How do you make tea? What is the best tea health wise?!

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Green Tea is good for you as it has a lot of antioxidants, but chamomile will help you sleep. Boil 1 cup of water per person and pour over tea leaves/tea bag. Let stand 3 minutes or so, the longer you leave it the more flavour. Remove leaves/bag. Add milk, sugar, or honey if desired. Drink.

Tea is such a big subject, I couldn't hope to give you comprehensive answers to your questions, but I will give you an introduction.

How do you make tea? There are two main ways. The easiest way is to buy teabags. Boil some water, then leave a teabag in the hot water for several minutes and you're done. The second way is more of a hassle, but makes better tea. Buy some loose tea leaves, which need keeping in an airtight container, and use those to infuse the tea, rather than tea in a bag. It's more of a hassle because you don't want lots of bits of tea leaf floating around in your drink. There are several ways of preventing this. If you're making the tea in a tea pot, you can use a tea strainer (a bit like a small sieve) or a filter to catch the leaves when you pour the tea into a cup. Otherwise you'll need one of the various types of tea infuser to contain the leaves while they're in your cup.

The best tea in terms of healthiness is probably green tea, which usually comes from China or Japan, although all types of tea are supposed to have some health benefits. As for the best tea, that's a matter of opinion, however many people consider Darjeeling tea (from the Darjeeling area of India) to be the "champagne of teas". Darjeeling is generally a black tea, although you may occasionally come across green, white or oolong Darjeeling.

Depends on exactly what you're looking for, but white tea is by far the highest in a general sense. Heres the order

White
Green
Oolong
Black

Unfortunately white tea is fairly rare and the most expensive tea, so if you want something cheap and easy to find green is the next best. However I think white has a better taste, more mellow and not grassy.

To make white:

Water temp:180 degrees F. (Streams of bubbles rising)
Steep for about 2-3 mins.

To make green:

Water temp: 160-170 degrees F. (Pot coated in bubbles, some steam starts rising)
Steep for 1-2 mins.

*Green tea is very delicate. Steep for more than 2.5 mins or use water too hot and the taste will be extremely bitter, grassy and hard to stomach. You'll have to experiment.

I highly reccomend loose tea. It's much healthier, better tasting and higher quality than bags. Bags are filled with the by products of loose. Meaning, tea bags are anything that isn't good enough to be loose (Dust, stems, dirt, etc) Use 1 tsp of loose for every cup of tea.

Good luck! Message me if you have questions.

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