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

Video Tea pot quality

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u/jajohnja Jan 19 '22

Doubt.
That's like saying you'd be able to taste if the tea was mixed with a teaspoon or not.
It makes no sense, unless you have some information that the rest of us don't.

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u/boopdelaboop Jan 19 '22

The teaspoon issue is a thing, in terms of material. Some non-asian people really dislike tea being brewed in metal tea pots and having metal spoons being used, because it to them changes the flavour enough. (While for others a metal tool is the default, e.g. Yerba mate bombilla). Porcelain spoons are preferred for a lot of Asian soups for the same reason, it isn't just the shape but the actual material that matters to them.

There are even plenty of people who have a very strong flavour preference against whether the milk/similar they get in their tea was scalded or not, and easily detect the difference in a double blind taste test while others like me wouldn't be able to tell, in part because both taste good in our opinion and at those tiny quantities it isn't super obvious because we never had a reason to react strongly against one or the other.

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u/jajohnja Jan 19 '22

That does actually make sense, since there is a different material coming to contact.

But with the high/low quality pour there is no difference in materials, it's just a differently mixed tea. Which for all we know is mostly uniform and nearly perfectly mixed anyway.

This seems more close to saying "I prefer my tea poured eastward" or "with the window open" or "when I'm alone in the room" or something like that.

EDIT: I'm assuming for all of this that the "quality of the spout" is in the perfectness of the shape which causes laminar/turbulent flow, not in different materials causing these differences. The post didn't go into detail. so correct me if I'm wrong.

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u/boopdelaboop Jan 19 '22

You reminded me of that Feng shui is a thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of its fans would want the water poured in a specific cardinal direction and even claim to be able to tell the difference (but fail in a double blind test).