Tea: Please Drink It Right

Tea, it’s not a game! It’s not simply a case of making tea and drinking it willy-nilly. Even after the ridiculously complex tea-making process is mastered—something which can take as long as five years, depending on the intensive nature of the course and the specific prowess of the instructor—there comes the pouring and drinking: mess these up and all that hard work will be for nothing–

I don’t know if there are statistics to back this up, but I am willing to bet that hundreds, if not thousands of individuals every year, are turned away from the delight that is tea drinking after rishing in like a bull in a china shop and accidentally drinking tea too quickly. Now, a burned mouth for me, a true and experienced tea-lover, is nothing. But I can see how this may seem to the tea amateur. It may look like a sign. And it’s such a shame that this one event can lead to a future without tea. What a waste of a life that must be! The very thought sickens me to the core and turns my world upside down and back to front–

Now, there’s a line, of course. If you drink the tea too hot then you’ll get burned. Wait too long for it to cool down and you’ll experience a truly horrendous thing: yes people, the tea will be too cold to enjoy. All that goodness will have vanished and you’ll be left with the polar opposite taste of what you should have had–

I know these things because I have a confession to make: as a child I drank tea when it was too hot. It nearly scarred me mentally for life, but somehow, and with the encouragement of my mother, I gave it a shot. The result? A great life with tea. I would and could never go back!

Amazing news everyone, Clive who sometimes contributes to this page just got a makerting placement with a company that sells that fancy new green travel pillow and other travel supplies, I expect free stuff!