How you've been making tea WRONG your entire life - BBC 

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Exactely what I thought ! 👍

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Ikr 😂

Come to think of it, that's a great way to test someone's IQ. I'd never let her near a kitchen after that 😂

fkn dead HAHAHAHAHA *inserts black guy doing the thinking gesture

Hahah

lmfao

😏 and it enlarged your... I suppose, making your wife super happy?!

*drunk

That's not exactly true though. There is always right amount of time in particular temperature for particular type of tea. If you keep it longer it get's worse. 5 minutes in 90 something deegrees is typical for many black tea types. I'm more of a green tea drinker. Those often go around 2-3 minutes in 70 degrees (or the range is from 60-80 to be exact). If you keep it longer more toxic substances and bitter tastes start appearing. On the BBC matter, I gotta focus more on the water quality I guees.

@@robertthallium6883 , The hard water also creates a crappy taste. Try it for yourself, once you use filtered or spring water and taste the difference you will cringe next time you have tea when you're out. Btw, that mineral buildup from hard water also builds up on your teeth__so, brush your teeth with filtered or spring water and your dentist will be amazed at the improvement at your next visit. 💖🙌😺

This sounds like a random testimony from a book in the 19's about brewing tea.

Didn't know they still made styro, thought it has carcinogens in it anyway. I haven't used it in 10+ years for drinking cups.

Dunkin Donuts had them for both tea and coffee, I think, here in Georgia. Tasted horrible.

Similar to Prince Harry’s boast of killing 25 ‘Taliban’ or what he calls ‘pieces of chessborad’.

Sarcasm is the only possible reply to this.

I have read that adding milk somehow binds up some of the nutrients in tea. Also, Asian sources have said to let the boiling water sit and "cool" for about 5 minutes before adding to the tea. Nothing -- especially hot -- should be eaten or drunk out of Styrofoam, or most other plastics, as the plastic molecules enter the contents. Dogs that have plastic food and/or water dishes develop symptoms which may include a lightening nose. Looseleaf tea is often a better quality than the stuff they chop up in teabags. Also, many inferior (cheaper) companies use a type of plastic teabag -- see above.

Haha!

You mess it up , the answer should be scien-tea lmao

You win

@@landose986 get out

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hahahahahahah ROTFFLMAO

I can’t make my hair go like that either!

William niye the british science guy...WILL! WILL! WILL! WILL!

it’s full of weird in there...

lmfaoooooo

if you left a teabag long enough, your tea would get bitter taste because it starts to release tannins. So 5 minutes are perfect - no less, no more

may you rest in peace.

HAHAHA

haha, loved this comment

Im dying

I've been eating the roots of the tea bush followed by gulping rain-water from road-side puddles. To think that I was wrong!

PotatoInConverse Satanists

@@blitzkriegfaust unfiltered swines Edit:I meant to say uncultured swine but unfiltered is better for tea

maybe everyday life of people wich are working like a mule for pay living?

Millions making their way to work?

THANK YOU!!!!

The only way to make it! 😂

Really, I thought that was odd.

Since birth

@@Broadwayshowgirl I mean they're in a lab, with equipment that can poke your eye lol

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LMAO best analogy

no, this was made for regular people not haughty people like you

Hahahha spot on!

@chaosfactor333 They should and they are: though some of the information available seems counter intuitive from what I've seen. I would rely on my personal senses and experiment. If the tea was bitter, lowering the temperature will help extract less tannins (they start extracting around 60C).

@@s.146 ok boomer.

