Wow, I always use those little mesh cages. I know what he means, though, it always seems so crowded in that little space. If I don't use it, I generally just end up straining the tea through an old T-shirt or something. Not sure if that's necessarily any better, lol. I'm not nearly this scientific about it, I drink too much of the stuff. But I suppose that's why the tea served in the shops tastes better. Heheh.
Oh god. I mean, I loved Alton Brown /before/ this episode, but hearing him repeat every rule I already follow in tea-brewing right back to me is wonderful~<3
@zwithgol Historically, milk was put in first to prevent cups from breaking. Only the rich could afford porcelain and everyone else used cheap china. Porcelain could withstand the heat of tea being poured directly in the cup. Inexpensive china often broke when the tea was poured directly in the cup. Adding milk first tempered the tea and prevented the cups from breaking.
You Never Use A Microwave When Making Any Kind Of Tea, It Changes The Molecules In The Water To Bad Molecules And Makes The Water Taste Awful, It Also More Importantly Kills Any And All Health Benefits In Tea.
At the present time I would like to alert everyone to the pervasive danger in the use of microwave cooking. Our family no longer has a microwave, and we try not to eat anywhere that we know microwave cooking is used.
- In a study published in the November 2003 issue of The Journal of the Science of Food andAgriculture found that broccoli cooked in the microwave with a little water lost up to 97 percent of the beneficial antioxidant chemicals it contains. By comparison, steamed broccoli lost only 11 percent or fewer of its antioxidants.
- Microwaves heat your food by causing it to resonate at very high frequencies. While this can effectively heat your food, it also causes a change in the chemical structure of the food that can lead to health issues.
- Microwave cooking changes the molecular structure of food. In test subjects who ate microwaved food, the following changes in blood chemistry were observed:
Decrease in lymphocytes and leukocytes (white blood cells, the ones that kill germs)
Increase in luminous power by luminous bacteria exposed to blood of volunteers (in essence, radioactive energy was passed on from the microwaved food to the blood cells of those who ate the food)
- In other words, the implications are that a person who eats microwaved food for an extended period could become anemic due to destruction of hemoglobin, have an increase in heart disease from the decrease in good cholesteral and the ratio between good and bad cholesterol, and could become subject to a host of contagious diseases due to immune system compromise.
- It has also been discovered that when microwaved, molecules are torn apart and deformed. These cells become extremely vulnerable to viruses, fungi, and other micro-organisms. These cells' ability to repair themselves is suppressed so that rather than producing water and carbon dioxide in the process of cell repair, hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide are produced. Can you imagine eating food filled with carbon monoxide? Can you imagine your own cells producing this compound?
- When food is exposed to microwaves, the destruction and deformation of the molecules produces substances called radiolytic compounds, and the effects of these substances upon health is unknown.
There Is More Evidence To Back Up My Claims But Youtube Keeps Wanting Me To Put In A Captcha Each Time
Word to the wise: If you're at high altitude (like Denver or Reno), remember to compensate for the lowered boiling point of water. If water's boiling at about 200, oolong should be treated like black is at sea level.
@BigDaddySeany If you pour the milk into the tea it tends to have smaller droplets break away (due to the fats in milk) and stick to themsleves. if you pour the tea into the milk it all blends together alot better.
How do you stop the steeping process like in green tea, for steeping it's only 2 to 3 minutes in the cast iron pot? Will it go bitter if it passed the 2 to 3 mins steeping time?
Black tea is best served in the Russian style, with lemon. If you can get an authentic Russian (or better yet, Kazakh) samovar, so much the better. If you happen to be able to get to Kazakhstan, so much the better, but if that fails there's always the Internet.
Yes, some teas are meant to be drunk (drank?) straight. For instance, jasmine tea, oolong tea, and the tea that is sold in chinese restaurants (usually some form of jasmine) shouldn't be sweet. Slightly bitter or strong teas, such as Irish Breakfast or Earl Grey (sometimes) do require sweetner to enhance the good flavors and dilute the bad. Oh, if you want to observe a unique property of jasmine tea, ignore the above and sweeten it. You'll find that it has a spicy aftertaste (like cinnamon).
