Food Theory: Your Tea SUCKS... But That's None of My Business
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Friends, today I’m spilling the tea on all you FRAUDS out there! You’ve all been making tea completely WRONG your whole lives! Absolutely nobody is safe from the science that’s going to prove them wrong today, as I take you through the scientifically proven way of making the PERFECT cup of Tea. Cheers!
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*Step away from my leafy soup and no one gets hurt!*
lucky for them, they made the conclusion that the way we make it now is correct.
milk in first was just to protect the china and not for taste, I have always had milk in last.
Why are you in all of my YT recommendations.
good day fellow British Skyrim enjoyer ☕️
I had a hunch you'd be here
This actually happened to me once, when i was Teanu Leaves
Fun fact: Tea Time is such a universal practice in Britain that their power grids actually have to account for the spike in consumption from everyone heating up their kettles at once
Noice
Thank you for the kind information sir.
I didn't know that I wanted to know this, but now I'm gonna spread this to all my friends and pretend that I learned that on my holiday in england. Thanks for that useless information and have a good day!
I heard they do that when there’s breaks in football or other sports on tv, pretty neat
So your a liar
I have been brewing my chai entirely wrong ig. I let the flat bag soak for too long, squeeze it once it's done, and add too much milk honey and cinnamon
Update: I tried making tea the ideal way (as best I could with the supplies I have) and WOW it is so much better
2 words
Chai tea
@@maximumspeed1 ERRR wrong, chai means tea
I love how it's not judt me discovering these videos only now! 😂 Yes chai tea basically means tea tea, so just chai is perfect.
Wait there’s chai tea bags?
@@maximumspeed1Saying “chai tea” is as redundant as saying “cappuccino coffee”.
As a Chinese person, I agree with MatPat, the perfect amount of milk in tea is no milk.
UNLESS ITS CHAI OR MATCHA
cool i use oranges in mine as an american
As an Arab “ *GASP* angrily shouting in Arabic (respectfully)” chai is the best
@@TheSenkManFR
I use honey if I want anything in my tea
Fun fact: The idea of a tea bag was created by accident. It used to come in big blocks that they would just shave off a little at a time and long story short someone started selling it in a bag to transport it and the customers didn't realize they were supposed to open the bag
That tea had to pack a punch lol
Huh that’s interesting
Good to know herb dealers always had the knack for putting their product in a small bag for distribution.
Eyep, that's how some chinese and korean tea are still packed to this day Pu Erh is a pretty notable example
Matpat: "warm leaf water"
My brain:
Uncle Iroh: "How could a member of my own family say something so horrible!?"
I could hear Iroh instantly 😆
Iroh is the Chad of tea
I was wondering if someone else caught that.
I had a similar thought as soon as he said that, and when I saw this video.😂
'Maybe that should be a proverb...'
'COME ON, UNCLE!'
MatPat: Now I poouur the milk in.
Steph and Tom: **visible pain**
15:44 this so adorable!! I love it when Matt gets so happy😭
Also I love Tom not just because he's british but also because he makes small comments that are hilarious
Fr when he bounces like a small child i love it!!
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!!
Fun info for Chinese traditional tea: For good luck, when making the tea pot and cups, the leftover clay was used to make a tea pet, which you pour some tea on as a sign of good luck. There's color changing ones too to test the temperature of your tea, but it is a long term tradition. Plus, some ceramics will soak the scent of the tea (as mentioned by Matpat during the cup phase), so using the same tea regularly will cause your tea pet to smell delightful
I remember stumbling upon a guy's tik toks where he explained this too!! he showed the process of Chinese tea brewing and his pets too, it's a really interesting (and cute ngl) tradition.
can you please steal my adhd Thied of adhd
They should try the Chinese Way vs British Way
@@Artrekt Yes, then the truth will be revealed.
Aww that's so delightful!
Iroh: *Spittake* "This 'tea' is just hot leaf _juice!"_
Zuko: "Uncle, that's what _all_ tea is."
Iroh: "How could a member of my own family say something so _horrible?!"_
Based on MatPat's won theory on "Is coffee soup?", technically tea is a leaf broth. Unless you eat the tea leaves, then it's a soup.
