I'm trying to get into tea.
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I drink earl grey tea with a splash of pawg creamer.
@Standing on business can help
I did something similar a few months back. I've settled into drinking English Breakfast Tea. I've tried it with milk/creamer but I prefer to keep it black with some sugar and call it good. Only really drink it on weekends or if I work from home. In the office I'm still a coffee drinker.
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trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
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What you want to know? I am a tea head. General advice to start out with:
Only buy loose leaf teas. Teabags eventhough they say otherwise still have microplastics in them, so healthwise over the long term it could be detrimental and besides loose leaf teas are of higher quality. You get to choose your serving size and what level of potency works for you.
Assuming the loose leaf route, get yourself an individual sized tea diffuser and one that comes with a tea pot. Personally now if I am making individual cups of tea I put the tea leafs directly in the cup and then pour the water in the mug. Let it steep between 4-7 mins (depending on the level of potency you want), then I pour the tea in another cup and strain out the loose leaf tea.
Most teas you don't really need to add much for flavoring. Mainly black teas are where you end up adding milk and sweetener. Learn to appreciate the natural flavor of the teas.
The temperature you use to pour over the tea matters and is dependent on the tea. For example you can actually "burn" green tea if you pour boiling water over it. Instead you want the water to be around 80 degrees celsius. There is a difference in flavor profiles. But for other teas such as black teas you would use boiling water.
On that note there are 4 basic tea "types": green, black, whites, herbal. The three colored ones tend to have caffeine, the herbals clearly do not.
Different teas for different moods and different effects.
As an advamced aisde and suggestion with regards to replacing coffee, look into yerba mate. It provides the same "boost" as coffee does or did if you have gotten used to the caffeine, but yerba mate doesn't give you those coffee "jitters" or crash.
Need to know more let me know.
Nkrumah Was Right
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Drink green tea. It's rich in antioxidants.
Nkrumah Was Right
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I drink yerba mate but I do so in moderation (1-2 cups at most in a day). Big consumption of yerba mate is linked with certain kinds of cancer.
Argentines, Uruguayans, and southern Brazilians will drink 4-8 cups a day, which is not good.
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
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yea that's why I put the "advanced" disclaimer..... I got strict guidelines with my yerba consumption after enough trial amd error........ I usually reserve it for the weekends Fri-Sun if I do decide to consume it and then there is a very strict 5pm cut off point. So usually I will start around 11-12ish I get through about 3/4 of a 1.75L Stanley thermos of water. Also I keep myself hydrated with water and drink water the rest of the evening too..... it is a fun energetic drink, but you do have to know how to manage it.
