Preparing Tea and Herbals
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Joining the “Save the Teapot” Campaign
Intrepid tea reporter Bill Lengeman mentioned in a recent article the campaign to save the teapot, that is, to show tea drinkers everywhere that nothing surpasses the teapot when it comes to producing a superb cuppa! Now, I’m joining that campaign by promoting the superior steeping power and civilizing effect of using a teapot. My… Continue reading
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5 Reasons Not to Overfill Your Teapot
You have a 2-cupper, 4-cupper, or even a 6-cupper teapot. You know from past experience that these teapots hold a bit more than that. (At some point, we all tend to steep a bit extra, trying to get a little more out of those pricey tea leaves.) But is overfilling your teapot a wise thing… Continue reading
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Salvaging So-So Tea
Bad tea is bad tea, and that’s the end of it. Okay, well, maybe not quite. After all, in such matters where taste and personal preferences are concerned, terms like “good” and “bad” are not necessarily so cut and dried as we might like them to be. While I might consider Lapsang Souchong, Earl Grey,… Continue reading
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Intuitive Tea
Way back a number of years ago when I first started getting serious about high-end teas, I bought every tool, gizmo, and gadget in order to prepare the tea “properly.” My collection included several kinds of measuring spoons, a gram scale for metric weights, a small postal scale for avoirdupois weights, and an instant-read water… Continue reading
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Tea Gadget Ratings — Round 3
Once again, we’re taking a closer look at tea gadgets that seem to pop up on the market like mushrooms after a Spring rain. Over the past couple of years intrepid and tireless tea journalist William I. Lengeman III has sought out the weirdest, cutest, and downright silliest tea gadgets out there. Other tea lovers… Continue reading
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5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Bagged Tea
“Bagged tea is low quality.” “Tea in bags is the worst.” “Tea bags are disgusting. I wouldn’t drink the bilge steeped from them.” You’ve heard such statements, I’m sure, from the “tea snobs” among us. I have said such things myself. Tea is bagged to meet customer demand. People want the convenience, and I can’t… Continue reading
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Getting Along with “Normal” Teawares
Many tea drinkers have a limited selection of teawares in their arsenal. This is either because they have limited storage space, limited tea selections, limited funds, or limited time to go out and purchase specialized teawares and then learn how to use them properly. So, how do they prepare a special tea that might be… Continue reading
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Tea, Taste, and Temperature
One day my breakfast sausage had grown cold on my plate while I was staring out the dining room window at robins, jays, etc., splashing in the birdbath. When I returned to my breakfast and took a bite of the sausage, my mind registered the difference in taste that the change in temperature made and… Continue reading
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The Ultimate Teamaker
If you clicked on this article in breathless anticipation, hoping that I was going to lead you to some fabled gadget which merits the name “The Ultimate Teamaker,” then I’m afraid you’re going to go away disappointed. But I do have a few ideas along those lines. I’ve used a few of the more newfangled… Continue reading
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Skimping on the Tea Leaves
The economy is down, but you don’t want to miss out on that special tea you love so much. So, you skimp a bit on the amount of tea leaves you use when steeping. Very understandable. Your tea purchase goes further. There’s one catch: you’re also skimping on tea flavor and therefore short-changing yourself. Steeping… Continue reading
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