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Default The perfect cup of tea

"Fran" > writes:

> On Jan 2, 9:48 pm, "BDH" > wrote:
>
> > > I never use boiling water for any good tea. Coffee temperature water is

> > too hot if anything.

>
> Then I don't know how you're managing to get a proper infusion. Only
> green and oolong teas should be brewed with water beneath the boiling
> point. The reason so many tea drinkers complain about the tea served
> in restaurants is largely due to their failure to boil the water before
> serving the tea.


In the immortal words of Larry Wall, "There's more than one way to do
it."

/Lew
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