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5 Jun 2023
Off-Topic / Things you can't get used to in your new country [95]
That's mostly to do with the water quality, not the tanin in the tea. I lived in a house with well water for five years and the cups were pristine. In the city with hard water the cups needed a lot more cleaning. If you have a lot of limescale in your kettle, forming round your taps, in the toilet pan, then your tea cups will be brown.
After tea, you need a power tool to get that cup white again.
That's mostly to do with the water quality, not the tanin in the tea. I lived in a house with well water for five years and the cups were pristine. In the city with hard water the cups needed a lot more cleaning. If you have a lot of limescale in your kettle, forming round your taps, in the toilet pan, then your tea cups will be brown.