Tea Making Method Requires a Pinch of Salt.

[Flatfish]

While we can frown upon people using microwaves for making tea, or adding salt, or something other than the traditional way. It has to be said that I have had plenty of awful cups of tea made for me in this country.
Cheap teabags, skimmed milk, and my real bugbear, too much milk.
I prefer to make my own tea. That way its done properly.

 

[trouttimes]

A well brewed cup of tea is a thing of beauty. It’s a shame it’s so hard to get a good one in this country.

 

[warren]

I find most things simply do not stay very hot for very long when heated up in a microwave. I use it for popcorn, reheating pizza, some defrosting and such. Just never been a fan of the micro-wave. I'll not eat in restaurant I've I hear a micro-wave dinging.

Salt in tea simply sounds wrong. But, different strokes I suppose.

 

[renfield]

Sounds like the opportunity for a cheap, easy experiment wrt the salt in tea. Three cups blind to me repeated 3 times ought to be enough for starters.

 

[Brendan]

The first and last time I added salt to a cup of tea was when I decided to prank my wife. I didn't realise though, I had used the last tea bag...

That was years ago and I still think she secretly hates me for it.

So I'm voting no, mind you a pinch may be better than 2 teaspoons worth.

 

[ItsKarl]

Coming from the same nation who thought it was a good idea to steep tea in the Atlantic, I'd take that advice with a grain of salt.

"She explains that salt acts as a blocker to the receptor which makes tea taste bitter, especially when it has been stewed."

Well, don't brew it bitter in the first place. It's not rocket science. Besides, I actually prefer my tea slightly on the bitter side.

 

[crashthegrey]

I'll knock that salt shaker out of the hands of anyone approaching my kettle, pot, or cup. No thanks.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I first read about putting a pinch of salt in strong coffee from a Tom Clancy novel, and it works. But I won't be trying it in my tea.

 

[AJL67]

Yes the person saying to footing tea is only saying that because it works in coffee. She’s a hack.

 

[bullet08]

I still add a pinch of salt to milk. But not to a dollop of milk I add to my tea. That wench should be hung, drawn and quartered.

 

[autumnfog]

No salt for me.
No ceremonies, no milk, no fuss.
Just tea and hot water.

 

[pappymac]

I'm sure they are talking about adding the salt to some of the cheap, poor quality tea available in massed produced tea bags. Why would you add salt to tea other than to mask the taste of poor quality?

I wouldn't add salt to the coffee I brew at home either. However, growing up in southeast Texas in the 1960s, going on trail rides was still a thing. My brother-in-law's grandfather was an old cowboy and when on a ride or camping, he would always add a little salt when brewing coffee over the campfire. He would put coffee in the pot, add water and then sit it at the edge of the fire until it started boiling. He said the salt helped.

While serving on an icebreaker we had a cook (now called a "culinary specialist") who would have the mess cooks clean the 5 gallon coffee urns with a paste made of salt and water. Of course we always claimed they were cleaning the pots with rags dipped in diesel.