Arms of woman in heavy sweater holding a cup of tea with bowls of lemon and honey on table - Ali Efe Yilmaz/Getty Images Being a tea drinker whose friends rave about their Nespresso machines is a ...

I never realized it as a kid, but drinking tea was a ritual in my family. We drank a variety of teas, each made in its own precise way. Every tea has an optimal steep time and ideal water temperature, ...