Hot Water Heater?

[Mem]

I think it is never recommended to use hot tap water for cooking, it is best to heat cold water. Where I used to live the hot water came out murky and cloudy. I've also heard that hot water can have rust and other contaminates from the pipes in it.

 

[slurper_la]

So, your saying that a water heater thermostat couldn't ever be bad and raise the temperature to close that level?

No I never said that nor do I believe it impossible. But clearly the OP is referring to a standard in his dwelling rather than an anomaly.

 

[slurper_la]

Jeez - you can't even use the cold water here even if you're going to boil it in the kettle. Even the dog gets bottled water.

You assume the bottled water is of better quality?

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[jason_els]

Yuck! I can't stand tea. Not even Dandy Fucking Don Meredith could get me to drink the damn Lipton Tea (in flow through bag) nor was I impressed by the tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea. There is the occasional good pot of tea at the Japanese or Chinese restaurant, and a few of the fruit flavored ones are okay, but horribly weak in flavor.

That's the trouble with tea. When tea is sorted after picking it is put into a number of bins with screen bottoms according to quality. Best tea is grade 1 (or "King" in China), second best is 2, third best 3, and crap is 4. Teas first pick of the season with the smallest and tenderest bud is called, "first flush," and usually highly prized. Other tea, like puh er, should be aged to enhance its flavor. All of these teas can give multiple pots before becoming too weak. After all the sorting goes on the teas are bagged and then shipped off to tea vendors. Then the floor is swept of what are called, "the fannings," and put into bags and sold to large American tea vendors. Only Bigelow doesn't do this however they do grind-up their tea to fit into tea bags which makes for terrible tea. Tea leaves should be brewed whole to preserve the oils which make the flavor.

I urge you to go to Chinatown sometime and visit a good tea vendor there. I was supposed to go to Ten-Ren yesterday but it didn't work out. Get some first or second quality tea and ask them how to brew it and see if there isn't a world of difference between what you get from them and the crap that comes out of the Lipton factories. I suggest trying a puh er, tikuanyin, or a good oolong or keemun. Any one of those should be enjoyable.