabag purchaser detected

hows the sugar water taste bro

[Anonymous No.4966339]

>>4966336
yeah man, fuck the big corporate tea, run with the flowers and drink deep from the candy and perfume elixer maaaaaaan

[Anonymous No.4966347]

>>4966339
I don't know what you're even trying to say. Teavana is trash.

[Anonymous No.4966352]

>>4966326
>teas which taste like candy and smell like perfume. Teas which smell and taste like honey. Even teas which have chocolate flavors!

Which ones, where? Post specific brands/strains plz.

[Anonymous No.4966359]

>>4966352
You're not hippie enough to appreciate it you capitalist swine

[Anonymous No.4966364]

>>4966352
I'm not that anon but Darjeeling is very floral with hints of stewed fruit. Keemun has hints of plum, and oolong is really peachy.
Some types of Ceylon have strong honey notes.

[Anonymous No.4966397]

/ck/, your help would be appreciated. I've never had anything but supermarket tea. I'm drinking Bigelow Earl Grey right now. I'm happy with it, but I've been lead to believe that the rabbit hole goes deeper. I'd like to start drinking some loose leaf, but where should I buy it from?

[Anonymous No.4966398]

>>4966397
uptontea.com

[Anonymous No.4966407]

>>4966352

Fresh Formosa oolong from the higher elevations of certain mountains in Taiwan is what smells like perfume and tastes like candy. The higher up you go, the more intense the smell and sweeter the tea gets. It has something to do with how the sugars and scent concentrates in the leaves at higher elevations(colder temps, less oxygen, more cloud cover ect). When I am in San Francisco's Chinatown I get these Formosa teas at the Red Blossom tea company (like many good tea shops, you can order their tea online). You want to look at the late winter early spring oolongs from Alishan or Lishan. That is when they taste the best, but you have to make sure you buy this stuff closer to the time it was picked in a season. So if it is spring, you want to get tea that was picked in late winter early spring.
Here is a link if you want to give this stuff a look. These are the teas which blew my mind when I first discovered them. BTW, don't get scared about the prices. I buy 50-100 bucks worth of this stuff a year and can barely get through it. lol
http://www.redblossomtea.com/tea/oolong/formosa.html


Gold thread is what tastes and smells like honey. You can also get it from places like Red Blossom btw. It is a pretty normal black tea, but its got these neat honey flavors and scents. I like it because you don't lose that nice black tea flavor you want sometimes.

The chocolate smelling/tasting tea...It was named black dragon pearls or something like that. I just discovered it today and was VERY impressed with it. The loose leaf tea is formed into these tightly packed balls. Each ball is made up of around 30 leaves. Toss several of these balls into some hot water and boom. You've got something special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zT5VZKHI0

[Anonymous No.4966414]

>>4966398
Wow, that was fast. Thanks, I really appreciate it!

[Anonymous No.4966415]

>>4966364

Darjeeling is like good champagne. You want to make sure you brew it for less time than normal though. Otherwise you bring out flavors and qualities in the tea which ruin what makes Darjeeling special.

[Anonymous No.4966417]

>>4966398
>>4966414

www.redblossomtea.com
http://www.vermontlibertytea.com/

[Anonymous No.4966424]

>>4966397
the absolute best place to buy loose leaf teas is from an immigrant tea import shop, where multiple harvests are stacked high on shelves and you can go in and sample them.

online is the next best.

then maybe a bulk dry goods store, they'll probably have common teas like assam and darjeeling at least.

absolute worst is hipster tea bars, full of candy-like blends designed to compete with starbucks' most outrageous lattes.

[Anonymous No.4966812]

>>4965799
>Why isn't it consider[ed] tea then?
Because tea is the beverage made from tea leaves.

>This is something everyone argues about yet cannot give me a simple reason why.
I just gave you a simple reason.

>If you're going to call the Camellia plant Tea then just call it Camellia instead of Tea.
I'm going to call the tea plant 'tea' because that's its English name. It's scientific Latin name is camellia.

[Anonymous No.4966815]

>>4965811
>the term Tea should evolve to the definition of plant matter mixing with water as a beverage.
Why? Because you want it to mean that?

Well too bad. Tea means tea and that's that.

>I will continue to call anything plant based mixed with water to drink a Tea rather than just sticking to the definition of 1 particular plant.
Then you will continue to be wrong.

[Anonymous No.4966822]

>>4966352
Not that guy, but I once brewed a cup of assam so perfectly that it had a sweet, honey-like flavor on its own.

[Anonymous No.4966857]

i fucking love coffee but i drink tea nearly every day because my sleep schedule gets really badly offset if i start drinking coffee, and i don't tend to need it.

[Anonymous No.4966893]

>>4966424

I wish teabars would become as popular as coffee shops. Here in the states there's only a small handful of tea shops in any given area which makes me sad. It sucks how a company such as Teavana is leading the way with their super sugar flavor tea..... but.... I kinda feel that it's necessary to get more people to drink tea, especially loose tea. Most people use teabags which is pretty much the left over powder from the barrels sold at a high price with poor quality. I want a place where I can socialize and try out new varieties, but that's usually reserved for coffee shops such as Starbucks. But this is where it gets interesting anon, just watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHaKhkh1fhE