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Wednesday, 10 August 2011

TEA

How to make a decent cup of tea in London.

London has hard water which makes tea taste terrible. Here’s my own personal routine that must be performed so I don’t go off on a northern rant.

  1. Descale regularly.

Kettles get covered in limescale really quickly. If you’ve never descaled yours, take a look inside. See all that white stuff stuck to the bottom and floating in the water? That’s limescale. Buy a descaler (the main brand is called Oust) and use it. Then suddenly the kettle is clean again.

  1. Buy a Brita filter

Those magic jugs you’ve seen advertised, they help clear the crap out of tapwater. Use one of those before you pour the water into the kettle.

  1. Use proper teabags

Yorkshire Tea makes a teabag especially for hard water. Buy those.

  1. Tear open a pack of Jaffa Cakes and have a nice sit down.

This is not mandatory but advised.


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