Local Dad, Ben HamillIt's 81°F outside. That's cool enough that drinking tea isn't a terrible idea, right?
Erik@benhamill I'm drinking hot coffee, so I'm not sure I'm qualified to judge.
FiXato (fallback)@benhamill
drinking tea is never a bad idea :)
Adding milk while the bag is still in though... 🙄😂
@edebill
drinking tea is never a bad idea :)
Adding milk while the bag is still in though... 🙄😂
@edebill
@benhamill
well, the temperature of the liquid in which #the tea steeps affects the strength/flavour of the brew: https://teafloor.com/blog/how-water-quality-and-temperature-affects-the-taste-of-tea/
So if you add milk first, you do lower the temperature of the water and thus the flavour. :)
Of course all that is meaningless if your way makes your cuppa the way you like it!
I'm not gonna stand in the way of a fellow tea drinker, or #theeLeut as we like to say in Dutch. ;)
Enjoy your brew!
@edebill
Esteban Manchado Velázquez@benhamill The Tuareg (nomads from Sahara) drink tea. And I have heard that the logic is that it keeps their bodies warm, so it feels *less* warm outside. But I don't know if that's true, or if that logic is sound, for that matter 😁
@estebanm That's fascinating. My experience, at least in Texas summers, is that ramen and tea push me over the line from not sweating to sweating if it's close.
But maybe they're so often already over the line that that's not a big deal and other factors vastly outweigh it. Hmmmmm.
@benhamill But maybe sweating cools you down or something? I have heard something along those lines, too (but about spicy food).
I mean, I have no idea 😅😂 I'm trying to make sense of why it would be normal for people who live in the desert to want to drink very warm stuff.