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American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Anglo-Am
erican relations ever recover?)
By: kkt Date: January 24, 2024, 7:25 pm
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US scientist recommends adding salt to make perfect cup of tea
24th January 2024, 12:01 PST
By James Gregory
BBC News
[quote]The British claim to know a thing or two when it comes to
making a good cup of tea.
The beverage is a cultural institution in the UK, where an
estimated 100 million cups are drunk every day.
But now a scientist based more than 3,000 miles away in the US
claims to have found the secret to a perfect cuppa that many
Brits would initially find absolutely absurd - adding salt.
Prof Michelle Francl's research has caused quite the stir in the
UK, and has even drawn a diplomatic intervention from the US
Embassy.
"We want to ensure the good people of the UK that the
unthinkable notion of adding salt to Britain's national drink is
not official United States policy. And never will be," the
embassy said on X, formerly known as Twitter.[/quote]
Article continues, link:
HTML https://bbc.com/news/uk-68085304
Professor Franci says adding salt makes the tea taste less
bitter. I say she is unclear on the concept. Tea is supposed
to be a little bitter, to compliment the sweetness of cake or
cookies often served with tea. And if the tea is too bitter,
it's probably brewed too long or possibly too many tea leaves
for the amount of tea being made. If Professor Franci needs a
sweeter beverage, perhaps she'd try Pepsi.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: Aardtacha Date: January 24, 2024, 8:33 pm
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[quote author=kkt link=topic=2486.msg231934#msg231934
date=1706145948]
US scientist recommends adding salt to make perfect cup of tea
24th January 2024, 12:01 PST
By James Gregory
BBC News
[quote]The British claim to know a thing or two when it comes to
making a good cup of tea.
The beverage is a cultural institution in the UK, where an
estimated 100 million cups are drunk every day.
But now a scientist based more than 3,000 miles away in the US
claims to have found the secret to a perfect cuppa that many
Brits would initially find absolutely absurd - adding salt.
Prof Michelle Francl's research has caused quite the stir in the
UK, and has even drawn a diplomatic intervention from the US
Embassy.
"We want to ensure the good people of the UK that the
unthinkable notion of adding salt to Britain's national drink is
not official United States policy. And never will be," the
embassy said on X, formerly known as Twitter.[/quote]
Article continues, link:
HTML https://bbc.com/news/uk-68085304
Professor Franci says adding salt makes the tea taste less
bitter. I say she is unclear on the concept. Tea is supposed
to be a little bitter, to compliment the sweetness of cake or
cookies often served with tea. And if the tea is too bitter,
it's probably brewed too long or possibly too many tea leaves
for the amount of tea being made. If Professor Franci needs a
sweeter beverage, perhaps she'd try Pepsi.
[/quote]
Professor Francl needs to learn to make tea properly. But then,
what do you expect from someone who uses milk AND lemon in her
tea?
#Post#: 231951--------------------------------------------------
Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: kkt Date: January 25, 2024, 12:46 am
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=2486.msg231939#msg231939
date=1706150031]
[quote author=kkt link=topic=2486.msg231934#msg231934
date=1706145948]
US scientist recommends adding salt to make perfect cup of tea
24th January 2024, 12:01 PST
By James Gregory
BBC News
[quote]The British claim to know a thing or two when it comes to
making a good cup of tea.
The beverage is a cultural institution in the UK, where an
estimated 100 million cups are drunk every day.
But now a scientist based more than 3,000 miles away in the US
claims to have found the secret to a perfect cuppa that many
Brits would initially find absolutely absurd - adding salt.
Prof Michelle Francl's research has caused quite the stir in the
UK, and has even drawn a diplomatic intervention from the US
Embassy.
"We want to ensure the good people of the UK that the
unthinkable notion of adding salt to Britain's national drink is
not official United States policy. And never will be," the
embassy said on X, formerly known as Twitter.[/quote]
Article continues, link:
HTML https://bbc.com/news/uk-68085304
Professor Franci says adding salt makes the tea taste less
bitter. I say she is unclear on the concept. Tea is supposed
to be a little bitter, to compliment the sweetness of cake or
cookies often served with tea. And if the tea is too bitter,
it's probably brewed too long or possibly too many tea leaves
for the amount of tea being made. If Professor Franci needs a
sweeter beverage, perhaps she'd try Pepsi.
