Casual Discussion Coffee vs Tea (Poll and discuss)

[Timur]

I don't like the taste of black tea..

It's a dislike since the beginning of my youth

My father blames my sister for that giving me çay as a little child.. But I just think I do not like it..


I prefer coffee

The only tea that is really good is hibiscus tea I always use it if I feel like to get a cold then mostly next day i feel better after the tea

 

[Fuzuli NL]

Anything that's not a scalding-hot black tea, is not tea in my opinion. No sugar!
Favourite brand:

 

[Madokafc]

Oh a cup of hot espresso while hiking in mountain in November December season in Japan (the cold quite chilling but not as killing as the ones in Canada or Rocky mountain), Will Made you relaxed if not a cup of hot Chocolat as a lesser alternate

Tea can't afford such taste

 

[mulj]

I wish that i am tea man but unfortunatelly i am coffie addict.

 

[TR_123456]

To many traitors on this thread,i better leave before i kill some of them.

 

[mulj]

Bosnian version of turkish coffie is something that i am really proud, there is no better variaton that i know, it is almost ritualistic thing.
I appreciate turkish tea to, when i visit turkey i drink more tea then coffie.
What i noticed in various hotels that they serve mostly nestle options, was quite suprised that there is no strong turkish cofie brands in rooms and hotels restaurants.

 

[mulj]

In one restaurant here you get one ciggarette with this which completes impression

 

[Timur]

Bosnian version of turkish coffie is something that i am really proud, there is no better variaton that i know, it is almost ritualistic thing.
I appreciate turkish tea to, when i visit turkey i drink more tea then coffie.
What i noticed in various hotels that they serve mostly nestle options, was quite suprised that there is no strong turkish cofie brands in rooms and hotels restaurants.

for me it looks like turks mostly dont like coffee specially in anatolia I am the strange one who likes coffee more than tea.. sometimes I think its because tea is cheaper than coffee thats why my anatolian people dont like pumpkin seeds

 

[mulj]

for me it looks like turks mostly dont like coffee specially in anatolia I am the strange one who likes coffee more than tea.. sometimes I think its because tea is cheaper than coffee thats why my anatolian people dont like pumpkin seeds

Basically it is, but we reversed preparation process and got better taste results, for real taste first condition is how you bake amd grind grain, real deal is that you prepare raw grain in oven fueled by fire then to grind it manually by beating. Finally for liquid preparation it is must that you put first coffie and let it on heat 20=30 seconds and then put boiled water.
This kind of preparation makes it lighter and tastier and you can drink it much more then esspreso without negative effects.

 

[Zapper]

I used to drink Indian chocolate drinks like Milo, Bournvita or Boost until I moved to the US and became lactose intolerant.

My starbucks order is usually Iced White chocolate Mocha or Caramel Macchiato with Oat Milk which is like once a week but I have Iced Matcha Tea with white chocolate drizzle at my office on a regular basis pre-pandamic

Ever since the pandemic, I stuck to smoothies I make at home

 

[Milspec]

The mighty never-ending global question (coffee vs tea) will not be settled here (or anywhere), but lets see where the forum stands on it.

As I enjoy my day's first cup of joe, I figured I'd ask you all what beverage you prefer between the two (or if you have some alternative etc).

I do prefer coffee (get's my vote), but I like tea as well though I am far more picky on the latter (i am more tolerant of bad coffee compared to bad tea).

Generally it needs to be a good breakfast tea....or earl grey if I need something after lunch (I take it just with a little lemon and some sugar).

I like turkish tea (deep dark as possible) and russian tea (samovar brew with that jam you can put in) a lot too...but generally opportunity for those presents itself somewhat rarely.

"Chai" tea (the overall North Indian, Bengali, South Asian preference by far) is too long subject, maybe I will explore bit later.

I will have green tea from time to time, generally if I am at an east-asian eatery (where its offered like water)....I don't like it in general though. Significant other loves it.
Some herbal teas are quite good too, but its not a pick me up per se.

