How to Prepare Healthy White Tea

A Bad White Hair Silver Needle White Tea at a Party

He walked up to 25 E Matcha Street. This was it. John pushed the buzzer for apartment 501 and waited. A few seconds later the door buzzed open and he was able to enter. No one said anything. Apparently, anyone could come and go as they please. He climbed the stairs up to the fifth floor and approached door 501. He could hear the buzz of voices and the din of music on the other side. He rang the doorbell and the door was opened quickly.

He did not recognize the woman standing in front of him and before he could introduce himself, she turned around and walked away. The apartment was crowded and John made his way through the crowd to find the one person he would know here. That was the person who lived here: John's friend Mike. It was Mike's party and he invited John, even though he knew John did not like these kinds of gatherings. John also did not like going to Mike's house, because Mike did not have good tea. John loved tea and drank nothing else. Mike knew this and always made sure to have tea on hand when John was coming by, but he had no idea how to buy tea that was any good.

John knew he should bring his own tea, but he always forgot. He had tried showing Mike how to buy tea online before, but that did not work out either. So Mike bought plain old grocery store teabags and whenever John came over, he offered him a couple of these. Today, after John found Mike, Mike immediately offered him tea. He already had the tea bag in the cup and the water was hot, though not quite boiling anymore. Of course John often told Mike not to use boiling water with most teas, only with black tea, but Mike always forgot that too. The tea bag in Mike's cup now had a little paper label that said white hair silver needle tea.

This was John's favorite white tea and actually, his favorite tea overall. Mike knew this, which is why he had it in his apartment. John was happy that Mike remembered that, but he wished he could remember not to boil the water used to brew white tea. He was doing it again now and John really wanted to tell him to use colder water, but since he had told him so many times already, he felt like it would just sound condescending to continue to do so. Instead, he knew he was going to get a cup of tea that he would not really enjoy.

The truth was, the water temperature would not matter all that much anyway. This high-quality white tea should only ever be enjoyed in loose leaf form. Putting a tea such as this into a tea bag is sacrilegious. The flavors of the tea bag and the staple will leach into the tea and ruin it, plus whatever chemicals are contained in those things will leach into the water as well. It will do so even more when the water is boiling hot. Because of all of this, John's cup of white hair silver needle white tea tasted pretty terrible. He ended up pouring it into the toilet when he excused himself to go to the bathroom.