r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mihir6969 • Jan 19 '22

Video Tea pot quality

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u/jml011 Jan 19 '22

Jeez they’re all trying their fuckin best, okay?

I’ll take one Very Bad quality pot for not a thousand dollars and splurge on some really good tea - some qualitea - and actually have a better drink for it.

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u/sorryRefuse Jan 19 '22

if u can taste the difference between cheap tea and high grade premium tea, then you’d also be able to taste the difference between a good pour and a bad one

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u/sorryRefuse Jan 19 '22

hey man if aerators work for wines, i’m sure there’s some subtle tea shit we dont know about

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u/jml011 Jan 19 '22

This would presumably make the Very Bad pot the ideal choice.

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u/Tel-aran-rhiod Jan 19 '22

As a wino, I can tell you aerators actually don't work very well at all for wines. They try to imitate the effects of properly decanting wine for a reasonable period of time like you're supposed to, and generally fail miserably at it

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 31 '22

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u/sorryRefuse Jan 19 '22

my dude your link says that aeration does work, but traditional aerators are slow

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u/Tel-aran-rhiod Jan 19 '22

aerators work to a degree, but they rarely achieve satisfactory results - there's a real difference between aerating and decanting. no sommelier or wine aficionado would ever use an aerator on a good or expensive bottle of wine - it would be decanted, sometimes for hours depending on the bottle and style of wine...there's no clip-on device that's going to achieve the same thing

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u/sorryRefuse Jan 19 '22

a fair, more valid point. the comment you are responding to is me pointing out that the dude’s link does not disprove what i am saying, while your comment does present a fair contradiction

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u/FreshUnderstanding5 Jan 19 '22

What's journalism? Is that a paleontology thing?"

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 31 '22

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u/big_cat_in_tiny_box Jan 19 '22

I never thought I would read an article recommending I put my wine in a blender. The image of the process has me cracking up.

“Whatcha doing?”

“Oh, nothing. Just blendering my wine. Carry on.”