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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That this was created in Ruth Kitchen and has been around for over 60 years, and family members are involved. This is important to me because I think families should interact more then they do now. I make brownies every Wednesday with my son and it is a great bonding opportunity.
I’m fascinated by the way Ruth Bigelow’s family and friends declared that her tea had caused nothing but constant comments and that’s how it got its name!
Love their teas!!
The fact it was created by the owners mother. I care a lot for my mother, she means the world to me.
I am a fan of Bigelow Tea, especially their green tea. I was touched by the story of Bigelow Tea, especially since it is family owned. I’m happy to be able to support family-owned businesses.
I like the Bigelow Tea’s 20th Annual Community Challenge fundraiser an dhow local charties participated
I like that she made it in her own kitchen.
Ruth did a wonderful thing creating Constant Comment. Not sure how expensive it was at that point in time, but my mother learned to love it from the relative early days back in the 50’s.
I love that it is a family business, created join the mother’s kitchen. I just think that is so great
They raised 60,k for 13 charities.
how it all started and its a family business that respects nature and our planet an people
I love that the tea that I remember frm childhood, Constant Comment, is still available and still made right here in the USA!
I like how Bigelow Tea’s 20th Annual Community Challenge fundraiser raised a record $60,000, the entirety of which will be distributed to thirteen local area charities.
Here is the part that I like the best: “Because we think flavor is so important, we overwrap and seal each and every tea bag in a stay fresh foil packet so that all the goodness stays in until you get ready to have a cup of tea.” This is what I like about Bigelow tea’s – that they are wrapped to keep in the freshness of the tea until I open them. I use a lot of loose teas, but Bigelow is always in my cupboard and my go to!
“When Ruth Bigelow created “Constant Comment” tea in 1945, little could she have imagined that it would be America’s most popular specialty tea.”
I actually did a blog post on how this is my favorite tea LOL. Someone at Bigelow actually commented too which I thought was very nice. It is great to see more of the background on the company beginnings
Any company that stand up todays world by not compromising there product and taking short cuts is a good business and helping the community for raising funds is something bigger company could learn a lesson from.
good family story reminds me of mom
I like that it is a family business passed along to later generations
Bigelow Tea is a family company that has tried to do the right thing for both the planet, the community, and our employees since my grandmother founded the company back in 1945. – It’s awesome that they are sticking to their roots and honoring the grandmother’s legacy.
I admire Ruth Bigelow’s experimentation with tea and to make it into a business during a trying time.