For me it varies from tea to tea. on green and any other light color teas I drink them straight like alton said. I'll sweeten some flavored black teas, and put milk in some straight blacks.
@Mudskippersam You can try to boil it, but it will result in what is called "spontanious boiling"--aka no sign of bubbles until the water explodes all over your microwave. The upside is the fact that you will have a really clean microwave.
This should be required watching for restaurant and cafe managers in the US. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to educate them about putting the hot water on the leaves!
Well if I'm paying for a cup of tea I want it done right and have a good cup of tea. If they are not putting the water on the leaves then they are not doing their job. Would you expect a mug of hot water and some coffee grinds on the side for your coffee? I think not! That's what it is like getting a cup of hot water and a tea bag on the side. Yuck!
Doesn't matter, your paying for what's in the cup not the process and it's not you're job to correct how the company has things set up, Let THEM Make their crappy tea, and then they can pay for it when people are all
"Eww...."
And isn't cofee and Tea free at most resturants anyways? You get what you pay for
Coffee and tea free? Included never free! No, the customer is always right or at least make him feel that way LOL! Or you will quickly go out of business! Money talks.
Coffee and tea are not free at Starbucks but they know how to make hot tea and coffee :-) Yummy
Customer is always right my ass XD When I worked at Mcdonalds the customers were self filled a-holes
Ah AH I see you meant from a place like starbucks, I thought you ment a diner or a dennys XD I buy coffee at starbucks and it's pretty good, doesn't make me feel sick like other coffee, but I always buy my own teabags, Peppermint is my favorite XD
Coffee is free at Dennys, and Tea is free at Chinese restaurants... Though amazingly the Chinese know what the fuck their doing
It's a chinese restaurant, of course it's gonna have better tasting tea than Starbucks. They're freakkin chinese. They know more about tea than some shmuck third rate coffee company.
Ha. Yup! I like how he takes a scientific approach to it though. Have you seen the "Three chips for sister Marsha" episode? The cookie monster is funny as all sin!
Does anyone know why you're supposed to add the tea to the milk, not the other way around? Is that a British etiquette thing, because I can't see how that would make a difference in flavor.
I spent a semester in Oxford, and I've had a LOT of tea both there and here. The British tend to put the milk in first, yes, but not always. After drinking it both ways (milk before tea, and added to an already-poured cup), I can tell you it does taste a bit better with the milk in the cup beforehand, for whatever reason. But it's not a huge difference; if you forget, just pour it in after.
He forgot to mention washing the tea first. Which is pouring hot water over the tea, and dumping the first batch out. also you can get numerous pots of tea from the same leaves. Up to 5 batches. Many claim they get better as you progress. He also forgot to mention there are two types of Camellia sinensis. Sinensis Sinensis is used primarly for green and white tea, while sinensis assamicus from India is used for black tea. (thus the name Assam)
You're just losing a good deal of the flavor if you 'wash' the tea with hot water first. This is never, ever done in tea-drinking countries like India or England.
Actually, it's much better to wash (i.e. add hot water to the dry tea leaves and then dump it out after a minute) the tea, and then pour in fresh hot water to the wet leaves. This opens the leaves, removes dirt and dust that might have accumulated on the leaves during processing, and gives the tea a clearer flavour. Especially with black and wulong teas, you can get many infusions from a single amount of leaves.
I must dissagree with Alton on one thing: I've tried making Iced tea by a similar method to his. No matter how much tea you add it will not be as flavorful as it would with cold ice added.
I agree, Heracles. Herbals like rooibos, yerba, etc. could have been included at least in passing to help dispel confusion. They're not tea but do go under that name colloquially. I'd say they're certainly "good eats" as well.
