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That ISO isn't how to make a nice to drink cup of tea, just a consistent one to compare different teas.
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Have to respect the accuracy of their wording. Freshly boiled = set to boil recently, so if you left it too long on the stovetop you’d need to chuck it out. Freshly boiling = boiling recently, regardless of when it started.
If I were to venture a guess, using boiling water to make tea started because we can easily see when water is at or near 100C. Thankfully, we can now easily acquire reliable means of measuring the temperature of our water. Insisting on boiling water is just a force of habit that has become an unnecessary, eco-destructive cultural and industrial norm.
jellybaby
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@aglet
ISO 3103-1980 says the water [edit: for making tea] must be “freshly boiling”.
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