@chaosfactor333 Yes, search up the optimal temperature for your tea. Green tea has the lowest brewing temperature because it has amino acids (I believe, please don't quote me) which break down at high temperatures, leading to excessive bitterness. On the other hand, black teas are typically brewed with water that just came off boil, and the water needs to be this hot or else the flavours aren't properly extracted from the tea. You can see this effect with high quality whole-leaf tea, at low temperatures the leaves don't fully expand and the tea is weak. As mentioned in the video, brewing time is another critical factor. Some green teas are brewed for less than a minute, while black teas can be brewed as long as 10 minutes. For this I would recommend using a timer and determining which time is right for you (and your tea). Brewing times often vary based on the tea itself (type of tea of course, but also how the tea was processed, region it was grown in, etc.) Remember that more time = more bitterness, so if you're looking for more flavour, use more tea instead of more time. If you're looking to learn more, an excellent read is The Tea Book: Experience the World's Finest Teas by Linda Gaylard. It covers just about everything you need to know about tea itself, in terms of processing, regions, types (there is the common green tea, black tea, but also yellow tea, white tea, even purple tea). Also an excellent read is How to Make Tea by Brian Keating & Kim Long. This covers more of the objective science of making tea, in terms of brewing vessels, hard water vs. soft water, oxygen content of the water, etc. On Amazon for $6 and a quick 160pg read.

Most definitely, you should wait 1-2 minutes after boiling before pouring the hot water in. The difference in quality taste is contrastingly noticeable

J P lmao you don’t know shit kid.

HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHHA I’m dead. Them wearing those scientific galsses made feel it’s very serious while it’s what I do everyday.

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I don't take the bag out at all

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@@MultiRambo008 oh me too it maks that last swallow a cha cha cha moment

teeeee...

Humour*

Never seen blind taste test videos? Look it up before looking daft

And his name is Stewart... This video gives everyone who watches it instant self loathing and knowledge on wtf is Brexit even about.

Brits arent that much of tea drinkers tho. Turks are

Yes that's how Harry Potah makes tea with most English wotah lol 😆

it’s also pretty asian.

Fish and Chips, the British Delicacy and Jellied Eels would be very Sarfff'end on Sea in Essex I guess ! 🙃 PS .. AND MOOSHEE PEAS FROM YORKSHIRE in Greasy Chip Fat Newspaper from Ta Shop

a *red mug!

@@AConnorDN38416 Lol! ☕

Thank you. Saved me 5 minutes.

@@CalLadyQED Haha, right? "Nobody got time for that..."

I don’t like it brewed too long.

Wait. You have tea as a pairing with coffee regularly?

@@tsoliot5913 yeah I do it too. Lot of my friends and family do too

@@neowave777 I respect it.

@@tsoliot5913 my thoughts exactly, where I'm from is tea OR coffee 😂

How strange

That's right...tea explosion of flavor is possible 😂

Don't forget the lab coat!

Dont forget the lab

Safety is our number one priority

Don't forget the UV-measurement device.

You don't have to be Indian to think this video is a parody... I mean it's kinda common sense and written on the bloody box isn't it?😂

@@jimigarbage0206 ikr lmao

@Wangden Syangden Do you prefer the Indian way (adding milk and bringing it to a boil) or the British way?

@@anukritisingh3301 non-indians frown at the sight of adding milk to the tea before bringing it to a boil like a curse in their holy books.

@@asimanayak304 The Delhi way is: 1) Boil water+ginger+cardamom 2) Add tea. 3)RUNNN to the fridge for milk and add it right before everything boils over. 4) Bring to a boil and voila!

I thought there was no difference between you two. Look at the last 70 years.

Speak for yourself. I've been doing it correctly as an American the whole time.

Im a closeted American tea drinker don't tell !

@@elizabethm7163 lol, I totally didn’t clarify, but I just meant that 6 years ago a British friend taught me how they make basic black tea with milk and it totally blew my mind how wrong I had been doing it. I’ve loved black tea ever since and have a good time making it now. It took me into my late 30’s, but I can finally see how for regular Brits it’s completely analogous to coffee.

If it smells like, looks like and feels like a duck...

@@andanssas but it's not. It's tongue in cheek but this is a very normal daytime English TV segment

@@andanssas Holy shit I found you!

@@Mythical.History I've never thought myself as Waldo, but still, well done! Great channel you have btw :)

@@andanssas Thanks!