I thought of this exact scene when MatPat called it "warm leaf water" lol
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought of this lmao
Honestly Matt Pat should have just asked Iroh he would've known
i agree with Iroh on this one
my boy Matthew Patthew said "Queen Tea" when RoyalTEA was sitting right there
I agree with mat's "best milk is no milk" as I've never put milk in tea before
Nice to see Matpat got a special guest on this episode so that Steph isn't the only one suffering the entire time from her husband's wacky antics.
no
@@skittstheturtleno?
Matt: I want to do some more weird shit
Steph: Fine but only if a friend joins
Matt: Deal
Tom: In the name of the British I got this one
@@______________.666 Exactly my point
No
OMG, I had to stop at: "This channel is built on the premise that I can overthink anything and write it off as a business expense." That one line is just too good.
Honestly, this is just the insanely big brain plays I've come to expect from matpat
6:26
We've been saying that since the inception of the channel. It's nice that he finally recognice it in public.
6:28 Mat:so we have 3 identical mugs
Mugs : M A S
I’m going back and watching food theories that I’ve missed (there isn’t many of them) and um…
All I could think of the entire time…
“CHAI TEA!? BRO CHAI MEANS TEA! YOURE SAYING TEA TEA! WOULD I ASK YOU FOR A COFFEE COFFEE WITH ROOM FOR CREAM CREAM!?”
as long as i get sugar sugar added don't care :)
Iroh: This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!
Zuko: Uncle, that's what all tea is.
Iroh: How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?
@@thefoodtheorists1 thanks for being so blatantly obvious in trying to scam me! Really appreciate it!
Lol
I was literally thinking of uncle iroh for the entire episode
@@emmasilver2332 😂 this the 1st time its happened to u?, I get these scams targeting me all the time, all I do is report them and be done with them.
@@FuryousD lmao everyone has a different response
Matt: ‘Tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice’
Steph: ‘How could a member of my family say something so horrible?’
Oh I see you forgot how disappointed iroh was when zuko said that
A person of culture
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😂
So coffee is just bean water?
@@OMRubio no it's seed soup
"Best amount of milk: is no milk."
I completely agree you, Mat.
This is by far one of my favorite episodes. Well done! I’m saving it for a few months down the road when the weather relents and it’s not 83 F in my room at 11 PM…much less the mid day heat. 😂🥵
Cheers!
The best cup of tea I ever had was from a tea house at the end of a Chinese tea ceremony. While the Japanese tea ceremony is mostly about the beauty of the ceremony, the entire purpose of the Chinese tea ceremony is to maximize the enjoyment of the tea.
If you get the opportunity to experience a Chinese tea ceremony I highly recommend.
Yeesss, I've recently gotten into gong fu style and it's really broadened my appreciation of tea.
Try the Pakistani method. Simple and no fancy spices like India but tastes better than a kettle
Our local Chinese restaurant makes probably the best tea I've ever tasted.
Meanwhile, my "ceremony" for tea is to quickly rinse out the cup i used last time, pour myself a nice big glass of sweet tea from one of the three one-gallon jugs full of sweet tea that are in the fridge.
+500 points on your social credit
My wife was happy to see Steph getting a positive video experience. In her words "That woman is a saint for putting up with Matpat, he made her eat trees!"
I love the thoroughness and detail in their experiments, but one thing that kept popping up in my mind as I watched this video was they didn’t specify what type of milk their using. Neither did they try different milks, but I still love all their videos and different channels!
This brings back perhaps my most british memory to date: getting soaked in the rain while on cadet camp, and then the colour sergeant came over with a massive jerry can full of tea. And we all sat in a shelter, watching it chuck it down as we sipped hot tea. We British do rather like our tea.
as an Australian, a lot of our culture is steeped in British traditions and lemme tell u. 3-4 cups a day is not a terrible amount. Using a different mug each time is an interesting choice though. I have one mug i got given by my sister for my 19th birthday and i’ve used it every day since (im 24 now)
Yeah, fellow aussie here having 3-4 cups a day is a great amount to have
yep
Who wants to wash that many cups per day nah ill just rinse and re-use my cup thanks.
