Use Your Tea Set to Serve Teas Well

When you come around to make a good cup of tea, consider doing it in the good old way. It doesn’t make the tea taste that much better, but you get the chance to enjoy the process. Doing everything like people did in the 19th century adds to the experience of drinking tea. The whistling of the kettle, the details and delicacy of the teapot, the cups and the smell of the garden in the afternoon are all factors that let you enjoy every sip better; even if the result is just the same as you’d get from a filter tea.

Make sure that you use clean pottery only. It’s not a matter of opinion either; tea is made just below boiling point, which doesn’t kill all the bacteria. If you want to stay safe -as you should-, always clean everything thoroughly first. Use water that’s filtered, but not boiled for a long time. Boiling takes away the gases and minerals enclosed in it. Simple tap water is often good enough for a good pot of tea as long as the municipal network is good in your town.

Aside the teapots and tea cups everything can come from the ordinary counter top kitchen utensil holder. Go on, and put some water in the kettle, once it boils, bring it down to barely shivering. It will make the broiling tea stay at around 92 degrees Celsius (about 195 F), which is the perfect temperature to extract the taste and the aromatics from leaves.

You don’t have to buy the most expensive tea leaves you can find; average products yield in satisfactory results more often than you’d think. It’s not the price that makes the tea better than others, but the care with which you handle it during the making. The little details make it much more enjoyable. On a nice afternoon there is probably no better way to wind down than to put a chair in the backyard and sip away at a nice cup of tea.