Cows Look Like MapsLately, I've switched from coffee to a nice, soothing cup of tea.
MonkderZweiteThere’s stimulating tea too.
I enjoy tea. Issa joke.
tsonfeirFuck tea.
I prefer to drink it, but whatever works for you my dude
It’s the only warmth I get 😭
Tea fucker! Tea fucker!
Weewooweewoo 🚨
Since I switched to shroom tea in the morning, I’ve been much more perceptive.
ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕪Hey, my DMTea is also great for that!
zarkanianTea is stimulating. All kinds of tea have caffeine in it. (As long as we’re taking about camellia sinensis, the tea plant, and not something like herbal tea.)
kbalThis green tea I'm sipping made my mind sufficiently relaxed and agile to see that punchline coming from a mile away.
OpenStars/s btw, it’s a saying as in “you are beyond the ability of mere humans to save you”:-P
inverted_deflectorI enjoy tea, but I like coffee more for most situations. Im more likely to enjoy an evening cup of tea than a morning one. Also the tannins in black tea can make me literally throw up if I havent eaten yet. Whereas a strong cup of coffee will make my digestive tract relax.
NegativeLookBehindAs a caffeine addict, I prefer black tea because it has a shitload of caffeine in it, but makes me less jittery than coffee. However, coffee just tastes better. So I just drink both, consecutively.
TheRtRevKaiserI tried switching to black tea a couple of years ago because I realized that coffee was making my anxiety worse, but fucking hell did tea give me the jitters. I think I just have a bad reaction to tannins in general and apparently black tea is super high in them.
I had that, and still get it from time to time, but found that if I wait until I’ve eaten to drink tea that it feels fine.
Coffee on an empty stomach is nothing, but strong tea on an empty stomach has me feeling like being assaulted at a molecular level
Yeah it makes my teeth chatter, it’s very strange. I didn’t noticed a big difference between full vs. empty stomach but I wasn’t paying much attention to that either.
I will say that most types of tea do this to me, to varying degrees. Black teas are the worst, green tea isn’t nearly as bad. I’ve had some Chinese white teas and I barely noticed any jitteriness, but those teas really aren’t very strong to begin with.
Give white tea a try sometime. It has almost no tannins and less caffeine than black tea. The flavor is much lighter and more fruity
Yeah! I think I mentioned it in another comment in this thread, but a friend of mine has recently gotten really into Gong Fu style tea and I’ve tried several white teas with him, and they didn’t give me that jittery feeling at all.
A heads up if you start making it yourself that you don’t want boiling water with white tea, it will burn it/make it bitter. It is delicious though!
Put a tea bag in a mug of coffee.
You blasphemous mongrel
My mother was a bitch, so what?
So no to chai lattes then?
I’m not cultured enough for such elegant indulgences
I thought tea had way less caffeine than coffee.
It makes you less jittery because it does not, in fact, have a lot of caffeine in it.
Depends on the tea and I tend to make mine very strong
Fucked up how the British originally swapped in tea for their beer common at every meal. I would have been pissed
What’s this now?
Digestive_BiscuitWhat’s wrong with having a beer with your tea?
I’m British, I still have a beer everytime I go out to eat.
Ye but it’s for recreation now not just a standard water style beverage lel
Me and my mate in uni wanted to try the navvy diet one day.
8000 calories
Breakfast: 6 slices of bacon, 2 pints of beer, can of condensed milk, tea, loaf of bread. Early elevenses: 1 pint of beer. Late elevenses: 1 pint of beer, bread and butter. Lunch: steak, loaf of bread, 2 pints of beer, tea. Late lunch: 1 pint of beer. Snack: bread and butter, 1 pint of beer. Dinner: steak, boiled potatoes, loaf of bread, 2 pints of beer, tea.
But we was going to stop short of the 20 ton of material those guys moved a day. That’s proper grafting what those boys did.
Anyway thr fucker (my mate) got a girlfriend and I never seen him again so we didn’t do it.
Coffee in the morning, iced sweet tea after 11.
But iced tea tastes good without using it as a sugar delivery system.
wjriiCounterpoint: no it doesn't. 🤣
JA WestenbergYeah, I’ve tried to switch a few times. Tea literally does nothing for me.
Try holly.
