{"id":942,"date":"2011-07-05T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2011-07-05T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T04:17:08","slug":"geek-thoughts-how-i-take-my-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/geek-thoughts-how-i-take-my-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: how I take my tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been recently accused of &#8220;vile&#8221; habits in regard to tea-drinking, I feel that I need to clear the air. :)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been officially tested, but I am almost certainly a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supertaster\">supertaster<\/a>. (This explains, among other things, my aversion to most vegetables and my status as a nationally ranked beer judge). I&#8217;ve never been medically tested, but I did go through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/humanbody\/body\/interactives\/supertaster\/\">BBC test<\/a> and some rough taste-bud-counting with blue dye and a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>So I do not generally follow\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/8577637\/How-to-make-the-perfect-cup-of-tea-be-patient.html\">accepted wisdom<\/a> with tea.\u00c2\u00a0To prepare tea, I get a nice glass of cold water and plunk in a tea bag. Same goes for other tea-like substances, such as yerba mate. The result is a much slower steeping process, where subtle flavors shift throughout the day and with different refills. Does it get bitter? While tannins are part of the tea flavor, you don&#8217;t get that intense, mouth-puckering astringency like you would hot-steeping tea for too long. It&#8217;s more gradual and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Different kinds of tea have different spectrums of flavor, as revealed over the course of a day. Earl Grey and green tea are particularly nice. Some interesting combinations are possible too, by combining two teas which reach their flavor peaks at different times.<\/p>\n<p>I say keep an open mind, and don&#8217;t knock it if you haven&#8217;t tried it. :) -m<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been recently accused of &#8220;vile&#8221; habits in regard to tea-drinking, I feel that I need to clear the air. :) I&#8217;ve never been officially tested, but I am almost certainly a supertaster. (This explains, among other things, my aversion to most vegetables and my status as a nationally ranked beer judge). I&#8217;ve never been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,284],"tags":[789,1179,1067,1066],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everythingismiscellaneous","category-geekthoughts","tag-flavor","tag-geekthoughts","tag-supertaster","tag-tea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}