[/quote]
Professor Francl needs to learn to make tea properly. But then,
what do you expect from someone who uses milk AND lemon in her
tea?
[/quote]
The article is a little optimistic about how good tea is in the
UK. Lots of places, even in good restaurants, the tea was just
in bags and the hot water was more lukewarm than hot, and the
tea often the same brands as are available in the US. I'm sure
there are places that do loose tea and water that's near
boiling, but if you think that's going to be everywhere you're
going to be disappointed.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: VanGoghSunflowers Date: January 25, 2024, 9:22 am
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=2486.msg231939#msg231939
date=1706150031]
[quote author=kkt link=topic=2486.msg231934#msg231934
date=1706145948]
US scientist recommends adding salt to make perfect cup of tea
24th January 2024, 12:01 PST
By James Gregory
BBC News
[quote]The British claim to know a thing or two when it comes to
making a good cup of tea.
The beverage is a cultural institution in the UK, where an
estimated 100 million cups are drunk every day.
But now a scientist based more than 3,000 miles away in the US
claims to have found the secret to a perfect cuppa that many
Brits would initially find absolutely absurd - adding salt.
Prof Michelle Francl's research has caused quite the stir in the
UK, and has even drawn a diplomatic intervention from the US
Embassy.
"We want to ensure the good people of the UK that the
unthinkable notion of adding salt to Britain's national drink is
not official United States policy. And never will be," the
embassy said on X, formerly known as Twitter.[/quote]
Article continues, link:
HTML https://bbc.com/news/uk-68085304
Professor Franci says adding salt makes the tea taste less
bitter. I say she is unclear on the concept. Tea is supposed
to be a little bitter, to compliment the sweetness of cake or
cookies often served with tea. And if the tea is too bitter,
it's probably brewed too long or possibly too many tea leaves
for the amount of tea being made. If Professor Franci needs a
sweeter beverage, perhaps she'd try Pepsi.
[/quote]
Professor Francl needs to learn to make tea properly. But then,
what do you expect from someone who uses milk AND lemon in her
tea?
[/quote]
Okay, I'm whatever on adding salt to tea - but milk AND lemon?
So she adds milk and deliberately curdles it?
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(also don't add lemon to things if you want them to be less
bitter?)
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: Thetis099 Date: January 25, 2024, 9:41 am
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Why would people who like tea want to take away an important
component of the flavor of tea?
I like the bitter tones in the flavor of tea. See also: coffee
(wish it didn't bother my stomach so much), dry red wines, hoppy
ales and stouts, and really good British gin (I still miss those
flavors), Brussels sprouts, tahini, some dark leafy greens, some
olives, some herbs, etc. I have the genetics that lets me like
bitter-ish flavors because I don't sense the bitter very
intensely. The bitter doesn't overwhelm but instead compliments
the other flavors. My very own bitter dampener.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: animaniactoo Date: January 26, 2024, 2:49 pm
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#1) If adding sugar is not enough to make the tea sweet enough
to drink then it sounds like neutralizing what makes tea TEA to
me and at that point you might as well just use English
Breakfast teabags to make your lightly colored water.
#2) I call pure and utter B.S. on her thing about "scum" on the
surface of the water. Did she test this in multiple locations
and not merely her own kitchen which has a specific variant of
water and the chemicals/nutrients that may be in it based on its
source and the pipes that it has traveled through? Is she
perhaps microwaving the tea with the teabag in the water?
Because as far as I can tell, while there is something
essentially comforting about the ritual of heating water in a
kettle, hot water is hot water, and the microwave is perfectly
capable of producing hot water to dip your teabag into.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: Aardtacha Date: January 26, 2024, 3:35 pm
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[quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=2486.msg232359#msg232359
date=1706302175]
#1) If adding sugar is not enough to make the tea sweet enough
to drink then it sounds like neutralizing what makes tea TEA to
me and at that point you might as well just use English
Breakfast teabags to make your lightly colored water.
#2) I call pure and utter B.S. on her thing about "scum" on the
surface of the water. Did she test this in multiple locations
and not merely her own kitchen which has a specific variant of
water and the chemicals/nutrients that may be in it based on its
source and the pipes that it has traveled through? Is she
perhaps microwaving the tea with the teabag in the water?
