Tea from the microwave: Sounds wrong, but it should be just the right way to make tea.
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Indeed! A 2012 study states that the healthiest and tastiest way to cook tea is to microwave it. Since every true Englishman's stomach turns. Tea from the microwave: In the UK certainly a no-go.
Everyone is talking about tea from the microwave at the moment, because a character on an English TV show made a tea in the microwave and was publicly mocked for it. But if, according to the study by dr. Quan Vuong of Newcastle University in Australia, microwave cooking is by far the best. Because in his study he has extracted the most important ingredients of green and black tea. He has found out that this preparation makes the tea taste the best:
- Fill hot water into a cup with tea bag
- 30 seconds into the microwave at half wattage
- Leave for 1 minute
Especially healthy: The teas in tea provide relaxation, the polyphenols - which are also found in dark chocolate - are antioxidants that have a positive effect on diseases.
Although tea from the microwave obviously tastes good and is healthy, tea drinkers around the world, and especially the UK, have been upset over how to make their tea in the microwave only. "It's a sacrilege to brew tea, " says a Twitter user. "I do not put tea in the microwave, I'm not a barbarian, " says another Twitter user. Luckily, when it comes to tea, as with all other things, taste can be argued.