But back to my main ideological preference:

Most of the coffee I make is freshly ground of colombian beans (generally medium roast) I rotate through the year. I do blend now and then as well.
I replenish and store batches as needed at work, for use in my own coffeemaker there....though the keurig K-cup is passable too.

I have about 2-3 cups daily...sometimes 4.

Unlike rest of my family (most south indians have extended historical coffee culture/addiction, it runs in our blood), I dont face immediate headaches or serious withdrawal symptoms if I go a day or two without coffee (I have done this just to see)...I just feel irritable and tired. Probably because I picked up the habit lot later than my family/relatives generally did....most of them literally find it impossible to function at all without coffee in them right after waking...and replenished as the day goes on.

When I feel like a treat, I do a traditional "Madras" coffee preparation..with a filter brewing set and chicory....but this is longer subject to get into.

I generally dislike coffee outside what I (or a trusted hand) prepare, but I make exception for tim hortons (a national canadian institution arguably, affectionately known as just "timmys") and McDonald's (McCafe i find quite passable)...and a few local cafe's etc that I know more routinely.

I take a disliking to starbucks from what I have tried so far. Dunkin donuts (when im in US) is passable, but their coffee is just an accompaniment to their donuts imo.

Feel free to share any comments on your preparations, debates, preferences (past just voting)....or if you have some other beverage of this category/role you prefer.

@Joe Shearer @VCheng @Saiyan0321 @xenon5434 @Indos @Madokafc @trishna_amrta @#comcom @T-123456 @Cabatli_53 @Webslave @Kaptaan @Yankeestani @anmdt @Test7 @Saithan @Paro @Zapper @Jackdaws @Sinan @Combat-Master @dBSPL @Deliorman @Kartal1 @UkroTurk @Vergennes @Isa Khan @crixus @Raptor @Milspec et al

The world reference map for preferences (taken from pew research with my informed editing w.r.t south india..i feel we are somewhere in the 66% coffee preference range, but could be even 75%+...but we get "oranged" by the whole larger northern country population dominant preference for tea on unaltered maps)

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Tea Vs Coffee....


I was a Chai drinker (Cutting - Marathi Chaha) when I lived in India. The only Coffee I knew was nescafe instant coffee. Coffee was a more or less a beverage to keep me awake during exam days in engineering.

After I moved to US, I was still drinking chai and then gradually I got entwined with small coffee shop culture of Socal. I would ride quite often with meet up groups, and usual meeting point was coffee shops and then again for a single guy before the advent of swiping right-left, the usual starting point for socializing was coffee shops. So I discovered different roasts, different beans, different brewing technique's and I was hooked to coffee.

Later in life, I discovered Tea's, different types of blends of tea. And I did substitute quite a few cups of coffee in the day for green tea/ some of the Yogi stuff tea blends, and few years ago I (re) discovered high-quality Darjeeling tea.

So as it stands now; Morning starts with 8oz cup of French Roast, on cold colorado days another 6oz cup in the office of usually Starbucks Pike Place Roast K-cup. 1-2cups of green tea and another 4oz cup of strong brew French roast in the evening (the same also works as a pre-workout supplement)

Saturday/Sunday mornings I will roast a small batch of Colombian or Ethiopian beans, grind it and run the french press or the gravity drip.

Then there is travel, it's always the Pike Place Roast at Starbucks. It's not the greatest, but it's familiar and sometimes gives a sense of comforting consistency irrespective of which airport or city I am in. I keep trying different coffee beans and tea, If I travel I will make it a point to buy local beans if available.


Right now in my Coffee/Tea cupboard;
Pike Place Starbucks beans (Regular and Decaf)
Don Francisco French Roast
Black Rifle TBL
Volcanica Yirgacheffe bean
Cafe Du Monde Vietnamese stuff.
(Pike place k cups at work)

Duncans Darjeeling
Lipton Yellow Label Black tea
Lipton Green Tea
Yogi mixed stuff.
Celestial Mixed stuff.
Taj Mahal Black tea.