@voxnulla hey why don't you pipe the fuck down? This "pedantic shit" is why we watch good eats and why AB is awesome.
mrjamesgrimes 2 weeks ago
@ninja3737 do you know how retarded you sound? I'm embarrassed for you
mrjamesgrimes 2 weeks ago
Wow, I always use those little mesh cages. I know what he means, though, it always seems so crowded in that little space. If I don't use it, I generally just end up straining the tea through an old T-shirt or something. Not sure if that's necessarily any better, lol. I'm not nearly this scientific about it, I drink too much of the stuff. But I suppose that's why the tea served in the shops tastes better. Heheh.
GiantPetRat 1 month ago
Oh god. I mean, I loved Alton Brown /before/ this episode, but hearing him repeat every rule I already follow in tea-brewing right back to me is wonderful~<3
B4K4xNi 1 month ago
He's gotta be the coolest dad.
mongaloogirl 1 month ago
Why does it matter when to add milk?
zwithgol 3 months ago
@zwithgol Historically, milk was put in first to prevent cups from breaking. Only the rich could afford porcelain and everyone else used cheap china. Porcelain could withstand the heat of tea being poured directly in the cup. Inexpensive china often broke when the tea was poured directly in the cup. Adding milk first tempered the tea and prevented the cups from breaking.
BlueStrikeP 2 months ago
What a crock of pedantic shit. It's fucking tea not beer.
Voxnulla 4 months ago
You Never Use A Microwave When Making Any Kind Of Tea, It Changes The Molecules In The Water To Bad Molecules And Makes The Water Taste Awful, It Also More Importantly Kills Any And All Health Benefits In Tea.
Ninja3737 5 months ago in playlist Tea Video's
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@Ninja3737 You Know Someone Is Right When They Captialize Every Word
Also:
"It Also More Importantly Kills Any And All Health Benefits In Tea"
Citation needed.
ReclusiarchGrimaldus 3 months ago
@Ninja3737 Where is your supporting data? This sounds totally like poor science
Bulbuh 3 months ago
@Bulbuh - Dangers of Microwave Cooking
At the present time I would like to alert everyone to the pervasive danger in the use of microwave cooking. Our family no longer has a microwave, and we try not to eat anywhere that we know microwave cooking is used.
Ninja3737 3 months ago
@Ninja3737 Once again, is this proven or not?
Bulbuh 3 months ago
@Bulbuh - I Just Showed You It Was, Read All That I Posted For Supporting Data
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- In a study published in the November 2003 issue of The Journal of the Science of Food andAgriculture found that broccoli cooked in the microwave with a little water lost up to 97 percent of the beneficial antioxidant chemicals it contains. By comparison, steamed broccoli lost only 11 percent or fewer of its antioxidants.
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- Microwaves heat your food by causing it to resonate at very high frequencies. While this can effectively heat your food, it also causes a change in the chemical structure of the food that can lead to health issues.
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- Microwave cooking changes the molecular structure of food. In test subjects who ate microwaved food, the following changes in blood chemistry were observed:
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- Decrease in hemoglobin values
Decrease in HDL Cholesterol (the good kind)
Decrease in lymphocytes and leukocytes (white blood cells, the ones that kill germs)
Increase in luminous power by luminous bacteria exposed to blood of volunteers (in essence, radioactive energy was passed on from the microwaved food to the blood cells of those who ate the food)
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- In other words, the implications are that a person who eats microwaved food for an extended period could become anemic due to destruction of hemoglobin, have an increase in heart disease from the decrease in good cholesteral and the ratio between good and bad cholesterol, and could become subject to a host of contagious diseases due to immune system compromise.
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- It has also been discovered that when microwaved, molecules are torn apart and deformed. These cells become extremely vulnerable to viruses, fungi, and other micro-organisms. These cells' ability to repair themselves is suppressed so that rather than producing water and carbon dioxide in the process of cell repair, hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide are produced. Can you imagine eating food filled with carbon monoxide? Can you imagine your own cells producing this compound?
