How to brew tea correctly

Tea, being a cure for many diseases, is an invigorating drink used throughout the world. The tea leaves, tannins, alkaloids, essential oils and vitamins contribute to the improvement of vision, digestion, the prevention of caries, the removal of radionuclides from the human body.

But how to brew tea correctly to preserve all these useful substances? First of all, it is necessary to pay attention to water, which is used for these purposes. In China, where tea drinking ritual is paid special attention, it is believed that for brewing a drink, spring water is needed - in order to fully reveal its taste qualities. Of course, in modern living conditions, it is not easy to extract such water, so you can use distilled water or improve the quality of tap water. So, if there are no special cleaners, you can leave water in an open dish for one day, so that the smell of chlorine disappears. In this case, only the upper part is taken for brewing.

Before you prepare an elite Chinese tea, you need to soften the water. To do this, put in it a small amount of sugar, salt or baking soda. The drink in this case will become somewhat more fragrant.

To brew an invigorating drink, you can use the following method: put the kettle on the stove, and when the water boils, the steam that will come out of its spout will turn into liquid. Thus, the new water in its purity and softness will resemble distilled, because it will not contain impurities of salts and metals.

Immediately after the bubbles appear on the surface of the liquid during boiling, it is poured into the kettle to make tea, while it is not re-heated or boiled, as the concentration of oxygen decreases.

Before brewing tea, you need to pay attention to its variety, as the water temperature for this may be different. Thus, black teas are brewed at a temperature of one hundred degrees during the stage of formation of a number of small bubbles on the surface of the liquid. Elite green tea is brewed with hot water (seventy degrees). A detailed description for each variety can be seen on the package. It should be noted that the brew can be used up to three times, with each time you need to completely drain the water.

In order to know how to make tea, you need to pay attention to the brewer. It is best if it is porcelain, earthenware or clay. The size of it depends on the number of people who want to taste a fragrant drink. Usually a kettle with a capacity of half a liter is used, but sometimes its size can reach three liters.

The brewer must first be heated or simply scalded with boiling water. It is recommended to keep dishes away from extraneous odors.

When the kettle warmed up and the water boiled, it is necessary to put a serving of tea from the calculation of one teaspoon per person plus one spoon on the brewer itself, pour the last half, cover with a linen towel. After five minutes, the water is topped up.

It is interesting that the drink is correctly brewed if a yellow-brown foam forms on its surface. It is not removed, but stirred with a spoon.

Thus, having considered how to make tea, it is necessary to emphasize that the way of brewing depends on its quality and variety. A quality drink holds many useful chemical elements and their compounds, however, in order to achieve this result, all brewing rules must be observed. It is important to remember that a drink that lasted more than two hours is not recommended to use, as it can harm the body.