General / Off-Topic Tandoori chai, a tea unlike any other

[Patrick_68000]

A milk tea served in white-hot terracotta cups in a traditional oven.

These old style cups are placed directly inside the "tandoor" oven in the form of a jar, from which they emerge at very high temperatures. The tea, prepared separately, is poured into the very hot cups where it starts to boil instantly and finishes its cooking.

 

[Shadowdancer]

By cooking tea leaves, you get something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea (You enter the territory of producing tanning fluid, but for chai you AFAIK cook it with milk in the mix and drastically reduce boiling point and keep things from getting nasty.)

 

[Chris Simon]

By cooking tea leaves, you get something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea (You enter the territory of producing tanning fluid, but for chai you AFAIK cook it with milk in the mix and drastically reduce boiling point and keep things from getting nasty.)

Umm. No. Boiling point of milk is about half a degree higher than boiling point of water.
The reason why tea remains lighter when boiled in milk is because the fats and generally denser consistence of milk prevents the tanning agents from infusing into it.

 

[Shadowdancer]

So you're telling me the foam geyser is not only messy but also superheated? Great, I learned something that makes me even more scared of porridge :-D

 

[Chris Simon]

Hahah. Well, I wouldn't call 100.3-101.5°C (depending on particular milk) "superheated", but yeah. Scary stuff.

You may actually have used this to your advantage without knowing - double bottom cooking pot. Its anti-burning function depends on the fact that the things you are cooking have slightly higher boiling point than water between the two bottoms, which is always at 100°C, therefore the stuff in the pot is never quite boiling.

 

[Speedcuffs]

A milk tea served in white-hot terracotta cups in a traditional oven.

These old style cups are placed directly inside the "tandoor" oven in the form of a jar, from which they emerge at very high temperatures. The tea, prepared separately, is poured into the very hot cups where it starts to boil instantly and finishes its cooking.

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I'm sure there's some kind of criminal offence taking place here.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I'm sure there's some kind of criminal offence taking place here.

Why not go to Pakistan to report it in the street ?

 

[Speedcuffs]

Why not go to Pakistan to report it in the street ?

They would have a fit.

Pan, handful of teabags, condensed milk, plenty sugar.
The best tea.

 

[Manticore]

I'm sure there's some kind of criminal offence taking place here.

I had to laugh............

 

[starman]

My father would grind spices in the 'coffee' grinder which was also used to grind coffee so I guess he invented curry coffee.

 

[starman]

Why not go to Pakistan to report it in the street ?

Did you know there is a French curry house in London?

 

[Patrick_68000]

Did you know there is a French curry house in London?

I wonder what doesn’t exist in London.

 

[starman]

I wonder what doesn’t exist in London.

I could tell you.