Now lets come to chai,
I don't brew chai every day but some days are just chai day's and nothing else will cut it. When you wake up and you have a foggy morning with a slight drizzle then my brain will instinctively reach for the ginger and black tea to make a strong cup of Chai. The same part of the brain takes over if I am making Shingada (Bengali version of Samosa), or Poha for breakfast. No other beverage can replace the traditional chai in those circumstances. Also let me end with a polarizing statement, I know the great fan following of Cha in Khudi (Kulhadd) of WB that my family raves about, I can categorically say the generic Mumbai Cutting is far far superior. @Joe Shearer

 

[Joe Shearer]

The mighty never-ending global question (coffee vs tea) will not be settled here (or anywhere), but lets see where the forum stands on it.

As I enjoy my day's first cup of joe, I figured I'd ask you all what beverage you prefer between the two (or if you have some alternative etc).

I do prefer coffee (get's my vote), but I like tea as well though I am far more picky on the latter (i am more tolerant of bad coffee compared to bad tea).

Generally it needs to be a good breakfast tea....or earl grey if I need something after lunch (I take it just with a little lemon and some sugar).

I like turkish tea (deep dark as possible) and russian tea (samovar brew with that jam you can put in) a lot too...but generally opportunity for those presents itself somewhat rarely.

"Chai" tea (the overall North Indian, Bengali, South Asian preference by far) is too long subject, maybe I will explore bit later.

I will have green tea from time to time, generally if I am at an east-asian eatery (where its offered like water)....I don't like it in general though. Significant other loves it.
Some herbal teas are quite good too, but its not a pick me up per se.

But back to my main ideological preference:

Most of the coffee I make is freshly ground of colombian beans (generally medium roast) I rotate through the year. I do blend now and then as well.
I replenish and store batches as needed at work, for use in my own coffeemaker there....though the keurig K-cup is passable too.

I have about 2-3 cups daily...sometimes 4.

Unlike rest of my family (most south indians have extended historical coffee culture/addiction, it runs in our blood), I dont face immediate headaches or serious withdrawal symptoms if I go a day or two without coffee (I have done this just to see)...I just feel irritable and tired. Probably because I picked up the habit lot later than my family/relatives generally did....most of them literally find it impossible to function at all without coffee in them right after waking...and replenished as the day goes on.

When I feel like a treat, I do a traditional "Madras" coffee preparation..with a filter brewing set and chicory....but this is longer subject to get into.

I generally dislike coffee outside what I (or a trusted hand) prepare, but I make exception for tim hortons (a national canadian institution arguably, affectionately known as just "timmys") and McDonald's (McCafe i find quite passable)...and a few local cafe's etc that I know more routinely.

I take a disliking to starbucks from what I have tried so far. Dunkin donuts (when im in US) is passable, but their coffee is just an accompaniment to their donuts imo.

Feel free to share any comments on your preparations, debates, preferences (past just voting)....or if you have some other beverage of this category/role you prefer.

@Joe Shearer @VCheng @Saiyan0321 @xenon5434 @Indos @Madokafc @trishna_amrta @#comcom @T-123456 @Cabatli_53 @Webslave @Kaptaan @Yankeestani @anmdt @Test7 @Saithan @Paro @Zapper @Jackdaws @Sinan @Combat-Master @dBSPL @Deliorman @Kartal1 @UkroTurk @Vergennes @Isa Khan @crixus @Raptor @Milspec et al

The world reference map for preferences (taken from pew research with my informed editing w.r.t south india..i feel we are somewhere in the 66% coffee preference range, but could be even 75%+...but we get "oranged" by the whole larger northern country population dominant preference for tea on unaltered maps)

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Two points: I generally find it kinder on the system to have a cup of tea first thing in the morning, but due to gradual dissatisfaction with Darjeeling (Assam and Nilgiris, and English Breakfast, basically, I understand, a blend of Ceylons, were never in the reckoning), have shifted in two steps: first, to black leaf Earl Grey, very recently, to green leaf Earl Grey.

