Cooking, they say, is 70% art and 30% science; I don't know who's they, but this is what my dad always said.
'I've figured the science part, but the art bit eludes me, which is why the food I cook is very very so-so' he'd often tell us when mom wasn't home and he was left cooking for the kids.
A lot of it comes from sciencing, guesstimating, simple logic and being a bit aware of flavours, as to which one goes with what.
Tea making, however is a special kind of art, one which not many can master, and thus satisfy themselves with drinking whatever tea they get, sometimes because they can't ascertain the complicated, subtle flavours of tea.
Tea making is all about proportions. Measure, always measure tea.
It could be two people or ten, if you stick to measuring, you can prepare a perfect cup of tea, every time.
say, for example, if you use 1.5 teaspoon of sugar for one cup then, you'd use 3 tsp for two, 4.5 tsp for three and 6 tsp for four cups..so on and so forth.
It's just 'tea', well, no, it's not just tea. A cup of tea has to mean something. It's not only about some pallid liquid sweetened to the core, sloshing about in a receptacle.
It's tea for heaven's sake; made of beautiful aromatic leaves, that delicately suffuse into hot water, infusing it with their soul.
You have only to look at the colour and take a small whiff of tea, to know whether you'd like it or not.
Sometimes you can't even smell the tea leaves, because it's monstrously overwhelmed with milk, and one sip makes you realize you've been served with dessert before meal. No can do, for such tea's. It's a goddamn assault on the senses and a downright insult to the poor leaves, that were killed in the production of such milky abomination.
But then again, that's how some people like it. You serve them with an aromatic cup of perfectly cooked tea, and they'd wonder if you're saving money on milk.
An easy way out of drinking a bad cup of tea is by simply not drinking any tea outside of your house.
Ah, perhaps I should put up a tea recipe. Tea is such a personal thing, and yet, a bad cup of tea is an unforgivable crime.
'I've figured the science part, but the art bit eludes me, which is why the food I cook is very very so-so' he'd often tell us when mom wasn't home and he was left cooking for the kids.
A lot of it comes from sciencing, guesstimating, simple logic and being a bit aware of flavours, as to which one goes with what.
Tea making, however is a special kind of art, one which not many can master, and thus satisfy themselves with drinking whatever tea they get, sometimes because they can't ascertain the complicated, subtle flavours of tea.
Tea making is all about proportions. Measure, always measure tea.
It could be two people or ten, if you stick to measuring, you can prepare a perfect cup of tea, every time.
say, for example, if you use 1.5 teaspoon of sugar for one cup then, you'd use 3 tsp for two, 4.5 tsp for three and 6 tsp for four cups..so on and so forth.
It's just 'tea', well, no, it's not just tea. A cup of tea has to mean something. It's not only about some pallid liquid sweetened to the core, sloshing about in a receptacle.
It's tea for heaven's sake; made of beautiful aromatic leaves, that delicately suffuse into hot water, infusing it with their soul.
You have only to look at the colour and take a small whiff of tea, to know whether you'd like it or not.
Sometimes you can't even smell the tea leaves, because it's monstrously overwhelmed with milk, and one sip makes you realize you've been served with dessert before meal. No can do, for such tea's. It's a goddamn assault on the senses and a downright insult to the poor leaves, that were killed in the production of such milky abomination.
But then again, that's how some people like it. You serve them with an aromatic cup of perfectly cooked tea, and they'd wonder if you're saving money on milk.
An easy way out of drinking a bad cup of tea is by simply not drinking any tea outside of your house.
Ah, perhaps I should put up a tea recipe. Tea is such a personal thing, and yet, a bad cup of tea is an unforgivable crime.
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