/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13894566
Mei Leaf on YouTube is a good place for **info** on loose whole leaf, mostly Chinese tea as well as traditional(gongfu) preparation and its benefits compared to Western methods. Most people would not recommend buying from them exclusively given their price point.
/r/tea has a lot of guides too

>>13505235

Amazing teapot.

>>13428281
Most people would agree that chains suck in comparison to a good deli but consistency in quality is pretty much a given at chains.

>>13427602

Sandwiches falling apart is why I stopped going to subway and Wawa. No one there knows that you don’t have to add the full amount of veggies if someone wants more than 3 or 4 of them.

>>13427411
I was hungry...

>>13427316
Yeah it’s pretty good desu. I’ve been to jimmy johns a few times in the Midwest and I’m not a big fan of their bread and I’ve found it to be kinda oily.

Never had firehouse or potbelly since I live in bumblefuck.

>>13427318
Who are you quoting?

Thoughts on Jersey Dykes®? Is it worth the price? How does it match up to competition like Subway, Jimmy John’s, and local shops?

Btw, do you call it a sub, a submarine, a grinder, or a hoagie?

>>13398860
All tea has caffeine unless you’re getting some weird decaffeinated stuff.

If you’re talking about tisanes. Who knows? People say chamomile but there isn’t actually any evidence that it induces sleep.

>>13398780
No, all tea naturally has caffeine in it.

Here’s my update with the cold brew puer. I was worried it would suck bc of the “bold” taste this shou otherwise has. In reality though it sort of “softened the edges” and made it palatable.

>>13372273
The thing is, if you’re drinking tea throughout the day 550ml isn’t gonna cut it. Having a gallon of cold brew tea in the fridge that I might end up not entirely using is preferable to running out.

But that’s just me and I literally just started this two days ago.

>>13370174
I don’t even remember the amount of tea I put in it but the container holds a gallon of water. The thing with this cold brewing is that I think time rather than an exact measurement of leaf is the critical factor.

I’m gonna try this again with some shitty loose leaf shou puer I have laying around.

Took it out after 19 hours. It is beyond amazing, the cold brew has definitely mellowed out the flavor. Also, compared to other iced teas on the market, this is miles above anything I’ve ever had in that department.

If you have the tea leaves to spare and a container big enough. Do it.

>>13366298
Before pic. I’ll check back in 24 hours.

>>13366255
I’ll try that and post the results.

Anyone have any suggestions one what to do with a large quantity of lower quality oolong I have lying around? Any recipes that I can incorporate it into? Anything I can do to the tea to make it more palatable?

>>13359306

The UK and, more specifically, associations around it concerning aristocratic manners, daintiness, and sophistication all coalesce in how tea, specifically UK branded teas, are marketed in the US. The idea of having a massive fucking tea pot, adding some sort of black tea, and then dousing it in milk and sugar are the standard here. Everything else, even bagged green tea consumption, is a fringe exception.

>>13351842

Now break open a lipton tea bag and do it again...

>>13349081
Honest question, what would you order from Adagio that you couldn't get from Yunnan or elsewhere? I've heard that it is similar in quality to Teavana when it was around.

>>13346259

Like $100 a year or something more if I’m feeling generous to myself. Miles cheaper than a Starbucks a day and a fair bit cheaper than buying coffee beans for comparison.

I don’t pretend it’s cheap by any means but compared to other beverage habits people have(soda, energy drinks, coffee) it’s definitely less expensive.

>>13341818
I've heard good things about it and the website/products look slick and chic. I don't know how prices compare with YS and there are no reviews on the products I checked out.

>>13338793

It's neat though I haven't had some in a few years. They have oolongs and dark teas too neither of which I have tried.

>>13335923

Yeah there are plenty of retailers of genmaicha. Mine has matcha added to give it that extra zing. Try a few different ones out and see what you like.

>>13331977
Yorkshire is a processed product using the CTC(crush-year-curl) method which produces a tea with homogenous “bold” flavor at the expense of bitterness and the corresponding requirement by many to add milk and sugar to make it tolerable to drink.

If you are interested in teas that have a unique distinguishable taste as well as much less bitterness then I would recommend you look into purchasing tea that isn’t a “blend” of Indian teas, CTC produced, or Fannings/dust teabags, but rather a whole leaf tea.