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Make tea slowly
Online · Anywhere quiet
Stay with the kettle. Drink the first sips doing nothing else.
HostAway
Duration5 min
You needA kettle, Tea or coffee
The kettle takes about three minutes whether you watch it or not. This asks you to watch it.
How to do it
- 1Fill the kettle and stay with it while it boils. No phone.
- 2Listen. It gets louder, then quieter just before it boils.
- 3Pour, and watch the colour change.
- 4Hold the cup in both hands. Drink the first few sips without doing anything else.
An experience, not a claim. Offered as a way to take a break. Away makes no health claim for it.
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