Welcome to England

Then you should watch Tom Scott brewing an ISO cuppa...

Can I have a Kappa Tea please? lol

FeelsOkayMan 👉👌

kappa you are such a pathetic mouth breather people like you type that exact same stupid comment on every single brittish video can you not come up with something original or intresting to say?

Nah... They're still boiling the water...

Nah they still add milk in for some reason

@@Solegor black tea with milk and sugar is the best beverage on earth.

Joseph O'Donoghue health and safety, or labs are banned.

Tea may be hot!

Lol

Hey they are in a lab, no better excuse x)

It's done because of habit. You're in a lab = always protection

Lol

+1 for coffein

After that you will be lying in -coffin- coffein.

Lol

Grow a beard

The hard water and the colour of the cup was also an issue.

Overboiling causes that, not boiled water.

… and wear protective glasses to make a cup o' tea.

Hahaha I'm British and find this funny cz it's true, we take our tea seriously especially if you're the type yo drink it everyday like me

Lol you haven't seen the American news/documentary

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Its serious business

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@Virginia Andre lol ikr

@Virginia Andre but you have 'your mug' don't you?

lol

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Slowly but surely dunk a tea biscuit in a trajectory angle of 45° to the center of the cuppa, soak for 1.45973s, lift and bite 😂

Step 1) Use Tim-Tams Step 2) Repeat step 1

@@DJ.LakeSea Hobnobs for sure 😂

Biscuits scientists will tell the technique

I see what you did there! Pretty punny!

Bah humbug!

Puns deserve to die

@@Thereal_nishikiyama F

@@Kipchoge475 f

Nice... By the way, do you boil the water?

Wow, I live in central Europe, but same for me: 10+ minutes, no milk (or sugar, citron, ...) and quality Puer is the best ;-)

@@Nhkg17 10 minutes for a puerh?? sheesh

temperature?

不敢相信，你竟然喝普洱！❤

Ha you just got Pranked! Gotem!

"Here's she water to use" *Boils water and makes tea "No wrong" "Why??" "You used hard water"

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"Styrofoam absorbs flavor moleucles, reducing the tastiness of the tea." -BBC That's not why styrofoam is bad. It's bad because styrofoam will leech harmful chemicals (styrene) into your hot water. Reduced flavor is the least of your worries. Be more concerned about cancer.

Yes, I believe HE is an actor ! 😛

It's true, I removed my brain and couldnt even taste anything, couldn't even make the tea or see the cup. Also I was dead

She is a blonde girl. What did you expect.

Lmfao

No, tongue can do everything on its own. It actually prefers when it doesn't need to share with brain 😝

because they had a pre-tea intimate session.

@@nadm.191 🤣

hahah I thought excatly the same

Right? He looks at her with eyes of pure lust.

They love the same mugcolor!

'Horizon: The Poisoning of America'. 'Dark Waters'. Always worth watching. Fluoride being the 'f' in the teflon molecule. Tea is a massive source of fluoride due to pesticide use, but usually you get the 'tea is good for you' line. Because money.

Dr. Tea

Shafkat Khan I know, right!? He’s stoked. 😄 I love it

Tom Haha. You might be right. 🤣

He's had his peer review - now he can submit a paper to a science journal

I don’t know why, but when I hear an English accent, it sounds like a speech impediment, but not when I hear an Irish accent?? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

TheHowtoDad technically as a person often in a chemistry lab, they should be goggles. But they are ridiculous for eye protection

Wear goggles if youre as uncoordinated as i am

And safety boots.

@@kawo666 if they arent fully nonslip and galvanized rubber you ARE NOT SAFE ENOUGH lmao

@@scienceandstuff5450 so long as he doen't mix up and make tea out of boiled acid.

