What is your choice of hot drink between the two? A cup of tea or a cup of coffee?
I used to be big on drinking tea including herbals which was relaxing while reading a book or looking up about subjects in the I.T field for me.
But coffee? I drink it in the morning ready for my day and work search, keeps me upright that caffeine stuff but I don’t drink more than 2 cups due to caffeine contents.
I used to drink quite a lot of it in the workplace (Deadlines and projects tend to make you do that)
So what about you? Are you a tea enjoyer or a coffee enjoyer?
I am a software engineer. Coffee goes in, code comes out
Straight to the point, I like it! Programming sucks out your soul!
My soul has been sucked out. But you forgot to mention your soul is also replaced with coffee.
And your blood
Coffee is the nations’ soul
I am one too, but coffee now gives me bad heartburn :(
Same, but tea on non working days
Tea. Partially because it tastes better, but also partially because I have a low tolerance to caffeine. Drinking coffee just makes me feel jittery and shaky, not focused.
L-theanine might help with caffeine’s side effects. Theanine is a compound found in tea. It’s believed to reduce the negative side effects of caffeine, without affecting the positive effects of it.
I never knew that, thanks for sharing! Also, username checks out.
If i plan to have more than two cups of coffee, i drop some cbd in to help prevent jitters.
Coffee all morning, because sleep. Iced tea all afternoon, because Atlanta.
I drink both. Coffee during the day, herbal tea right before bed, other teas as I feel like it. My favorite teas are ginger and chai.
Sugar in coffee is an abomination and I will die on this hill.
I like you.
Mostly only drink tea while I’m sick. I drink coffee every day getting up with my wife, but I’d rarely drink it on my own.
A few weeks ago my wife went out of town for a long weekend and I had the most persistent headache that wouldn’t go away. When she came back, it went away as soon as I started drinking coffee with her and I realized it was caffeine withdrawal. I hate being physically dependent on coffee, but it’s a big part of our morning ritual.
I’m the same, tea when I’m sick. Sometimes I won’t realize I’m getting sick until I turn on the kettle. That’s when I know.
Try Earl Grey tea, it can be decently stimulating. I know these things hehe
Keep your hot bean soup, I will drink my boiled landscape baggings.
Tea all the way. I’m super sensitive to caffeine, so I even have to switch to decaf tea after noon or I’ll be up all night.
Love using herbs from my garden for tea in the evenings - lavender, lemon balm, peppermint, chamomile
I like both quite a bit, and even got into the hobby culture for each.
Tea is simpler in preparation, but way more complex in terms of varieties. There is a huge difference between a chinese black tea and an assam black tea, even though its the same core ingredient, prepared in a similar fashion.
Coffee on the other hand has fewer varieties, but way more variables in preparation that can drastically change the flavor of your cup. The size of your grind, the brew temperature and the extraction time all have pretty major effects on thr end product.
Tea is simpler in preparation
Since I started drinking matcha, I disagree.
I never understood why it has to be one or the other.
Sometimes I prefer coffee, sometimes some green tea in the morning, sometimes a cup of matcha if I’m feeling fancy. A cup of lavender tea with honey in the evening can be pure bliss, but an Italian affogado (espresso with vanilla icecream) in the afternoon can also be really perfect.
Btw it is also possible to like cats AND dogs.
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I will say that 99% of the time I prefer coffee in the morning. It’s not even the caffeine, but the aroma and flavor. Coffee has just an overwhelming flavor, like it just grabs your mouth and puts it in a headlock.
Tea is my preferred midday or night drink. A more mellow taste, and can be very different.
Never liked coffee. I usually drink Yorkshire tea in the morning, but sometimes mix it up with other black teas. If I drink any during the day, it’s green tea. Evenings are for herbal teas if I have any.
I’ve been quite coffee dependent ever since about age 16. Sometimes I like to take a week off, facilitated by a massive two litre teapot. In summer, iced tea is my crutch of choice.
Coffee is just too bitter for me unless I overload it with way more cream and sugar than is healthy. At that point all the caffeine and sugar makes me way too jittery. On the other hand, I enjoy drinking tea black, so tea it is.
I enjoy Earl Grey tea plain, but I can’t call it “black,” even though it’s “black tea.” Because it’s orange-ish brown. 🐈
Black coffee is much blacker 🐈⬛
Fun fact: Black tea is called red tea in China, because of the color.
In my childhood teas were all named with colours. Mostly black, red and green. Green being mint and red fruity teas.
Yeah, I guess “black tea” is a bit of a misnomer. It’s probably just simpler to share the terminology with coffee though
It’s called black tea because of the color of the leaves, not the final product
Fair enough
I recently discovered cold brew coffee for myself (bought a cold brew jug on a whim at TJmaxx as one does) and I love how the coffee just doesn’t have any bitterness anymore. The slow stewing in cold water really pulls out the flavour without the acidity.
Coffee in the morning. Switching to working from home, I started drinking way too much coffee but I’m back down to one cup a day typically. More than the excessive caffeine, I started noticing my teeth getting more sensitive, which I think was due to having coffee sitting on the enamel so much more. So one cup, drink it within 30 min, then brush my teeth.
Bubbly water or tea the rest of the day if I feel like something other than water.
Coffee for me started as a utilitarian drink for extra focus in the early hours, and then I started liking it. Tea never really had a function for me, so I never got into it in the same way as I did with coffee.
I have both coffee and tea in the mornings.
I have a way of brewing a pitcher of tea where I boil water in a saucepan, turn of the heat, steep up to 6 teabags the brand I use for 5 minutes, remove them, pour it into a large pitcher, then fill with water until full of freshly-brewed tea.
At least, that’s how I me and my Dad make it.
