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I appreciate the connoisseur vernacular
Becoming a tea snob helped me stay away from alcohol during quarantine :/
Becoming a whiskey snob just made me wish I could abide cigar smoking.
Will boiling water ruin green tea?
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Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#42I drink ridiculous amounts of English Breakfast tea with 1% milk every day. The water HAS to be boiling when it hits the tea. You cn really tell the difference if the water is less than boiling. Same but more subtle with green tea imo
Do you actually drink not-bottom-of-the-barrel sencha? If not, your experience is not applicable, respectfully. With even middle-of-the-road sencha the difference is far from subtle.
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#43I drink ridiculous amounts of English Breakfast tea with 1% milk every day. The water HAS to be boiling when it hits the tea. You cn really tell the difference if the water is less than boiling. Same but more subtle with green tea imo
Do you actually drink not-bottom-of-the-barrel sencha? If not, your experience is not applicable, respectfully. With even middle-of-the-road sencha the difference is far from subtle.
I always thought Sencha was different to green tea, steamed leaves, more subtle?
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#44I don't think their analysis about caffeine is correct and doesn't cite sources. I've seen a lower temperature for a longer time more often being ideal for maximizing caffeine vs other components in pubmed research on teas, I.e.:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21339166/
If one does a lower temperature for a longer time it is often also equivalent to boiling for a very short time a.f.a pathogens. I think the relative bitterness is probably higher for higher temperature brews after normalizing on caffeine.
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#45Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#46Yes. I've tried it - makes it obviously more bitter.
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#47I drink ridiculous amounts of English Breakfast tea with 1% milk every day. The water HAS to be boiling when it hits the tea. You cn really tell the difference if the water is less than boiling. Same but more subtle with green tea imo
Do you actually drink not-bottom-of-the-barrel sencha? If not, your experience is not applicable, respectfully. With even middle-of-the-road sencha the difference is far from subtle.
15% of people don't taste bitterness in the same way. Hops taste floral and a bit sweet to me and I like to chew on Artemisia species my family finds hideously bitter. I could put cheap gunpowder green tea in a percolator for an hour and it wouldn't taste bitter to me. Perhaps the gp has the same trait?
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#48L-theanine is a hell of a drug!
And 65-75°C is a safe bet for almost all greens. Germs won't survive on dried herbs with no access to water.
Bacterial spores can survive on dry stuff and these can be inactivated by high temperatures, but 65°C should do. Also, we humans have this cool ability to raise body temperature to kill unwelcome stuff, so we're good until cordyceps evolves.
Toxins on the other hand, may be able to survive even boiling.
Go for 65-75°C and don't ever taste bitter green tea.
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
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Yeah it seems so dried out you wouldn't have too much to worry about. As for boiling tea for sanitation, I took a wilderness first responder class and they taught us that you could bring water to a boil at any altitude a human can breath at (without holding it at a boil for 15 minutes as some claim) and it's considered sterilized. In Cusco, that would be around 191F/89C (humans can breathe quite a bit higher up than…
> Yeah it seems so dried out you wouldn't have too much to worry about. How about the people touching / sneezing on it in the packaging factory?
If you source your green tea from a Japanese tea farm, this is really not a concern. Farm workers all wear gloves and masks, and the tea leaves are harvested directly from the tea bushes to a net via a machine.
Additionally, the tea plants are covered by cloth for up to a month before harvest, dramatically reducing the chances of bird droppings.
They are also steamed, rolled, and dried by mechanical devices which remove virtually all moisture.
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All foodstuffs are contaminated with germs, unless you go to extraordinary effort to prevent it (e.g. intense gamma radiation.) Unless there is some particular reason to care (you're a hospital feeding people who had their bone marrow nuked by cancer/chemo), then the correct solution is to stop caring. Who ever heard of people dropping dead because they brewed their tea with sub-boiling water? This isn't happening, i…
Do they really use gamma, or just electron beams like in a TV tube?
Either.