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Making Turkish black tea like the Turks
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29 Feb 2008 Fri 09:41 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Alternatively...find a fiercely moustached Turk to make it for you!  |
Do moustached turks make better tea?
I wonder what the moustache has to do with it?
You should share your experiences about this with us AEnigma, maybe you know something about it that we dont
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29 Feb 2008 Fri 10:05 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Alternatively...find a fiercely moustached Turk to make it for you! |
My husband is the tea master in our house.....so my recipe for tea is to say...."Honey, some tea would be lovely right now, do you mind?" Although, not Fiercely Moustached, he still makes a great cup of tea.
I have had some family and friends ask me what that wierd looking pot is on the stove is.. 
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29 Feb 2008 Fri 10:24 pm |
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Quoting geniuda: Quoting AEnigma III: Alternatively...find a fiercely moustached Turk to make it for you! |
Do moustached turks make better tea?
I wonder what the moustache has to do with it?
You should share your experiences about this with us AEnigma, maybe you know something about it that we dont |
Aenigma is right on that:
Art of making Turkish tea was taught to janissaries, who were originally founded in 1334 by Orhan the second Ottoman Sultan.
During their exhaustive army trainings, they had to learn how to make turkish tea as well. And drinking a glass of tea, which was made by a janissary, has always been considered an enourmous privilege!!
But of course, once janissaries were disbanded forcefully by mahmud II in 1826 ( mahmud II himself was nearly got killed by janissaries during Kabakçı rebellion which is nothing to do with tea btw), some other fiercly moustached turks (bear in mind that almost all janissaries had moustaches) took this prestigous job.
And then, somehow, delicacy of good turkish tea always been associated with fiercly moustached men (ie janissaries)..
Some of the tea makers mastered this art and become very famous hence entitled by the sultans as 'pasa'.
The most famous one was 'Teazade Rizeli Pasa' (lived between 1835-1901) and he had huge mustaches ( like janissaries)..
Basically, finding a fiercly moustached Turk, for having a glass of turkish tea is a good idea..
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01 Mar 2008 Sat 12:24 am |
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Quoting AlphaF: There is an alternative way which some of you may prefer, the fameous AlphaF way :
1. Pour cold water in both big and small tea pots.
2. Put sufficient amount of tea leaves into the small pot as well.
3. Put both pots (small pot over the large one) on strong fire, until water in large pot boils.
4. Reduce fire and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until all tea leaves in the small pot are submerged.
GOOD STRONG TEA ! |
Definitely gonna try that once! I love strong tea and usually I only pour from the upper pot in which I put 6 tablespoons of tea, sometimes just a little from the water to make it fresher!
Thanks. Gonna try in 2 weeks 
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01 Mar 2008 Sat 02:45 am |
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Quoting geniuda: so hansome, would this be a good candidate to prepare my tea? moustached enough?
what do you think? 
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He looks like..does not he?
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03 Mar 2008 Mon 01:10 pm |
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Before this thread goes away, I have to admit that below story was a complete fabrication..
PS: I was feeling guilty about it 
addition: below bit was correct though
once janissaries were disbanded forcefully by mahmud II in 1826 ( mahmud II himself was nearly got killed by janissaries during Kabakçı rebellion which is nothing to do with tea btw)
Quoting thehandsom:
Aenigma is right on that:
Art of making Turkish tea was taught to janissaries, who were originally founded in 1334 by Orhan the second Ottoman Sultan.
During their exhaustive army trainings, they had to learn how to make turkish tea as well. And drinking a glass of tea, which was made by a janissary, has always been considered an enourmous privilege!!
But of course, once janissaries were disbanded forcefully by mahmud II in 1826 ( mahmud II himself was nearly got killed by janissaries during Kabakçı rebellion which is nothing to do with tea btw), some other fiercly moustached turks (bear in mind that almost all janissaries had moustaches) took this prestigous job.
And then, somehow, delicacy of good turkish tea always been associated with fiercly moustached men (ie janissaries)..
Some of the tea makers mastered this art and become very famous hence entitled by the sultans as 'pasa'.
The most famous one was 'Teazade Rizeli Pasa' (lived between 1835-1901) and he had huge mustaches ( like janissaries)..
Basically, finding a fiercly moustached Turk, for having a glass of turkish tea is a good idea..
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03 Mar 2008 Mon 09:15 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: Before this thread goes away, I have to admit that below story was a complete fabrication..
PS: I was feeling guilty about it
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Phewwwww!! I am glad you clarified this hansome cos I was having the hardest time finding a fiercely moustached one to make my "cay"
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04 Mar 2008 Tue 06:21 am |
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Quoting geniuda: Quoting thehandsom: Before this thread goes away, I have to admit that below story was a complete fabrication..
PS: I was feeling guilty about it
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 Phewwwww!! I am glad you clarified this hansome cos I was having the hardest time finding a fiercely moustached one to make my "cay"
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05 Mar 2008 Wed 02:12 am |
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That drawing is great
I have a Turkish Tea making set, and Turkish tea cups, saucers and spoons.
I loved the Turkish tea so much when I visited Antalya last year, but I never knew where to get the set form at home.
After finding a lovely Turkish Supermarket in London (where might I add, Mustafa had to pay out quite alot of money for all the lovely Turkish delights I wanted...mmmm Baklava ) I got my tea set and learnt how to make it.
Only thing is, Mustafa says that I make better Turkish tea than him now, so I have to make it most the time when he comes home lol
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05 Mar 2008 Wed 05:13 am |
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Quoting sweetescape83: That drawing is great
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feel free to print it out and stick it onto the refrigerator, just like I did
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