https://taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-boiling-water
I inspected the box again. In my congested state, I had unwittingly purchased a new offering from the tea company – Bigelow Lemon Ginger, with probiotics. What made this tea different from all the other teas I happily sipped on was that in addition to nice-sounding things like lemongrass and cinnamon, it contained bacteria. Bacteria which I had just boiled, at a temperature 40oC hotter than pasteurization.
Did the tea taste bad because I was drinking dead bacteria water? And if that was the ultimate outcome of the normal brewing process, why bother putting bacteria in the tea at all?
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