Coffee or Tea ?

Which is your favourite ?

  • Tea

  • Coffee

  • Neither both lousy

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I like them both, but I find tea more refreshing and if I had to choose it would be tea. But I don't.

Coffee is like beer. There is good coffee and there is piss, and most of it is piss. The coffee that used to be served up at work for morning meetings, for example. That was piss. The equivalent of Watney's Red Barrel.

Decent coffee is another animal altogether. Try Roma in Whitefield. The best I know outside high-level Italian restaurants.
 
BrianW said:
I like them both, but I find tea more refreshing and if I had to choose it would be tea. But I don't.

Coffee is like beer. There is good coffee and there is piss, and most of it is piss. The coffee that used to be served up at work for morning meetings, for example. That was piss. The equivalent of Watney's Red Barrel.

Decent coffee is another animal altogether. Try Roma in Whitefield. The best I know outside high-level Italian restaurants.
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Same can be said for tea
 
I genuinely cannot believe there are 15 different threads in existence on this topic. It’s obviously a matter of some import to forum members.

Anyway, the answer to my question is probably contained within one of those threads but who knows, knowledge and science move on, and some of those threads are prehistoric.

I’m a newcomer to coffee, having spent a lifetime only drinking tea, and I can’t work out if it’s just my imagination (running away with me) or does coffee go cold more quickly than tea? It certainly feels like it.

I’ve always had to sip my brews, but making coffee at home, for which I even use boiling water as per tea (yeah, I know) and the same amount of cow lactate in both, I still feeling like I’m necking a mug of coffee in about 60 seconds.

Answers on a postcard, ta v much.
 
chesterbells said:
I genuinely cannot believe there are 15 different threads in existence on this topic. It’s obviously a matter of some import to forum members.

Anyway, the answer to my question is probably contained within one of those threads but who knows, knowledge and science move on, and some of those threads are prehistoric.

I’m a newcomer to coffee, having spent a lifetime only drinking tea, and I can’t work out if it’s just my imagination (running away with me) or does coffee go cold more quickly than tea? It certainly feels like it.

I’ve always had to sip my brews, but making coffee at home, for which I even use boiling water as per tea (yeah, I know) and the same amount of cow lactate in both, I still feeling like I’m necking a mug of coffee in about 60 seconds.

Answers on a postcard, ta v much.
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I haven't got a postcard, will a stuck down envelope, to write my answer of 'you daft 'apporth. How can it possibly cool quicker,' on.

It was a big envelope.
 
While I am definitely a coffee in the morning guy given my daily 3:45 AM wake up for work, the breadth of tea options (flavo(u)rs) makes it something I am turning to more and more if I need an afternoon pick-me-up. And on a really cold day or when not feeling well, tea is my choice.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
While I am definitely a coffee in the morning guy given my daily 3:45 AM wake up for work, the breadth of tea options (flavo(u)rs) makes it something I am turning to more and more if I need an afternoon pick-me-up. And on a really cold day or when not feeling well, tea is my choice.
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The other thing is, I don’t get anything like the ‘pick up’ with coffee that I do with tea, whether that be espresso, cappuccino, whatever. It just doesn’t seem to provide the same instant lift that tea does.

On the tea alternatives front, green /black blends are excellent and for a late night drink rooisbos/Red Bush provides a much nicer alternative to those decaf options I reckon.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
If you use loose leaf tea, then the leaves themselves will insulate a minuscule amount of heat, meaning the tea will cool down about 0.000001%* slower.




*This percentage might be too high.
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Hmmm. I’m not sure that’s the answer I was looking for …

“Those are not the answers you’re looking for”
 
chesterbells said:
I genuinely cannot believe there are 15 different threads in existence on this topic. It’s obviously a matter of some import to forum members.

Anyway, the answer to my question is probably contained within one of those threads but who knows, knowledge and science move on, and some of those threads are prehistoric.

I’m a newcomer to coffee, having spent a lifetime only drinking tea, and I can’t work out if it’s just my imagination (running away with me) or does coffee go cold more quickly than tea? It certainly feels like it.

I’ve always had to sip my brews, but making coffee at home, for which I even use boiling water as per tea (yeah, I know) and the same amount of cow lactate in both, I still feeling like I’m necking a mug of coffee in about 60 seconds.

Answers on a postcard, ta v much.
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It’s not the answer you’re looking for but I was always told “you don’t use boiling water for coffee”. Coffee boiled is coffee spoiled:)
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Do you put your coffee in the freezer after making it?
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No! But I am fond of adding a spoonful of drinking chocolate powder to the coffee granules to create my own “mocha”, so that maybe makes it more drinkable, but if it was tea it would just be too hot to wolf it down as quickly as I seem to, even with freshly boiled water.

I can’t fathom it. Maybe the chocolate powder and coffee granules and half a spoon of sugar absorb more of the heat whereas a tea bag only in for a few seconds doesn’t have the same impact.
Or maybe because I stir it a lot more than a mug of tea, a lot of heat gets absorbed by the stirring spoon(?)
 
chesterbells said:
No! But I am fond of adding a spoonful of drinking chocolate powder to the coffee granules to create my own “mocha”, so that maybe makes it more drinkable, but if it was tea it would just be too hot to wolf it down as quickly as I seem to, even with freshly boiled water.

I can’t fathom it. Maybe the chocolate powder and coffee granules and half a spoon of sugar absorb more of the heat whereas a tea bag only in for a few seconds doesn’t have the same impact.
Or maybe because I stir it a lot more than a mug of tea, a lot of heat gets absorbed by the stirring spoon(?)
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Maybe you put more milk in coffee than tea?
 
chesterbells said:
Yeah, I did think of that, and it could be the answer, but I thought/think the differences were/are negligible.

I do appreciate you responding to my seemingly bizarre and niche musings on this topic btw pal ;-)
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No worries. We’ve just got a kettle that can brew loose leaf tea in it and at different temperatures.

So some teas need to be brewed at lower temperatures. Maybe you’re a connoisseur without even knowing it!
 
chesterbells said:
No! But I am fond of adding a spoonful of drinking chocolate to the coffee powder to create my own “mocha”, so that maybe makes it more drinkable, but if it was tea it would just be too hot to wolf it down as quickly as I seem to, even with freshly boiled water.

I can’t fathom it. Maybe the chocolate powder and coffee granules and half a spoon of sugar absorb more of the heat whereas a tea bag only in for a few seconds doesn’t have the same impact.
Or maybe because a stir it a lot more than a mug of tea, a lot of heat gets absorbed by the stirring spoon(?)
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It usually takes me a while to drink a coffee but if I have a muffin or piece of cake with it I can swig it back in no time.
 
Hmm, so in terms of heat capacity, it seems darker materials emit radiation more quickly, so darker hot drinks cool faster. My coffees are definitely darker than my teas. Maybe I’m getting somewhere at last @Alan Harper's Tash
 
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