“Steeped” in British traditions, I see what you did there.
Fellow Australian - I've been having two in the morning (my tea pot makes two cups) and one at work.
as a brit, everyone i know does exactly this, never seen anyone put milk first, I think that tradition has been toppled already
Definitely. They even said it was an old thing done to protect the cup. So it's not even a tradition saying it's the right way. It was necessary until cup quality improved
Can confirm as a Brit
my mum is British and even after being in the states almost 50 years, still puts milk in first for her tea
can back as a brit.
Well I think most of us use teabags now and an additional wrinkle to milk first is lowering the brewing temp with teabags making a less good brew.
I love all the tea puns, and I anticipated Tom's British reaction of "There we are,", though I was a little miffed that my preferred steep time of 5 mins was overthrown. I will be doing my own experience about tea add-ins. Right now, I'm thinking lemon and lime juice together, honey, and milk. I'm not sure I have enough tea for much more, but I would love your suggestions.
How to threat 70,000,000 people
Step 1:Make a “tea” making tutorial
Step 2: Get every British person to watch
Step 3: Put tea in a --> MICROWAVE
Funny thing is I don’t know any british person that puts milk in first, myself included. We always put milk in second so i think milk was ever only put in first to protect the ceramics, but have changed the order since then for better tasting tea. This was a great video and I definitely learned a lot, great job 👏
Many Brits still pour milk in first *when using a teapot* (and only then) as it doesn't matter which way around they are for combining milk and brewed tea. Milk-first is the posh way of doing it - suggesting the use of expensive fine china - and so is considered in certain quarters to be the way to do it.
The reason milk-first *if brewing in the cup* is bad is that the tea needs the excitement in the boiling water to agitate the leaves. Cooling the water down reduces that, likewise using previously-boiled water or a microwave to boil it (as neither have as much bubbling as fresh water boiled in a kettle) - the effect is similar to having a flat teabag rather than a 3d one. Also the temperature of the brewing water affects the brew - so cooling it down is doubly bad.
Yeah milk first was to protect the old China from cracking when you poured boiling water in when you brewed the tea from loose leaves, it doesn't work with modern tea bags in fact it blocks up the pores in the bags and you end up with watery milk...
Yeah I've only seen people pour milk in first when using a teapot
Same
Yeah it really depends on what dishes you are using to make it as some have paint that can chip with the hot water, but this video just made me get a cup of tea 🤣☕
Ok but watching matpat jump up and down excited during these kinds of experiments reminds me of myself doing little experiments I saw in books as a kid. Just so excited to be participating in science of any kind because you find it fun. Just goes to show some things you never grow out of huh?
Hey, love tea and love this episode. I have never really been a fan of the idea of milk in tea, but I will try it thanks to this vid. You should do another episode on all different types of tea. Make sure it's tea and no infusions since there is a clear difference.
“She goes through 3-4 cups a day!”
I love how I’m from England so that’s genuinely a normal amount of tea. And that’s not including several cups of coffee as well (not talking about me personally but a lot of people I know drink this much tea and coffee)
I typically get through 3 coffees and 2 teas at work and 2 teas in the evening. 🤔
👀
Is all that healthy per day?
@@Joseph_Roffey thats an insanely unhealthy amount of caffine
do you all have no sleep cycle or what? As a non-caffine-drinker myself, I could not handle that lol
the mom reflexes on Steph to get her hand under something she knew would spill right into it were honestly impressive
Yeah that was
Her "uh oh" face is priceless
@@nexustragoon1920 guiltea funny🤭😄
Then she chucked the tea leaves all over Tom.
Time stamp?
Alright. This is fantastic. One thing though that I am curious about : your experiment with the tea mugs should also extend to different styles of tea pots - ceramic, metal, porous, glazed, stoneware, porcelain etc, but also the shape of the pot, and whether a taller or more squat teapot is best.
Not even two minutes in and the tea jokes are rolling, love it ❤
Matpat: Your tea sucks. But that’s not of my business
Also Matpat: makes a whole video about it.
