A least I don’t drink thin bean soup.
Don’t bring soup into this. This is an argument between soggy leaf juice and burnt bean juice.
Roasted bean juice, thank you very much. It’s only burnt if it’s from starbucks
I prefer the term dirty bean water
That’s the problem. Your bean soup should be thick like mud. Tastes awful that way, but MAN WILL YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR HAIR FOLLICLES!
Bean mud
You can have my “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot” when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
“Fingers, Dead, Cold”
Both are good
ITT people who think all coffee is like the Z-tier roasted-until-burnt held-until-stale blasphemy they serve at Starbucks.
ITT people who think all tea is the result of oversteeping a lipton bag in a cup in the microwave.
ITT people who think any random plant plus hot water is “tea” but are oddly specific about what is “coffee”.
I laugh incredulously when people defend going to Starbucks every day like “well I don’t get the $8 dessert coffees, I just get regular coffee!” and it’s like, that aint coffee darling.
Coffee is just bean soup
The taste of tea is heavily dependent on how it gets brewed. Correct brewing temperature and time steeping play a huge role on making sure too many tannins aren’t extracted and it ends up tasting like hot garbage.
What you mean? Just dump the damn teabag in the hot water in your cup and a spoonful of honey.
Tastes like honey every time
Don’t forget the water quality itself. Plays a major role too.
Yup, green tea is great if you’re not drinking factory floor dust and you haven’t oversteeped it. If your tea is bitter and is leaving you with a dry mouth, something is wrong.
And if you don’t leave it to infuse for too long. Unlike black tea that can be left to infuse indefinitely green tea gets bitter after few minutes.
left to infuse indefinitely
🤢
Absolutely not
Same could be said about coffee but I feel like people are more willing to forgive all the garbage coffee out there than the tea.
I enjoy a good high quality cup of either.
As a soda drinker, I’m enjoying this cat fight.
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As an enthusiast for both leaf soup and bean juice, it seems like most coffee drinkers think of cheap, old, dusty teabag tea, overboiled to taste like bitter vegetables in sewage water, while most tea drinkers think of pure dark overroasted burnt coffee, preground too finely (or as the worst kind of instant coffee), tasting like acid in an ash tray, like those are your only two options.
Both coffee and tea can be so terrible and also so wonderful. I guess my favorite coffee takes quite some preparation and my favorite tea cost me about as much as a junkie’s crack addiction. But both can be really nice if you spend a little more money on a quality product and take the bit of effort to prepare it properly.
Ok but would you rather have a bag of an aged Da Hong Pao or whatever the coffee equivalent is?
I’d like to taste the coffee equivalent but that one time I splurged on some DHP was magical. So velvety and rich and nutty.
Yeah I drink coffee for the stimulants, but it can be good. Tea is a sometimes drink but when done decent is usually excellent and has a very high ceiling
Especially when you get good tea from quality suppliers, it’s excellent. I’m part of a tea club and get sent boxes of tea from a specific vendor i really like. Some of the tea is probably more than a year old, but I’d just as happily tear open the bag and make a delicious pot of tea. high quality tea is not as expensive as people think and it’s absolutely wonderful. it is softer than coffee though and takes some time for your palate to adjust.
ETA: I pay $40 every other month and get over an ounce of loose leaf tea, carefully selected with love by the vendor. they’re a small operation with direct ties to tea farms in China and source from family and friends. And if you’re in the right communities, you can talk to them directly and discuss the tea with them. the world of tea is very inviting and open and you’d be surprised how cheap really good tea is, especially in bulk.
I think tea is actually way more approachable which is what makes it less snobby.
You have to be educated about what makes it good and how to prepare it but at the end of the day all you need is the tea, some hot water and a cup. You get fancy with filtering it and how but it’s unnecessary to enjoy.
You shouldn’t need to filter high quality tea, it should speak for itself. A little leaves at the bottom are just snacks. if you prefer it filtered thats fine, just totally unnecessary. Really the limiting factor is actually water quality, but there are people experimenting with water recipes to make the best tea. And they usually share their recipes and the majority of the minerals are widely available and it’s just a lot of distilled water. The equipment is what’s most expensive, but a cheap gaiwan or even a small bowl and you’re good to go.
Yes, I too prefer burnt bean water over hot leaf juice. Sorry, Uncle Iroh.
Not beans.
It’s burnt pit water.
The problem is that the widely available tea brands (at least in America) are usually shit, and people not knowing how to make it right and end up using scalding hot water when making green tea or microwaving the water with the bag in. I get my tea from tea shops and use an electric kettle to get the brewing temps right, and now a lot of grocery store teas are disgusting to me.
I like good coffee too, but when I have it I often feel sick later and the caffeine content sometimes sets off my anxiety.
Coffee also messes with my digestion and if I’m not careful makes me anxious. These days I avoid coffee and get my morning caffeine fix from yerba mate. It tastes better and is easier to enjoy than coffee.
Perfect response.
Coffee and tea are both delicious.
Energy drinks, on the other hand, taste like battery acid and bile. That’s where your scorn should be directed.
What else would give you energy if not literal battery juice?
Pure uncut methamphetamine.
You’re goddamn right.
My British half: Utter balderdash thou toadspotted codpiece!
Is your British half about 500 years old?
Representative of our population demographics
I dunno man have you tasted coffee? It’s like making out with a pack a day smoker
Bruh. What kind of coffee are you buying?
But less fun
Tea and coffee both taste mostly horrible. I unironically do believe that. Sometimes I find some good tasting stuff, but it’s mostly additional flavour providing agents, otherwise it’s bleh
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Tea quality really matters. Almost all of the supermarket stuff in ultra fine bags is literally the leftover dust from actual tea making. (Looking at you, Tetley)
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Steep time and water temperature. Oversteeping make it bitter, which is unfortunately how most older people grew up serving it. Some teas need 5 minutes at 95C(Rooibos); other need a minute at 80C(most greens)
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