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.
THE GIVEAWAY
June 11-25th 11:59 PM EST, 18 and older US ONLY
THE PRIZE
You can win this lovely tea chest from Bigelow Tea valued at $55!
Bigelow Tea Chest filled to the BRIM with Bigelow Teas valued at $55 from Bigelow’s Gift Shop
UPDATE: The Bigelow Tea Chest Giveaway is over. The rafflecopter entry device has been removed and the giveaway had 3060 entries. See Giveaway Winners.
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Love the story behind Constant Comment.
i love that it started with a woman in a home kitchen. thats where all the wonderful things in the world seem to start!
It is a wonderful family story, esp how it was started in memory of the mother. I am already a Bigelow tea fan. I like that they individually wrap each bag in a foil pouch.
thanks for the giveaway.
I love that it is a family business.
I didn’t read it. I would just like to enter.
Its a great story because it is all done with family…very touching!
The story touches me because it is a mother son generational story = family companies are the best
By their commitment to good cooperate citizenship, they not only seem to do wonderful business, but set a great example and standard of what that should be like! I love the family history and theme behind their story!
My favorite is the Bigalow Tea’s Community Challenge because it is helping so many people. Senior Citizens, children, women and men. It was super to see so may people come together for such a great cause 🙂 Thanks for sharing 🙂
I like that they saved the Charleston Plantation from developers. I used to live around farm land and now it is all eaten up by developed housing squished so close together I don’t know how anyone breaths.
We love tea especially Bigelow’s its’ also very nice it’s a family business.
I love tea in general and especially appreciate the Bigelow commitment to great tea!
I love that it is a family run business. I love that his mom experimented with the tea and that the recipe hasn’t changed still.
The fact that it was created by his mother and that he chose to honor her by including this story is touching.
I love that there is a war going on and they decide to start a new business! That takes bravery and guts. Plus, ‘Constant Comment’ is an awesome tea.
Great family story. Im a history buff so when I saw the original recipe was from colonial times it intrigued me. I really want to try it now.
I like the story about how Constant Comment was made. Ruth Bigelow’s spirit reminds me of my dear grandmother.
I learned that when you tea taste you’re supposed to spray it into your mouth to get the flavor all around. lol
I think it’s touching that she is carrying it on for her mom. I miss my mom.
I absolutely LOVE the fact that Bigelow was started because Ruth Bigelow happened upon an old colonial tea recipe…and reinvented the way we drink tea as a result. I love tradition and history and so on…this is awesome!