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So the results are clear then:
* two cups is the work of a madman: you should be brewing tea in a teapot like any decent person;
* unless it's for the express purpose of blind tasting to prove or disprove a person's ability to detect re-boiled water, a contaminated teaspoon, or similar.
All agreed?
I would throw up if there was any coffee in my tea. I can’t actually believe that people would use the same spoon.
There is no way you'd detect a single dissolved coffee granule in a cup of hot water let alone in tea (maybe unless you were a supertaster). I don't believe you.
But, again, it's readily testable. Prove me wrong.
Yep, I'm in the "yes, you're being a bit weird" camp. Get a teapot like any normal rational person. Your reasoning for having two mugs makes no sense. I mean if you're going to claim that a larger mug cools faster than a smaller one, then the second tea is going to be cooler than the first while you're waiting to drink it. And while few things are more disgusting than tea, luke-warm tea is surely one of them.
Typical cougar, you are always supremely sure of yourself and the opinions you hold but please don’t assume that because you can’t, others can’t either.
It's an interesting point where you can both be right!
In a very carefully controlled study I believe it *might* be possible for an experienced tea drinker to detect a difference in the product between freshly drawn and boiled water versus, previously boiled and reboiled water. I'm less certain that all such tea drinkers would prefer the fresh product.
BUT, I think if you add in all the other variables - quantity of tea, quantity of water, height of the pour, temperature of the mug & room, incubation time, source of the water, brand/age of kettle, stirring technique, cup/mug that its served in, not to mention the particular source of the leaves etc then I think you've zero chance of being able to say "cup 1 was made with fresh, cup 2 with reboiled". Now if you are controlling all of those things - fair play to you - there are plenty of people who are almost that ridiculous with coffee and the ritual of it is as important as the drink.
Personally I quite like a little bit of randomness. Will it be good or great?
I'm totally with the OP, its just nice having another cup sat waiting and one never seems enough early in the morning.
Whilst bike fettling or similar you can drink from each cup at the same time, one either side of the bike so always close to hand.
There is no way you’d detect a single dissolved coffee granule in a cup of hot water let alone in tea (maybe unless you were a supertaster). I don’t believe you.
But, again, it’s readily testable. Prove me wrong.
Well I can detect a couple of grains of sugar in a cup of tea so coffee would be easy but it ain't happening as that would involve me being in the same room as some coffee.
At work, there would be coffee grains in the sugar, from where people had used the same spoon. Thankfully I don't take sugar, pretty grim behavior IMO. Has stopped now we have a new coffee machine. Only took about 2 years to replace the old one.
We did a single blinded brewing time trial a while back and ended up at 3.5 mins for Twinings strong English breakfast tea, so as Cougar says these things are amenable to science.
My theory, not yet tested, is that the reason the first cup of tea after a gap (such as sleeping) tastes better than subsequent cups is because there are taste buds specifically allocated to tea flavour which get saturated after the first mug.
Coffee or sugar spoon in tea is a no no. Yes I most probably am a super taster.
There is no way you’d detect a single dissolved coffee granule in a cup of hot water
Coffee "granule". I think I see where you lot are going wrong.
No need for two cups. One large Sports Direct mug. After all you don't go to the pub and ask for two halfpints because big glasses are too hard to drink out of.