Ninja3737 3 months ago
- When food is exposed to microwaves, the destruction and deformation of the molecules produces substances called radiolytic compounds, and the effects of these substances upon health is unknown.
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Ninja3737 3 months ago
Word to the wise: If you're at high altitude (like Denver or Reno), remember to compensate for the lowered boiling point of water. If water's boiling at about 200, oolong should be treated like black is at sea level.
SimuLord 6 months ago
01:08 That is a really cool teakettle! I adore the metal airships zipping around the edge. :D I have GOT to get me one of those!
QueenBoadicea 7 months ago in playlist Good Eats (television cooking show)
Now why would you want to pour the milk into the teacup before the tea?
BigDaddySeany 7 months ago
@BigDaddySeany If you pour the milk into the tea it tends to have smaller droplets break away (due to the fats in milk) and stick to themsleves. if you pour the tea into the milk it all blends together alot better.
kasai0494 7 months ago
How do you stop the steeping process like in green tea, for steeping it's only 2 to 3 minutes in the cast iron pot? Will it go bitter if it passed the 2 to 3 mins steeping time?
TheSweetalchemist 7 months ago
silly americans, don't use grams and liters
BoeserOverlord 8 months ago
i want that kettle he used for water
livetolovesome182 11 months ago 2
Yeah, that tea was way too light to be sweet tea. Sweet tea is really dark to counter the high sugar content.
trlkly 11 months ago
Agave nectar is also a really good iced tea sweetener. :)
LinksLove 1 year ago
Did he make unsweetened tea.... is that even legal in the south?
TaelosX 1 year ago 2
I love the sugar at the bottom of the iced tea, then you can control the amount of sugar you get per sip.
rolyataylor3 1 year ago
Black tea is best served in the Russian style, with lemon. If you can get an authentic Russian (or better yet, Kazakh) samovar, so much the better. If you happen to be able to get to Kazakhstan, so much the better, but if that fails there's always the Internet.
SimuLord 1 year ago
40,000th
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lilith1979 1 year ago
I love this man. nerdy + into food = awesome
angelpushpin 1 year ago 12
Yes, some teas are meant to be drunk (drank?) straight. For instance, jasmine tea, oolong tea, and the tea that is sold in chinese restaurants (usually some form of jasmine) shouldn't be sweet. Slightly bitter or strong teas, such as Irish Breakfast or Earl Grey (sometimes) do require sweetner to enhance the good flavors and dilute the bad. Oh, if you want to observe a unique property of jasmine tea, ignore the above and sweeten it. You'll find that it has a spicy aftertaste (like cinnamon).
mashmusic11235 1 year ago
I'm going to make tea, not TNT !
LTcrew 1 year ago 2
I love tea.
panthersquad 1 year ago
For me it varies from tea to tea. on green and any other light color teas I drink them straight like alton said. I'll sweeten some flavored black teas, and put milk in some straight blacks.
bryan1493 2 years ago
BOOO sugar, Go with Honey. I like wild flower for teas the best.
sweaty3377 2 years ago
I drink it straight
person365 2 years ago
I HAVE THAT SAME TEAPOT.
randomguy508 2 years ago
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ApplesAreFairlyGood 2 years ago
I love this show! I just learn so much from AB. :-) Thanks for posting all these episodes!!
gcarped 2 years ago
ahahaha! tea AND tea!!!
musicalmiller 2 years ago
fyI...some tea bags use metal staples to attach the tags, which will spark in the microwave.
RachelHC 2 years ago 3
I thought the same thing when he did that haha.
Menimitz 2 years ago
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What a load of shit, you can boil water without imperfections...it just doesn't bubble from the bottom.
