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How a Storm Can Ruin Your Tea

Last November, a windstorm, known as Storm Ciarán in the U.K., blew through Europe with wind speeds as high as 130 kilometers per hour. All that wind came with a significant drop in atmospheric pressure. (Image credit: E. Akyurt; research credit: G. Harrison et al.; via Gizmodo) Read the full article

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Herbal Tea Definition

If you have been following this blog, by now you probably saw the tendency of me sharing my morning tea recipes. Ahem. Herbal tea recipes! Yep, there is a difference between tea and herbal tea. In the country where I am from, we use tea for all types of tea, including green, black, herbal, etc. I did a small research on the matter and here I will share what I have learned from it.

Tea refers to a hot beverage that is prepared by infusing or brewing the dried leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis.

Herbal tea refers to a beverage made from steeping or boiling herbs such as chamomile, mint, and other herbs that you can easily grow yourself in your garden. These teas are also known as a tisane, botanical, and herbal infusion.

To prepare a herbal tea you should:

Pour hot water over the plant matter (such as dried leaves, berries, or roots).

Wait for a period of time (which is called steeping).

Remove the plant matter before drinking.

Tips from the Pros

Avoid using aluminium pots for the brewing process. Certain herbs react with the metal and create a toxic beverage.

My suggestion here is to brew the water separately and then add it to the plant matter and leave it steep.

When making herbal tea pay attention to timing. It is key to getting just the right flavor out of your tea.

Taste is subjective. Just because people recommend you brew certain tea for a certain time, it does not mean that this is how you will like it. For a stronger brew, I usually use more leaves rather than leaving the tea in the pot longer than recommended.

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Tea is a popular beverage around the world, and nearly everyone has their own method for making the perfect cup. Perhaps unsurprisingly, scientists have studied tea physics as well. One such study used both experiments and numerical simulations to study tea infusion from teabags. The authors looked at round, two-dimensional teabags in two configurations -- one in which the bag was left still during infusion and one in which the bag was dunked up and down in the water.

In the static case, as the hot water leeches solutes out of the tea leaves, it forms a buoyant convection current. In this case, the convection is driven by solute concentration, not temperature. The convection creates a re-circulation in the cup that helps slowly distribute the tea solutes.

The dunking method, unsurprisingly, distributes tea solutes much faster. In addition to stirring the cup’s contents, dunking helps drive flow through the tea leaves, releasing solutes faster. Although the authors study the two methods in detail, they decline to pass judgement on what method is “the best”. (Photo credit: T. Foster, source; research credit: G. Lian and C. Astill; submitted by Marc A.)

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Tea Infusion Time Lapse Aesthetically Pleasing

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🌿Lavender Tea Infusion🌿

Lavender is one of my favorite herbs to use and grow, as it has many uses and is very fragrant. It’s a hardy perennial that falls under the house of Mercury, and usually has protective, clarifying, and even cleansing energies.

Lavender is most often used to calm ones nerves, or headaches from stress and fatigue. A lesser known use is that it can also be made into a diluted wash to be used for acne or skincare as well!

🌿To make the infusion, I used dried Lavender buds from a local Asian market, where it is sold to be put into tea. Per the instructions, you must rinse the buds and then soak them in water for around 30 minutes.

🌿For my own brew, I used 1/2 ounce of Lavender buds and once they had been soaking, I steeped them for 15 minutes in 1 pint of hot water. Feel free to add honey or other sweeteners to taste! The infusion comes out pleasantly fragrant and not too strong.

*Please make sure that when making herbal teas that you know where your herbs are coming from! Some may not be edible due to pesticides or other circumstances, so make sure that you do research before consuming them.

**Also, please be aware that using too strong of an infusion or using concentrated oil of Lavender can cause headaches, skin irritation, constipation, or an increased appetite. The herb also may interact with any sedatives that you may be taking.

✨ Enjoy, and blessed be! ✨