I am EXTREMELY disappoint that the Caffeine produced by the plant to defend itself from pests, and also alters my brain chemistry such that hormones emitted by tired neurons are ignored... doesn't kill the bacteria :'(
Will boiling water ruin green tea?
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Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#212the german tea expert Ernst Janssen recommends to also use boiling water to prepare green tea as most of the teas are contaminated with germs and other things. different green tea brands including organic tea brands were tested by the renowned German test.de magazine and they confirmed that, also most of organic teas are contaminated. and since this is nothing you can easily check at home, better use boiling water. h…
Boiling doesn't even kill most things. I worked in a biolab for a while and used an autoclave to sterilize objects. It basically means we pressure cooked stuff at 130°C for 45min or so. And even that doesn't destroy some dangerous stuff like prions.
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got into green tea around 2014 (my how time flies) and I've had a lot of experiences. Depending on how sensitive you are everything can change the taste, but IMO the big three are: - water (huge, huge differences) - type of tea (cultivar, when/ where it was harvested, steam time) - brew temp and time I eventually settled on a system where I heat filtered water in a regular pot with a meat thermometer to the right t…
I read that soft and low mineral water makes the best tea and tried to use water with such values bought from market. It was trash. Tap water where I live is very hard and have a good taste and the tea is much better with it - so my experience contradicts what I found about the topic on the net. Are there any objective parameters of water which makes a better green tea?
Honestly I'm not sure; I think it has to be down to personal preference. I once had tap water in the Midwest that made delicious tea, conversely NYC's famous water was fine. The variation, plus the bonkers amount of contaminants in tap water led me to get a tank with the "lead plus" or whatever filters. It's definitely more "sterile", but on the theory that lead, PFAS, a slurry of medications and a smattering of other minerals is delicious, I'm fine with that.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it is very hard to convert. The US has about 4% of the world population. Adapt. It's not worth the communication problems.
No, it is very hard to convert. Do you think folks are doing it by hand? nope, they use the internet, the same thing we are communicating on. I agree that the US should convert, but that's another discussion. No need to crap on folks for using something familiar when we all know that's why they do it.
not easy to convert accurately in your head, but google does unit conversion right in the search bar:
"200 f to c"
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
In some places, most of your instruments will likely be in Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit is what you use daily for most tasks. It only makes sense that you use Fahrenheit as your reference point. A home in other places is more likely to have Celcius, and you'll likely use it. It isn't like it is difficult to convert.
No, it is very hard to convert. The US has about 4% of the world population. Adapt. It's not worth the communication problems.
The US represents half the readership on this forum. Audience-wise it's a "pick your poison" scenario in avoiding communication problems, so what's wrong with an individual copying their notes into a website not just leaving the units as written?
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
They more or less did. It's just the general public that for some reason still uses these units.
No point in using kph for speed if all of the signs are in mph. No point in learning C for air temperature if the forecasts are in F. No point in using metric volume measurements if it doesn't match the measurements on your cooking tools. No point in using metric height and weight at the doctor if the form requests inches and pounds. And so on. You just don't have a choice unless the government makes the switch manda…
In Ireland we changed all the road signs to kph 20 years ago. It too some minor adjustments but that was that.
Re: Will boiling water ruin green tea?
#217It definitely will. After a couple years of experimentation and testing I've found anything over ~200F is basically undrinkable. It took me so long to figure this out because there were a lot of confounders -- I drank a lot of tea over the holidays back home, and while my parents' town is on the same water source I swear their florination is different, in a way that changes the mouth feel of the tea. I also had a new…
200F = 93.3C, 190F = 87.8C. Really, we're talking about boiling, why would one even consider using Fahrenheit?
Even as an Aussie I have to disagree with you here. The commenter at least put Fahrenheit in the degree.
People are allowed to communicate in a way that they're familiar with. If they have used F their entire life and so has everyone around them, then its fine.
The US demographic represents roughly 41% of Hacker News, I think its fine if they use their own measurement system.
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#218I tried this over the weekend, different temperatures worked better for different teas which is frustrating, also I found the best tea was to prepare two pots, one boiled and one on the cooler side of lukewarm and then mix together the results, favouring slightly the cooler prepared tea.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US customary units have a lot advantages. For example: In Fahrenheit, 0 is really cold while 100 is really hot. In Celsius, 0 is kind of cold while 100 is damaging to life. With feet and inches, you can easily divide a foot by 2, 3, 4, and 6 with no repeating decimal digits. It's the same reason the ancient sumerians used base 60 for their number system. With liquid measure, a cup is roughly what would be conside…
0 is freezing, 100 is boiling. 12 is a handy number but decimal calculation isn't difficult either, especially when all your units use the same. What is a cup? How do you do calculations with a third of a cup etc? I know a cup is roughly 200 mil. From exposure in life I know 200ml is about a cup of tea and 300ml is about a mug of coffee /can of come, 500 is a big can of beer. How many cups are in a can of beer?
>/can of come
You can buy it in cans now?