New advice suggests using boiling water to make tea is a 'myth' which leaves it tasting 'no better than cabbage water'. 'It's time to debunk the myth that you should use boiling water,' he said. He claims that boiling water cools down by roughly ten degrees for every 10 per cent of cold water added so to hit the 80 degree sweet spot the mug needs to be 20 per cent cold water. He said: 'It is simply not true that you need boiling water to make a cup of tea. Britons recoiled in horror in June when a video of an American woman making 'hot tea' went viral.

Source: Daily Mail September 26, 2020 23:36 UTC