*Ok_Dont_Read_My_Names* 😑
why do bots exist
@@Jeesepinkman ikr
@@Jeesepinkman ask no more. REPORTED,hopefully youtube does something
So ironic lol
You know, as a part of the IB program, if you take chemistry, you have to design and complete your own chemistry experiment, write-up included. Because I'm a tea addict, I decided to look at the chemical reaction between the polyphenols in tea leaves and calcium carbonate in hard water that form a yucky, scummy skin on the top of your tea if you leave it too long. Turns out, adding just a few drops of lemon juice can keep your tea significantly fresher.
I do like honey and lemon tea, which ofcourse isn't British tea, but I can see that being really nice
I’ve never had this problem with a skin forming on my tea…
Edit:
Goodness, i didn’t expect such a benign comment to put a bulls eye on me. I was just trying to be sympathetic with OP for not having the option to use filtered or bottled water.
@@Mehwhatevr It probably has to do with the qjality of water where you live. As OP said, the reaction happened with calcium ions in places that have water rich in them (hard water), so maybe your source is "softer"?
@@pedroff_1 I’m not calling OP a liar. I’m just say wow. I wouldn’t use that water. I’m glad i don’t have to
I'm doing IB and my teacher has not informed my class of this yet. Thank you for posting this haha! (Also, that's a cool experiment.) Edit: Which IB program did you follow? I'm doing the diploma program. If this applies to a different program it would make more sense.
I had an American friend stay with me for a few months. Her idea of tea was to chuck about eight teabags in a large saucepan full of water and boil that for twenty minutes or so, then leave it overnight before decanting into jugs and storing it in the fridge ready to pour into a cup and drink chilled when she fancied a “cup of tea”.
Excuse me💀💀💀
I didn't realize my sister was making tea while I was watching this and I genuinely thought the whistle of the tea pot was a sound effect you added
Every topic on Food Theory feels like a science fair project people do in Elementary School. And I’m all for it
Link to the Clip : when I met matpat
czcams.com/video/mCfYi7634rU/video.html
Not gonna lie, was kind of hoping this episode would also cover herbal teas because the lack of caffeine makes quite a big difference when it comes to optimal steep time. Maybe a follow-up for both this and Iced Team would be cool
I think the issue with that is it largely depends on the tea. For example, rooibos and osmanthus only need like 3 minutes, while I find 5-7 is optimal for Chamomile to really get that fragrance and color.
40 ounces of good leaf tea every morning; this is an accurate tutorial on how to make the best cuppa. Pinkies out. 🫖
I could use a tisane episode
I was hoping to see at least one Asian person in this discussion of how to properly brew tea.
@@maxverner2341 I agree that they omitted a few important cultural cross-sections of the diversity of tea.
As someone who's ability to taste and smell are not fully functioning (I have been noseblind since I was a wee babe), I overbrew my tea, and I hate milk in my tea. If I want anything besides "mm yes hot water" it needs to be strong.
If I'm feeling deluxe. I'll make cocoa tea, by brewing my tea like normal and then adding hot cocoa mix to it and stirring that in. It gives me this earthy, rich chocolate taste, but the texture is still not all that creamy, and it goes down really well. I definitely recommend.
Love the fridge art dude!!!
A part two involving traditional Asian methods would be nice.
Yeah my mom grows the tea leaves
yes
Yeah, I am a little incensed that they thought a Brit is an “expert” when China and Japan have been growing tea for thousands of years and have WAY better taste in tea.
Ah, yes. Let the Ochako Uraraka jokes insue.
Agreed! That would be nice :3
As a British person, I have been following MatPat's perfect tea formula for the past 3-4 years unknowingly (shape of the teabag and all). I have fully optimised my tea making skills before the optimised method was ever created- by far my most impressive flex.
same but i don’t steep it for as long
My older brother puts the milk in first, and it drives me INSANE because he uses so much milk?? He dilutes the milk with the tea flavour, instead of doing it the other way around and it pisses me off because we literally cannot afford to use as much as he does.
Like dude.. not only is it morally wrong to put milk first, but it uses way too much and doesn't taste as good as it would if you put the milk afterwards. 😭
@@AquaBlooit basically is morally wrong
I'm Filipino never have been in the U.K. and I'm doing the same thing. Feels good knowing this tbh.