The rest of the day, unless I am feeling poorly, it is coffee; I use two different chicory blends, 47% and 30 something %, for my non-instant coffee, and two pure blends for my instant. Since I no longer use a regular filter (shifted to a French press about four years ago), it is easier to get a cup, and I drink more than I ought to.

The second point: that map is wrong. Except for Karnataka, south India is disappointingly tea-oriented. Coffee is not available everywhere, tea is available everywhere.

 

[Nilgiri]

I know the great fan following of Cha in Khudi (Kulhadd) of WB that my family raves about, I can categorically say the generic Mumbai Cutting is far far superior. @Joe Shearer

Come now, the Bombay vs Calcutta thing is just matter of taste on most matters.

Except for Karnataka, south India is disappointingly tea-oriented. Coffee is not available everywhere, tea is available everywhere.

I guess I am somewhat insulated in my experience overall....as the large portion of my heritage is the arc between bangalore, mysore, coimbatore (birthplace) to the kerala coast...and further biased by what my family converses and fondly talks of on the subject.

It indeed seems tea is far more preferred overall when it comes to the raw numbers even in my state (which I assumed was a coffee titan):

Culture cultivation over a cup of tea | Chennai News - Times of India

Chennai: At a corner tea stall in the residential neighbourhood of Puzhuthivakkam, the day breaks with a chatter of senior citizen and morning walkers.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Though Tamil Nadu is often boxed into the stereotype of filter kaapi, dosa and Carnatic music, government statistics show the humble tea leaps and bounds above the coffee as the preferred beverage. According to consumer expenditure data by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), 561 of every 1,000 rural Tamils drink tea at shops, while a mere 26 of 1,000 drink coffee every day. Tea is the rural Tamils preferred drink at home as well, as 766 of every 1,000 consume tea, while only 234 buy coffee to consume at home. In urban Tamil Nadu, 498 and 688 of 1,000 consume tea at tea shops and homes.

I use two different chicory blends, 47% and 30 something %, for my non-instant coffee,

This is the ratio I prefer (30%) too...but 20% is also good for me. People who have never had south indian filter coffee don't know how potent it can get from chicory staying power....quite more than espresso.

I have had to wean myself off it considerably or I get too addicted. It is something of an ambrosia that cannot be described properly.

 

[dBSPL]

I welcome any type of tea experience.

My favorite Rize black tea, specially, blended mixtures with two leaves and a bud proportion have a good aromatic richness in general. I personally like to enrich the aroma with dried east blacksea mountain tea flowers, which are Salvia types. However, if you ask me, the most important issue about tea is your brewing method. Even if you have a very good tea but not have a good preparation method, it is difficult to get quality results.

Also fabricated tea production can pose a serious quality problem in this respect. I think that tea bags are generally giving very poor experience to you and are not suitable for the brewing nature of tea. If you are in a hurry, the drink you will make with pouring boiled water very, very slowly on the tea taken in a strainer will give better/equal results in terms of texture and taste than tea bags.

The second important issue is to put sugar in tea. If you absolutely can't drink tea without sugar, it's probably not a good tea. Or, without mixing sugar into the tea, try gnawing a sugar cube during your tea drink.

*

Turkey was actually another country where coffee was widely drunk and tea consumption was scarce until the end of the 19th century. The areas where people gather and socialize are still called the Coffeehouse(Kahvehane).

The loss of Yemen and the Arab revolts that preceded it hit hard the widespread coffee culture in Anatolia. Coffee prices soared and became an imported product. Therefore, massive tea cultivation was launched in modern republic's first years, as a result of Atatürk's visionary agricultural strategies.

The tea cultivation started in 1923 in a formal sense and today has become one of Turkey's most important agricultural activities, and quite advanced. Today, approximately 10 million people are affected by this economic field. Naturally, thanks to this, black tea has become the national drink of Turkish people which they offer to you at breakfast, almost every after meal, even while chatting, relieving tiredness, quenching their thirst and showing hospitality.

