Talk:Cold brew tea

"Known as "green brewing", this process of steeping is considered more environmentally friendly as it saves energy used to boil water." While more energy is required for boiling water, "hot" tea requires **much** less tea. The environmental cost of the extra tea most likely offsets the energy required to boil water. 192.34.76.226 (talk) 12:57, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Environmentally friendly?

I understands how not boiling water may be more environmentally friendly, but that would seem to be more than offset by the environment impact of having to use much more tea... I can't prove that's so, but this looks suspicious. Martijn Faassen (talk) 17:42, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

It's only 1% to 1.5% more tea than usually, and it's not needed only recommended "depending on the desired strength", as the article currently says. Smilelaughenjoy (talk) 01:26, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Moving "Cold bloomed tea" to "Cold brew tea"

There are no mentions of "cold bloomed" or "cold bloom" tea anywhere that I can find. A google search reveals only this article and a number of wildcard sites. More obviously, the tea beverage does not "bloom" (except in the case of 'bloom tea' which comes with a flower or bundled plant which opens in the water for visual purposes) tea steeps or brews, making it unlikely that this term will ever become common use. In addition to the many issues with this article, there is only one source and even this source does not use the term, preferring instead "cold steeped". There are, however, a great many references to be found for "cold brew" tea, which is the same thing. I am choosing "cold brew" over "cold brewed" to keep this new name in line with the article on "cold brew" coffee (I will also suggest changing that article name to include the word coffee). By changing the name, it will make it easier to source and improve this article. Since this article is fairly new, unsourced and largely unedited, and in the interest of keeping an artificial term from gaining use through manufacture, I am moving this without waiting for consensus. I do not expect this will be controversial, but I hope we can discuss any issues with this move at the new location. Scoundr3l (talk) 17:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Health Benefits?

Title suggests health claim that text does not support. Discussion of antioxidant level, but no suggestion of any that having a direct impact on health. Nb this is a general issue with health claims associated with antioxidants Remove or change heading to 'Antioxidants'? 194.81.217.65 (talk) 13:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

References

Quantity of tea required

I want to dispute the source that suggests that a higher proportion of tea is required for cold brew. Most recipes I have followed use exactly the same amount of tea for cold brew as actual hot brewing, the only difference is the amount of time required. Lucifuge Rofocale (talk) 22:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

I've added a tag - the 40%/60% ratio in the text isn't backed up by the actual volumes in the recipe linked to in the reference. 5 tablespoons per 4 cups (I'm guessing these are US customary measures?!) is 8% by volume. Volume is a really terrible way of gauging this though, whole tea leaves are much less dense than crushed tea leaves. The other comments on this talk page from commenters who seem to have done this also suggest that the tea needed is less than 40%/60%.

I wonder if one of these references might be better:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0021967306022527

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jfpp.12084

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157513001762

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13197-015-1971-4

https://www1.mcu.edu.tw/Apps/SB/data/1712/%E5%86%B7%E7%86%B1%E6%B3%A1%E8%8C%B6.pdf

https://www.tres.gov.tw/upload/tres/files/web_structure/2655/0930-2.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0021967306022527

Specifically the last one has a sentence which states "The ratio of tea leaves/water (g/v) is similar to that of the traditional Chinese ceremonial tea making"

89.37.69.44 (talk) 09:01, 23 September 2024 (UTC)