is it me or my brew ?

[predator]

first time this year got my logburner lit and stuck the kettle back on it and noticed that my cuppa tea tastes loads better than a lecky kettle jobby and was wunderin why ??? can anyone explain this as there must be a clever bugger on here who knows there tea pg tips by the way just a better brew

[geoff]

first time this year got my logburner lit and stuck the kettle back on it and noticed that my cuppa tea tastes loads better than a lecky kettle jobby and was wunderin why ??? can anyone explain this as there must be a clever bugger on here who knows there tea pg tips by the way just a better brew

 

Mate, you're salt of the earth, fantastic post!

[sloth]

Is it a different kettle? Less limescale? Or maybe just the sweet warmth of wood you've cut and split yourself? Glad to hear you can kick back and relax a little now either way

[Tom D]

Rapid boiling removes disolved oxygen from the water, this affects the flavour apparently, electric kettles tend to boil rapidly rather than the gentle simmer of the stove. It is for this reason that you are supposed to pour tea from a height to re-oxygenate it... wether you can taste the difference...

[difflock]

Dear old Aunt Lucy, insisted on re-filling and re-boiling the kettle, to freshen up the tea pot.

For this very reason.

Insisting 40 year ago that twice boiled water was not as good as freshly boiled water for making tea.

Which also tasted better out of a Porcelain cup, but only if the milk was poured first.

This from a woman reared in a hovel in Co. Cavan.

[agg221]

My great aunt (now 104) makes the best cup of tea of anyone I know. She uses PG Tips, the same as me, and is in a hard water area, these days using an electric kettle and teapot, the same as me, and I don't have milk so it's not that. I have watched her do it, and really can't see what she does differently, but somehow she just has the knack. I probably won't get the option of honing my skills for as long as she has though!

 

Alec

[Mark Bolam]

While we're on, why does a brew always taste extra nice after eating bacon?

[T14EES T14UNK]

And tastes extra nice with scrambled eggs too.

[Shane]

Nice one Tom D. (Arbtalk's very own Stephen Fry).

I find that a fresh brew up on the stove in my landy is always nicer than at home.

 

It might also be that the 'earning' of the brew with all that hard work makes it more fulfilling. Either way there nowt like a nice coop a teeee.

[Woodworks]

Good to see important matters being discussed on Arbtalk.

 

Nearly had a disaster this morning as left cuppa sitting on spare wheel of landy. Bounced round the back of the shed to find my tea still in place just not quite so full. Disaster averted