 

[Ryder]

I like both to be honest but I drink coffee more.

1 or 2 cups a day is enough for me.

 

[Saiyan0321]

The mighty never-ending global question (coffee vs tea) will not be settled here (or anywhere), but lets see where the forum stands on it.

As I enjoy my day's first cup of joe, I figured I'd ask you all what beverage you prefer between the two (or if you have some alternative etc).

I do prefer coffee (get's my vote), but I like tea as well though I am far more picky on the latter (i am more tolerant of bad coffee compared to bad tea).

Generally it needs to be a good breakfast tea....or earl grey if I need something after lunch (I take it just with a little lemon and some sugar).

I like turkish tea (deep dark as possible) and russian tea (samovar brew with that jam you can put in) a lot too...but generally opportunity for those presents itself somewhat rarely.

"Chai" tea (the overall North Indian, Bengali, South Asian preference by far) is too long subject, maybe I will explore bit later.

I will have green tea from time to time, generally if I am at an east-asian eatery (where its offered like water)....I don't like it in general though. Significant other loves it.
Some herbal teas are quite good too, but its not a pick me up per se.

But back to my main ideological preference:

Most of the coffee I make is freshly ground of colombian beans (generally medium roast) I rotate through the year. I do blend now and then as well.
I replenish and store batches as needed at work, for use in my own coffeemaker there....though the keurig K-cup is passable too.

I have about 2-3 cups daily...sometimes 4.

Unlike rest of my family (most south indians have extended historical coffee culture/addiction, it runs in our blood), I dont face immediate headaches or serious withdrawal symptoms if I go a day or two without coffee (I have done this just to see)...I just feel irritable and tired. Probably because I picked up the habit lot later than my family/relatives generally did....most of them literally find it impossible to function at all without coffee in them right after waking...and replenished as the day goes on.

When I feel like a treat, I do a traditional "Madras" coffee preparation..with a filter brewing set and chicory....but this is longer subject to get into.

I generally dislike coffee outside what I (or a trusted hand) prepare, but I make exception for tim hortons (a national canadian institution arguably, affectionately known as just "timmys") and McDonald's (McCafe i find quite passable)...and a few local cafe's etc that I know more routinely.

I take a disliking to starbucks from what I have tried so far. Dunkin donuts (when im in US) is passable, but their coffee is just an accompaniment to their donuts imo.

Feel free to share any comments on your preparations, debates, preferences (past just voting)....or if you have some other beverage of this category/role you prefer.

@Joe Shearer @VCheng @Saiyan0321 @xenon5434 @Indos @Madokafc @trishna_amrta @#comcom @T-123456 @Cabatli_53 @Webslave @Kaptaan @Yankeestani @anmdt @Test7 @Saithan @Paro @Zapper @Jackdaws @Sinan @Combat-Master @dBSPL @Deliorman @Kartal1 @UkroTurk @Vergennes @Isa Khan @crixus @Raptor @Milspec et al

The world reference map for preferences (taken from pew research with my informed editing w.r.t south india..i feel we are somewhere in the 66% coffee preference range, but could be even 75%+...but we get "oranged" by the whole larger northern country population dominant preference for tea on unaltered maps)

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Drinker of 4 chai cups a day. Reduced it to 2. So massive tea guy. I can drink coffee but I rarely drink it

 

[Nilgiri]

Drinker of 4 chai cups a day. Reduced it to 2. So massive tea guy. I can drink coffee but I rarely drink it

Proper Pakistani gentleman here.

 

[dBSPL]

 

[Nilgiri]

Brits prefer coffee by a bit now? What's the world coming to @Kaptaan ?

 

[Jackdaws]

The coffee culture in India has really taken off. If any of you in India are a member of CRED and want to redeem your points in the beverage section - just check out the offering.

Just before lockdown I attended a screen festival at a hotel and a kiosk was set up by this brand called Blue Tokai. I was really impressed with their offering and now regularly order their blends.

Just a small aside, but another drink that is making a huge comeback in India is Tonic water.