How to make tea, the scientific way
3 years, 8 months ago

How to make tea, the scientific way

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I tend to prefer my tea without sugar, a request that often annoys tea vendors because they tend to keep pre-boiled milk ready with added sugar, and my request almost always requires them to put in a little bit of extra effort. When someone says they “don’t know how to make good tea”, what they are actually saying is they “don’t know how to make tea in exactly the way I like it”. So, before we get down to the science of tea, let’s first pour some cold water on this notion that it’s a “traditional” drink. When it comes to black tea, the temperature needs to be close to a rolling boil, about 92-95 degrees Celsius, and three-four minutes is optimal for getting maximum flavour out of the leaves without getting tannins into your drink. If you boil the tea leaves in milk, what you will get is a sweeter, thicker drink since milk loses water as you boil and thickens in texture.

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Is tea healthy? US FDA gives approval to India's favourite beverage
13 hours, 52 minutes ago

Is tea healthy? US FDA gives approval to India's favourite beverage

Hindustan Times  

From tea stalls on bustling streets to sophisticated tea ceremonies, tea is not just a beverage for Indians, it’s an emotion. FDA recoganises tea as healthy beverage On December 19, the FDA added a final regulation revising the ‘healthy’ nutritional content claim to help the consumers in identifying items that comply with dietary recommendations. However, the FDA stated that the …

A Symphony of Flavors: Fusion Teas Offer a Modern Twist on Traditional Indian Tea
2 months ago

A Symphony of Flavors: Fusion Teas Offer a Modern Twist on Traditional Indian Tea

News 18  

Fusion teas offer a fresh take on an age-old tradition, blending classic Indian ingredients with contemporary flavors. This trend reflects the changing preferences of today's consumers, who seek health-conscious options without compromising on taste. Through their TAPRI smart vending machines, Cherise India Pvt. Ltd. delivers the traditional taste of homemade chai, coffee, soups, and milk beverages while utilizing cutting-edge IoT …

How Millennials and Gen Z are reinventing Indian tea
5 months, 2 weeks ago

How Millennials and Gen Z are reinventing Indian tea

Live Mint  

I got interested in tea when I started looking for better black tea and more leafy Assams. Sometimes tea assumes a cultural context, as with the boiled, sweet and milky chai drunk in most parts of the country or the fragrant kahwa of Kashmir, which are inextricably linked to place and people, and sometimes it’s about a seasonal exception, such …

International Tea Day: Don’t settle for the kettle, cook with tea!
7 months ago

International Tea Day: Don’t settle for the kettle, cook with tea!

Hindustan Times  

Chai, shai, cha, te, tea, teh — one beverage with differing but easily distinguishable names has the world wrapped around its little finger. Tea connoisseur Kavita Mathur says, “One can make delightful tea-marbled eggs by boiling eggs and then steeping them well with a teaspoon of Assam black tea after slightly cracking the eggshells. This is best paired with a …

Sugar, tea and a slice of history
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sugar, tea and a slice of history

Live Mint  

The new cook examines my kitchen. Sugar’s journey through history is complex and if you are interested, do pick up Sweetness And Power by anthropologist Sidney Mintz or watch culinary anthropologist Kurush Dalal’s YouTube video on The History Of Sugar. Mintz says in his book, “The success of tea, like the less resounding success of coffee and chocolate, was also …

One of tea’s best kept secrets
1 year, 2 months ago

One of tea’s best kept secrets

Live Mint  

A week ago, newspapers published new research on dark tea and its role in reducing the risk of diabetes. Two styles of dark tea, which is available from different regions and in different forms, have caught the tea world’s attention over the last 20 years—the pu’erh from Yunnan, and, more recently, the Anhua dark tea from Hunan. The Chinese tea …

Savoring India's Tea Odyssey: A Sip through Time
1 year, 4 months ago

Savoring India's Tea Odyssey: A Sip through Time

News 18  

India, with all its diversity and intricacies is united by this one magical drink. In the book Chai: The Experience of Indian Tea, authors Rajan Kapoor and Rekha Sarin state ‘tea-drinking culture is a skein that runs through the warp and weft of the multi-ethnic tapestry of Indian society’. India today is the world’s second biggest producer of tea, having …

A World of Flavour: Exploring the Different Types of Tea
1 year, 5 months ago

A World of Flavour: Exploring the Different Types of Tea

News 18  

All of us like our tea to be hot! This delightful drink offers a diverse array of exquisite flavours and varieties, including India’s renowned Darjeeling Tea, Assam Tea, Kangra Tea, and Nilgiri Tea. Baid explains the lure of different teas for the Indian masses: The world-famous Darjeeling Tea, grown in the misty mountains of West Bengal, is celebrated for its …

Kangra tea’s calling card
1 year, 6 months ago

Kangra tea’s calling card

Live Mint  

The oolong was my introduction to Kangra, the tea region in Himachal Pradesh. For us tea drinkers, green tea is relatively new, having presented itself as an option a decade or so ago, but it was being made in Kangra much earlier. Frank Miller, a tea expert who spent time in Kangra in the 1960s, wrote in an article in …

Brewing tea over charcoal: A cure to regulate the body and mind
1 year, 7 months ago

Brewing tea over charcoal: A cure to regulate the body and mind

China Daily  

Tea-flavored drinks and desserts, presented by Heytea and Theatre Tea, are targeting young consumers who seek a fresh experience of Chinese tea. Sitting cozily around a charcoal stove, upon which boils a pot of tea, Sui Xin and two of her friends spend a whole afternoon roasting nuts and fruits while chatting and relaxing. "We usually boil white tea, which …