I was thinking this... the only thing I learnt was I have to change my whole kitchen colour scheme to pretend to have sweeter tea 😂

@@danielbarber9920 Here's a new suggestion then: try cold brewed tea. I'm not talking ice tea like letting regular tea cool. Take a litre of cold water and add the same amount of tea you would use for a regular pot of tea. Put it in the refrigerator for 24 hours, remove the teabags and drink. Sometimes I let it stand for 30-36 hours depending on the tea. I use a bottle with a wide neck and paper teabags, but loose leafs and a sieve works too. This process develops other flavours and gives a milder taste. Saves a lot of energy too :-)

@@madshorn5826 let me try dat

@@madshorn5826 i like STRONG tea. I have tea brewing in the microwave right now with 20 tea bags in it, it'll make about half a gallon

@@stevenkunkle3857 We all have different preferences :-) Maybe I would ask my doctor about that particular recipe though. Strange things may happen if you dial up mild toxins like caffeine and tannins. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but if you plan on being more than 50 years old a certain caution is prudent. (I'm not saying it _is_ harmful. I'm saying it is better to check too much than too little :-)

Too funny,

Did you check your spam folder?

Well I mean he had to back up the reasons for making tea like that.

You do know he just studies and shows tea company why he might be useful for the company I’m pretty sure the label “tea scientist” was given to him buy the company who hired him

@@RJ-bi1yl probably not seeing as he at least has some knowledge of using NMR and stuff to analyze mixtures for caffeine id probably say he has a PhD in organic chem and just decided to write his doctorate paper about something tea related. Which ye kinda does give him the title of tea wizard

I’d be happy with that pounding heart. Imagine if it stopped doing that 🤓

@@TheHkluivert Imagine if you are aware of your heart every second ...all day long...I don't you'd like it much.

No - it is POLY styrene - which is quite different!!!!! Your silly comment is like saying that polyethene (polythene) bags release ethene (ethylene) - which they don't - because they can't. Learn some chemistry!

@@childofthe60s100 very confidently incorrect comment for someone who could have spent 2 seconds googling it before trying to make someone else look stupid online

It was an after bang tea 🤙

@@angus9541 Duuudeee 🤣

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Love that look on his face lol. Nothing like showing someome a better way to do something

Not a mistake though.

Alex not exactly. As long as you have a high-quality tea bag it makes no difference. The problem only arises when you buy a low-quality tea bag, many of which are just the leftovers from the manufacturing of loose leaf. Oh, and she also explains at the start that these are ‘the golden rules when using a mug and a bag’.

Agree. When I visited the tea plantations in Darjeeling, teabags were said to be made from the floor sweeping.

@@imdbist Are you serious or just kidding ?

@@gr8vijay why would I kid. I don't invent things.

Right

Haha, I was thinking that, too.

Some people manage to live without a brain their whole life.

@@dislike__button That’s why some people are tasteless

Hahaha. True.

Technically...

The scientist will tear his clothes then.....

Just imagine and i'm already laughing 😂

And it does

You're like everyone else in the world whose told there's a healthier version of what you're consuming. You: "There is??? I DOnT CaRE i been waiting to die"😂

Well you know she could be lying, and she had to And if I was she I would lie too even if it tastes the same

A Brit telling the British how to make a cup of tea.. I don’t see an issue here

This is the reason he’s wearing safety goggles

tea = china 🙄 they should have had a chinese instead 😹

indian*

You’re all wrong actually, Turkey is the largest consumer of Tea. Ireland is the second largest consumers of Tea followed by the UK, then Russia. The British may possibly be the most uptight about their tea and China is the worlds largest producer of tea.

