Storage
1. Keep it fresh: choose a tea tin or bag where the aroma cannot escape and properly close it after opening and refilling.
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2. Longer life: Keep tea away from light and heat
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3. Tea that smells and tastes like tea: Do not store tea near spices or other strong odours. Store flavoured teas separately from non-flavoured tea varieties
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Pouring
4. Bag first then water: Tea is an infusion and needs to have hot water poured over it: The water comes to the tea and not the opposite! Pour freshly- boiled water over the tea.
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5. The green one: For green teas, degree of temperature can be less but make sure that it was boiled before.
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6. Room to grow: Tea leaves need plenty of room in the strainer to unfold and optimally develop their flavour.
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7. Brewing time: Tea needs to be infused just the right length of time: Black and green two to three minutes; herbal and fruit five to eight minutes.
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Serving
8. Eye candy: Serve the tea in the right porcelain or tea glass – the eye drinks too!
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9. Sweet enough: Any kind of refined white sugar is perfect with every variety of tea. Caramel in brown rocky candy changes flavour, which is why that it can be only recommended for strong malty Assam tea – and not for a delicate Darjeeling or Green tea.
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10. No-nos: Tea experts forbid the following in fine tea
- Lemon
- Artificial sweeteners
- Residues of detergents
- Lukewarm water
- Unglazed cups
- Tea infusers
- Pots that have been used for coffee
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