With surface tension I wondered if it be lower if contacting a surface that is somehow electrostatically more water-like or somesuch.
Very good point about flavour; whether that is mostly soluble molecules or also rather larger structures I really don't know. I don't even know what brewing is but I get the impression that it's more than just dissolving and otherwise getting carried off. I should look that up, to see why absolutely boiling water is so crucial.
Good point about tea bags too. (-: Orwell is much against them and more generally people do write about the importance of the leaves having a large volume in which to circulate. To what extent their ideas have been subjected to double-blind trials is another matter, of course, but still perhaps one could take the contents of the tea bag and somehow affix the remaining bag on the spout!
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Date: 2016-03-27 01:24 pm (UTC)Very good point about flavour; whether that is mostly soluble molecules or also rather larger structures I really don't know. I don't even know what is but I get the impression that it's more than just dissolving and otherwise getting carried off. I should look that up, to see why absolutely boiling water is so crucial.
Good point about tea bags too. (-: Orwell is much against them and more generally people do write about the importance of the leaves having a large volume in which to circulate. To what extent their ideas have been subjected to double-blind trials is another matter, of course, but still perhaps one could take the contents of the tea bag and somehow affix the remaining bag on the spout!