Ironic

And it’s only ok for Brits to pour a crapload of milk into their tea. If we do it, they will point out that we are silly yanks

@@kignacio only certain teas take milk. I like early grey with a tiny amount of lemon and a sugar cube. Generally black tea doesnt react well with milk. Builders tea is very strong on many palates but not for people who drink alot, smoke, or brush their teeth and tongue. I dont like how my tongue tastes and feels after very strong teas or overbrewed. Many people enjoy the one note of strong bitter black tea, but i like to taste all the flavors the tea blender (its a real career) worked hard to produce. Also for me, too much caffeine and i get snippy at the whole world. Coffee drinkers and multiple cup a day tea drinkers usually arent as sensitive. Drink your tea how you like it and ignore those who snivel at your preference. Perfection is your own opinion, not a stranger's. Let them be the ones who arent using their manners at tea. Just dont clank your spoon against the cup when stirring or you'll ruin all credibility. 😁

@@miguelmarquez4192 I drink what I think is builders brew. Steeped for over 5 minutes, lots of cream and brown sugar. Part of us being builders is that we don’t see the need to stir with a spoon. We have our ways of pouring the tea into the sugar and likewise with the milk. We tend to weed out inefficient unnecessary processes of our day. Unless it is replying to a tea video at 9:30pm which is cutting into my 7 hours of sleep 😆

Apparently 5 minutes is a long time now, peoples inpatients these days is shocking. This is where time management comes in, make your tea first and make breakfast at the sane time, dunzo.

Clearly you are not a true Brit ;)

Guess you don know brits, you dumb twit, do ya?

It's to catch the attention of the American audience.

Aswin Vinod we’re talking about matters of great import. Imagine a world without tea!

wodra pixel some scenarios don’t bear thinking about and that’s that! 😱

laughed so hard but yeah the calcium might be reacted with other molecules than in water because calcium in water is just Ca+ ready to react with a substance to become a salt. just use your brain a little my friend.

@@studentgaming3107 or just make a cup of tea without thinking about those things

The calcium in the milk is said to bind with the polyphenols of the tea, hence the "scum" observed.

Calcium from water (which derived from mineral) is different from animal-derived calcium that contained in the milk.

@@1000buffalos My tea is made with hard water, no milk, and there is a scum on it.

I know right 😂😂😂😂

my local street tea shop guy will know more than this guy.

Exactly 😂

Thats facts... Nothing beats Indian cup of tea from street .. the fact they have lab is telling sign of how inexperienced they are in making tea..

My Lapsang Souchong and the Mao Feng usually get 10 minutes or more, in best Norwegian tap water!

Rightfully so

He has a PHTea.

Mere C Your comment was brilliantly funny! Thank you 😊

mayson lee He’s absolutely adorable! 😍

mayson lee You’re clearly not British. Tea experts are considered sexy here.

First hint, it's tea

They got married after that

Mohaamd_7 😂😂😂

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Love how they use protective eyewear just to make tea

Lol...I guess sophistication has no limits. You take it to wherever you want.

I don't like those silicone cups either

This is one of the many things this video misses entirely.

Not to mention that they probably used a teabag made out of plastic like they do nowadays.

Who in the hell uses styrofoam cups for tea and brews it for 30! seconds.

Is the American way

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Omg! I thought it was only me!

Muraya Kimani Lol caffeine acts as a laxative.

because they're in a "tea lab". and she looks more serious.

It makes my arse burn

British don't even brew the best tea south asians do Indians and pakistanis

Uncle iro

The japanese. Because he/she will never use a teabag when there are loose tea.

Neither. The British tea is cheap and served in bags and not often whole leaf. Japanese may have good tea but that matcha stuff is disgusting and what they serve in prison. You need another country like Nepal, China or India or Sri Lanka to look for the best white green oolong black or puerh teas

Japanese 100% the teas are soo good but a lot is matcha green tea

Me, too. 😂

Correct tea is never with a tea bag. Loose tea in a pot is correct.

Same here 🙋🏿‍♂️

Same here. Lol

Me too. And Im not even British

забавный человек your comment is so underrated, it needs more likes

Time well spent

And he's smug about it.

And we’re spending our lives commenting on RU-vid videos..

I looked this guy up and he's really interesting. Turns out he's not a "tea scientist" he's a medical doctor turned science educator. He has a blog too where he discusses his recent battle with brain cancer.