Because as far as I can tell, while there is something
essentially comforting about the ritual of heating water in a
kettle, hot water is hot water, and the microwave is perfectly
capable of producing hot water to dip your teabag into.
[/quote]
I wondered about that, because I don't think my tea can produce
a "scum" unless I let it sit a very long time after making it.
And of course you need to pour the hot water over the tea, not
cook the tea in water as it heats.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: kkt Date: January 26, 2024, 4:55 pm
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[quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=2486.msg232359#msg232359
date=1706302175]
#1) If adding sugar is not enough to make the tea sweet enough
to drink then it sounds like neutralizing what makes tea TEA to
me and at that point you might as well just use English
Breakfast teabags to make your lightly colored water.
#2) I call pure and utter B.S. on her thing about "scum" on the
surface of the water. Did she test this in multiple locations
and not merely her own kitchen which has a specific variant of
water and the chemicals/nutrients that may be in it based on its
source and the pipes that it has traveled through? Is she
perhaps microwaving the tea with the teabag in the water?
Because as far as I can tell, while there is something
essentially comforting about the ritual of heating water in a
kettle, hot water is hot water, and the microwave is perfectly
capable of producing hot water to dip your teabag into.
[/quote]
And I want to know if she's going by her own tastes alone, or if
she used a double blind test like you need to do if you want
results you can count on.
I know, it's not a scientific publication.
I use water heated on an electric stove to brew my tea
initially, but I use the microwave to reheat it if it's gotten
cold. I don't think it hurts the taste.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: kkt Date: January 26, 2024, 4:56 pm
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=2486.msg232379#msg232379
date=1706304918]
[quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=2486.msg232359#msg232359
date=1706302175]
#1) If adding sugar is not enough to make the tea sweet enough
to drink then it sounds like neutralizing what makes tea TEA to
me and at that point you might as well just use English
Breakfast teabags to make your lightly colored water.
#2) I call pure and utter B.S. on her thing about "scum" on the
surface of the water. Did she test this in multiple locations
and not merely her own kitchen which has a specific variant of
water and the chemicals/nutrients that may be in it based on its
source and the pipes that it has traveled through? Is she
perhaps microwaving the tea with the teabag in the water?
Because as far as I can tell, while there is something
essentially comforting about the ritual of heating water in a
kettle, hot water is hot water, and the microwave is perfectly
capable of producing hot water to dip your teabag into.
[/quote]
I wondered about that, because I don't think my tea can produce
a "scum" unless I let it sit a very long time after making it.
And of course you need to pour the hot water over the tea, not
cook the tea in water as it heats.
[/quote]
I wonder how long it's been since she washed her teapot.
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Re: American researcher recommends adding salt to tea (will Angl
o-American relations ever recover?)
By: Aardtacha Date: January 26, 2024, 6:10 pm
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[quote author=kkt link=topic=2486.msg232397#msg232397
date=1706309756]
[quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=2486.msg232359#msg232359
date=1706302175]
#1) If adding sugar is not enough to make the tea sweet enough
to drink then it sounds like neutralizing what makes tea TEA to
me and at that point you might as well just use English
Breakfast teabags to make your lightly colored water.
#2) I call pure and utter B.S. on her thing about "scum" on the
surface of the water. Did she test this in multiple locations
and not merely her own kitchen which has a specific variant of
water and the chemicals/nutrients that may be in it based on its
source and the pipes that it has traveled through? Is she
perhaps microwaving the tea with the teabag in the water?
Because as far as I can tell, while there is something
essentially comforting about the ritual of heating water in a
kettle, hot water is hot water, and the microwave is perfectly
capable of producing hot water to dip your teabag into.
[/quote]
And I want to know if she's going by her own tastes alone, or if
she used a double blind test like you need to do if you want
results you can count on.
I know, it's not a scientific publication.
I use water heated on an electric stove to brew my tea
initially, but I use the microwave to reheat it if it's gotten
cold. I don't think it hurts the taste.
[/quote]
Since taste is subjective, articles like this don't really
matter much. My perfect cuppa is not your perfect cuppa, and
that's before we get around to doctoring it to taste. But it
amuses me to wonder about people who do these kinds of "studies"
and their approach. Betting she used tap water or filtered
water only, and didn't test the effect of water hardness or pH
on that perfect cup.
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