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Skip the Sipping and Inhale Your Tea at the 'Breathable Tea Room'

By erika - November 15, 2013

in Food

Photos via NOTCOT

It's not like tea-drinkers choose tea for its immediacy or anything, but to push the "right here, right now" agenda even further, there's now a tea you can inhale instead of sip. London-based Camellia's Tea House debuted this new-age teatime experience at the 2013 Experimental Food Society Spectacular. The team set up a room full of vaporized teas and "sippers" tasted them with straws. Check out the video below to get a better visual for the presentation:

While there might be less risk of burning your tongue on vaporized tea, I would think it would be hard to keep your tea in your glass—but at least scalding liquid wouldn't be sloshing over the sides of your cup as you power-walk to work. Who knows, maybe this is the beginning of a new breathable food packaging concept.

From the sounds of the coughing in the video, you may not want to fill a room full with vaporized tea drinkers. Nevertheless, breathable food has always been a cool concept in terms of design and this exhibit is no exception.