Tea vs coffee

[victor]

Yup, the more bitter it takes makes me want to drink it... by the way..caffeine tastes bitter isn't it?

[hurly]

Does it matter if you drink cold/warm coffee or tea?
I mean, they don't need to be drank warm to get the full effect of f.ex staying awake?

[Poison]

Yes, contents stay the same, but I prefer warm

[MrMistery]

It does matter. See influence of heat on enzyme activity. I'm not sure about tea or cofee, but in general, it deffiently matters. Some drugs need to be dissolved into a glass of water, and it says on the box that it needs to be as hot as possible for it to have any effect...

[chicoguardian]

I prefer tea, it doesn't stain your teeth, it does have a moderate taste, and it can prevent many health issues, some that we may not even know of.. so i consider tea healthy and somwhat tasty

[Beetle]

The atrists of making good tea say that every brand of tea has specific temperature of water that should be used. Many of those are just below boiling. A know that dog rose (Rosa canina, Rosaceae) tea should not be prepaired with boiling water because of it`s high content of vitamin c while turkish coffe (at least we in Balkan make it this way; MrMistery is in the Romania the same?) should be boild for a minute (after adding coffe into water).

[Poison]

Yes you boil turkish coffee for a while ( if you boil too much at this stage its taste changes- and also you will have your coffee on the cooker. ) , put some in every cup, again boil for 3-5 seconds and put the rest.

[MrMistery]

I just heat it up until it is drinkable

[Poison]

I think you mean normal coffee. You can't drink turkish coffee ( if we use the same ) just "warm". It would taste terrible.

[MrMistery]

Actually i was reffering to tea. I don't drink coffee, be it turkish, romanian, american, french, israelian or any other nationality

[Poison]

Ok. That's acceptable then.