Comments on: Teabags and Sugar http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/ A place for words and data that I publish (for the benefit of persons unknown). Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Em http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5439 Em Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:51:58 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5439 In response to the whole "reboiled water has less oxygen in it" thing... I think we can safely say that reboiled water has no less oxygen in it than non-reboiled water. When water boils, the oxygen atoms do not break away from the hydrogen atoms. The entire water molecule (two hydrogen atoms attached to one oxygen atom) remains intact but the bonds holding each molecule close to its neighbouring molecules is broken. So steam is made up of H2O molecules which are further apart than they are in water's liquid form. No oxygen is lost from the chemical composition of water by boiling it. :o) In response to the whole “reboiled water has less oxygen in it” thing…

I think we can safely say that reboiled water has no less oxygen in it than non-reboiled water. When water boils, the oxygen atoms do not break away from the hydrogen atoms. The entire water molecule (two hydrogen atoms attached to one oxygen atom) remains intact but the bonds holding each molecule close to its neighbouring molecules is broken. So steam is made up of H2O molecules which are further apart than they are in water’s liquid form. No oxygen is lost from the chemical composition of water by boiling it.
:o )

]]> By: Sean Kavanagh-Dorsett http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5438 Sean Kavanagh-Dorsett Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:10:57 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5438 These are things I meditate on daily as owner of Tea & Sympathy, a place for tea time in the West Village of Manhattan. This month, I'm trying to get the mayor to recognize the west village, home to the largest concentration of Brits in the Big Apple, as "Little Britain." Such a moniker will be in the spirit of neighbourhoods like Little Italy and Chinatown and become a welcoming place for Londoners and Britons alike. Sign the petition at http://www.campaignforlittlebritain.com! (deadline is May 1!) Check us out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96FrakUPfs These are things I meditate on daily as owner of Tea & Sympathy, a place for tea time in the West Village of Manhattan.

This month, I’m trying to get the mayor to recognize the west village, home to the largest concentration of Brits in the Big Apple, as “Little Britain.”

Such a moniker will be in the spirit of neighbourhoods like Little Italy and Chinatown and become a welcoming place for Londoners and Britons alike.

Sign the petition at
http://www.campaignforlittlebritain.com!
(deadline is May 1!)

Check us out on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96FrakUPfs

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5437 Rich Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:47:20 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5437 Hi Ozzy, it's home grown-ish. It's based on a gravatar plugin but it adds an override so I can add avatars for people I know - this has proved handy with the long <a href="http://site.gravatar.com" rel="nofollow">gravatar</a> downtime. Hi Ozzy, it’s home grown-ish. It’s based on a gravatar plugin but it adds an override so I can add avatars for people I know – this has proved handy with the long gravatar downtime.

]]> By: ozzy http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5436 ozzy Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:30:20 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5436 Hey what's that avatar plugin you're using? Are those gravatars? Hey what’s that avatar plugin you’re using? Are those gravatars?

]]> By: Tom S http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5435 Tom S Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:40:30 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5435 Christ you can tell you're a student! Christ you can tell you’re a student!

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5434 Rich Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:22:19 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5434 /me blushes. It's the new haircut, right? /me blushes. It’s the new haircut, right?

]]> By: Stefan Kirchner http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5433 Stefan Kirchner Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:11:43 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5433 Hi Rich, As one of the UK’s most influential bloggers, we’d like to invite you to enter the <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=36648" rel="nofollow">Ask.com Best of Brit Blog Awards</a>. If so, then more information can be found at Ask.com. All the best, Stefan Kirchner, Ask.com. Hi Rich,
As one of the UK’s most influential bloggers, we’d like to invite you to enter the Ask.com Best of Brit Blog Awards.
If so, then more information can be found at Ask.com.
All the best,
Stefan Kirchner, Ask.com.

]]> By: Lesley http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5432 Lesley Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:07:52 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5432 Our teabags go on the compost heap.... can you compost sugary bags? I think you might become a target for ants. Our teabags go on the compost heap…. can you compost sugary bags? I think you might become a target for ants.

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5431 Rich Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:10:32 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5431 There's another experiment to be done too, the 'reboiled water' issue has always bugged me. I've heard several people say that reboiled water is no good for making tea "because its got less oxygen" which has always seemed bonkers to me, what with water being made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen atom per molecule there would appear to be an abundance of the stuff ripe for release at boiling point. It seems obvious, but has anyone ever actually tested it in terms of flavour (which I'm supposing could be measured in terms of some measure of tea parts per million)? There’s another experiment to be done too, the ‘reboiled water’ issue has always bugged me.

I’ve heard several people say that reboiled water is no good for making tea “because its got less oxygen” which has always seemed bonkers to me, what with water being made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen atom per molecule there would appear to be an abundance of the stuff ripe for release at boiling point.

It seems obvious, but has anyone ever actually tested it in terms of flavour (which I’m supposing could be measured in terms of some measure of tea parts per million)?

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5430 Rich Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:21:04 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5430 Hey now, I'm going to have some time next month, maybe I should ask some of the guys at Soton's <a href="http://smarttea.org/" rel="nofollow">SmartTea project</a> for help with the audit, just to really blow the whole tea-making experiment thing out of all proportion. Hey now, I’m going to have some time next month, maybe I should ask some of the guys at Soton’s SmartTea project for help with the audit, just to really blow the whole tea-making experiment thing out of all proportion.

]]> By: Chris Samuel http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-5429 Chris Samuel Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:04:55 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-5429 Ah, but if you did the research yourself you could find yourself up for an IgNoble! Ah, but if you did the research yourself you could find yourself up for an IgNoble!

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