Cook’s Illustrated does Tea
Everybody’s favorite perfectionist foodie magazine tasted twenty teas (wish I worked
there…) to find out if el cheap-o (relatively speaking) varieties held up to the latest, hippest, and most expensive varieties. Despite the plethora of pyramid-shaped and nylon mesh tea bags, good old Twinings English Breakfast still takes the cake. Cook’s Illustrated tasters tried the loose tea, which comes in a shmancy tin and costs about ten smackers. PG Tips, which our Nice Cuppa editor wrote up a little while back, won second place. Why is this interesting? PG Tips costs a whopping 47 cents per ounce (a box is about $12).
The review was a bit quirky in that it compared black teas with and without milk. I would have thought with and without sugar or lemon might be more to America’s taste. But since my favorite black tea, Tazo Awake, won the medal for best tasting with milk, I’m going to have to try that out now, too!