Most people brew it like that now anyway.
The amount of tea in a bag has to be higher to account for different cup sizes.
The milk added before lowers the brewing temperature, so you will taste less bitter notes, but it may curdle the milk, especially straight from the kettle (just boiled).
Every time i watch this i get reminded, ive always maide the perfect tea, even before this channel existed
I’ve worked in a quintessentially British tea room for 4 years and I’ve never once seen someone pour milk into their teacup first
ok
Yeah, I don't think that's really a common thing, I'm Australian and we've inherited our brittish ancestors love of tea and I've always done it with the milk added last
I'm from the UK. Some people put milk in first...but they're strange
@@bigdaddybulge4206 *Those* brits, not *Us* brits.
That’s because milk doesn’t go in tea
As a British person this video is not ruining my tea experience
Bri'ish
It wouldn't ruin your dinner
@@XvWindvX Brah 😲 czcams.com/video/3qdWWdhl5jI/video.html
tea isnt british
British tea is barely tea
Another possible variable that could be tested is agitating the teabag while it’s steeping, because I know I like to agitate my teabags especially if I’m using the flat paper bags
Can't get enough of the tea pun 😭
I’m British and I have never once in my life seen milk first. It’s always water on tea, followed by milk. You just proved the British way is best.
im portuguese and I've never once of my life seen someone putting milk in tea
I'm Moroccan ( a north african country ) tea is very popular in our country, and this is my first time hearing people mix milk with tea
I've heard about milk being in tea, I've never tried it myself but I heard it's actually pretty good. I watch a dude who reviews MRE's and he did this to his tea one day and I was baffled.
👀
I've also never seen people put milk first. It's always tea first then milk because it's easier to measure that way
The temperature you get the water to and how you pour the water over the tea leaves are big parts of Chinese traditions. It would have been cool to see them tested too.
yea i was hoping for more comparisons to the numerous eastern ways of teamaking, but i guess that would be too intricate for one video and maybe difficult to form a youtube friendly hypothesis from. still, i just love to watch little teapots get bathed in tea. it's so calming and the difference between a new pot and an old, diligently used one is amazing to look at!
What about making chai on the stove top?
Same. Eastern tea making can get super intricate.
Yeah, it really bugs me that they chose to ONLY explore this one super specific type of tea preparation when there are SOOO many much more exciting ways out there!
The tea to milk argument is like the and the cereal to milk argument are two breakfast themed problems we need to solve.
My mom insists on having a different cup for her coffees so I feel you on the whole constantly washing cups in the dishwasher
As a British person who drinks too much tea, I can say I’ve never seen anyone put the milk in first. It’s news to me that it used to be tradition.
For me, i use a tea pot with loose leaves and i put the milk in first. However when i use tea bags, i put the milk in afterwards. For me, watching this and hearing them say it’s traditional was quite nice, but i agree that the majority of the population now puts the milk in second and considers putting it in first a crime against humanity.
Also 3-4 cups of tea is my average amount to consume when im on a school day and spend 7-8 hours a day out of the house and when im in all day its more like 6-7 cups.
I first heard about it in Hitchhikers Guide when Arthur is trying to explain to the ship how to make tea, and he mentions that the reasoning was to not scald the leaves. I don't make enough tea to comment on the veracity of it, though.
I’ve never seen anyone put in milk
same
@@RalseiTheRealyou’ve never seen anyone put milk in tea?
As a British person, I've rarely ever seen or heard of someone putting the Milk in first and I think the default for people became to put the Milk in last, didn't know the detail about the Mugs/Cups breaking though I imagine that as soon as the better Mugs/Cups became available that's when they changed it, would love to see a video on the differences between brands (especially flavour, I've run a small test on that myself), the other things added besides Milk like Lemon (as mentioned in The Da Vinci Code), why we don't have tea machines that can make a variety of different Teas like how coffee machines do with coffee and how Tea is made in Asian cultures and how the different flavours affect things
One of the tea vendors I buy from has a brewer that makes tea according to it's type. They also have kettles with different temperature presets..
