Teapot mystery

>>9257347
Is there more water in your teapot?

>>9257394
Came here to post this.

More water in teapot.

>>9257394
>>9257398
I guess so yea
If there was wouldn't there be a difference in taste? I don't notice much of one

>>9257407
Yes, the tea in the cup would become bitter and astringent.

>>9257407
Teapot draws water from low in the pot, the tannins "astringent" floats, so it gets left behind until the last cup, when bread in the cup you drink the astringent tannin on the surface first.

>>9257442
Oh damn is that true?
Thanks

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Solved.

>>9257452
Yup, like one of those gravy/stock things where the fat splits and sits on the top and you pour the stock off from underneath. Same principles

>>9257461
>>9257464
He did it!
not OP but interested in this
Got a source of the info? I'd like to know more

>>9257469
Honestly lad source is my nan, God knows if there's an Internet one, but that oil slick or overbrewed scum ontop of a cup of tea is the bitter tannin so it makes sense to me her logic.

>>9257479
>oil slick or overbrewed scum ontop of a cup of tea is the bitter tannin
Oh, I thought that was from hard water minerals
This requires further testing..brb buying teapot

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Tea general?
Picked up a box of Marks and Spenser Assam teabags today
For ordinary bags I was impressed by the flavour
Twinings a shit

Why do tea snobs look down on supermarket tea like lipton?

>>9258201
>anybody who doesn't buy garbage tea is a snob
ok

>>9258201
But anon, when I'm drinking a 2005 Bulang how can I not