Brew your green tea right!

Green tea is a popular tea, especially for people on weight-loss or fitness spree. It is also served as healing and refreshing drink. Making green tea may seem to be the easiest task, as you need not to worry about the sugar, milk and water in right quantity. But, you will be surprised to know that most of us were brewing our hot cups of green teas wrong. Right! Though there are only two ingredients required to prepare green tea, but still we were doing it wrong by making our green tea in boiling water.

How you were doing it all wrong.

 People, all over, are used to prepare the green teas with boiling water (100 degrees) which is not the right way to brew it.

If you were doing it all wrong, we tell you how to brew your green tea right.

The right way

The correct way is to brew the green teas with water at 80 degrees for up to 3 minutes in the pot. This way you can brew the perfect cup of green tea. It is easier for a chef with modern instruments to measure 80 degrees temperature and serve the perfect hot cup of green tea to guests, but we also have simple way using which you can brew your own hot cup of green tea right at home.

Follow the simple directions

·      Take your teapot

·      Put your green tea leaves into it

·      Add room temperature water up to the lower bottom handle of the tea pot

·      Now, fill the pot to the required amount with boiling water.

·      This will give you a water temperature close to 80 degrees.

Why, maintaining temperature is so important?

The green tea leaves undergo minimal processing and are very fresh therefore a sudden shot of boiling water makes the tealeaves let its acidity out. Also the teas prepared with hot water will have a bitter taste and a foul aroma that is unpleasant while consuming.

How is green tea helpful?

Consuming green teas regularly does contribute to weight reduction by lowering LDL cholesterol levels, and inhibiting the abnormal formation of blood clots.

It also kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.

Additionally, it fights tooth decay and helps weight control.

Weight loss and Green tea

Green tea helps in losing weight by stimulating your digestion system and gives a kick to your metabolism rate. But, still you need to go for walk, running or hit a gym for 30 minutes every day.  

Inputs by

Moses Dorairajah, tea sommelier, hosted a tea master class at Luxe lounge, Westin Hotel, Doha. Tea sommelier Moses took the guests through the origin, history and prepration and brewing of JING tea, while guests sat back and sipped Jing tea samples. Moses’s inputs given at the master class have been used in the article.

Tea Facts

1.   There are 4our types of teas- Black, Oolong, Green & White.  Peppermint, chamomile are not teas but herbal infusions

2.   Top tea consuming countries by capita are Turkey, Ireland, UK, Russia, Morocco. India and Sri Lanka are not even in top 10

3.   Best Time for consuming tea 

·      Black Tea – Morning

·      Green Tea & White Tea – Anytime of the day, even after meals

·      Herbal Teas – Afternoon, Late Evening