We drink this amazing drink every day, but we know very little about it, but it is already almost 5 thousand years old, and it is grown in 38 countries of the world.
There are a huge number of varieties of the drink loved by all countries and peoples - in China alone there are more than two thousand of them. However, the most expensive tea in the world is considered to be the Gyokuro variety - Pearl Dew.
Then what is the best tea? Experts answer: properly grown, harvested on time and skillfully prepared. Everyone seems to know the rules for brewing tea, but it is precisely the nuances with which the offensive minority are familiar that make this drink refined and sophisticated.
These are the important little things:
- water must be of excellent quality - spring water or passed through a good filter;
- water should not be overheated, it should be no more than 90 degrees, because boiling water kills all the taste of tea;
- there should be separate teapots for brewing black and green tea. Be that as it may, the smell of the old tea remains, and then the "bouquet" is not the same.
How to make tea:
Rinse a clean kettle with boiling water for 10 seconds to warm it up. Then immediately pour the tea leaves into the teapot and fill it with water, not adding 1 cm to the edge of the teapot, so that the tea "breathes". Cover the teapot with a linen napkin - excess steam will escape through it, and the aroma will remain in the drink. Tea can be drunk literally in 3 minutes - it is ready. Then the essential oils will begin to evaporate, so you need to catch the moment.
Some add a little sugar to the bottom of the kettle to enhance the taste, but this is everyone's business. True connoisseurs of tea claim that sugar only spoils the taste of a noble drink.
Of course, in order for tea to be tasty, you need to competently treat its main component - tea leaves. Keep black tea separate from other odoriferous foods so that it does not absorb foreign odors. But the brewing of green tea after opening the pack is better to store in a cool place - in the refrigerator, otherwise unfavorable processes will occur in it, which will worsen the quality of the tea.