Tea has only a fraction of the amount of caffeine that coffee has, so you have to drink a lot more to have the same effect. The hollies, on the other hand, have comparable amounts of caffeine: yaupon, yerba mate, and guayusa.
Black tea to me feels like the sledgehammer, whereas coffee is this smooth slightly syrupy beverage, that feels much more delicate. Case in point for me, I prefer my coffee black, but I would have a hard time handling a cup of tea without at least a bit of oat milk.
I don’t know where tea gets this “gentle” PR from but I find it highly dishonest and honestly I’m tired of keeping my mouth shut about it so there now I’ve said it
Don’t hold back! Tell Big Tea what you think!
(I personally like Green Tea and lighter varieties but I have to be… in the mood. I’m always in the mood for coffee on the other hand.)
gmtomHey it’d okay, your opinion is valid, no matter how objectively wrong it is :)
Thank you, no one has ever accused me of looking at a situation objectively and I’m not about to start now, anyway now everyone sign my petition to put warning labels on tea
They’re clearly drinking the wrong kind of tea.
Black tea has more caffeine, but you can get pretty close to that with light roast coffee. Dark roast is weaker but sold as “strong” because of the bitter ass flavor profile. Light roast tastes much better, even tea like and has more oomph.
Light roasts taste different, not necessarily better, and dark roasts aren’t necessarily excessively bitter. It all comes down to what youbwant from your coffee…if you want floral and fruity, go for the lighter roasts. If you want chocolate, caramel and nuts, go for the darker roasts.
Dark roast in America almost always equates to a burnt arabica flavor. There can be good dark roasts, but you tend to have to go specialist coffee to get them.
I didn’t understand why twa is so hated in America then I went there are it was by far the worst tea I have ever had. Like worse than I could make at home if I tried to make a shit tea.
I used to disagree with the death penatlity in America but if they dragged the Liptons board of directors out and shot them it wouldn’t be undeserved.
But how its brewed, how it’s served, what it’s served with, what the tea is it is all shit. I talked to a friend when I was there and he said “yea I know I brought a 50 pack with me from home. I’ve been here before” haha. The only place you can get a passable tea in America is on a BA flight out of the country. Even then it’s a shitty airline tea but it’s much better than any cafe, restaurant or pub in the country.
I don’t get me started in the fucking Guiness.
☆Luma☆What’s some good tea to look out for?
Yorkshire tea is in my opinion the best. Not difficult. Just follow the instructions add full fat milk, you can check colours online to see how much milk to add and add sugar if you wish.
PG tips and Tetley are also good. Weirdly tea I’ve had with “English breakfast” hardly ever tastes like British tea.
Green tea is super hit or miss. (No milk in this one) Sometimes it’s too weak and other times it’s a bit bitter. But I don’t really have a brand in mind for that.
A mid range Jasmine tea is probably the best for consistency, in terms of a no milk green tea.
Oolong is also good. Actually thinking about the best place to get green tea in America would be at a Chinese restaurant or Chinese store.
Oh and don’t microwave water. No idea why, it tastes weird. Also heat the water then add it to the cup, don’t heat cold water with a tea in it.
n0clueI think you need to clean your microwave…
No microwaved water is just wrong.
There is actually zero difference. I promise you won’t be able to blind pick the microwaved cup better than chance, assuming all other prep is the same.
WIZARD POPE💫Exactly. I usually microwave a cup and then throw in the teabag. If gas stoves were not so inefficient I wpuld heat it on there but it takes about 5 times as long as in a microwave and tastes the same.
Get an electric kettle. Tea should be brewed at an appropriate temperature for its style, and microwaving the water is inaccurate. Electric kettle will get you the right temp every time nearly as fast.
You can fuck right off with your electric kettle elitism. I won’t buy something that will get used 2 times per month if I have everything I need to make myself tea already.
🤷🏻♀️ Needlessly aggressive but ok. I use my electric kettle once a day minimum and I use it for things other than tea as well. My husband uses it for his French press coffee, we use it for hot choccy or ramen or even rice sometimes. It’s just an easier way to heat up water to specific temperatures, no elitism here.
The fact the water is boiling will also get you the right temp.
… No? 212° F water is not the same thing as 170°F for a more delicate tea. And, ok, you could let it cool down before adding the tea, but are you going to put a thermometer in it? How will you know when it’s the right temperature? Why not just… get it to the right temperature the first time?