How to make milk tea taste excellent? Milk in first or tea in first?

Milk tea is the best match to breakfast

Every delicious breakfast, there must be a cup of fragrant milk tea to match, the strong aroma will wake up the spirit at once. Therefore, how to make a perfect cup of milk tea is also a topic worth focusing on.

Contents

• How to make milk tea taste excellent?
  • The amount of water and tea
  • Choosing black tea leaves suitable for steeping milk tea
  • Milk is the key
• Milk in first or milk in after?

How to make milk tea taste excellent?

The amount of water and tea

Similar to making iced tea, by the necessary reason to add milk, so you need to steep the tea to a high concentration. You can increase the amount of tea by at least one or two times, or cut the water amount it in half, and then steep it follows the basic steeping steps of black tea.

Choosing black tea leaves suitable for steeping milk tea

Tea leaves suitable for steeping milk tea are usually preferred with a strong flavor and aroma. From the famous origin black tea producing region, such as Ceylon Uva, India Assam, China, Fujian Lapsang are very suitable; and in mixed tea, English breakfast tea and earl grey tea are excellent companions for milk tea.

High-grade BOT black tea

More important than the region of origin is the shape of the tea. Try to choose finely ground teas, such as BOP, BOPF, or CTC tea, which are more fragrant and taste good than leaves that are large and complete. In many times, even the type of light aroma tea also suits at making milk tea, in the case of finely broken enough. For example, Taiwan No.18 black tea, with large leaves in the shape, taste light and pure but not astringent, but it will be suitable with milk tea well when it is at the BOP grade.

Milk is the key

Using fresh milk is the key to making an excellent cup of milk tea

Milk must be fresh, and any artificial creamer or extended shelf life milk is intolerable.
There is no doubt that the higher the content of milk fat, the better the quality of fresh milk, can make the best taste milk tea.
I usually choose HTST standard high-temperature short-time sterilized fresh milk, which is purely natural and without additives and comes from a well-reputed single milk source pasture. It tastes more natural and gentle flavor than high-temperature sterilized milk, and complement well with tea fragrance. Of course, it’s best if you can get the fresh milk which sterilization long time under 65℃.
The amount of milk can be adjusted according to individual preference and milk concentration; my usual ratio of tea to milk is between 1:1 and 2:1.
In terms of milk temperature, it has been observed that the British tend to use cold milk, while the other Europeans use slightly warmed milk. I prefer warm milk. It feels fragrant and warm and it’s very comfortable to drink.

Milk in first or milk in after?

How to make milk tea? Milk in first or milk in after?

This but since old times the classic milk tea topic that argued endlessly, pours milk first after all good, still pour black tea first to compare?
There are very interesting names for these two groups; Those who are in favor of adding milk first are called MIF (milk in first), and those who are in favor of pouring black tea first are called MIA (milk in after). They have different positions and views, and there is a clear divergence between them.
I prefer to first sugar, then warm milk, and finally hot black tea. Think about such steps, not only because it can indeed maintain the temperature of black tea but also to stimulate a strong aroma of tea and milk, the astringency of black tea seems to become soft in the mild surround of milk.

Milk in first will be better on making milk tea

Later, in the book “Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking” by professor HerveThis, a representative of the molecular cuisine circle, the solution with sufficient scientific theory foundation was found. According to professor HerveThis, milk tea tastes good because of the milk contains proteins that counteract the bitter taste of tea. Therefore, if milk is added to boiling hot tea, the protein will become degenerated due to overheating, lost its effect. On the contrary, put the hot tea into the milk, when the two are mixed, the milk is heated at a lower temperature, and the protein can still function effectively, so it tastes better naturally.