Good tea (four big cups): buy Darjeeling First Flush, the real stuff, no fake. Let them weigh it directly into an airtight tea can of metal, so that it won't lose any flavour.
Boil one litre of fresh water at 96-98oC. While you do this, heat up a Chinese clay tea pot with a liner tea-strainer. Put eleven grams of the Darjeeling F. Fl. into it.
Pour over the hot water and let it draw for three minutes from that all the water is poured over it, no more.
Lift up the strainer and the tea is ready to drink. When you pour it into the cups, you might do it through a metal strainer (to strain away tea leaves that might have run trough the clay strainer, which is coarser), while it doesn't catch any metal taste by this process.
Good coffee: (four cups): buy raw Kenya beans. Roast them on a metal plate in the oven between 225 and 250oC. When they become dark brown and fat starts to "sweat" out of them, cool them down on a plate in an open window or, better, in the freezer. Get rid of the small "leaves" from between the beans.
Grind them in a coffee grinder a little coarser than the brew coffee you buy. Take 28-32 grams of coffee to 0.6 litres of fresh water.
Then you should brew it in a French vaccuum brewer, the model that is commonly known as "Don Pedro" in Sweden. This is superior to all fancy coffee brewers ever invented, at least if you're just brewing the coffee. Let it "draw" a minute or so at 96-98oC.
Ready to drink.
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