I just made a comment saying the same about the milk!
I heard the difference is between cold worked porcelain and hot worked porcelain. I think it is the latter that is the stronger china and more temperature resistant.
@@skyydancer67 I heard from my Mum that my uncle took up green tea, and found it is best to brew it under boiling temperature - like around 80 degrees Celcius (as opposed to boiling temp at 100).
same here! I never knew some people put the milk first, I always assumed it went last
You should do one where you run these tests on different flavors/types of tea. Personally I take my peppermint tea steeped for 5 mins, water from a kettle, 2 tablespoons of milk on top, 2 tablespoons sugar and mix! It is soooooo yummy and it helps me sleep!
Dude you have so much energy haha
0:56 "Warm leaf water"
Steph: "How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?"
"own family"
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I am absolutely loving this Iroh reference
@@XxDramaticBatu where are you from, when two people get married are they not considered part of the same family afterwards?
@@XxDramaticBatu they're... married
As a British person I've never met a single person who puts milk first.
my gfs uncle has milk first with the tea bag and then hot water and lets it sit for 5 mins. His wife's has given up disagreeing with his antics.
@@asfprogaming1497 i mean i dont think theres much a difference in the tea drinking experience when you put milk first
I'm American Person, I never put the milk first or heard of Anyone putting milk first.
Me neither
Can confirm as a British person as well I know no one who puts the milk in the first as well.
so long but just remember its just a theory. Food theory is my favourite because i can use this the most in my life i love the channel enjoy your life and enjoy you're family
I was in the store earlier this week and someone I was with said something about tea biscuits...then this stranger gave us some helpful information about tea biscuits... Which is why I am watching this video again.
I wonder if you can make an update next year?
15:45 matpats excitement and bounces are super adorable 🥺🥺
Steph: I drink three or four cups a day.
Me: (after drinking roughly a half gallon so far today) That's adorable.
*points pinky finger outwards as you continue to guzzzle your tea*
This! As I finish my Sonic Route 44 sized iced tea! 😂
Link to the Clip : when I met matpat
czcams.com/video/mCfYi7634rU/video.html
Oxalates arent a worry for you?
I have never liked tea before, but following the instructions from this video, I actually enjoyed tea for the first time in my life.
Watching the three of them in the kitchen is like watching my dad and my sister trying to cook. Not much happens, but they giggle the whole way through.
Those pyramid tea bags are often made from plastic mesh, which have been reported to release huge amounts of micro-plastics (especially when exposed to hot water). If you use those please look for what type of material the bag is made from.
Came here to say that, cz I saw it on reddit a couple days ago and looked into it further. But I didn't know that there are some that don't leak microplastic? Do you know which ones to look out for?
@@siluramiau8509 There is a processed version of cornstarch which some companies use instead of plastic. You might alto find ones that use some form of silk, but those are usually really expensive🤷♀.
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Omfg I'm pretty sure Steph's mom senses kicked in at 6:29 right before Tom spills his tea leaves. Her face screams "This man will not be able to stop himself from opening that thing and I had better be there to catch the mess."
and the way she caught it. That is Mum spidey senses
Food theory idea: the effect of different dish types on the experience of food. I read an article a long time ago that consuming food with plastic silverware registers to the eater as richer and of higher quality
Good to know. I've normally done the flat bags in covered mugs for four minutes with no milk
As a Brit, I’ve always been told milk last, as back in the day the upper classes would use sugar cubes, and adding milk first wouldn’t be hot enough to dissolve the sugar properly.
As a tea lover I'm so horrified by that 'hack'. That tea must have tasted like 100% sadness T.T
Even I, someone who rarely drinks tea
was mortified by the TikTok.
My heart skipped a beat seeing that
me and my ancestors wept at the sight of it
my grandma’s in the stairs now
That first step is actively dangerous! Microwaving water with nothing in it puts a lot of energy into the water and can make it explode when moved.
If anyone is mad enough to try this, DON'T
"It was the only verbal that didn't effect flavor."
The tea kettle and cup test: i don't exist
I use these metal tea baskets that fill most of the inside of the mug. Perfect for getting a full steep with plenty of space for your leaves.
