Comment by benatkin
3 years ago
No, it's absolutely false because those teas are completely legit because in this case lower grade doesn't mean crappy. If it did that would be reasonable advice to give.
If you tell someone never to drink those lower grade teas you're doing them a disservice and that's the only situation in which the advice about never using boiling water would apply.
But does non-boiling water not work well with lower-grade tea? I drink that stuff all the time and find it best with ~180˚F water. Seems like it's reasonable to just never use boiling water for green tea.
But your take is exactly the right one: Use the tea you prefer, prepared with the water temp that gives it your favored taste.
That's what it's suggesting, but it may be that a preference for boiling water is assumed when all other things are equal.