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Can anybody suggest a good Assam/Irish Breakfast that doesn't need milk?
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Feb 1, 2014 20:37
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Hummingbirds posted:Fwiw I have had both of those without milk and they taste fine. No tea "needs" milk besides maybe chai. I bought the GFOP Assam from Upton. It goes from weak to undrinkably bitter. It might be the water at work; I'll have to try it at home. areyoucontagious posted:I usually leave my tea bags in (I've been doing the Twinnings thing for a while) so both my breakfast and earl teas steep for probably 10ish minutes, but to tell the truth I don't find them that bitter. They're actually pretty delicious! Maybe I'm just ignorant of how delicious tea can be? For adding milk, do you guys put in skim, 2%, whole, half-and-half, cream? Also I had a coworker bring in some smoky tea (what he called it) and it smelled delicious. Are there trusted varieties that have that flavor? Do you add anything to smoky tea? This is probably a Lapsang Souchong. It's a Chinese tea that is actually smoked. You can add milk, but I drink it plain.
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Feb 2, 2014 00:10
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Enfys posted:I wouldn't add milk to lapsang souchong as that will take away from a lot of the smokiness. There are different kinds of lapsang, generally depending on what it's smoked with/over and how strong they are. Taiwanese lapsang (or Formosan lapsang) is usually the strongest, especially the tar smoked ones. So if you really like the smokiness, go for those ones, but you can also find much milder ones. Do you have a link to a place that sells this black tar tea? (PS. Don't use your usual infuser for Lapsang Souchong unless you want all your tea to taste smoky for a week.)
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Feb 2, 2014 00:30
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I wouldn't suggest Barkeepers Friend on ceramics. On glazed ceramic, it scratchs the glaze, which will make it harder to clean later. On unglazed ceramic, those chemicals will just get absorbed.
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Mar 8, 2014 12:39
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DurianGray posted:General rule of thumb is about one teaspoon of leaves per cup (or 8 oz.) of water. If the leaf is really densely packed, maybe a little less. If it's not dense at all, then maybe a bit more than the teaspoon-per-cup ratio. Adjust according to taste more than anything else though. Upton suggests 2.25 g/6 oz of water for most teas, which seems like a reasonable place to start.
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Mar 15, 2014 20:24
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Jhet posted:there's even one for Ceylon/Sri Lanka that I can't manage to find right now. Anybody know who this is?
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Nov 10, 2015 21:06
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Skylight posted:Seriously, $450 for a single thing? Am I reading this right? That's nonsense. That's the kind of price you pay for an artisanal tea set, not the tea itself. And if you're not even gonna drink it, what's the point?! A place to hide money from your government of choice.
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Aug 10, 2021 20:42
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