Tea Tasting? What’s That?
Blog Note: How to Tea Taste, Tea Tasting with Cindi Bigelow was inspired by an all expense paid trip via a contest that I won from Bigelow Tea for writing “Around Grandma’s Table“. I was uncompensated for this post but some of the content does come from that trip.
Cindi Bigelow, President of Bigelow Tea gives “Tea Tasting” instructions. Photo Courtesy of Olsonography
The Chief Blonde Remarks:
Cindi Bigelow explains How to Taste Tea in this video
12 Steps of tea tasting
- Provide enough spoons so each participant can have two per kind of tea
- Taste one kind of tea (green or black or herbal) at a time
- Fill tea cups (5 is a good number) with various brands of one kind of tea. One brand per cup.
- Be careful that tea is not to hot. Like Goldilocks, the temperature needs to be “Just Right”
- Take a spoon in each hand
- Choose one spoon to be your “dipping spoon”
- Choose the other spoon to be your “tasting spoon”
- Dip the dipping spoon into a cup, take a spoonful of tea, pour the tea into your tasting spoon
- From your tasting spoon, slurp the tea into your mouth such that it sprays all over the inside of your mouth
- Be careful not to choke from slurping too enthusiastically
- Move on to the other cups of tea
- Do NOT MIX your spoons!
The Chief Blonde gives tea tasting a try in this video below
Psst==>Watch for the Chief Blonde’s funny face at the end! Also, there is no sound.
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I love the part at the end where someone told him that his Mother’s tea needed a better name, his response was cute
I love that it’s all due to his mother’s vision and appreciation for historic tea blends.
the run for the kids they raised money for the kids
Honestly, it may be cliche, but it’s so touching that it is a family run business. Plus, I love the fact that they are putting on seminars on “how to taste tea”. I’ve always wondered how my English friends can taste old tea!
I learned they received a Zero Waste To Landfill Certification
I think it is funny how they taste tea can’t you just sip it? lol
What touches me is that he is carrying on something that his mother started keeping her memory alive.
It’s great that they became so big. thx
I love that they are a family company. I grew up with a family company and enjoyed being able to involved even when I was a kid.
Tea tasting tips all the way!! I actually saved those tips for later 🙂 Thank you
I love and admire that Ruth Campbell Bigelow, a woman, started The Bigelow Tea Company over 60 years ago by perfecting an old colonial tea recipe in her home’s kitchen, sharing it with her family, friends and acquaintances to see who liked it, and giving it the name “Constant Comment” after one of them reported back that her new tea had caused nothing but constant comments. I love that two more generations – her son, his wife and their two daughters – have expanded the company so that today we may find a great selection in most grocery stores and food service businesses in the United States. That’s why The Bigelow Tea Company has sold over a billion cups of tea this past year. She was ahead of the times as a woman entrepreneur!
I love how Constant Comment tea was created in his mother’s kitchen in 1945, and still loved today just as it was back then (if not more so)
I love the tips for tea tasting.
I love that he is carrying on his mothers legacy.
I like that instead of being victims, the creators started a food business and then created tea in their kitchen. It’s nice when people persevere through tough times 🙂
I like the story behind 60 year old Constant CommentTea. It is one of my favorites.
How she was able to start something so small and build it to something so big and great
I love how Ruth created the tea because she wanted something other than black tea and thought that “Constant Comment” was the perfect title for her tea as it meant that it was talked about and therefore popular. I find her family’s insistence that the title stay the same even when advertising agencies suggested to change it as a very profound respect and tribute to Ruth’s legacy.
making teas and tasting them, I need to host a tea tasting party:)
My favorite part is how she created the recipe in her kitchen. This something so quintessentially American about starting out doing something small in your kitchen and turning it into a long running business.