Mudskippersam 2 years ago
@Mudskippersam You can try to boil it, but it will result in what is called "spontanious boiling"--aka no sign of bubbles until the water explodes all over your microwave. The upside is the fact that you will have a really clean microwave.
pibeagles 1 year ago
@pibeagles
Right. And when in doubt, if yours is a countertop microwave like the one in our floor commons in our dorms, jiggle the mircowave! ;)
missbeatrix1 1 year ago
This should be required watching for restaurant and cafe managers in the US. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to educate them about putting the hot water on the leaves!
mckohtz 2 years ago
Pretty rude of you to be lecturing them how to do their job =/
Pyroblazer 2 years ago
Well if I'm paying for a cup of tea I want it done right and have a good cup of tea. If they are not putting the water on the leaves then they are not doing their job. Would you expect a mug of hot water and some coffee grinds on the side for your coffee? I think not! That's what it is like getting a cup of hot water and a tea bag on the side. Yuck!
mckohtz 2 years ago
Doesn't matter, your paying for what's in the cup not the process and it's not you're job to correct how the company has things set up, Let THEM Make their crappy tea, and then they can pay for it when people are all
"Eww...."
And isn't cofee and Tea free at most resturants anyways? You get what you pay for
Pyroblazer 2 years ago
Coffee and tea free? Included never free! No, the customer is always right or at least make him feel that way LOL! Or you will quickly go out of business! Money talks.
Coffee and tea are not free at Starbucks but they know how to make hot tea and coffee :-) Yummy
mckohtz 2 years ago
Customer is always right my ass XD When I worked at Mcdonalds the customers were self filled a-holes
Ah AH I see you meant from a place like starbucks, I thought you ment a diner or a dennys XD I buy coffee at starbucks and it's pretty good, doesn't make me feel sick like other coffee, but I always buy my own teabags, Peppermint is my favorite XD
Coffee is free at Dennys, and Tea is free at Chinese restaurants... Though amazingly the Chinese know what the fuck their doing
Pyroblazer 2 years ago
That is because China is where tea is originally from!
mckohtz 2 years ago
I know that-_-
But I find it sad a DINGY little Chinese resturant here serves better tea than STARBUCKS XD
Pyroblazer 2 years ago
Who died and made Starbucks the authority of tea?
Last time I checked the Chinese were drinking tea eons ago.
Zephilindrum 2 years ago
I didn't say starbucks was the authority o_o I said it's sad that a resturant that gives out free tea, tastes better than their 5$
Pyroblazer 2 years ago
Why is that sad?
It's a chinese restaurant, of course it's gonna have better tasting tea than Starbucks. They're freakkin chinese. They know more about tea than some shmuck third rate coffee company.
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ApplesAreFairlyGood 2 years ago
Man this guy is Awsome i learned a lot from this video
MMAGTR 2 years ago 3
I like the creamer--I have one just like it that I got at a garage sale, because of a P. G. Wodehouse (pronounced WOOD-house) Jeeves & Wooster story.
pibeagles 2 years ago
Alton Brown's tea tutorial should be the official teaching video for all tea lovers.
gamertillman 2 years ago
I'm surprised he doesn't mind the staple being in the water while heating in the microwave - does it affect flavor?
ericasaidso 2 years ago
darn i got a batch o' cloudy tea, didnt listen poured the hot tea into the container of ice. instead of roo temp water... wooooooooooooooops
Hr1055 2 years ago
Love that kettle!
Hadra568 3 years ago 4
bunny?
give her some tea. everything's gonna be fine
lol
Art13is13Love 3 years ago 3
why didnt he go over honey? i like honey with my tea. and what about herbal tea? otherwise great show.
mafrek 3 years ago 2
because thats another show. ^ ^
farleyklown 3 years ago
lol yeah. where is that show eh?
mafrek 3 years ago
no idea. but i like this show. i learned most of the crap i know how to cook off this guy. ^ ^
mind you i had to look up most of his shows on youtube cuz i'm too baked to remember half the stuff he's talkin about. rofl. ^ ^
farleyklown 3 years ago
"i like this show. i learned most of the crap i know how to cook off this guy."
same here
mafrek 3 years ago
Good Eats baked is the stuff that dreams are made of.
