If you are a tea lover, I mean tea, not Bournvita, Milo or Ovaltine, but tea, the one colloquially called “Lipton” – yes that one, you may well want to heed this advice dished out by tea guru, William Gorman on how to make a perfect cuppa. Gorman who is the chairman of the UK-based Tea and Infusions Association, warns that boiling the same water more than once removes the oxygen and nitrogen and results in a “dull” cuppa. He also advocated using the microwave to make tea.
Mr Gorman, whose organisation represents tea packers, brokers and importers, said: “Usually when people’s tea goes cold they reboil the kettle and make another cup. But doing this you are guaranteed to give yourself a dull cup of tea. You need freshly drawn water for a good cup because reboiling it takes out all the oxygen and nitrogen out of it.”
He added: “A better solution is to put it in the microwave for 15 to 20 seconds. When you microwave tea all you’re doing is from a scientific point of view is just moving the molecules around and getting it back up to a decent temperature. It is not impacting the flavour at all.”
