How do you decide if you should make tea with tea bags or loose leaf fresh tea instead? Some tea aficionados swear by the loose leaves which they claim has a far superior flavor over tea bags. These tea experts will tell you that the tea bag stifles the taste, diminishing the leaves ability to properly swell as the water runs over it. They will protest making a comparison because in their minds there is no compassion. Loose leaf tea, made either in a tea egg or put into a teapot and strained into cups, is the only choice.

Making coffee sure has changed over the years. Although it still smells the same, how we brew our coffee isn’t the same as it used to be. Many years ago, coffee was brewed on the top of a wood stove. You could smell it cooking wherever you went in your house. That is also true when you make your coffee in that type of pot on your modern range top.

Having become a regular part of our daily life, coffee has not been given much thought except for people wondering every now and then about the health benefits that it has on them. But there’s more to just the great taste and the caffeine rush we get with every cup of our favorite coffee. Here are some interesting facts about coffee that you probably did not know: