What Does it Take to be a Professional Tea Taster? | Food Unwrapped

Jimmy heads to tea HQ to find out what the job of a tea taster actually involves and hopefully he won't have to go fishing in a spit bucket in the process... oh wait he does. That's not great.
Food Unwrapped Season 6 Episode 9
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[@nohandle62]

At least he retrieved the spoon himself. Good job. 👍🏻

[@Seegoth60]

Why do they taste it with milk?🤔

[@natfailsyoutube8163]

When I google tea cupping it looks like it's mostly without milk, I wonder if it's an assumption about how their tea will be enjoyed and balancing the flavours for that consumption? I also wonder if tannins in the tea which bind to the protiens in your mouth if they don't combine with the proteins in milk, might impact tasting?

[@Marvee78]

Tea is mostly drunk with milk in the UK. This was Tetley I believe and it is one of the most well known tea brands in UK that sells tea drunk with milk. They probably do separate tea tastings for blends without milk as well.

[@sake9305]

Please tell me he washed the spoon first

[@shaybae694]

Okay but why do they spit it out lol

[@totallymady42069]

Imagine the amount they would have to drink haha

[@Stay.positive.or.f_off]

because when they slurp the oxygen reaches their taste buds and they can identify the characteristics in tea. They swirl it around their mouth and spit it out. And that helps them to feel taste properly.

[@m.adlya.6394]

The professional's sipping sounds like someone just split their pants.

[@kasunhettige4774]

I'm srilanka tea factory officer 12 year experience and allrouder manufacturer in

[@amierullridzwan2025]

Why KZbin algorithm recommend people spitting tea?

[@BillyIrish304]

Lyons tea is A1

[@coreywarrington7035]

It’s kind of depressing how they’re more concerned about homogenization of flavor rather than the unique characteristics of each tea.

[@Stay.positive.or.f_off]

its not depressing. Tea tasters are very important in the tea field. Most teas we drink are actually blended teas and tea flavour changes every day. The other thing is there is another part in tea tasting. There are so many defective teas manufacture everyday. without these professionals it cannot be found. this is a highly skill based job.

[@robinphillips655]

Well this is the case with higher quality orthodox teas but this is an entirely different (budget) market; blending allows you to balance the flavours of much poorer mass produced teas which although distinct might not be that great or unbalanced singularly. The other point is if you like the profile of a particular brand of tea bag the blending will make sure it’s the same the next pack.

[@KingEurope1]

The interview here is from Tata (PG Tips), who are an Indian multinational business that produce their tea with modern slavery.

[@atharvsarang]

Came here from Hydra Alpha😂

[@sarahtravenick3086]

Okay but his name is Sebastian Michaelis? 😈

[@MUSADESAI]

Is he a crow or a raven?

[@nanonymous9139]

DISGOSTEN'

[@hsarhsaw2240]

🌬🌬🌬🤮🤮🤮

[@ZedNinetySix_]

Perfect job during a Pandemic lol🤦🏻

[@supahfly_uk]

Milk in tea is just wrong

[@M.Sajid98]

Laughing in Pakistani... one of the most popular types of tea we drink is called dhoodh patti (translates to milk tea) which is basically tea made in milk (instead of water)

[@PhillipH-san]

You're wrong. Milk makes tea better in every way.

[@kaycollarfeild]

Milk in tea is better. In every way. Ever even had milk tea ?

[@kingjames4886]

depends on the tea...

[@Zlnfgz]

Tea taster is literally the most useless job...

[@Stay.positive.or.f_off]

dude💀its one of the worlds highest paid job..