Tea is a special drink that gives refreshment instantly. Tea is some thing special as it tastes differently when you get it from different estates every time. You know, all the popular estates give teas in their brands, but they taste slightly different every time.
As there are changes in weather conditions, manuring and fertilizing, cultural practices, pest and disease control, harvesting and processing etc with or with out knowledge, the tea characters also change. Tea lovers will easily find the change in color, taste and flavor too.
But to your surprise, you could see taste variations within a small quantity of tea from a single lot also when the tea drink is made differently.
Tea in Hot Water
In the traditional way make the tea by just boiling 200 ml of water. Put a measured quantity of a teaspoonful of tea dusts. Allow it to boil for 2 minutes and filter it. Add 200 ml of boiled milk and 6 teaspoons of sugar to taste.
Whether you taste it raw or with sugar alone or with sugar and milk, the taste is fine. Keep the lingering taste in your memory.
This is generally practiced in homes.
Tea in Hot Diluted Milk and Sugar
Now, take a 200 ml of water, 200 ml of milk, a teaspoonful of tea dust and 6 tea spoonful of sugar in a saucepan and boil all the ingredients at a time and allow boiling for 2 minutes. Now filter the tea and taste it. It is nice and different from the first kind of making. All the measured quantities are same as the first, but the making process is slightly different. The taste is a little more here.
This is practiced in canteens and functions where bulk tea is required for serving a good number of persons at a time.
Tea in Filter Media
Now take tea dust in a sieve and pour the boiling water through the tea dusts; get the tea decoction in a bowl containing hot milk and sugar as measured earlier. The tea is called a filtered tea, though the ingredients are the very same. The filtered tea is more colorful and shows the taste differently.
This is the practice adopted in most tea shops of small and big sizes; but they are too busy in delivering tea to one or two or groups of persons in a short time. They make tea quickly and serve fast.
Royal Teapot
Tea is taken in a teapot and boiling water is added and closed with the lid for 2 to 3 minutes. The tea is decanted and tasted. Tea will be added with sugar and hot milk and tasted in a royal style.
Please feel the taste of teas as different drinks made in different ways. The characters of tea like intensity of color, taste and flavor also changes with change in method to prepare a hot tea.
However, stick on to a method that keeps you happy with the taste lingering for a long time. Needless to say if you wish to enjoy these different tastes every now and then, you may go ahead.
Only thing you need to do is selection of a best tea that assures a cup of happy and healthy tea. Just make a move towards the best teas.
