“Preparation purist” is wrong. You don’t boil the tea, you steep it in hot water. For some teas, like black tea, you usually boil the water before pouring it over the tea, but other types of tea use water that isn’t as hot (e.g. around 70-80°C for green tea).
Also, if you actually want to be an ingredient purist, tea must be made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis (or a closely related species).
You’re arguing with a meme that put clogged gutter as pure tea ingredient
Correct. That would be tea as long as it’s camellia sinensis.
That’s the spirit
No, it’s tea
No, this is Patrick.
In China it’s called 地沟茶
You’re a purist.
i mean, if you consider tea to be leaves soaked in water until the flavor comes out, then clogged up gutter water is tea.
I’m steeping in sweat and I drank a lot of camellia sinensis, am I tea?
Unfortunately for you, yes. Please report to the nearest Tetley factory for processing.
You hit the issue, theyre confusing tea, a specific plant, with an infusion. Herbal tea is more correctly called an herbal infusion. Tea is a type of herbal infusion.
It depends. It’s perfectly acceptable to boil the tea for many Indian preparations (usually called cha or chai).
True, I forgot about that!
100% agreed.
Though I’m firmly in the “coffee is tea” camp
As long as you’re not claiming to be a purist I’ll allow it.
Coffee is hot bean juice
Coffee with vanilla and soy milk is a three bean soup.
No that’s spoiled bean juice
As is miso soup
ISO 3103. RTFM!
Misread that as Nobel prize and …lol wtf
I came to say the same thing about Camellia sinensis, thinking “am I about to be more of a tea purist than is even encapsulated in this chart?” So I’m glad somebody else got there first lol
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Preparation futurist, Ingredient singularity:
There’s a singularity in that nebula.
I have never rewatched Voyager and I think I have to soon.
Crude oil is texas tea, but mac and cheese requires milk not water.
I think I’ve seen mac and cheese cups that ask for hot water.
milk is tea
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Tea preparation rebels are not constrained by shallow concepts like ‘being edible’
As miso soup enjoyer i can confirm it’s tea, because it’s relaxing & delicious
Coffee is the best tea
I would try some saturn
If you boil coffee it’ll be over extracted, bitter, and nasty.
So because i make cold berry tea in summer and think coffee is a tea too, i’m a “crude oil is tea” sort of guy? 🤨
Ever had Chinese medicine?
Gotta keep the yang up
I guess I’m an ingredient purist, preparation rebel. If your house is surrounded by tea plants, and the tea leaves fall in the gutter, how is that different from brewing tea the normal way?
Water isn’t the ideal temperature. Everyone knows black tea must be made with water that’s 212-210 degreases Fahrenheit
JFC, for someone so bent about the proper way to prepare tea, one would think you’d be able to spell “degrees”
LOL I know how to spell degrees. I probably hit the wrong key and spellcheck autocorrected it to something random. Welcome to 2024.
Coffee ≠ tea. Coffee is made from beans and tea is made from leaves. That’s why tea tastes like grass clippings.
Coffee is made from seeds actually
Ginger tea though. It’s fine not to consider that tea, but if you do call it tea, you have to let coffee in too.
It’s ingredient neutral then.
I have a Yogi tea with curry here. Sold as tea.