Um.. I guess I'm drinking the most
foul swill ever, then.
I seem to be doing
everything wrong! I go so far as to use a
single vessel for both
boiling water and
brewing tea! My tea is apparently "
dangerously strong", as I use not 0.7 tea bags (yes,
bags! Not
leaf tea, but
tea bags!), but SIX (!!) of them! (that's almost ten times the 'right' amount)!!! Granted, I'm making a bit more than a
cup, but still.. and I don't use
sugar or
lemon or
cream or
milk (and if I did, I’d just pour them in!!)!!
Somehow, I find it very difficult to
understand how all this cup-pouring, container-switching stuff affects the
taste of tea. It does not matter how many times you pour it into different containers, it is still
hot water. Hot water does not have a wide range of flavors and textures -- in fact, it has exactly
one. I also have yet to see any kind of evidence that things taste better (or different at all) when consumed from
fine china as versus, say, ceramic mug, or an
enormous plastic bag. If you are sufficiently sensitive to these things that you can tell the difference between tea that was made with a
preheated pot and tea that was made with a
room temperature pot, maybe you shouldn't be drinking
caffeine.
Monk grins and runs away from this scary place.