Only if you're brewing your tea in the cup with a tea bag. If you brew the tea in a teapot, then you put your milk/cream in the cup and add the tea to it. Also, you should not brew your tea in the cup, or with a teabag if you can avoid it. If you have no choice and have no teapot, then sure, teabag in with boiling water, steep 4-5ish minutes, then add milk/cream. Can't brew (black) tea properly if you've cooled the water with milk.

...and if in a pot, heat the pot first.

@@derosabike Of course. Boil your water in a kettle. Pour some into the pot and swirl it around to heat the pot, then pour it out. Then add your water. Or be lazy and use a teamaker like the Breville I use. Lazy, and still good tea!

laddo .....teapot should be heated first by swirling boiling water, tea brewed in teapot with a tea cosy on, then milk in cup first, followed by the tea and white sugar for sweetening. With coffee it's milk last then Demerara sugar to taste. Only the tea you make at home tastes good, the stuff you get at Starbucks, Costa's, greasy spoon cafes etc taste like dishwater!!

You add the steeped tea to the milk ideally. This is not a flavor thing. Its because its less of a temperature shock to the milk and reduces the chance of it scolding which will curdle some of the milk.

He crashed my computer with an excess of smugness.

creepy teatime

Well he proved with science & data that eastern traditional tea making is the correct way to do it. It's always good to use science to confirm or refute tradition so we can validate or drop old knowledge ... Of course there was a minor difference: traditionally it's done in a "special" kind of pot called ... 😊 & covered with a teapot hood (cloth) to maintain the temperature while the tea steeps.

see how she looks at her left whilst saying" this actually has flavor and taste" She is lying...for the video...

And very fake.

Me too😂😂

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@@adaobiudeze7123 lol

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In my experience, it adds bitterness to the tea.

It does increase extraction by breaking up the rather saturated lair of water around the teabag, which results in a lower saturation around the teabag which increases the extraction speed. This is described with the Noyes-Whitney equasion. If you look it up on Wikipedia, what you are doing by stirring is lowering L. By pressing it on the wall you might break some of the leafs in the teabag, if there still are whole leafs, thereby increasing A. Both increases speed of extraction. But the best way honestly is using a lot of good tea, which will give you a great cup of tea in approximately half a minute and multiple extractions. If you are interested, I'd recommend the MeiLeaf RU-vid Channel, or looking into Gong Fu Brewing in other places. While it does at first look more complicated, it is actually a lot tastier, faster, and not a lot more expensive.

Oh, unfortunately, snl became so satanic (or it has always been?), please be safe in every way.

For me it depends on what kind of tea I'm drinking. For rooibos, peppermint, or blueberry, I do 5 minutes and a touch of white sugar. For peach, spice, or ginger blends, I do 10 and use brown sugar. For medicinal teas, I do 15 and a drizzle of honey once it's cooled a bit. Both steep time and what sugar you pair it with makes a big difference! :)

Same

there is Gong Fu tea brewing style that brew tea mostly under 20 seconds depending on what kind of tea.

Quynh Anh Tran Nguyen yea anyone who brews their first infusion for over 30 seconds is crazy. Get more flavor with your gaiwan instead of doing it western style. I’m surprised this tea scientist never heard of gong fu.

@@v7ran I think they do know but it is their job for comercial tea companies so they cannot argue.

I don’t think he helped us at all. Other than the styrofoam one which is pretty obvious but also useless, I’m pretty sure the woman didn’t notice a difference but lied because otherwise they wouldn’t have a video to upload

@@arjanrijkens8823 no, she did.

Too funny 🤣

Aska Gamer You are literally everywhere I am.

AOSL YT 😂

I think it’s a brutish thing. Haven’t seen it in America

At work they provide mugs and styrofoam cups. People usually go for styrofoam bcz they can avoid doing the dishes that way.

Literally every employee of a coffee shop that makes "to go" orders.