Current mood:

sick

pet peeve # 4 - wrongfully brewed
One thing you gotta know about me is that for me tea is not just a hot beverage. Oh no. It’s so much more. One day I will elaborate.

Today, however, is all about the art of blasphemy in tea-making. Is it really so hard to make a cup of tea properly? And note: I’m not even talking “rinse the cup with hot water first” and “one teaspoon person and one for the teapot” kind of properly. I’m not expecting excellence here, but if I will see someone at a coffeeshop pouring milk in the cup first and then hot water over top, I’m gonna scream. Two rules, people – they are simple, I promise. Sugar/sweetener goes in before hot water, milk/cream after. That’s it.

I’m making a big deal out of nothing you say? Think for a second, most tea that’s made in coffeeshops is in teabags. You pour cold milk in a cup, then submerse a teabag IN COLD MILK, and then pour hot water over it. The result? The teabag which is already wet and distressed in general, doesn’t brew as well as it’s supposed to, making the owner of the cup (me) distressed as well. So annoying, yet so simple to avoid.