Say what.
Do you fully boil the kettle when you're making a cup of tea? If so, apparently you've been doing it wrong, according to a professional food and drink taster.
According to Yorkshire tea, this is how you should go about making your brew.
- Treat your water kindly. Run the tap a little so the water's nicely aerated, and only boil it once to keep the oxygen level up. ...
- Add tea and water. Pop a tea bag into your mug, pour over the hot water and stir briefly.
- Wait patiently. ...
- Give it a squeeze. ...
- Customise your brew
But according to Martin Isark, a professional food and drink taster, that's now how it should be done.
Martin claims you should never use boiling water to make a traditional brew because it will make it taste 'no better than cabbage water.'
He explained to the Daily Mail that when making tea, you should let the water cool down to 80 degrees.
And that boiling water was only ever originally used when it was necessary to make sue that the water was safe to drink.
He said: "It's time to debunk the myth that you should use boiling water.
"Having the water too hot will kill the desirable nuances of tea and all you are left with is a strong flavour of dry, astringent tannins.
"Overboiling your water and dunking teabags too long leaves tea tasting no better than cabbage water."
There you go...is this going t change the way you make your tea? Or are you sticking with the old fashioned method?
