Tea or Coffee?
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Re: Tea or Coffee?
As I belong to India, another name of love is Tea for me. However, drinking Tea means a low risk of cancer and heart disease and it also helps to lose weight. It also improves our immune system. I will go for Tea.
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i am not addicted to anything
but i do take coffee, once or twice in a year
but i do take coffee, once or twice in a year
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Just making a cup of Vanilla chai right now.
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For most of my life I only drank tea - usually something common like Liptons, but never tea bags. I also hated Instant coffee. When I was about fifteen I was introduced to Jasmine scented green tea by my chinese neighbours.
I liked that it didn't need sugar or milk to taste interesting, and it could be brewed several ways for different flavours. So Jasmine scented Green tea went into my saddlebags (working on horseback) and my panniers (travelling between shearing sheds or cattle stations).
Somewhere in the middle of all this some Indian friends I worked with taught me to make tea using a saucepan, black tea, a mix of spices, milk and honey.
Later, tea was always my drink of choice aboard my yachts, then in 2001 a friend made me a cup of freshly ground coffee using a strange shaped thing that not only boiled the water and pushed water out through the ground coffee (like a miniature cafe coffee machine) but also made steam for foaming milk. That started me on a discovery trip.
I found a whole other world that didn;t involve 'instant coffee'. And found there are so many ways to make a drink using coffee beans and various tools - each creating a different flavour from the same beans. And different 'recipes' for each drink (varying times and grinds). Then different beans meant a change of all the flavours again!
So now I play with coffee, and have almost as many coffee making devices, as I have computers.
But I still love a fresh cup of decent tea...
I liked that it didn't need sugar or milk to taste interesting, and it could be brewed several ways for different flavours. So Jasmine scented Green tea went into my saddlebags (working on horseback) and my panniers (travelling between shearing sheds or cattle stations).
Somewhere in the middle of all this some Indian friends I worked with taught me to make tea using a saucepan, black tea, a mix of spices, milk and honey.
Later, tea was always my drink of choice aboard my yachts, then in 2001 a friend made me a cup of freshly ground coffee using a strange shaped thing that not only boiled the water and pushed water out through the ground coffee (like a miniature cafe coffee machine) but also made steam for foaming milk. That started me on a discovery trip.
I found a whole other world that didn;t involve 'instant coffee'. And found there are so many ways to make a drink using coffee beans and various tools - each creating a different flavour from the same beans. And different 'recipes' for each drink (varying times and grinds). Then different beans meant a change of all the flavours again!
So now I play with coffee, and have almost as many coffee making devices, as I have computers.
But I still love a fresh cup of decent tea...
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(Yorkshire) tea right now, but overall I prefer coffee, especially in the morning.
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BIG (32 oz) mug of iced tea right now. Very strong with some lemon, no sugar.
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Hi Olive, I was of the same view but there was a recent study suggesting caffeinated coffee might actually be good for the heart. Here's a link about it : https://www.heart.org/en/news/2021/02/0 ... rt-failure
It seems to suggest in moderation, maybe around 3 cups a day. Who knows, but as I like my coffee I'll buy it!
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Pretty much doing things in moderation seems to be positive.
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When I go to a place with real coffee machines, and when I get my coffee machine back up and running, I have a short macchiatto without sugar. If the coffee is good, you don't need sugar in my opinion. Each to their own though. It's so subjective.
Favourite coffee: Illy and Genovese
Favourite coffee: Illy and Genovese
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I've got somewhere more than half a dozen coffee makers, and something I notice is that with the same fresh beans (I use a couple of roasters) I can get so many different flavours. Even on one type of machine, just a slight under extraction brings out sweetness and he rich fruitiness, even if the coffee seems a little weak. But a couple of seconds longer adds a hint of 'bite' without getting right into the bitterness.
As someone who was brought up to think only girls drink coffee, I'm beginning to embrace that femininish thing..
It's a bit like choosing your favourite beer or wine..
As someone who was brought up to think only girls drink coffee, I'm beginning to embrace that femininish thing..
It's a bit like choosing your favourite beer or wine..
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Chemex is the way to go, cuts any bitterness, and seems to take a good chunk of the acidity out of the coffee. The down side is it takes a while to brew and get the workflow down properly.
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Iced tea or Diet Coke (aka Cola Light in some parts of the world)
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What? Girls drink tea. Coffee is a man's drink. Ha!
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Not deployed on active service. But in long enough to know that only sissies drink coffee. Real men drink rum...Obviously never served in the military
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Hopefully not when handling high explosives.
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