In addition to coffee daily, I also drink an Irish Breakfast tea and usually 1-2 cups of various others later in the day as well (this winter season I’ll do mint, chamomile, probably Rooibos or Oolong, whatever I happen to find for cheap).
An electric water kettle was given to me as a gift (but they are cheap anyway I thought?) and it’s so super fast and easy. I don’t really know what I’m doing - just pour, steep for ~1 min, then drink, repeat:-). For breakfast tea I add creamer, for the rest nothing. I’m sure I could do more like put those large packs in something airtight.
What do you rock, in terms of tea🍵?
I never got into Earl Grey for some reason. Irish Breakfast is strong enough to have flavor even with food, and I guess I got used to it, enough to enjoy it even without (in fairness I usually use a bag twice, which makes the flavor weaker:-).
I never add sugar but then again I usually have something with the tea, perhaps a yogurt, in which case I also add no creamer, or eggs for breakfast, in which case I do add creamer.
Herbal teas are supposed to be a bit bitter. As a child I always hated bitter, but now I love these flavors.
I miss green teas. You used to get it for like a dollar in Japanese restaurants, but now that it’s tripled in price for whatever reason I never do it anymore. Soups either - I used to get one every time I went but now I just never do. Post-pandemic pricing definitely changed how I eat things, especially “out”.
Don’t feel shame in using a microwave (then again, I know nothing, so don’t listen to me there:-) - so long as the water boils and then starts to back off from that, it’s mission accomplished.:-)
But with the bag in - that works?!? Well if you enjoy it, I suppose it must.
Yeah, the bag in does lose some of the strength of the bergamot for earl grey, but other than that, the difference isn’t enough to notice in bagged teas. Like, maybe if you were blind tasting side by side, you could tell that the same tea wasn’t the same microwave vs normal steep, but I couldn’t tell which was which. The best I can describe is that the microwave is a little less tannic, but a little less floral as well