As far as I can find, no-one has actually made a International Standard Cup of Tea – ISO 3103 or BS 6008 – for the internet before. Lots of people have talked about it, but that’s easy. Making one? That requires precision… and some specialist equipment.
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Update: someone has found an earlier ISO cup of tea on the internet, as part of a German video on tea tasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utwwkNkNgiM
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Quietly edited out of this video: two minutes of waiting for the kettle to boil because I forgot to push the button to start it.
No spout for the brewing cup? That’s strange and not quite user friendly. As a Hong Konger with our own tea culture, I still think the ISO standards is weird.
Tom Scott: Me no like “t e a”
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Chinese green tea is only brewed for 1 to 2 minutes at most. Some are brewed only for 45 seconds. Anything longer is considered Tannin water.
So if my tea pot is 1.5 L I should use 30 grams of tea leaves. That's huge 😀
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Thanks this motivated me to sell drugs
A non-british tea? impossible!
How to make the most normal cup of tea on the internet
How many more international standards are there of things no one cares about ?
Now I want tea…
It is amazing what some people waste their time on.
who cares about their standard? I fill it to MY liking! with a cup to MY liking!
The fact that an ISO standard for a cup of tea exists is clear evidence that we need to destroy the world and start over.
I have always seen putting milk in coffee or tea like putting water in to wine, why would you do that?
Well standard doesn't matter in making tea or coffee it depends on your taste .
2:05, good choice to avoid that can of worms…
"international standard" means, English standard. The only "international authority" to decide something around tea should be the biggest consumer of this product, meaning China… ask them for the real international standard, has nothing to do with this video
"I don't actually like tea."
Live footage of Tom Scott revoking his U.K. citizenship
Hotel Sierra, I thought this was going to be some sort of joke. There's a international standard? I want to laugh but I just can't!
British Scientist: "I don't actually like tea"
Me a Pakistani: "Ah, the great Indian Mutiny"
Pretentious
Or you could just drink coffee since it's much much better.
I now feel better about my not liking tea after hearing the most British guy I know of also doesn't like tea
Who's the chad in the reflection of the doors window?
Living in a multicultural flat I've been having English breakfast tea, no milk, with a clove, cracked cardomom pod, small hunk of cinnamon stick, notch of ginger and a spoon of sugar, genuinely very nice
UK Customs: Passport sir
Tom: I don't have my passport with me, but here is my kit for making an International Standard Cup of Tea.
UK Customs: Go through sir, many apologies
There are, to be fair, loads of videos that use this technique, but I don't think I've ever seen it referd to by ISO before.
Whe need more of thoes '' This is not how it is done and I don't like it''
I gasped out loud when I heard "make the tea days in advance and warm it up later". Good thing it was only a bitter joke.
I don't like the word "international" in the title. When the small country britain claims that a cup has to be like this or the length of a footballfield like that … then it's not considered a british standart. No! It's automatically an "international" standart. As if the British had invented tea and football. pff
Is it even legal to be British and not like tea?
Perfection doesn't exist. Make it how you like it