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10/23/2018 at 04:13 • Filed to: None
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Did you know the British Standards Institute has a 5,000 word report on how to make tea?
No, nor did I, but we do now.
The Wiki abridged version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
ISO 3103 is a standard published by the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , possibly sampled by the standardized methods described in ISO 1839 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980 by the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! It was produced by ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea).
The abstract states the following:
The method consists in extracting of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in dried !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , containing in a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! or !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! pot, by means of freshly !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , pouring of the liquor into a white porcelain or earthenware bowl, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! properties of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and of the liquor with or without !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , or both.
This standard is not meant to define the proper method for brewing tea, but rather how to document the tea brewing procedure so sensory comparisons can be made. An example of such a test would be a taste-test to establish which !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to choose for a particular !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! or basic label in order to maintain a consistent tasting brewed drink from harvest to harvest.
A revised standard is currently under development as ISO/NP 3103. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
The work was the winner of the parodic !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for Literature in 1999. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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To maintain consistent results, the following are recommendations given by the standard:
The pot should be white porcelain or !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! earthenware and have a partly !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It should have a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that fits loosely inside the pot.
If a large pot is used, it should hold a maximum of 310 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (±8 ml) and must weigh 200 g (±10 g).
If a small pot is used, it should hold a maximum of 150 ml (±4 ml) and must weigh 118 g (±10 g).
2 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of tea (measured to ±2% accuracy) per 100 ml boiling water is placed into the pot.
Freshly boiling water is poured into the pot to within 4–6 mm of the brim. Allow 20 seconds for water to cool.
The water should be similar to the drinking water where the tea will be consumed.
Brewing time is six minutes. The brewed tea is then poured into a white porcelain or glazed earthenware bowl.
If a large bowl is used, it must have a capacity of 380 ml and weigh 200 g (±20 g).
If a small bowl is used, it must have a capacity of 200 ml and weigh 105 g (±20 g). If the test involves milk, then it is added before pouring the infused tea unless that is contrary to the organisation’s normal practice.
If milk is added after the pouring of tea, it is best added when the liquid is between 65-80°C.
5 ml of milk for the large bowl, or 2.5 ml for the small bowl, is used.
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The protocol has been criticized for omitting any mention of prewarming the pot. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! was the only country to object, and objected on technical grounds. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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In 2003, the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! published a press release entitled “How to make a Perfect Cup of Tea”. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
It was approved by 28 nations, except one. Ireland. Because it omitted any mention of prewarming the pot.
Which actually is a good point. You pour hot water into the pot, swirl it around and then pour it out before making the tea and you rinse it out with hot water afterwards NOT WASH IT!.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Svend
10/23/2018 at 04:36 |
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i’d heard about it, never knew Ireland objected to it though due to the pot warming bit
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> pip bip - choose Corrour
10/23/2018 at 04:45 |
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That’s the great thing bout Qi, it either informs you, reminds you or corrects what you thought was true.
Nom De Plume
> Svend
10/23/2018 at 05:07 |
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The part about the Irish makes me wonder how far the omission was buried in this report. 39 other nations acquiescing to all it contained makes me think it was either political fear of outraging the British who would spin it mercilessly or just oversight.
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> Nom De Plume
10/23/2018 at 05:19 |
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The omission wasn’t buried in the report, it wasn’t in the report, it was omitted.
Ireland merely didn’t agree as there was no reference to whether the pot should be prewarmed or not.
They aren’t reports in the sense of political fear or outraging (though some countries can take offence to how or what another country does with what they may want to call misappropriation or generally just not the correct way, some in Spain recently got het up because some put chorizo in paella). they are merely a study on how things are done or should be done with others agreeing or disagreeing on the method for the standard quality of item, recipe, etc...
It sounds a little odd but think of how many things have set standards, then how they came about and how you could defend yourself if someone tried complaining or taking a legal lawsuit against you or from the customer side, ho w to complain should what you buy not be of a suitable standard.
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Nom De Plume
> Svend
10/23/2018 at 05:34 |
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What I was hinting at was how deep into the report one would have to be to notice the lack of this crucial step. By design standards are so slow to expand upon something as simple as a process that it could require multiple reads to ascertain it wasn’t at any point covered.
Tl;dr Don’t you explain what an omission is to me Mr. I’m the one who logically expressed the existence of it. :)
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> Nom De Plume
10/23/2018 at 06:02 |
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Well going by that hint. Lol.
You’ve got to bare in mind the sort of people that read these sorts of reports are either heavily into a specific type of report, say tea, coffee, cheeses, etc... drinkers/eaters or people who have a general interest in them but have been asked to review on behalf of an organisation and many wouldn’t even know there was a thing of prewarming the pot first.
There are people who don't even know that what some people do is even a thing. Take using the toilet. In an episode of Qi, Jason Manford found by accident that some people when they get up off the toilet, some people reach through to wipe their arse, while others reach round, but until he brought it up on the show, each group didn't know the other existed. There is an Australian female comedian who was a late teen before someone asked while she pulled her skirt down to use the toilet when she could easily pull the skirt up.
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Nom De Plume
> Svend
10/23/2018 at 07:26 |
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Honestly it seems like one of those things that got lost over the years as technology took over. A lot of common sense fell by the wayside.
Spanfeller is a twat
> Svend
10/23/2018 at 09:25 |
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The omission could be bad. ISO standards are mostly for scientific purposes. If a scientist was testing the cadance of tea or the chance of burning your hands when grasping the cup they’d have to add more atop the ISO standard
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> Nom De Plume
10/23/2018 at 13:47 |
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With the rebirth of coffee and people going in for all these different forms of drinking it from espressos to lattes, etc... the way of making a good cup of tea has been forgotten with many putting a tea bag in a mug, adding water, throwing the milk and sugar in and then fishing the tea bag out and calling it done. That's awful.
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Nom De Plume
> Svend
10/23/2018 at 18:43 |
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At least in the states, I’ve never had anything in a mug that they didn’t prewarm. Same for a thermos if presented to them. The vast majority is served in a paper cup with a paper sleeve and plastic lid from a fast food window though.
The real story is climate shifts that have greatly impacted the quality of food and drinks that came from a certain region for thousands of years. Coffee nowadays cannot be grown anywhere on earth that is as good as it was in the 1940's. Wine in France is another example closer to home for you.