Cream and Sugar at a Tea House?
Although I sometimes like my teas pure, I can’t help to make it cream and sweet from time to time. There’s a tea house that serves it with cream and sugar. After ordering, they serve it to you in a pot, with cream and sugar already added. If it’s recommended it to steep at a certain temperature, won’t adding cream and sugar drop the temperature? Does adding cream and sugar during the steeping process affect the steep in anyway?
I always add it after…I would guess it would mess with the steeping and the time needed to steep based on how temperatures work in general, add colder liquids and its bound to drop a decent amount of degrees.
If you assume they add the milk cold, then it would likely drop the temp. If they heat the milk prior to adding, though, it probably doesn’t.
I wish I had some milk tea right now, that is my favorite thing when visiting hong kong. For some reason I have yet to find a recipe that can mimic their amazing flavor.
In regard to the question, I would assume that pre adding the milk would be less than beneficial if you are really aiming to get a specific temperature. However, that would be under the assumption that they are monitoring, and modifying, the temperatures for the tea that they serve.
I know a lot of places that just put hot water in tea, regardless of what the tea is, which is somewhat disheartening sometimes.
I wonder what happens when someone who is lactose intolerant orders tea though?
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