How to drink tea properly

Tea consistently holds the palm in popularity among drinks. Adults and children, old people and young people like to drink it. This drink possesses a lot of useful properties, it can be used both hot and cold. There are even special ceremonies and rules for brewing and drinking tea.

Types of tea

There are several ways to classify tea in the world. For example, by color, country or by the method of processing tea leaves and their varieties. Let's take a closer look at this classification.

Tea is divided by color into:

• Black tea, the most famous all over the world. A distinctive feature of black tea is that its leaves have undergone complete oxidation. This process takes from two weeks to a month. Dried black tea leaves turn brown or black. The finished drink has an orange or dark red hue. Black tea often has a tart taste.

• Green tea is also quite popular. No oxidation is used in its production. Tea leaves are lightly dried in the sun and rolled into balls. This prevents strong fermentation.

• White teas are even less processed than green teas. These are essentially tea tree buds covered with white villi. The harvest time for white tea is early spring. Freshly hatched leaves are dried in the sun, and then in the shade. Drying is completed already in the oven.

• For the production of red tea, only leaves from the top of a branch are suitable. In this case, the collection is made only in the morning. After drying, the leaves are laid out in boxes and fermented for 24 hours.

• From China came to our country Puer tea. This drink has an unusual smell and taste. Its production technology is very complex. Only the leaves of a certain type of tea tree are taken. They are processed with special infusions and fermented with special bacteria. Then the tea leaves are lowered for several years in a special pit with infusion, and then they are put under the press and get round or rectangular cakes.

Which tea is healthier

It is rather difficult to answer this question unequivocally. Any type of tea has its own beneficial properties. Each variety contains theine, which has a tonic effect on the body. This substance is similar in its properties to caffeine, but in contrast to it, it acts softer, since it is in a bound form. Most of the theine is in young leaves that have spent more time in the sun.

Green tea is very beneficial as a preventative drink against cancer and heart disease. If you regularly drink green tea, the risk of such diseases is reduced by 10%. Black tea is able to protect a person from the harmful effects of tobacco, it lowers blood cholesterol. Several cups of this drink will greatly reduce the likelihood of a stroke.

White tea has the same useful property. In addition, it helps to improve glucose tolerance. White tea leaves are less processed, so they retain more useful properties. Drink Pu-erh tea to improve brain function and lower cholesterol.

How to brew tea correctly

There is a whole ritual for the correct brewing of tea. Such a drink, brewed in accordance with all traditions, turns out to be very tasty. If you get the chance, be sure to try a properly brewed tea.

Most ordinary people have neither the knowledge nor the special utensils for such a tea ceremony. Therefore, let's learn how to brew tea, observing the rules as much as possible. Remember that the final taste of the brewed tea is greatly influenced by the quality and temperature of the water, what utensils are used to prepare the drink, and much more.

Water for tea should have a mild taste and not contain a variety of impurities. It is best to use bottled drinking water or filtered with a household filter. The water temperature should be different for different types of tea. So black and red varieties require a high water temperature - about 95 degrees, for other varieties, water at a lower temperature is suitable.

It is best to use a ceramic or red clay teapot for brewing a drink. But if this was not at hand, then you can take an ordinary earthenware teapot.

The ratio of dry leaves to water may vary. It all depends on your taste preferences. But connoisseurs of the tea ceremony recommend taking a teaspoon of leaves per 150 ml of water. However, many believe that such a drink turns out to be too strong, so you can just trust your taste.

1. Heat the kettle with boiling water and wipe it off well.
2. Now put the dry leaves in the teapot and smooth them over the bottom.
3. Fill the kettle with 2/3 water and close the lid.
4. Place a cloth on top of the lid. This will preserve the tea's aroma and essential oils.
5. Wait a few minutes. The exact amount of time depends on the type of tea.
6. When the tea is brewed, pour it into another bowl, do not leave with the tea leaves. You can immediately pour the finished tea into cups.