How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Tea According To Science

Food scientists, chemists and physicists explain

China, by contrast, came in at a mere 1.25 pounds per person.

Being English and Irish, this is important to me. The debate about how to make the best cuppa can be controversial as you will see with the last two points. But what do the experts recommend?

The best tea comes in a cup or a mug. At a push, you can opt for other non-porous receptacles like glass.

Don’t use styrofoam or plastic as they are awful. Styrofoam especially, as it is porous and will absorb some of the flavor compounds, making the tea taste worse. A similar thing happens with plastics but just over a slightly longer period of time.

This may seem strange but the way humans perceive taste, and this goes for food as well, depends to some extent on how it is presented. Psychology influences perception.

Bizarrely, this means that hot drinks that are in red or orange receptacles taste sweeter. White or blue mugs, less so.

Other tests have shown that if you serve someone tea in a fine china cup with a saucer, they are…

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