Felt the need to watch a video on tea as a Chinese person. ( I feel like people forget Asian countries like China and Japan are also really specific about tea probably more than Britain, with elaborate ceremonies and rituals, specific teapots, equipments, tea leaves, and so much more)
As a South Asian I can say that it doesnt really matter if people remember or forget your involvement with tea because either way people are gonna appropriate your tea. Like British tea leaves literally came from India. Also chai tea from Starbucks is an indian recipe but I dont think most people know
This. Seems like a complete shame to ignore the tea traditions of the places where tea is actually cultivated (China, Japan, Taiwan, India, etc). And to be evaluating the so-called “best” tea with tea bags even being in the running (which usually are made with the lowest quality tea) and additions like milk when there is such an mind-blowingly diverse world of tea cultivars, harvesting, processing, and preparation methods to consider.
Absolutely,
Moreover, they addressed the origin of the tea leaves used were from India,
but not once addressed how Indians drink tea, 😑,
Actually there is a rich cultural history in every single city of Asia, and I believe we don't need a global validation just to love our culture...
@@brahmandsaraswat867 he literally said he would focus on british tea
How can you use the internet in china
As a British person, I think nowadays the modern wisdom here (for most people) is put the milk in after.
Also, I never really drink much tea, but by coincidence I have been a lot more recently and I had to stop halfway through the video to make some 'cause it was giving me cravings lol. I burnt my tongue with impatience.
I agree. That might have been the tradition, but anyone putting milk in first nowadays will get some disapproving looks.
Yeah, I've always put the tea in before the milk
@@bembomajembo4402 how doth one put the tea in
how do you put something you are making in the mug into the mug
(unless you use a tea kettle)
As a brit, you put milk in first. You get tf outta my house 😂
@@mizmysterious7311 excuse me
Although I’m not a tea drinker, I’ll always tune in for an episode of food teaory.
11:55 a lil strongah”
The way I make tea over in Ireland is 1. Boil water in the kettle
2. Pop your tea bag in the mug then pour the water into said mug
3. Pour whatever amount of milk you want into the mug
I tend to leave the tea bag in, though some people take it out.
Enjoy your tea ☕️✨😁
Innit
@@orangutang5683 that is just the way
Same but I also like to hit the bag with the water.
As a British person I think I know why tea from a teapots colder, usually when you drink tea from a teapot you are at a cafe or a public place and you want to drink it straight away while at home when you pour straight to the cup it’s because your on the sofa watching tv or chatting to people coming over so you’re drinking it less / ignoring it for a while until there’s a break in conversation
Sure, that would affect things. However, their limited scope experiment didn't involve leaving the teapot sitting around for ten minutes while you chat with friends. It's the surface area exposing the liquid to more air that chills it faster.
From that episode, I learned that I have always known how to make tea since I was a little kid, because that's exactly how my grandmother taught me to make tea, except that I add a slightly heaped teaspoon of sugar to mine.
A Canadian here. Although I have seen the traditional British version made here, the way I’ve always made it is:
Water in kettle
Boil
Add teabag into a mug
Pour water in the mug
Wait for it to steep
Add any extras (Milk, Honey, etc)
British aproved this is how most people here make it any
Steph's mom instinct that he was going to spill some of the tea leaves and put her hand out to catch it just before 😂
I think she was just trying to present the tea that was above her hand.
@@hubertnnn she definitely saw him about to spill some tho, you can tell by the face she made before it happened lol
She totally knew he was gunna a spill it loom at her face just before it happens! 6:29 is the time stamp
There's a problem with pyramid shaped teabags: they're usually made with plastic. Under the heat of hot water, they leach microplastics into your cup. It's generally best to make sure if you can, that your bag doesn't contain plastics.
Congrats! You've made Australian-style tea. This is how it's done over here.
I wish Matt would have mentioned Ronald Fisher's famous story about how he invented null hypothesis significance testing to prove that a woman couldn't tell whether the milk was added to tea first or last. Such a cool story that puts tea-tasting at the center of modern statistics and science
I’m surprised they didn’t try putting the teabag in the cup and then pouring in the water
And what type of milk is best. I only drink soy milk due to health reasons and let me tell you it doesn't taste good as much as what I used to drink as a kid with normal milk.