misscleo3861 3 years ago
Ha. Yup! I like how he takes a scientific approach to it though. Have you seen the "Three chips for sister Marsha" episode? The cookie monster is funny as all sin!
farleyklown 3 years ago
Lol, He's so scientific with it, it actually helped me pass a chemistry test once when we were talking about organic compounds! XD
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dgfoxstar 3 years ago
the kettle with the spining rocket is called a kamenstein motion rocket kettle but its very hard to find it was made in the 80's around 70 dollars
poker720 3 years ago
ah yey, finally found part 2 :P
and now i know how to make tea
hurrah =]
hardcorejellytots 3 years ago
That rocket pot was fucking sweet
BelligerentAuthority 3 years ago 4
Does anyone know why you're supposed to add the tea to the milk, not the other way around? Is that a British etiquette thing, because I can't see how that would make a difference in flavor.
pjoyal 3 years ago
i would guess it has something else to do with science.
just like you're supposed to add water to acid, never the other way around.
HoboKnifeFights 3 years ago
I spent a semester in Oxford, and I've had a LOT of tea both there and here. The British tend to put the milk in first, yes, but not always. After drinking it both ways (milk before tea, and added to an already-poured cup), I can tell you it does taste a bit better with the milk in the cup beforehand, for whatever reason. But it's not a huge difference; if you forget, just pour it in after.
madman8199 3 years ago
The milk goes in first so that it evaporates when hit by the hot water, if you put the milk in after it may\will scald and that's not good.. yeah.
jrdskinner 3 years ago
Ok, who can tell me where I can get a pot like that one with the spinning top. I have to have that.
I'll try to find it online and will post it if I find it.
Kabloooy 3 years ago 3
I own the far right pot!
omfgapolarbear 3 years ago
Oh my god, that tea kettle with the rocket ships is awesome, and I want one.
cleverloginname 3 years ago 2
He forgot to mention washing the tea first. Which is pouring hot water over the tea, and dumping the first batch out. also you can get numerous pots of tea from the same leaves. Up to 5 batches. Many claim they get better as you progress. He also forgot to mention there are two types of Camellia sinensis. Sinensis Sinensis is used primarly for green and white tea, while sinensis assamicus from India is used for black tea. (thus the name Assam)
ChefFlick 3 years ago 2
You're just losing a good deal of the flavor if you 'wash' the tea with hot water first. This is never, ever done in tea-drinking countries like India or England.
jagorev 3 years ago 2
but they do this in japanese and korean tea ceremonies. i dont know why they do this but i guess it must be more about tradition or something.
topindot 3 years ago
Actually, it's much better to wash (i.e. add hot water to the dry tea leaves and then dump it out after a minute) the tea, and then pour in fresh hot water to the wet leaves. This opens the leaves, removes dirt and dust that might have accumulated on the leaves during processing, and gives the tea a clearer flavour. Especially with black and wulong teas, you can get many infusions from a single amount of leaves.
djsaphira 3 years ago
I must dissagree with Alton on one thing: I've tried making Iced tea by a similar method to his. No matter how much tea you add it will not be as flavorful as it would with cold ice added.
elbethere 4 years ago
...some people weigh their "tea" on digital scales...
narcissiste84 4 years ago
watch the first part...he mentions it
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q2dm10 4 years ago
I agree, Heracles. Herbals like rooibos, yerba, etc. could have been included at least in passing to help dispel confusion. They're not tea but do go under that name colloquially. I'd say they're certainly "good eats" as well.
TrojanManSCP 4 years ago
i want the super kettle, that thing is awesome
wokinwang 4 years ago 25
he should make an episode on mate'
heracles3000 4 years ago
OMGOSH! Now I now why my bagged tea tasted so bitter! the more you know! :)
javakat343 4 years ago 3
i so want that kettle with the steam engine on it.
zatousagi 4 years ago 26
he always has the coolest things
Alrepa 4 years ago
I will never brew with baged tea again!
elbethere 4 years ago 2