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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
By Jonas Smith
 Probably you are familiar with the Chinese saying, "Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day." Though tea is last on the list, we can still see how important the tea is for the Chinese.
There are actually thousand of Chinese tea varieties. These are usually classified by procedure, quality, and preparation methods and so on. However, if we will consider tea in terms of quality, there are actually eight classes of Chinese tea. These include green tea, oolong, black, red, white, yellow, flower, and compressed tea.
Now, let's take a look at these classes one by one.
Green Tea
Green tea is said to be the most natural type of Chinese tea. It is usually picked, naturally dried and fried briefly to get rid of its grassy smell. Unlike the other types, green tea skipped fermentation process.
According to some experts, green tea has the most medicinal value and the least caffeine content of all Chinese tea classes. The aroma of this type of |
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
By Espresso Club
 Capsule system coffee machines are some of the most common home or office coffee and espresso machines used today. These machines are used for producing quality espresso and other beverages such as tea and milk based beverages. In a nutshell, the capsules of each type of capsule system contain a premeasured amount of sealed ground coffee. Those single use capsules are inserted into the machines, which when operated, pierce the top part of the capsules to allow the hot water to flow through with high pressure. The hot water flow extracts the beverage to the cup. Each capsule is used once and then disposed of. The most famous capsule system is the Nespresso capsule system, developed by Nestle. Other well known capsule systems include Caffitaly, Tassimo, Keurig, Lavazza and Senseo.
A bunch of capsule systems are marketed worldwide, with their own unique capsule technology. This means that capsules of each system (Tassimo T-Discs, Keurig K-Cups, Nespresso capsules, etc.) have unique shapes and structures. But the idea is the same for all capsules. The consequence is that for each capsule system a limited |
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