The Germans drink so much of it like never before. Sometimes the preparation is a relaxing Ritual
Handarbeir Pflüsugar at harvest in a tea garden in Hangzhou (China)
Coffee or tea? "This question has für me never gestellt", Otto Ratka says. Although the Bamberg enjoys a drink and a Cup of coffee. His passion is tea. To Frühstück genießt the Teehä& a weißen Paimutan, in the morning schlühe rft then grüa Cup of tea, "because of the schön anregt", and in the afternoon a black. His Knowledge üabout the taste, variety, and their method of preparation gives Otto Ratka at the chamber of Commerce and industry of upper Franconia – as an instructor of the tea Sommelier.
Sugar, cream cloud
Tea is after water the zweitmost popular Getränk worldwide. AnhäViking not only in Asia but also in Europe. The British celebrate their legendäre Teatime fünf o’clock in the afternoon. In Germany, the East Frisians are the größten tea drinkers – what is, perhaps, also with the rough To do climate in the North sea.
27,5 Liter of tea in the year
You genießthe Heißgetränk traditionally black and krästrong or großem Kandiszuckerstück (fabu) and "Sahnewölkchen". East Frisians drink more than ten times as much tea as the national average – according to the German Teeverbands of 27.5 liters, Black – and Grüntee per year – more than ever before.
Kräuter-, Frükilled and medicinal teas are not attributed. Experts such as Otto Ratka call this "teeäsimilar Erzeugnisse". As a tea in true sense, just a rehash of the Blä is;setters of the Tea plant Camellia sinensis, for example, in the highlands of Japan, China, Sri Lanka and Taiwan wäfirst of all.
Tea right aufgießen
After the harvest, the Blä be;leaves fermented and weißem, grünem, black, or Oolong tea – a traditional Chinese variety – processed. Für a Liter of gießt you about ten grams of tea with heißem water. "This corresponds to, depending on the volume of teas ungefähr two to three Esslöffeln", Ratka says. Für a glass with 200 milliliters of take accordingly, two grams of Teeblätter.
Who wants to try a new variety or the Heißgetränk only für discovered, should be dosed according to Ratka a little lower and küshortener infuse as specified.
Cheap tastes faster bitter
The höthe dosage and the lälonger the steeping time, the more löTannins and bitter substances from the Blä sen;setters. Ratka: "If you make a tea for the first Time and then it tastes bitter, drink it." The more precious the variety, the geringer is the risk that the taste verächanged.
Dafür only uses the shoot tips of the Plant, especially the fine aromas, have. "The higher the quality of a tea is, the more läViking köyou can let him go without wird" bitter;, erklärt Ratka. The Chinese and the Taiwanese have the Bläleaves often simply in the Cup and gießen a number of times. Up to fünfmal tea is this kind of möpossible. Since the ­ pays for itself;höhere the price.
Pyramids instead of bag
In Germany, most people tend, however, to the tea bag. "This is a simple, practical and schnell" goes;, tea Sommelier Ratka says. Usually the sachets contain fine-milled StäEngel and leaf residues. Who on the Papiersäckchen on Schnümonarch not mö do without;want, should something voluminösera pyramid bag to try out. "You can hochwer­ also high;cost, rough cuts abfüllen", erklärt of the expert.
So that the flavors can fully develop köcan, recommends Ratka, the Getränk with soft mineral water from the bottle to prepare. Für teeäsimilar products to black tea may be used the water is bubbly boiling. Für weißen, grüand Oolong tea läto sst before the infusion for about fünf to ten minutes abkümiss.
Für many people, drinking tea is a Ritual that relaxes and the life anhält. In some gehört especially schönes of porcelain to – in the case of other sugars, the so-schön crackles in the Cup.
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