@@fusionofmyth Hello, soyboy. XD
@@fusionofmyth worse part is that the acid in the tea can potentially curdle it. Like coffee... worked in a cafe and saw so many of those left to die
@@voidvessel13 oh interesting actually I didn’t know that, thanks for the information
@@fusionofmyth I use almond and out if I'm feeling like it but *never* skimmed, always whole milk
Me, looking at my Nepali neighbour, who is casually boiling his ceylon tea in milk.
*Ahh, poor MatPat, you know nothing*
huh
As an Indian I can say we do the same thing 😂
Ayyyyy I was making tea while reading this
And yes we love this ☕
In India we boil it in water then put milk then we put sugar and that's that we literally drink up 90 percent of it we drink it allll the time
Also it aint in fancy tea bags also in ceramic things it's in metal pots which is served in ceramic
Steph and Tom saying "why are you putting it in the microwave!?" And "that's too much milk!" At the same time made me laugh so hard, but it was also SO painful to watch that video with them.
This is a quali-tea episode
This filled me with positivi-tea
I can go all night long…
i'm burmese, in my country we make tea by boiling water and putting tea leaves in. No bag and no milk, honey, sugar or anything like that just the leaves and we don't take it out, so you can imagine how bitter it is. We just kinda deal with the tealeaves floating around in our cups lmao
so in the wise words of Zuko...tea really is just hot leaf juice💀
Tea is hot leaf water
So does more than half of asia man I was shocked when I learned British are using milk
Milk tea is just wrong and evil
It’s called loose leaf tea, the Japanese and Chinese use a strainer inside the teapot to hold back the leaves as they pour
"How could any family of mine say something so horrible?!" Uncle Iroh
I just love the way Tom phrases everything. "How does one open this bag?"
He is so British. As a British person I feel very well represented by him. 🇬🇧
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The reason to put the milk or cream in first is that the pour of the tea / coffee mixes the milk in for you whereas when you put the milk in 2nd, you still need to mix it a bit. Knowing it somehow affects flavor though changes things.
You come to the Caribbean. Paperty bags are dunked in water after the 3 minutes of soaking. For loose leaves we tend to cover our teapot so that draws very strongly. My guess is that Barbados still retains its British colony habits
Thing is, as a Brit from Wales, I've never seen anyone pour milk then water. Water first is usually the norm so the British way still is the best!
Yeah same in Scotland I was so confused???
I've always done milk first because I find it easier to fill to the top with water rather than judging enough space to add milk. Been called odd for it in Scotland, seems milk after water is the "meta" here too.
@@ionafyfe2570 Fellow Scot, also confused
@@Rae-Nbow mainland brits are weird, as always
maybe its a southern english thing but i'm from the midlands and have never seen that before
Love how Steph's mom instincts kicked in to catch the tea leaves
and then her inner child took over as she threw them at the culprit
If you like adding more milk you can leave the tea to steep for longer because the bitter gets mellowed by the milk. Also my brother would say putting the milk first the hot water "shreds the dairy" while if you add it on top when the water is cooler the dairy flavor stays
I have found out, that even historically the British have been making tea in a weird way. As many used the 2 teapot method, where in one, you brew a strong blend that's left for too long, therefore making the tea leaves bruised, and have that bitter, metalic aftertaste. In the other teapot there is hot water which is then diluted with the strong tea, which doesn't make it taste any better.
Food Theory: How to make the perfect cup of british tea.
Me who almost exclusively drinks chinese, japanese, and korean tea: I have no idea what to do with this information.
I feel that lol
Yeah bro the English tea method seems primitive and inferior compared to the methods used in asia
Ever try javanese jasmine tea? Dude it's the best thing ever I'm telling you. It's aromatic, you can drink it hot, with ice, with milk, anything goes with it! And it's really cheap.
@@jackwithrow536 What part of Asia? Every part has different methods. Middle east? Central Asia? East Asia? South Asia? South East Asia?
Idk, continue making your tea?