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Why you should never order an Orange Pekoe tea in public

If you are ever in Seattle coffee house and order an “Expresso” you may get a nasty look. As I found out first hand by a barista, there is no “X” in Espresso. A lot of products have these little quirks where “people in the know” will frown upon you if you make these mistakes.

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How to Make Delicious Iced Tea in Less Than 5 minutes

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How to make Hong Kong style Milk Tea

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How to Make Iced Tea While You Sleep

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How to Use Crappy Tea

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How to prevent iced tea from getting cloudy

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How to make a cup of tea in 10 seconds

I can’t stand it when someone tells me they are a tea connoisseur and their favorite tea is Tazo. It is like a person telling me about their great trips to Napa Valley for a wine tasting and their favorite wine is Yellowtail. It’s not that it is a bad thing to like Tazo or Yellowtail, but if you truly like something you should explore it, learn about it and try new things.

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How to Make the Perfect Cup of Tea

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Today’s bagged tea is weak, tepid and commercialized. After all, when was the last time you heard someone write a poem about a teabag? Once you try tea the proper way, it will be hard to go back to large commercial brands. But before you can have an almost religious like tea experience, you first need to know how to brew a proper cup of tea. The good news is it isn’t as hard as you think.

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How to know your lingo when brewing tea

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Sometimes it is hard to understand what people are talking about. You understand what each individual word means, but when used in context it sounds totally foreign to you. Like Jive, tea has its own set of terminology which can seem intimidating to beginners. Because of this I have created a basic guide of terms people use when they prepare tea.

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