What is your "tea failure rate"?
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About 20% as normally it gets cold due to me reading something and forgetting the drink.
Most failures come from putting the mug down whilst drinking and forgetting about it.
Other failures not covered by OP include knocking it over and accidental theft where someone forgets which mug is theirs and drinks mine by accident (but this probably cancels out with the number I've accidentally stolen).
Other failures not covered by OP include knocking it over and accidental theft where someone forgets which mug is theirs and drinks mine by accident (but this probably cancels out with the number I've accidentally stolen).
My tea failure rate is almost nil. It only occurs when I spill it. I don't dunk biscuits and I'd never forget a mug of the ambrosia of the gods!
As long as it's actually tea. "Herbal tea" is heresy. It even sounds very similar. Some of it might taste good. But it's not tea. May as well call coffee tea. Bits of a plant, steeped in very hot water...it's tea, right? No. Tea is tea. Everything else is not tea.
As long as it's actually tea. "Herbal tea" is heresy. It even sounds very similar. Some of it might taste good. But it's not tea. May as well call coffee tea. Bits of a plant, steeped in very hot water...it's tea, right? No. Tea is tea. Everything else is not tea.
How does number 1 even occur?
Leave it to brew? What? Do you people not know how to make tea?
Milk in first or not, whatever, but when you put the hot water in you need to first stir once the teabag just to get the water in, then vigorously mash it against the side of the cup with the back of a teaspoon.
I like a strong cup of tea, but if you leave it to stew, you just at get all that **** that's comes out and makes your tea taste horrible.
Leave it to brew? What? Do you people not know how to make tea?
Milk in first or not, whatever, but when you put the hot water in you need to first stir once the teabag just to get the water in, then vigorously mash it against the side of the cup with the back of a teaspoon.
I like a strong cup of tea, but if you leave it to stew, you just at get all that **** that's comes out and makes your tea taste horrible.
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0% no mug left behind.
I don't drink tea apart from iced tea.
but with Coffee any forgotten cup is a full 100% pure win on discovery.
I often check my cup even though I know it's probably empty already
the few times it's not is just pure joy
Isn't there a type of tea that goes toxic if you leave it brewing for too long? or was one of my exs spreading fake news
but with Coffee any forgotten cup is a full 100% pure win on discovery.
I often check my cup even though I know it's probably empty already
the few times it's not is just pure joyIsn't there a type of tea that goes toxic if you leave it brewing for too long? or was one of my exs spreading fake news
Disappointed that GD hasn't already pointed out the difference between a probability and a rate
Does no-one else use the microwave if it's not too far gone?
Explain in depth!
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I don't think I have ever done this. Never forget about a tasty brew
^^^ this
Probs have a less than 5% tea failure rate and rarely ever forget a whole mug, more like I've been drinking a mug of tea and have had to put it down to do something... then it's just a microwave job to rescue it.
I very rarely drink tea, but if I do, I treat it like Coffee... I'll drink it hot or cold however it comes.
The wife on the other hand... don't get me started!! I honestly cant remember the last time she finished a cuppa that was made by/for her.
The wife on the other hand... don't get me started!! I honestly cant remember the last time she finished a cuppa that was made by/for her.
Lol, my Mrs is also shocking.
Regularly "rejects" brews which aren't in her "acceptable" colour range (which appears to change in a regular, unannounced, basis) then never, ever, finishes it. Always at least 2 or 3 mouthfuls in the bottom of the cup.
Regularly "rejects" brews which aren't in her "acceptable" colour range (which appears to change in a regular, unannounced, basis) then never, ever, finishes it. Always at least 2 or 3 mouthfuls in the bottom of the cup.
Everyone is talking about the probability or likelihood of failing to complete making / finishing a single cup of tea, i.e. the chance of failure per tea making event.
A failure rate would tell you how often the failures happen over a period of time, e.g. one tea-making failure per week.
Not that I'm pedantic or anything like that
.How would that work? I can see only two possibilities. Either the tea is always toxic and it's a matter of dosage (as Paracelsus said, the dose makes the poison) or the act of brewing the tea causes a slow-acting chemical reaction (how?) that creates toxic substances from non-toxic ones.
Also, how could that be legal? Imagine the conversation:
Company rep: Hello, we'd like to sell a product for human consumption. It's prepared by steeping it in very hot water. If you leave it in the water too long, the resulting beverage (which is intended for human consumption) becomes poisonous to humans.
Country's food regulation authority: Oh yeah, that sounds fine. No worries. Probably not many people will die, right?
There are some plants that are poisonous to humans and which will result in a poisonous liquid when steeped in very hot water and for which the amount of poison entering the water would depend on how long the steeping went on for. But those plants aren't tea.
I suppose you could argue that pretty much everything is toxic to humans if the dose is high enough, so on that basis all tea (and pretty much everything else) is toxic to humans. Even pure water is toxic to humans if consumed in large enough quantities.
