How to make green tea for your best of health without bitterness?
I started drinking green tea in 2012 and never did I thought how to make green tea for best health benefits.
I used to make tea by plunking a tea bag into a cup and pouring boiling water over it. I would wait for a few minutes and use a spoon to dip out the dripping bag.
Once I had the tea bag on the spoon, I would wind the string around the tea bag to squeeze out the last bit of tea water. Then I would drink away, pretending to be a tea connoisseur. Now I know not all teas are created equal. And brewing them is more than a tea bag, boiling water, squeeze and drink.
Making the perfect cup of tea is simple if you follow a few simple steps.
Here are some tips about how to make green tea for real health benefits
Don’t use boiling hot, hot, hot water. It will make your green tea taste bitter, sharp, and just plain yucky.
Watch the water as it heats. When you see steam vapors, what I like to call “water smoke,” beginning to spiral up from the water, the water is hot enough to make green tea.
Don’t drink the tea if you forget and let it brew for longer than 1 minute. Pour the tea on a plant or down the drain and make another cup. (You can brew green tea leaves 3 times so don’t throw out your tea leaves if you do let it brew too long!)
Tips for making the perfect cup of black tea
Don’t let the black tea brew for less than 2-3 minutes or more than 5 minutes. This amount of time will bring out a nice caramel color and the flavor of the black tea, but not the bitter tannins.
Don’t use boiling hot, hot, hot water. Just like with green tea, black tea suffers from too hot water. Boiling water boils the tea leaves creating more tannins and more bitterness. Watch the water as it heats. When you see bubbles starting to form on the bottom, the water is hot enough to make black tea.
Don’t be fooled that fresh loose leaf black tea is too much work. A teaspoon for each cup and another for the pot and you’re done. You can use a strainer to contain the tea or let the tea move freely in the pot. Either way works, but I prefer the “move freely in the pot” method. A strainer may keep the tea leaves from opening and you’ll lose some of that great tea taste.