Brewing tea over charcoal: A cure to regulate the body and mind
1 year, 7 months ago

Brewing tea over charcoal: A cure to regulate the body and mind

China Daily  

Tea-flavored drinks and desserts, presented by Heytea and Theatre Tea, are targeting young consumers who seek a fresh experience of Chinese tea. Sitting cozily around a charcoal stove, upon which boils a pot of tea, Sui Xin and two of her friends spend a whole afternoon roasting nuts and fruits while chatting and relaxing. "We usually boil white tea, which …

Assam’s new age tea producers
1 year, 7 months ago

Assam’s new age tea producers

Live Mint  

A friend told me that a cup of tea is the reason she gets out of bed every morning. But there’s more brewing in Assam that is well worth celebrating—for Assam tea is into its 200th year. I tried a first flush tippy black tea from Rajen Baruah’s Assam Heritage Tea in Dibrugarh. Speaking of ease of brewing, in Sibsagar, …

Perfect cup of tea is no myth!
2 years, 7 months ago

Perfect cup of tea is no myth!

Hindustan Times  

Where there’s tea, there’s happiness — phrases like these are quite a common sight on tea lovers’ social media pages. But, based on the type of leaves picked and the level of oxidation or processing, tea is classified into five types, namely black, green, oolong, white and pu-erh. Green tea is harvested just like black tea, but prepared by steaming, …

Eight special teas to sip on International Tea Day
2 years, 7 months ago

Eight special teas to sip on International Tea Day

Live Mint  

Today is International Tea Day, started in 2020 to nudge the industry towards greater sustainability and find ways to increase per capita consumption in tea-producing countries, among other objectives. Industry folks say that if we can increase per capita consumption by one cup a day, we would be able to tackle the glut in production and balance demand and supply. …

Tea Board flags chemically-coloured tea
3 years ago

Tea Board flags chemically-coloured tea

The Hindu  

The Tea Board of India has flagged a “colourful” impostor threatening to rob tea of its image as a healthy beverage. “The beneficial value of tea as part of your daily diet is proven and tea is known to fight against several diseases, including heart ailments and cancer,” the Tea Board said, advising consumers to enjoy the taste and flavour …

How to make tea, the scientific way
3 years, 8 months ago

How to make tea, the scientific way

Live Mint  

I tend to prefer my tea without sugar, a request that often annoys tea vendors because they tend to keep pre-boiled milk ready with added sugar, and my request almost always requires them to put in a little bit of extra effort. When someone says they “don’t know how to make good tea”, what they are actually saying is they …

Green Tea: Know About Its Astonishing Health Benefits
3 years, 11 months ago

Green Tea: Know About Its Astonishing Health Benefits

News 18  

The least oxidized type of the tea family is the green tea as it is prepared from the un-oxidized leaves following minimum processing. So, fear of high blood pressure disease, congestive heart failure shall be abated due to green tea’s magical potential. Beneficial for immunity and skin: Being loaded with polyphenols, flavonoids, besides antioxidants, green tea serves as a terrific …

A short and sweet guide for loose leaf teas
3 years, 11 months ago

A short and sweet guide for loose leaf teas

Live Mint  

My conversations with tea planters over the last year have shown me just how time-consuming and laborious tea production is, and I have come to appreciate every tea for the work that goes into making it. Orthodox tea, a somewhat odd descriptor for tea, is the term for the “traditional” method of tea-making. In other words, the tea-making style that …

The tea list for all seasons
4 years ago

The tea list for all seasons

Live Mint  

This is about the time I would take stock of the year that was, making a neatly numbered list of everything of consequence. In summer, I found that white tea makes a cold brew that’s not watery but luscious and velvety. Most high-altitude tea regions in India produce great white teas, but a really well-made white peony from Rujani in …

Getting the tea leaves right in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic
4 years ago

Getting the tea leaves right in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic

Business Standard  

Your tea moments are the kind that count in the day, starting from the time you savour the aroma, deep dive into flavour and mindfully enjoy the brew sip by sip. Normally, if premium teas are produced from two leaves and a bud, white tea is produced from one leaf and a bud and comes at astonishing prices upwards of …

The language of tea labels
4 years, 2 months ago

The language of tea labels

Live Mint  

Do you find the language of tea cultivation mystifying even though you shop for “fine” Indian varieties? CTC produces uniform pellets of black tea that infuse quickly, for a strong and dark cup. I find that blended teas offer a good starting point to explore a new tea region/season before you narrow in on a garden. RA, which is quite …

Unity for tea, as ‘chai latte’ gets a big no!
4 years, 2 months ago

Unity for tea, as ‘chai latte’ gets a big no!

Hindustan Times  

Apart from Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni, if theres one thing that Indians almost unanimously love is chai/tea. There’s a variant of tea according to every individual in this country, and every variant is unique in its own way,” says chef Manish Mehrotra as he explains the reason why Indian netizens, almost unanimously criticised a video posted by a Twitter account …

Opinion | How tea became ’chai’
4 years, 3 months ago

Opinion | How tea became ’chai’

Live Mint  

I assumed chai was part of Indian cuisine. Chai’s story led me to Lutgendorf, recently retired as professor of Hindi and modern Indian studies at the University of Iowa, who has done research on how Indians became habituated to chai. Perhaps the inventor of chai found “pot tea” too fussy and achieved similar results by just putting all the ingredients …

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